2011/2012 Season Season:
The Life of Galileo
September 17 - October 9, Allen Theatre
It’s a new age! The telescope, astronomy, and the dawn of science. Filled with an exciting blend of drama and biting humor, this powerful biography presents the startlingly relevant tale of history’s most famous conflict between reason and faith. Cleveland’s theatrical event of... more
Daddy Long Legs
October 21 - November 13, Allen Theatre
When an anonymous patron agrees to pay a beautiful orphan’s college tuition, her young life changes overnight. All that the benefactor—nicknamed Daddy Long Legs—requests in return is a monthly letter. From one of the Tony Award-winning directors of Les Miserables comes a charming... more
Ken Ludwig's The Game's Afoot
(or Holmes for the Holidays)
December 2 - December 24, Allen Theatre
Acclaimed actor of the 1930s, William Gillette, invites his Sherlock Holmes co-stars to his eccentric Connecticut mansion for a Christmas Eve celebration. When one of the guests is murdered, Gillette employs the persona of the master detective he’s made famous on the stage.... more
Ten Chimneys
December 31 - February 1, Second Stage - Arena Configuration
Summer and scandal take center stage as real-life theatrical legends Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne and friends Sydney Greenstreet and Uta Hagen rehearse Chekhov’s masterpiece The Seagull at their idyllic Wisconsin retreat, Ten Chimneys. A hilarious and heart-warming backstage comedy. more
Radio Golf
February 10 - March 4, Allen Theatre
A successful and idealistic entrepreneur aspires to become a city’s first black mayor. But while looking ahead to his and the city’s future, he is forced to reckon with the price of progress. The final chapter in August Wilson’s unprecedented 10-play cycle chronicling... more
Red
March 16 - April 8, Allen Theatre
Working feverishly to complete the most important commission of his career, the great American painter Mark Rothko finds his artistic motives challenged by a young protégé. "As much as any stage work I can think of, Red captures the dynamic relationship between an... more
In the Next Room, or the vibrator play
April 13 - May 13, Second Stage - Thrust Configuration
At the dawn of electricity, a remarkable treatment for “hysterical” men and women is taking place. Patients arrive troubled and depart delighted with the assistance of the doctor’s “little helper.” One of the most gifted and adventurous American playwrights to emerge in recent... more
In Arabia We'd All Be Kings
February 1 - February 11, Helen Rosenfeld Lewis Bialosky Lab Theatre
From the author of the Tony-nominated play The Motherf**ker With the Hat, a gritty exploration of a seedy NYC bar’s clientele and their ignorance as to what’s happening in this city that’s edging them out. more
The Winter's Tale
March 7 - March 17, Helen Rosenfeld Lewis Bialosky Lab Theatre
King Leontes is consumed with jealousy, believing his pregnant wife Hermione has been having an affair with his childhood friend King Polixenes. He orders one be poisoned, another imprisoned and the baby exiled. What will become of the child as her true origins... more
Every Good Boy Deserves Favor
A Play for Actors and Orchestra
May 3 - May 5, Allen Theatre
Written by Tony and Academy Award winner Tom Stoppard, Every Good Boy Deserves Favor features orchestral music by Grammy and Academy Award winner André Previn. Stoppard’s play is a swift 65-minute hilarious and stinging satire on state-sponsored repression. Brilliantly witty and mischievously funny,... more
Dorothy Silver Playwriting Winner
May 6, Second Stage - Thrust Configuration
The Dorothy Silver Playwriting Competition, sponsored annually by the Mandel Jewish Community Center, is a highly regarded international writing competition for plays about the Jewish experience. For over twenty years countless plays with Jewish themes have been submitted to the competition and many past... more
BUST
May 10 - May 12, Helen Rosenfeld Lewis Bialosky Lab Theatre
BUST is Lauren Weedman’s semi-autobiographical play built around her experiences working as a volunteer advocate in a Southern California prison for women. With one foot in Hollywood and the other in jail, the former Daily Show correspondent careens wildly between the two worlds,... more
The Rap Guide to Evolution
May 11 - May 12, 14th St. Theatre
A novel species of theatre combining the wit, poetry and charisma of a great rapper with the accuracy and rigor of a scientific expert, Baba Brinkman’s The Rap Guide to Evolution uses hip-hop as a vehicle to communicate the facts of evolution while... more
The Fagin Effect
May 12, Helen Rosenfeld Lewis Bialosky Lab Theatre
The Fagin Effect is a pastiche of Oliver Twist in which "ghosts" of the original characters are used to tell a new story that takes place in London, 1850. As entire neighborhoods are demolished to make way for the first underground railway, the... more
