Cleveland Weekend Theater Listing

Check out a show at one of the local theaters in town this weekend. Below is a brief list of just a few of the great productions playing in the Cleveland area!

 

Don’t see your production? Leave the details for your show in the comments section!

 

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October 6 – 30, 2011

Woody Guthrie, the American troubadour, gave a passionate voice to the nation during the Great Depression. Five talented actor/musicians sing Woody's story from New York's skid row to the ravaged dustbowl to the orchards of California. "So Long It's Been Good to Know Ya," "900 Miles," and "This Land Is Your Land" and 20 other songs from the heart of the heartland will fill your mind and touch your heart.

 

 

Race by David Mamet

October 21 - November 20, 2011

This riveting new drama follows three attorneys, two black and one white, who must defend a wealthy, white executive charged with raping a black woman. Mamet's scalpel-edged intelligence and corkscrew plot twists challenge our perceptions of race, sex, power and betrayal. These issues offer ample nutrition for a full-course, post-theater dinner conversation.

Written by David Mamet

Directed by Sarah May

 

 

October 7 - 23, 2011

The heavenly male quartet returns for their final chance to reach musical glory. Including such nostalgic hits as “Love is a Many Splendored Thing”, “Moments to Remember” and “Three Coins in a Fountain”, this heartwarming comedy will transcend time and space, and leave you laughing for more!

Directed and Choreographed by Monica Olejko

Musically Directed by Heidi Herczeg

 

 

October 21 - November 13, 2011, 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 love story that combines enthralling music, witty dialogue, and a wonderfully intimate and compelling relationship.

Book by John Caird

Adapted from the novel by Jean Webster

Music and Lyrics by Paul Gordon

 

 

October 20 & 22, 2011 (Double Bill)

Race- it's all around us. It's in our families, in our history books, in our pop music, and even in overheard bus ride banters. In Andrew Jackson Ate My Homework, a young man attempts to synthesize the strangeness of race as he passes through a collage of scenes that reveal and explore the issue of race in daily life and throughout (some of) history.

Written by Thomas Hayes

Directed by Cassie Neumann

 

October 20 & 22, 2011 (Double Bill)

Zoe is a painter struggling with a lull in her creativity, as well as in her relationship with her girlfriend, Rachel. A mysterious encounter infects her with inspiration, but is art worth the price? And what does the full moon have to do with it? 

Written by Cat Kenney

Directed by Lynna Metrisin

 

October 21 & 23, 2011

On a makeshift stage in a Kenyan refugee camp, three people begin an arduous, ten month journey, over 600 miles. They are shot at and bombed by government troops, militia and their very own people. Amidst the horrors of a civil war a young man befriends a widowed mother and an elderly man to form a family.

Written by George Seremba

Directed by Sheffia Randall Dooley

 

October 6 - October 29, 2011

Created by a mother/daughter team, Royal Ann's Preserve is a performance art installation about cleanliness, sweetness and the veneer of femininity. "She is preserved in a brine of sulfur dioxide and calcium chloride to bleach out bad memories. She is soaked in a suspension of reality... she is good intentioned and made of love. Saturated in sugar syrup and colored dye, her veneer is perfection but her cracks reveal something else entirely." This exhibit is free with ticket to any other concurrent CPT performances.

World Premiere/Devised Work/Northeast Ohio Creators

Created by Joan and Faye Hargate

 

October 13 - October 29, 2011

Storefront Studio

World Premiere/Devised Work/Northeast Ohio Creator

Co-produced with Theater Ninjas

Conceived & Directed by Jeremy Paul

Lock your doors, bar the windows and build up the fire as CPT and Theater Ninjas unleash an evening of hideous, inhuman monsters for your enjoyment. This original and unnatural co-production celebrates the nightmare creatures that haunt our dreams and stare out from our mirrors. 

 

 

October 7 - 29, 2011

In his upper eastside Manhattan apartment, Michael is throwing a birthday party for Harold, a self-awoved “32 year-old, pock-marked, Jew fairy”, complete with surprise gift: “Cowboy” a street hustler. As the evening wears on, fueled by drugs and alcohol, bitter, unresolved resentments among the guests come to light when a game of “Truth” goes terribly wrong.

The Liminis

by Mart Crowley

directed by Tyson Douglas Rand

 

 

October 7-22, 2011

A mysterious spy ring turns one man's boring life into a madcap chase around the Scottish countryside.

adapted by Patrick Barlow

Director: Daniel Takacs

 

 

October 21 – November 13, 2011

Critically acclaimed in its 2010 New York premiere, TIGERS BE STILL is a quirky, endearing and deliciously dark new comedy. Sherry Wickman, a young woman expects the perfect career and life to fall into place immediately upon earning her master’s degree in art therapy. Instead, Sherry finds herself unemployed, overwhelmed and back at home hiding out in her twin-sized childhood bed. 

A Regional Premiere By Kim Rosenstock

Directed by Marc Moritz

 

 

October 7 - 30, 2011

 

 

October 21 - November 6, 2011

Spinster sisters Abby and Martha Brewster are devoted to charity and family. But they have taken on another project as well - befriending lonely older gentlemen and then poisoning them with arsenic-laced elderberry wine.

 

 

September 23 - October 30, 2011

Hanna Theatre, PlayhouseSquare

 

September 30 - October 29, 2011

Hanna Theatre, PlayhouseSquare

 

 

Oct 20 - Nov 6

This spirited, fast-moving play presents the world's greatest detective at the height of his powers—surrounded by all the elements that fans have come to expect: danger, intrigue, wit, humor and surprise. "The game is afoot, Watson - and it is a dangerous one!"

Director: Dale Hruska

 

 

The Night They Stole Halloween and The Turkey Who Knew Too Much

October 21 – 30, 2011

Two fun and zany holiday one-acts.

 

 

- Palace Theatre – Million Dollar Quartet, October 11 - October 23, 2011

- 14th Street Theatre- Joshua Seth’s Beyond Belief, October 7 - January 28, 2012

- Kennedy’s Theatre - Bobby Selvaggio, October 22, 2011

- Ohio Theatre - Bristol Riverside Theatre presents Cummins' and Scoullar's The Little Prince By Rick Cummins and John Scoullar, October 22, 2011

 

 

October 21—30, 2011

A Musical by Ted Swindley creator of Always... Patsy Cline

 

 

Final Weekend

John is your ordinary London cab driver. He owns his own car, sets his own hours, is hard working, punctual and lives a very ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, except for his two wives. 

 

 

October 21 - November 6, 2011

Written by Anne Frank 

Edited by Otto Frank

 

 

October 6 - 23, 2011

Lights, camera, Shakespeare! It’s 1934 and famed movie director Max Reinhardt is determined to film William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the silver screen. He soon finds more than he bargained for – thanks to a gaggle of fairies and a mischievous ass running amok on a Hollywood set. This hilarious comic romp delights in Tinseltown tomfoolery.

A comedy by Ken Ludwig; Directed by Nancy Cates

 

 

Final Weekend

An amusing journey through the world of friendship and art.

Translated by Christopher Hampton

Directed by James Mango

 

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