WEEK 2: NEOMFA PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL
WEEK 2: NEOMFA PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL
Cleveland, OH
Week Two of the Festival presents the full-length play Ghost Play by Morgan Elswick and directed by Amy Bistok. This will be paired with Bullshit, a ten-minute play by Klae Bainter and directed by Jonah Roth.
Thu, Feb 21 2019
8:00 PM
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Sat, Feb 23 2019
10:00 PM
WEEK 1: NEOMFA PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL
WEEK 1: NEOMFA PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL
Cleveland, OH
Week One of the Festival presents the full-length play Kafka and an Above Ground Pool, an absurdist play by Renee Schilling and directed by David Munnell. This will be paired with two 10-minute plays: We Think Differently by Ralph Meyers (directed by Beau Reinker) and Confirmation by Jacob Bremka...
Thu, Feb 14 2019
8:00 PM
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Sat, Feb 16 2019
10:00 PM
RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN by Gina Gionfriddo
RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN by Gina Gionfriddo
Cleveland, OH
Ohio premiere! After grad school, Catherine and Gwen chose polar opposite paths. Catherine built a career as a rockstar academic, while Gwen built a home with her husband and children. Decades later, unfulfilled in polar opposite ways, each woman covets the other's life, commencing a dangerous ga...
Fri, Nov 30 2018
8:00 PM
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Sat, Dec 15 2018
10:00 PM
Tweener Series: THE (UN)PERFECT WONDERLAND & REMARKABLY APPARENT
Tweener Series: THE (UN)PERFECT WONDERLAND & REMARKABLY APPARENT
Cleveland, OH
One Weekend Only!A Night of Two One Acts:The (un)perfect wonderland by Kevin Latimera poemplay, The (un)perfect wonderland shoots an arrow at the heart of grief. it follows Man as he attempts to come to terms with his father's passing.Remarkably Apparent by Angelo ManeageTraumas. Mothers. Marshma...
Thu, Nov 8 2018
8:00 PM
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Sat, Nov 10 2018
10:00 PM
THIS MUCH (OR AN ACT OF VIOLENCE TOWARD THE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE) by John Fitzpatrick
THIS MUCH (OR AN ACT OF VIOLENCE TOWARD THE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE) by John Fitzpatrick
Cleveland, OH
Ohio premiere! Gar can’t decide between the man who plays games and the man on one knee with a ring. In fact, Gar can’t decide on anything because every choice seems like a compromise. Everyone wants answers, but nothing lives up to the image he has in his head. Facades start crumbling as his wor...
Fri, Oct 19 2018
8:00 PM
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Sat, Nov 3 2018
10:00 PM
BLACK MONGOOSE AND HIS LIL PURPLE BUTTERFLY by Christopher Johnston
BLACK MONGOOSE AND HIS LIL PURPLE BUTTERFLY by Christopher Johnston
Cleveland, OH
World premiere! One Weekend Only- Black Mongoose and the Lil Purple Butterfly by Cleveland playwright Christopher Johnston Directed by Ashley Aquilla Cast: Cornell H. Calhoun III, LaShawn Little and Mia Jones In his youth, Black Mongoose was an all-state basketball player. Next he became a f...
Thu, Sep 20 2018
8:00 PM
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Sat, Sep 22 2018
9:30 PM
THE CASUAL TREE WARD by Robert Hawkes
THE CASUAL TREE WARD by Robert Hawkes
Cleveland, OH
World premiere! The goddess Freyja (or is she?) is tending Yggdrasil, the World Ash Tree (or is it?), trying to protect it from increasing drought. An itinerant water-bearer tries to persuade Freyja to go with him to where water is plentiful. She refuses. Does the world really depend on this sing...
Fri, Aug 24 2018
8:00 PM
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Sat, Sep 15 2018
10:00 PM
AND ALL THE DEAD LIE DOWN by Harrison David Rivers
AND ALL THE DEAD LIE DOWN by Harrison David Rivers
Cleveland, OH
A workshop production of a new work by Harrison David Rivers. The story about a sero-discordant gay couple (Foss is HIV+, Alvin is not) dealing with their mixed status relationship, stigmatization, the importance of connection to family (or lack thereof) and their very different cultural backgrou...
Fri, Jul 6 2018
8:00 PM
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Sat, Jul 28 2018
10:00 PM
COUNTING THE WAYS by Edward Albee
COUNTING THE WAYS by Edward Albee
Cleveland, OH
Starring Robert Hawkes and Anne McEvoy, directed by Susan Soltis. One weekend only! "He" and "She" probe into the nature of their love for one another. Long married, but aware that time has wrought changes in their relationship, the two spar and thrust at each other in exchanges and reminiscenc...
Thu, Jun 21 2018
8:00 PM
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Sat, Jun 23 2018
9:30 PM
IN THE BLOOD by Suzan-Lori Parks
IN THE BLOOD by Suzan-Lori Parks
Cleveland, OH
A modern riff on The Scarlet Letter. Hester La Negrita, a homeless mother of five, lives with her kids on the tough streets of the inner city. Her kids, played by adult actors, double as five other people in her life: ex-boyfriend, social worker, doctor, best friend and minister. While Hester's k...
Fri, May 18 2018
8:00 PM
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Sat, Jun 9 2018
10:00 PM
