JOEL HAUSERMAN
24 GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE APRIL 16, 1993
THEATER SPOTS
Noh dance at CSU; performance art festival's final week
by Barry Daniels
Dobama Theatre's next production is Donald Margulies' The Loman Family Picnic, April 23 through May 16. This off-beat comedy-drama is a scathing portrait of a middle-class Jewish family living in a "luxury" high-rise apartment in Coney Island. Communication has virtually broken down between Herbie, overweight, overworked, and underpaid, and his wife Doris, who is rapidly on her way to becoming a "mad" housewife. Their older son is greedily planning what he hopes will be a lucrative bar mitzvah. Their younger son is composing a musical version of Death of a Salesman (Willy!), part of which is performed at the play's climax. Fantasy and reality blend in Margulies' dark and droll picture of a dysfunctional Jewish household. The play was originally produced at the Manhattan Theatre Club in 1989. Margulies next play, Sight Unseen, had a successful run off-Broadway in 1991. As always, Dobama is to be commended for continuing to bring the work of the best of our contemporary playwrights to Cleveland. Performances are Thursday through Saturday at 8 pm; Sunday at 7:30 pm, 2:30 pm on Sunday, May 16. Tickets are $10 and $7 (students and seniors). For reservations call 932-6838.
The Japanese Noh Theatre Performing Troupe will be giving its only American performance outside of New York City on Monday, April 26, at 8:30 pm, in Waetjen Hall at Cleveland State University. Noh is an aristocratic form of Japanese theater that originated in the 14th century. Elaborate robes, masks, music, and dance are all part of the highly stylized, ritual performance of Noh. Tickets are $20 and $5 (students). Special benefit tickets are $150 and include a gourmet dinner and preferred seating for the performance. For tickets call 687-5049.
John Guare's hilarious comedy, The House of Blue Leaves, is playing through May 9 at the Cleveland Play House. The play is set in New York City on October 4, 1965, the day Rope Paul VI visited the city. Guare assembles a zany group of misfits which includes Artie Shaughnessy, zookeeper and would-be songwriter; his deranged wife; his loving mistress, who refuses to cook for him until they are married; his son, who dreams of bombing the Pope's motorcade; three nuns; a Holly-
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wood producer and his hearing impaired girlfriend. The play won the Drama Critics Circle Award and the Obie for its original production in 1971. The acclaimed revival at Lincoln Center in 1986 went on to have an extended run on Broadway. The Play House production is directed by Josephine R. Abady and. stars Elliot Carlin as Artie. Tickets are $31 and $24. Pay-What-YouCan performances are April 9, 14 and 15. For information and reservations call 7957000.
The seventh and final week of Cleveland's Performance Art Festival includes the following events:
Mike Geither's Map of My Mother at the Cleveland State University Art Gallery,
April 16 at noon, 3 pm, and 6 pm; April 17 at noon and 3 pm.
Lying, an installation-performance by feminist performance artist Julie Laffin, and architect Cheryl Noel, at Cleveland State University's University Center stairwell, April 16 at 1 pm, 4 pm and 7 pm; April 17 at 1 pm and 4 pm.
Can't Take Johnny to the Funeral about the Persian Gulf slaughter will be performed by Chicago's renowned Goat Island, directed by Lin Hixon, in the Woodling Gym at Cleveland State University, April 16 at 8 pm.
At 9 pm on April 17, at Peabody's DownUnder in the Flats, William Roper will present multi-media musical compositions and David Thomas, front man for the
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Cease-Fire by Berlin pyromaniac fire artist Kain Karawahn, will light up the Cleveland State University parking lot at East 24th and Payne Ave. at dusk on April 18.
On Monday, April 19, at 5:30 pm, in the parking lot at the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Art Acts will lead a public procession and Jennifer Schlosberg will perform Bugs of Cleveland, an outdoor ballet for Volkswagen Beetles.
For pre-purchased tickets call TicketMaster, 241-5555. For information and reservations call 491-4555.
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Beck Center
Stephen Sondheim's gripping new musical Assassins will be the final production in the Beck Center's 1992-93 Studio Theatre season, running April 16 through May 8.
Assassins is a provocative musical which explores the darker side of American history with a daring and diverse musical score. The show is a controversial and surreal dissection of political assassination in America--a schizophrenic journey from John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald and beyond. It illuminates, shocks and educates as it entertains.
Directed by Beck Center Artistic Director Scott Spence, the cast features Paul Alessandro as John Wilkes Booth, Dan Bush as John Hinckley, and Rune Kapturas Charles Guiteau. Rachel Brown is Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, Paige Reich is Sara Jane Moore, and Gary Jones is Samuel Byck.
Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm, Sundays at 2 pm, from April 16 to May 8. Tickets are $9 for adults, $8 students and seniors. The Beck Center is at 17801 Detroit Avenue in Lakewood. Call -521-2540.
Spaces
The eighth annual "Members' Show and Sale" takes place at Spaces from April
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23 to 30. Opening reception is Friday, April 23 from 5 to 9 pm. The reception and exhibition are free and open to the public.
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The hours for the event are Saturday from 11 am to 5 pm, Sunday from 1 to 5 pm, and Tuesday through Friday from 11 am to 5:30 pm. Spaces, a non-profit, artist-run, alternative space gallery, is at 2220 Superior Viaduct on the west side of the Flats. Superior Viaduct runs parallel to the Detroit Superior Bridge off West 25th Street..
Repertory Project
Gail Friedberg dances "Whispers" at the Repertory Project
The Repertory Project, Northern Ohio's only professional modern dance repertory company, will be in performance at Cleveland State University Dance Studio May 12 through 17.
The concert is titled "Various Positions" and it includes a rich menu of works by five contemporary American choreographers. "Lecture" by Claire Porter is a wry look at the fascination and frustration of an overworked professor whose subject is repetition. "Calibrations" by Gina Gibney is a Repertory Project premiere whose five sections are performed in silence. "Whispers," choreographed by Debra Wright Knapp, examines feminine creation myths and issues of power and sorcery. "Now is the Time" by Susan Van Pelt, another Repertory Project premiere, is set to medieval minstrel music. "Migrat-
ing Weights" by Jose Luis Bustamante from Austin, Texas, is a Cleveland premiere. Set to original music by Professor Paul Lansky, the dance is about gravity and moving weight. For this work, Venezuelan dancer Karina Richter joins the ensemble of Gail Friedberg, Mary Jo Hodgkinson, Ellen Ressler Hoffman and Darcie Robbins.
Performance times are May 12-15 and 17 at 8 pm, with a matinee on Saturday, May 15 at 2 pm. Tickets are $10, $8 for students and seniors. Matinee price is $6; Monday evening is pay-what-you-can. Call Advantix at 241-6444 to charge in advance; tickets are also available at the door, but seating is limited.
The CSU Dance Studio is in the lower level of the Physical Education Building at East 24th and Euclid Ave. ✓
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