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by Barry Daniels Karamu Performing Arts Theatre will open its season on October 1 with the Cleveland premiere of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama The Piano Lesson. The play is part of Wilson's acclaimed twentieth century cycle-one play per decade-about the African-American experience that includes Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences (Pulitzer Prize 1987), Joe Turner's Come and Gone, and Two Trains Running.

The Piano Lesson is set in Pittsburgh in 1937, and is about a family caught in the Depression. It depicts the struggle of a brother and sister over the sale of an ornately carved piano, a family heirloom, to finance the purchase of land in Mississippi on which the family had worked as slaves.

Director Gary Anderson, who staged last season's memorable production of Pill Hill, says that The Piano Lesson "challenges the main characters to face their painful past and allow it to empower their future. Their struggle is exemplary of our own-of every African-American who dreams an unfulfilled dream."

The play will be performed through October 24 in the Jelliffe Theatre at 8 pm Thursday-Saturday, 3 pm Sunday. Tickets are $9 on Thursday and Sunday, and $10 on Friday and Saturday. For reservations telephone 795-7077.

The Cleveland Public Theatre's American Indian Festival includes poets, singers, storytellers, etc. in a varied series of events, from October 8-17. The festival opens with a program of traditional songs and dances performed by the Prairie Island Drums and Dancers, Nathan Chasing His Horse, and hoop dancer Wayne Fox at 8 pm on October 8, and 2 pm on October 9 at the Natural History Museum (tickets are $6 and $4). Poet, storyteller, and activist Susan Harjo will appear at CPT at 8 pm on October 10 (tickets are $8 and $5).

Indigenous People's Day will be celebrated in Public Square on October 11 starting at 11 am. The free all-day event will celebrate the 27 Native American Nations represented in Northeast Ohio. A program

of music and songs featuring poet and folksinger Mitch Walking Elk, flautist Joe Salzano, and singer Mary Jane Buckshot will be presented at CPT on October 14 and 15 at 8 pm (tickets are $8 and $4). The concluding event will be an all day powwow starting at 1 pm on October 16 and 17 at the Cudell Recreation Center, 1910 West Blvd. (tickets are $4 and $2). For information and reservations telephone 631-2727.

Ensemble Theatre is opening its fifteenth season with Frank D. Gilroy's The Subject Was Roses (Pulitzer Prize 1965). This realistic domestic drama is set in a Bronx apartment in 1946, and is about John and Nettie Cleary and their son, Timmy, who has recently returned from overseas duty in World War II. Reviewing the original production, Walter Kerr called it "a family triangle in which a father loves a son and a mother loves a son and the son loves both mother and father and not one of them can make a move or utter a sound that does not instantly damage the other."

The Ensemble Theatre production, directed by Lucia Colombi, will feature distinguished Cleveland actors Dorothy and Reuben Silver. Performances are Friday and Saturday at 8 pm, Sunday at 3:30 pm and 7:30 pm, October 1-24. Tickets are $14 on Friday and Saturday, and $12 on Sunday ($2 off for students and seniors). For reservations telephone 321-2930.

Be Present and Be Proud. "Separate and not equal," the editorial in the last issue, addressed serious issues within the community. Theater is a place where the diverse elements in our community can share experiences. In this week's column if I have tried to encourage you to go to Karamu House, to the Ensemble Theatre and to the American Indian Festival, it is because I think we can learn from hearing the voices each of these represents, be it African-American, white heterosexual, or Native American. Being present and listening to the other is one step we can take. Our support and our visible presence as proud gay people is important if we are going to be part of the larger community that is Cleveland.

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