Famed Playwright Showcases Production at Tri-C Metro
Famed Playwright Showcases Production at Tri-C Metro
10/26/2009
Media Contact: Janet Cannata (216) 987-6155
CLEVELAND – Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C®) presents the Fall Studio Theatre Production featuring “Our House,” written by renowned playwright, screenwriter and television writer Theresa Rebeck.
The play, directed by Frederick Perry, associate theatre arts professor at Tri-C, is about a rising television news anchor that is tripped up by her own ambition when she covers a hostage crisis. Morphing swiftly from comic to catastrophic, Rebeck’s biting wit and gift for social satire raises “Our House” to the lofty theatrical territory shared by her earlier plays “Mauritius,” “The Scene,” “The Water’s Edge,” “Bad Dates” and “Spike Heels.”
The show will run November 5, 6, 7, 12, 13 and 14 at 8 p.m. and November 8 and 15 at 2 p.m. in Theatre 10 in the Art & Music Building on the Metropolitan Campus, 2900 Community College Avenue in Cleveland. General admission tickets for the show are $10 and $8 for students and seniors. Parking is available in designated visitor lots on each Tri-C campus for $1 for a two-hour time block, or a hangtag permit can be purchased for 75 cents. The play contains adult language and no children under 14 will be admitted.
Rebeck is a widely produced playwright throughout the United States and abroad. She has written for American Theatre magazine and has had excerpts of her plays published in the Harvard Review. In television, Rebeck has written for “Dream On,” “Brooklyn Bridge,” “L.A. Law” and “Third Watch” and has been a writer/producer for “Law and Order: Criminal Intent” and “NYPD Blue.”
Rebeck has won numerous awards for her writing including the Mystery Writer’s of America’s Edgar Award, the Writer’s Guild of America award for Episodic Drama, the Hispanic Images Imagen Award and the Peabody award. She has also won the National Theatre Conference Award and was awarded the William Inge New Voices Playwriting Award in 2003.
In addition, the Metro Campus Theatre Production is also hosting the Fall Main Stage Dance Concert on December 4 and 5 at 8 p.m. in the Auditorium. Tickets are $10 and $8 for students and seniors. For more information or reservations, call 216-987-4211.