Main Stage Season:
The Life of Galileo
September 17 - October 9, Allen Theatre
It’s a new age! The telescope, astronomy, and the dawn of science. Filled with an exciting blend of drama and biting humor, this powerful biography presents the startlingly relevant tale of history’s most famous conflict between reason and faith. Cleveland’s theatrical event of... more
Daddy Long Legs
October 21 - November 13, 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... more
Ken Ludwig's The Game's Afoot
(or Holmes for the Holidays)
December 2 - December 24, Allen Theatre
Acclaimed actor of the 1930s, William Gillette, invites his Sherlock Holmes co-stars to his eccentric Connecticut mansion for a Christmas Eve celebration. When one of the guests is murdered, Gillette employs the persona of the master detective he’s made famous on the stage.... more
Ten Chimneys
December 31 - February 1, Second Stage - Arena Configuration
Summer and scandal take center stage as real-life theatrical legends Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne and friends Sydney Greenstreet and Uta Hagen rehearse Chekhov’s masterpiece The Seagull at their idyllic Wisconsin retreat, Ten Chimneys. A hilarious and heart-warming backstage comedy. more
Radio Golf
February 10 - March 4, Allen Theatre
A successful and idealistic entrepreneur aspires to become a city’s first black mayor. But while looking ahead to his and the city’s future, he is forced to reckon with the price of progress. The final chapter in August Wilson’s unprecedented 10-play cycle chronicling... more
Red
March 16 - April 8, Allen Theatre
Working feverishly to complete the most important commission of his career, the great American painter Mark Rothko finds his artistic motives challenged by a young protégé. "As much as any stage work I can think of, Red captures the dynamic relationship between an... more
In the Next Room, or the vibrator play
April 13 - May 13, Second Stage - Thrust Configuration
At the dawn of electricity, a remarkable treatment for “hysterical” men and women is taking place. Patients arrive troubled and depart delighted with the assistance of the doctor’s “little helper.” One of the most gifted and adventurous American playwrights to emerge in recent... more
