By: Cleveland Play House

Posted June 2, 2023 in PRESS RELEASES

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CPH ANNOUNCES 2023-24 SEASON FEATURING HISTORICAL FIGURES, LITERARY CLASSICS, AND MODERN-DAY CULTURAL LANDSCAPES

CPH’s 108th season will take audiences on a voyage showcasing a range of both classic and new productions from luminaries such as Mary Shelley, Peter Shaffer, Langston Hughes, and modern-day icon Lin-Manuel Miranda.

(Cleveland, OH) Cleveland Play House proudly announces its 2023-2024 season with seven productions that will examine historical trailblazers, reimagine classics from literary luminaries, take audiences on a hilarious trip across the pond as well as send them to higher heights with a Broadway musical blockbuster from one of today’s great American playwrights, Lin-Manuel Miranda. Audiences can expect to be taken on a voyage with productions examining societal change, human emotions, and genre-bending storylines. Well-known titles and vivid personalities will come to life, with towering performances and signature stage designs, welcoming community and cultural partners to celebrate CPH’s 2023-2024 season in the heart of Playhouse Square.

Cleveland Play House (CPH) will offer the amusing Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End as a summertime treat to whet audiences’ appetites before the official start of the season. This comedy explores the work of syndicated columnist and American humorist Erma Bombeck, featuring modern day syndicated columnist and actor, Pam Sherman. In September, the mainstage season kicks off with the inspiring biographical play, Thurgood, sharing pivotal moments from the life and career of the first African American Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall, featuring film, TV, and regional theatre veteran Lester Purry. David Catlin’s sensual and poetic reimagining of the classic tale Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, staged in the round, is sure to thrill audiences. In time for the holidays, the historic Karamu House presents Black Nativity, a heartwarming, soul-stirring, gospel celebration conceived by legendary playwright and acclaimed poet Langston Hughes. Audiences are sure to be doubled over with laughter from the mishaps and madcap mania in the international hit, The Play That Goes Wrong. A tale of envy, revenge, and musical history is enlivened and re-imagined – featuring musical selections from The Cleveland Orchestra – with Peter Shaffer’s award-winning play, Amadeus. The season will conclude on an energetic high note with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit In the Heights, a story of community, hope, heritage, and healing love.

KeyBank is the official sponsor of the Cleveland Play House 2023-2024 season.

To learn more about Cleveland Play House’s captivating 2023-24 mainstage season, please visitclevelandplayhouse.com.

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CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE

2023-2024 MAINSTAGE SEASON

Suburban Outlaw Productions presents

Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End

By Allison Engel and Margaret Engel

July 29 – August 20, 2023

Outcalt Theatre

Erma Bombeck, one of America’s most beloved humorists, captured the frustrations of her generation by asking, “If life is a bowl of cherries, what am I doing in the pits?” Equal parts wife, mother, daughter, and “domestic demigoddess,” she gave voice to the everyday joys and struggles faced by women of all ages. Starring nationally-syndicated columnist Suburban Outlaw Pam Sherman, Erma Bombeck: At Wit's End, celebrates a remarkable woman who reminded us all how to embrace whatever life throws at us with grace, grit, and good humor.

“…Pam Sherman portrays the humorist with a plucky, one-two punch delivery.” — Democrat and Chronicle

Erma Bombeck: At Wit's End is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.

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