Elizabeth A. Davis – MFA class of 2006 – is currently co-starring as Grusha in the Off-Broadway production of the Classic Stage Company’s production of Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle.

Tim Koch – BA Graduating Class of 2008 – served as the Assistant Director for the West End production of Peter and Alice with Judi Dench at the Noel Coward Theatre. He has also Assistant Directed on Broadway and in the Regional Theatre.

Andrew Gorell – MFA class of 2012 – is currently cast in the Broadway National Tour of The Lion King, in which he is playing the wonderful character of Zazu. This year long 12 city tour will open in Cleveland Ohio in July, 2013.

Betty the Yeti
by Jon Klein
October 4-13, 2013
Directed by Jerrold Scott
A long-standing battle between consumers and defenders rages on in an old-growth Oregon forest. Add meddling by the U.S. Forest Service, and the presence of a long-forgotten native denizen, and you have the comic mix of this “eco-fable” by Jon Klein.

Black Comedy
by Sir Peter Shaffer
November 15-24, 2013
Directed by Ron Wilson
This wild British farce follows the antics of a “borrowing” gone bad. After helping himself to an absent neighbor’s treasures in order to impress his fiancée and her family, a sculptor desperately tries to return them before circumstances take a turn back to the light.

The Bald Soprano
by Eugene Ionesco
February 14-23, 2014
Directed by Christopher Bohan
Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano pits Mr. and Mrs. Smith against their mundane lives. When the Martins arrive for a visit, an epic absurdist battle ensues as the typical dinner party turns into a tirade of non-sequiturs and miscommunication.

Measure for Measure
by William Shakespeare
April 11-20, 2014
Directed by Jerrold Scott
Written in the early 1600s, with the upheaval of a new ruler on the throne, Measure is considered one of the Bard’s ‘problem plays.’ It defies simple classification, as the play explores whether ideas such as right or wrong, and good or bad, are really that easy to distinguish from one another.

About the Works:
Senior undergraduate dance and physics major, Jacob Marx, will be presenting his capstone project L’ombre d’un Rêve. The title of the piece, which translates to “the shadow of a dream,” questions the connection between dreams and the real world. The work is based off of “La Rêve,” a painting by Salvador Dali infused with movement derivative of Gaga technique.

Danielle Dowler, a second year graduate dance student, will be presenting a new work titled Themiscyra set to music by Clint Mansell. The piece is inspired by a previous solo study and features all female dancers. The work investigates ritualistic action while using strong movements to explore space and dynamics.

Second year graduate student, Karina Browne will present a new work titled Dirty Orchestra. This work, set to various musical selections by Black Violin and is inspired by orchestral themes. Browne’s piece has a modern, hip-hop twist and plays on themes of music visualization.

CWRU alumna, Kristy Clement, returns to set, Efficiency, the last piece of a trilogy of works portraying satirical and fantastical environments that reflect upon human shortcomings. “Sometimes in the attempt to make our lives’ easier we apply complicated systems or use technology that creates new sets of problems and obstacles” Clement states. Madne$$ and Creatures of Habit were both previously presented parts of the trilogy. In Efficiency, Clement brings to life an inventor and her circus of human machine parts.

MaDaCol is a student organization that offers a creative and important outlet for CWRU students (undergraduate and graduate), faculty, staff and Greater Cleveland community members. In 2013, 42 dancers from these diverse backgrounds will be participating in the production.

Tickets and Location:
Mather Dance Center is located at 11201 Bellflower Road, on the Case Western Reserve University campus. Tickets are $5 for general admission and may be purchased at Mather Dance Center prior to each performance. Early arrival is suggested due to limited seating. No reservations and no advance sales will be made.

Case Western Reserve University’s Center for Popular Music Studies explores how the music of that era launched an industry in a two-day symposium, “Sing Me That Song Again: The History and Impact of Tin Pan Alley.”
Presenters will explore some popular Tin Pan Alley myths and reveal new discoveries about some of the era’s top songwriters, including Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Charles K. Harris, among others.

The event, free and open to the public, is from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday, April 12, and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 13, in Harkness Chapel, 11200 Bellflower Rd., on the Case Western Reserve campus.

Tin Pan Alley got its start as an enclave of music publishers packed into buildings along New York City’s West 28th Street, between Broadway and Sixth Avenue—and around the corner from the nearby theatre district, according to Daniel Goldmark, a Case Western Reserve associate professor of music and organizer of the Center’s first symposium. Over time, the “Tin Pan Alley” moniker became synonymous with the business of writing and publishing music throughout the country.
These publishing houses produced and promoted the popular music of such songwriters as Berlin, Gershwin, George M. Cohan, Harry von Tilzer, and hundreds of others. It created a market for their work and drove sales by the hundreds of thousands—and even millions—in the form of sheet music, piano rolls, and recordings for public events, radio, movies or parlor entertaining, Goldmark said.

To illustrate this era’s music, singer Joan Ellison of the performance ensemble Circa 1939 will be on hand to help demonstrate some of the many songs that will be explored during the day, Goldmark said.
The presentations will include:
• Richard Crawford, emeritus professor from the University of Michigan, who will present “Scenes from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess.”
• Walter Frisch, professor at Columbia University, will discuss “If Ever a Wiz There Was: Harold Arlen and American Popular Song.”
• Keir Keightley, associate professor at the University of Western Ontario, will discuss “From Hogan’s Alley to Tin Pan Alley.”
• Jeffrey Magee, professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, will present “From Flatbush to the Sea: The Cozy Cottage Trope on Tin Pan Alley and Broadway, 1910s-‘70s.”
• Gillian Rodger, associate professor at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, will discuss “When Singing was Acting: Song and Character in Variety Theater.”
• Rose Rosengard Subotnik, professor emeritus at Brown University, will present “My Father’s Musical Time-Capsule: American Songs, Sheet Music, and the Dream that Got Away.”

The symposium is held jointly with a graduate seminar taught by Goldmark this semester on the history and legacy of Tin Pan Alley. To learn more about the conference, call Goldmark at (216) 368-2526, or email daniel.goldmark@case.edu.

http://music.case.edu/tinpanalley/

This powerful play is one of the greatest dramas in the American theater. Arthur Miller’s allegorical tale of the dangers of McCarthyism is set against the backdrop of the Salem witch trials, and forces us to ask how far we’ll go as a society in attempting to feel safe.

For Tickets Call the Box Office at 216.368.6262
Eldred Theater at Case Western Reserve University | 2070 Adelbert Road

Friday, April 12 & Saturday, April 13
7:30 p.m.
Church of the Covenant, 11205 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland

2013 marks the third year of a magnificent collaboration between Case Concert Choir, Church of the Covenant Choir, and Case/University Circle Symphony Orchestra! Join us for a celebration of Enlightenment featuring the fifth of Joseph Haydn’s late six masses Schöpfungsmesse, or “Creation Mass.” ClevelandClassical.com praised the “glorious choral sound” of the choirs from the 2010 performance of Mozart’s Requiem. This year, our collaboration continues with two evening performances in Church of the Covenant’s beautifully renovated sanctuary. Each performance will be introduced by a pre-concert conversation, which will provide audience members with fascinating information related to the development of this masterpiece.

Pre-concert Conversation, 6:45 pm
Francesca Brittan, CWRU Assistant Professor,Musicology

TICKET INFORMATION:
$8 general admission
• free for students with ID
• free parking available
Tickets available at the door, from the Department of Music 216.368.2400, or from Church of the Covenant 216.421.0482

Identity Theft
Seven Lives Filtered Through the Ideas of August Strindberg
February 27 – March 9, The Helen

Written and assembled by Anders Cato and The Graduate Ensemble of 2014
Texts by August Strindberg
Translated by Anders Cato
Directed by Anders Cato

Who am I?” The question every person examines at least once in their lives. Director Anders Cato (Red, Crime and Punishment) returns to Cleveland Play House to work for the first time with the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program Graduate Ensemble as they explore this universal uncertainty. Using the works of daring playwright August Strindberg as inspiration, these seven young actors examine their own contemporary life experiences in this original piece and break open our preconceived notions of who we are.

For tickets call 216-241-9000 or buy online.

A paraplegic Vietnam veteran struggles to keep his childhood home in this heart-felt and humorous tale by Lanford Wilson. The protagonist Ken fends off friend and family alike as he tries to come to terms with the changes that have occurred in their lives since college.

Eldred Theater at Case Western Reserve University | 2070 Adelbert Road

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Production photos by Peter Jennings

The Case Western Reserve University Department of Dance will present Converging Pathways, March 21, 22 and 23 at 8:00 p.m. and March 24 at 2:30 p.m. at the Mather Dance Center on the CWRU campus. The dance thesis concert includes works by Master of Fine Arts candidates Carissa Bellando and Chun-Jou Tsai and will premiere group works and solos danced by graduate and undergraduate students.

About the works:

A new group work, Time River, by Chun-Jou Tsai is set to the music of Philip Glass is an ensemble work for eight dancers that explores the continuum of the natural phenomena of people coming in and out of one’s life throughout our collective journeys through time. At the heart of the dance is the seemingly unconscious passing of time as well as the importance of living ‘in the here and now.’

A solo performance, Rivela, by Carissa Bellando will take the audience through a woman’s journey towards acceptance of self. Emboldened by the acknowledgement of others, she strives to overcome constraints, builds confidence as a mature woman, and finds the fortitude to reveal her true nature to others and thus honor herself.

Bellando and Tsai will perform a duet titled Plain of Passage created by Karen Potter, Dance Department Chair. The new work is set to the music of J. Metcalfe and explores the bond of friendship while they draw nigh to pursuing their individual paths.

Soliloquize, choreographed by Tsai, draws from previous creative pursuits as well as the concepts and methods of exploring movement that have intrigued artists such as William Forsythe and Trisha Brown. The work is a soliloquy through movement and is performed to the music of John Cage and Matthew Doyle.

Sea Swept, choreographed by Bellando and set to music by John Adams, is an abstract work for nine female dancers that draws inspiration from the ocean. The dance features continual states of motion and energy, from calm and tranquil to rough and tempestuous and portrays the kinetic movement of the ocean during these various passages.

Tickets and Location:
Mather Dance Center is located at 11201 Bellflower Road, on the Case Western Reserve University campus. Tickets are $5 for students, $7 for seniors and CWRU personnel and $10 for general admission. Tickets may be reserved by calling (216) 368-5246. Tickets are also available at Mather Dance Center prior to each performance.

This year’s Choral Showcase will spotlight ensembles from the CWRU campus as well as partners-in-education from area public schools. Vocal jazz and multicultural selections will be the focus for this special evening of collaborative music-making featuring Case Concert Choir, University Singers, Dhamakapella, and our guests from Kirtland and Kenston High Schools.

Church of the Covenant is located at 11205 Euclid Avenue.
The Showcase is Free & Open to the Public and complimentary parking is available.