Ensemble Theatre's 2017 -2018 Season Announced in Coventry Village!

ENSEMBLE THEATRE prepares to open its 38th consecutive Season! The entire 2017|2018 Season will take place in the heart of Coventry Village! See the full schedule below!

WELL

By Lisa Kron (Writer of the books and lyrics for FUN HOME).

Directed by Celeste Cosentino, September 29th-October22nd, MainStage Theater

"This play is not about my mother and me," begins the character of Lisa. But, of course, it is about her mother, and her mother's extraordinary ability to heal a changing neighborhood despite her inability to heal herself. In this "solo show with people in it," Kron asks the provocative question: "Do we create our own illness?" The answers she gets are much more complicated than she bargained for as the play spins dangerously out of control into riotously funny and unexpected territory.
Featuring Lara Mielcarek*as Lisa (*Courtesy of Actors' Equity Assocication).

THE HAIRY APE

by Eugene O'Neill Directed by Ian Wolfgang Hinz
November 17th-December 10thMainStage Theater

Written in 1921 by Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill, this iconic piece of expressionist drama is a searing social commentary on the divide between the rich and poor. Yank, an unthinking laborer, embarks on a search for a sense of belonging in a world controlled by the wealthy. His journey from the bowels of a transatlantic ocean liner to the wealthy neighborhoods of New York society serve as a metaphor for the struggle between the working man and the industrial complex found at the heart of the play.

THE LITTLE PRINCE

By Rick Cummins & John Scoullarfrom the book by Antoine De Saint-ExuperyDirected by Brittni Shambaugh AddisonDecember 1st-December 17th. PlayGround Theater

This play with music tells the story of a world-weary and disenchanted Aviator whose sputtering plane strands him in the Sahara Desert and a mysterious, regal "little man" who appears and asks him to "Please, sir, draw me a sheep." During their two weeks together in the desert, the Little Prince tells the Aviator about his adventures through the galaxy, how he met the Lamplighter and the Businessman and the Geographer, and about his strained relationship with a very special flower on his own tiny planet. The Little Prince talks to everyone he meets: a garden of roses, the Snake and a Fox who wishes to be tamed. From each he gains a unique insight which he shares with the Aviator.

ANGELS IN AMERICA PART ONE: MILLENIUM APPROACHES

by Tony Kushner Directed by Celeste CosentinoJanuary 5th-January 28th. MainStage Theater.

In the first part of Tony Kushner's epic, set in 1980's New York City, a gay man is abandoned by his lover when he contracts the AIDS virus, and a closeted Mormon lawyer's marriage to his pill-popping wife stalls. America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell.*Winner of The Pulitzer Prize in Drama

JELLY BELLY

by Charles Smith, Directed by Ian Wolfgang Hinz. February 9th-February 25th. MainStage Theater

A powerful story of a convict returning from a brief prison stay to resume his position as the neighborhood kingpin. In the New York Times, Stephen Holden wrote "Jelly Belly offers an unremittingly bleak portrait of inner-city life and the enormous pressure on working-class black men to be gangsters." The Chicago Defender wrote "Employing gritty poetry of the streets, Smith introduces us to Jelly Belly, who attempts to regain the service of Kenny, a former drug runner who has gone straight. Kenny is torn between the hope of prosperity through hard work shared with his friend Mike, or the opportunistic life of a drug pusher Jelly Belly offers."

ANGELS IN AMERICA PART TWO: PERESTROIKA.

by Tony Kushner Directed by Celeste Cosentino, April 27th-May 20th. MainStage Theater

In the second part, the plague of AIDS worsens, relationships fall apart as new ones form, and unexpected friendships take form. America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell.

MainStage shows tickets are $12-$25. TheatreCLE or PlayGround Theatre shows are $15 (unless otherwise posted). Single tickets will go on sale soon!
?Please Note that shows, dates and times are subject to change! Always check our website for updates!

SEASON PASSES are on sale now! $65-$185. Ensemble Season passes are FLEX TICKET PACKAGES that can be used in any combination for any production! Visit our website for more information! Or Click Below!

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CLICK HERE to buy a season pass or visit www.ensembletheatreCLE.org to purchase online! Call 216-321-2930 or email info@ensemble-theatre.org for more information! Ensemble Theatre is located at 2843 Washington Blvd. Cleveland Hts., OH 44118. In the heart of Coventry Village!

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