NEW YORK (AP) β This year’s Regional Theater Tony Award will go to the Cleveland Play House as it embarks on its centennial season.
The Play House was founded in 1915 and has entertained some 12 million people over 1,300 productions. Its alumni include Paul Newman, Tony Award-winner Joel Grey and “Wizard of Oz” wicked witch Margaret Hamilton.
Plays that have made their premiers at the Playhouse include Tennessee Williams’ “You Touched Me”; Bertolt Brecht’s “Mother Courage”; “The Pleasure of Honesty” by Luigi Pirandello; and Arthur Miller’s “The Archbishop’s Ceiling.”
The theater company has nurtured the Broadway-bound “A Night With Janis Joplin” and Pulitzer-prize winner Quiara AlegrΓa Hudes.
In 2011, it moved into its new 500-seat home at Playhouse Square. It also runs two smaller venues, the Outcalt Theatre and the Helen.
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Online: http://www.clevelandplayhouse.com
