WordStage Vermont Season

My Dear Boy

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My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuries

Developed from love letters written by prominent men throughout history from Marcus Aurelius to Allen Ginsberg, My Dear Boy expresses universal themes of human emotion and amorous relationships.

Thursday, Friday and Saturday
January 5, 6 & 7 – 7:00 PM

Presented at Cleveland Public Theater's James Levin Theater as part of CPT's Big Box Series.

       

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The Life and Works of Hart Crane:
From Garretsville to Brooklyn and Beyond

The life of Hart Crane was tragically short, but his impact on the world of poetry was large and the list of those he has influenced is long.

Tuesday, April 3 at 7:00 p.m. in the Lakewood Public Library's Main Library Auditorium

       

Eric Satie

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Erik Satie:
Eccentricities of The Velvet Gentleman

Excerpts form some of this magnificently idiosyncratic composer's Diary of a Mammal and Memoirs of an Amnesiac as well as familiar and lesser known excerpts written for piano and piano 4 hands played by artists of The Cleveland Classical Revolution.

West Side: West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church, Rocky River | 8:00pm - Friday, September 21, 2012

East Side: First Unitarian Church, Shaker Heights
8:00pm - Saturday, September 22, 2012

       

Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe'sThe Facts in the Case of M. Valedmar

 

ANOTHER EDGAR ALLAN POE SPOOKTACULAR!

Celebrate the Halloween Season by experiencing a truly terrifying tale adapted from the pen of The Master of the Macabre ~ The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar ~ a spine-tingling tale of malevolent medicine, Machiavellian manipulation, deathbed disintegration and lost love.

West Side: West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church, Rocky River | 8:00pm - Friday, October 26, 2012

East Side: First Unitarian Church, Shaker Heights
8:00pm - Saturday, October 27, 2012

 

       

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Proust in Love

The Letters, Diaries and Prose of Marcel Proust and Reynaldo Hahn.

Underscored by Hahn's exquisite vocal and instrumental music.

West Side: West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church, Rocky River | 8:00pm - Friday, February 8, 2013

East Side: First Unitarian Church, Shaker Heights
8:00pm – Saturday, February 9, 2013

       

Chopin / Sand

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Frederic & George – L'Affaire Chopin/Sand

The passionate letters and diaries of Chopin and Sand, their turbulent relationship observed and commented upon by their mutual friend, the artist Edgar Degas, and underscored and augmented by some of Chopin's most tempestuous music and songs. Dates To Be Announced.
       

The Hollow Crown

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The Hollow Crown

The words and music of the British Monarchy and their contemporary chroniclers; from William the Conqueror to Queen Victoria – originally created in the 1960's for readers and musicians for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts by John Barton. West Side: West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church, Rocky River | 8:00pm - Friday, April 5, 2013

East Side: First Unitarian Church, Shaker Heights
8:00pm – Saturday, April 6, 2013
       

Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman – I Sing the Body Electric

A Second Commission for the Lakewood Public Library
In Celebration of National Poetry Month, April, 2013
Thursday, April 18
Lakewood | 7:00pm - Lakewood Public Library in the Main Auditorium

Rogers and Hammerstein

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Father's Day Music at the Library: Rogers & Hammerstein

A tribute to fathers and fatherhood through the songs and writings of America's most renowned composer and lyricist team, Rogers and Hammerstein. Sunday, June 16
Beachwood | 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Beachwood Library
       
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