Beck Center offers a FREE Matinee - November 1

[Ed Gallagher]

NEWS RELEASE

CONTACT: Kathleen Caffrey, 216.521.2540 x22 or kcaffrey@beckcenter.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 31, 2012

FREE STUDENT MATINEE - November 1, 2012
Come Home to “Our Town” at Beck Center in Lakewood
Youth Theater presents the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Our Town”

Lakewood, OH — Due to the closing of Lakewood City Schools, Beck Center for the Arts is inviting area students to the FREE 10 am matinee of the Youth Theater production of Our Town on Thursday, November 1. Beck Center is located at 17801 Detroit Avenue in Lakewood. Free onsite parking is available.

Our Town, considered one of the greatest American plays ever written, will be performed by 33 Beck Center students on the Mackey Main Stage. Although Our Town is ideal for grades 6 through 12, younger students are welcome. Students must be accompanied by an adult. There will be general admission seating and tickets are not required. “All of us at Beck Center understand the challenges our community has endured over the last several days. This is a great opportunity to welcome students and their parents to Beck Center to experience live theater performed by our outstanding youth actors,” said Ed Gallagher, Director of Education.

Please arrive between 9:30 am and 9:50 am. Theater doors will open at 9:40 am. Our Town is approximately two hours in length and there will be two intermissions. Seating is limited and will be capped when the auditorium reaches capacity.

Described as the greatest American play ever written, Our Town tells the story of the Webb and Gibb families who live in the small town of Grover’s Corners. Narrated by a stage manager and performed with minimal set and props, the play is performed in three acts – Daily Life, Love/Marriage, and Death/Loss. Audiences follow the families as their children fall in love, marry, and eventually, in one of the most famous scenes in American theater, pass away. Our Town reminds us that life is both precious and ordinary, and that these two fundamental truths are intimately connected.

Our Town runs at 7:30 Friday, November 2 and 3:00 pm Saturday, November 3 and Sunday, November 4. Tickets are $12 for Adult/Senior (65 and over) and $10 for Children/Student (18 and under). To purchase tickets, visit beckcenter.org or call 216.521.2540, ext. 10. Beck Center is located at 17801 Detroit Avenue in Lakewood, just 10 minutes west of downtown Cleveland. Free onsite parking is available. Beck Center’s production of Our Town is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. New York City and is sponsored by Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, the Ohio Arts Council, and Music Is Elementary.

Beck Center for the Arts is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization that offers professional theater productions, arts education programming in dance, music, theater, visual arts, early childhood, and creative arts therapies, and gallery exhibits featuring regional artists. For more information about the Beck Center, visit beckcenter.org.

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