Mamai Announces 2017 Acting Company and Upcoming Season

Mamaí Announces 2017 Acting Company - performing in a cabaret benefit, CSU's AHA! Festival, and a summer season at Playhouse Square.

Mamaí Mia!

~ a cabaret evening with Cleveland's

musical theatre divas to benefit

Mamaí Theatre Company

Starring: Adina Bloom*, Katherine Burke, Ursula Cataan*, Jessica Cope*, Sandy Emerick*, Natalie Green*, Anjanette Hall*, Colleen Longshaw*, Tracee Patterson* & Tina D. Stump*

Saturday, April 8, 2017

Cibrèo Italian Kitchen at Playhouse Square

1438 Euclid Avenue

7:00pm 3-course dinner including choice of entree & sides

plus dessert and 2 drink tickets & cash bar

8:00pm cabaret performance: Mamaí Mia!

Table for 8: $600 ($360 tax-deductible)

Table for 4: $350 ($210 tax-deductible)

Table for 2: $180 ($108 tax-deductible)

Single tickets: $100 ($60 tax-deductible)

LOVE, LOSS AND WHAT I WORE

by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron

based on the book by Ilene Beckerman

Directed by Jacqi Loewy

With: Ursula Cataan*, MaryAnn Elder, Amy Fritsche*,

Treva Offutt & Kimberly L. Sias

June 8 & 9, 2017 at 7:30pm

The Outcalt Theatre, Playhouse Square

Special Guest Delia Ephron June 8th

2:00pm AHA! Festival appearance

in Drinko Hall, CSU

7:30pm introduces opening night with Mamaí!

in Outcalt Theatre, Playhouse Square

A collaboration between Mamaí Theatre Company, Playhouse Square, and Cleveland State University within the inaugural AHA! Festival (Arts & Humanities Alive!), the Ephron sisters' play of monologues and ensemble pieces about women, clothes and memory covers all of the important subjects-mothers, prom dresses, mothers, buying bras, mothers, hating purses and why we only wear black. Based on the bestselling book by Ilene Beckerman.

"Love, Loss and What I Wore" is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

THE TESTAMENT OF MARY

-Regional Premiere!

by Colm Tóibín, with Anne McEvoy

Directed by Bernadette Clemens

July 5 - 23, 2017

Wednesdays-Saturdays at 7:30pm, Sundays at 2:30pm

The Helen Rosenfeld Lewis Bialosky Lab Theatre

Imagine the most iconic mother of all time telling her private version of a story we thought we knew. Colm Toibin's retelling of the pivotal events in the life of Jesus Christ through the eyes of Mary the survivor challenges us to imagine the suffering, courage and strength of mothers on a colossal scale -- up close and personal. Prepare to join a gifted playwright and performer in a one-of-a-kind solo journey that will leave you with new insight and questions, along with a deeper appreciation for human endurance in the context of mystery.

Originally produced on Broadway by Scott Rudin Productions. Commissioned by Dublin Theatre Festival and Landmark Productions with the support of Irish Theatre Trust.

A DOLL'S HOUSE - Regional Premiere!

by Henrik Ibsen,

adapted by Thornton Wilder

Directed by Christine McBurney

With: Abraham Adams +, Mary Alice Beck, John Busser, Anjanette Hall*, Tim Keo+, Rachel Lee Kolis+

August 9 - 27, 2017

Wednesdays-Saturdays at 7:30pm, Sundays at 2:30pm

The Helen Rosenfeld Lewis Bialosky Lab Theatre

Imagine a devoted wife and mother who makes an unexpected journey to an unplanned exit with a famous door slam heard around the world. Ibsen's 1870s classic reshaped through a 1937 adaptation by American master Thornton Wilder takes audiences on a suspenseful ride to the edge of a gaping precipice of personal discovery that has a potential gain so great, that even a mother's love and a wife's duty can be swayed to sacrifice.

"Doll's House, A (Wilder)" is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.

Tickets on sale at 216.241.6000 or www.mamaitheatreco.org.

Mamaí Theatre Company was co-founded in 2010 and established as a 501(c)3 in 2012. Our mission is to create intelligent, relevant classical theatre that offers an artistic home for Cleveland theatre artists and equal opportunity for women in the professional theatre community.