Clevleand's Cesear's Forum Suspends Foote/Miller Production

Cesear's Forum, the small Cleveland professional theatre company housed at  PlayhouseSquare, has abruptly halted production on an announced May/June offering of  two short one-act plays; Horton Foote's THE ACTOR and Arthur Miller's ELEGY FOR  A LADY. An unexpected royalty restriction on the former relatively obscure play, THE ACTOR, may be due to the semi-autobiographical characters that include Horace  Robedaux and family in Horton Foote's ORPHAN'S HOME CYCLE, being presented in
a co-production by the Hartford Stage and Signature Theater Company at the Peter  Norton Space in Manhattan. The nine hour cycle, comprised of three-act installments (or  nine separate one-act plays) was written in the 1970's and condensed to be staged in it's  entirety. Horton Foote, who died last March at the age of 92, has steadily continued to be  recognized as one of America's great playwrights. Arthur Miller, who died in February,  2005 at the age of 89, shares the same distinction.

Cesear's Forum is noted for interpreting smaller genre plays of some significance to it's  regional audiences and the public-at-large. Surprised at the notion of any conflict, the  company is delighted in the renewed interest and commercial viability of Mr. Foote's  work, particularly ORPHAN'S HOME CYCLE (expected to move to Broadway in the fall).

Producing intermittently, Cesear's Forum does not plan to rush a new May/June project  into its Kennedy's Down Under venue until early fall. An announcement concerning that work will follow in the weeks ahead.

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