Jennifer Noble News

Off-Broadway sensation Bat Boy: The Musical opens May 29, 2009 at the Village Players Theatre. Continuing the saga started by the Weekly World News, this Off-Broadway hit is chock full of both hilarity and heart-wrenching emotion. Edgar, the Bat Boy, is found in cave in West Virginia and then brought-up by a well-meaning family. Still the outsider, Edgar struggles to fit and survive in a world that is not ready to accept him.

PlayhouseSquare and the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music (B-W) are partnering to present the first regional premiere of [title of show], May 1-3 at the 14th Street Theatre at PlayhouseSquare. The show will feature current students in the Baldwin-Wallace Music Theatre Program under the direction of nationally acclaimed director Victoria Bussert, head of the music theatre program at B-W. This will be the second year that the multi-tiered collaboration between PlayhouseSquare and the Baldwin-Wallace Music Theatre Program as well as the Arts Management Program will occur.

After six sold-out houses and repeated audience requests, Far From Freud has added an additional performance by popular demand: Friday, January 30 at 8 PM. Due to the schedule at Village Players, this will be the final extension of the production; no more performances are possible. Tickets for this performance are expected to sell-out quickly. Far From Freud confronts the challenges of life and follows the quest for new beginnings. Though the characters are all seeing the same therapist, they come to learn that their greatest source of comfort and healing is in their relationships with each other. Featuring a vibrant, modern score, Far From Freud is a moving and powerful celebration of the strength of the human spirit. The show is written by Phil Riegle and directed by Christopher Pazdernik.

After six sold-out houses and repeated audience requests, Far From Freud has added an additional performance by popular demand: Friday, January 30 at 8 PM. Due to the schedule at Village Players, this will be the final extension of the production; no more performances are possible. Tickets for this performance are expected to sell-out quickly. Far From Freud confronts the challenges of life and follows the quest for new beginnings. Though the characters are all seeing the same therapist, they come to learn that their greatest source of comfort and healing is in their relationships with each other. Featuring a vibrant, modern score, Far From Freud is a moving and powerful celebration of the strength of the human spirit. The show is written by Phil Riegle and directed by Christopher Pazdernik.

Teen mother. Closeted husband. Dying businesswoman. Estranged couple. These are the faces in Far From Freud, a contemporary new musical premiering at Village Players Performing Arts Center, January 16 ? 25, 2009.