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Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Edward Albee are Theatre of the Absurd playwrights. Unlike modern-movement writers like Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and William Inge, who wrote realistic plays which included solutions to problems or resolved situations, the Absurdists based their plays on Existentialism, asking, 'Why do we exist?' but giving no answers. Their writings are full of questions to ponder and probe.

It's no wonder in this age of xenophobia, racial profiling and baiting, irrational interpretation of regulations, police brutality and alternate facts being spewed, that when a car bomb goes off in the center of a large American metropolis, a Muslim young man would become paranoid.

Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT) presents the regional premiere of I Call My Brothers, written by Jonas Hassen Khemiri and translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles. The CPT production with be directed by 2015 National Directors Fellow, Evren Odcikin. I Call My Brothers is onstage now through March 4th, 2017 in CPT's James Levin Theatre. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT) is proud to announce the regional premiere of I Call My Brothers, written by Jonas Hassen Khemiri and translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles. The CPT production with be directed by 2015 National Directors Fellow, Evren Odcikin. I Call My Brothers is onstage February 9th - March 4th, 2017 in CPT's James Levin Theatre.

Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT) is proud to announce the regional premiere of I Call My Brothers, written by Jonas Hassen Khemiri and translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles. The CPT production with be directed by 2015 National Directors Fellow, Evren Odcikin. I Call My Brothers is onstage February 9th - March 4th, 2017 in CPT's James Levin Theatre.

Mamai Theatre Company opens its 2016 season with Caryl Churchill's TOP GIRLS, running June 2-19 at Cleveland Masonic Performing Arts Center. Check out photos below!

Mamai Theatre Company continues its third season with new private and public funding grants, two new venues, and a production of Tennessee Williams' American classic, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, directed by Mitchell Fields.