Snowflake Theory staging next week!

Dates: 26 October (Sunday)
27 October (Monday)

Time: 7:00 p.m. both nights

Where: Jewish Community Center, 1125 College Ave. on Sunday, 10/26
OSU Hillel Foundation, 46 E. 16th Ave. on Monday, 10/27


Admission to both readings is free, but tickets are required by calling the JCC at (614) 231-2731 or OSU Hillel at (614) 294-4797.

Cast: Marge Klein: Lil Strouss
Rabbi Harris Samuels: Jared Saltman
Clark Klein: Damian Bowerman
Violet Sample: Jessie Biggert
Rebecca Klein: Cheryl Jacobs

dessert reception following the Sunday reading; deli supper before the Monday reading at 5:00 p.m.

The readings are a celebration of several noteworthy events in the Central Ohio theatre world:
--it's the 60th anniversary of Gallery Players, the community theatre of the Jewish Community Center, founded in large measure because of anti-Semitism then prevalent in local community theatres. Gallery Players quickly became on the leading community theatres in the area, both because of its non-discrimination policies and because of the inspired leadership of Harold M. Eisenstein, the artistic director for many years
--we also honor Harold M.Eisenstein's life and work, noting that the theatre in the Jewish Community Center was dedicated to his memory last week
--the readings continue the emphasis that noted Ohio playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee placed, throughout their writing partnership, in nurturing and developing playwrights. When they weren't writing Inherit the Wind, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, Auntie Mame and Mame, and so many other classics of the American stage, both Jerry and Bob taught playwriting, encouraged young playwrights, arranged for readings of new plays, and foreshadowed the development of national theatre oganizations by creating the American Playwrights'Theatre.

The Snowflake Theory was a Finalist for the Southeastern Theatre Conference's latest Gethcell New Play Project and had a reading at Kentucky Repertory Theatre (formerly Horse Cave Theatre). It was also selected for a reading in the New Voices Series of the Cincinnati Arts Association and Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative at the Aronoff Center for the Arts and at ScriptFEST at Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre in Mars Hill, North Carolina .