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Scenery painting, 1937. Scene from the Play House's 60th anniversary production of with Melvyn Douglas, 1975. The Cleveland Play House was first conceived in 1915 at the home of Charles and Minerva Brooks. The first productions were performed at the Ammon house on the estate of Francis Drury and, for a brief period, in a barn behind the house.
In the early 1900s, Cleveland theatre featured mostly vaudeville, melodrama, burlesque and light entertainment, but a select group of eight Clevelanders — among them Charles and Minerva Brooks — sought plays of substance on timely topics. Together they formed Cleveland Play House. They found a home at East 85th and Euclid Avenue, in a ...
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1407 Euclid Avenue. Cleveland, Ohio 44115. Artistic director (s) Laura Kepley. Website. www.clevelandplayhouse.com. Cleveland Play House (CPH) is a professional regional theater company located in Cleveland, Ohio. It was founded in 1915 and built its own noted theater complex in 1927.
ther, they formed Cleveland Play House. They found a home at East 85th and Euclid Avenue, in a farmhouse donated b. Cleveland industrialist Francis Drury. It ultimately became. the site of a long-lasting home to CPH.The eventual facility, built in 1927, housed t. e Brooks Theatre and the Drury Theatre. In 1949, to accommodate its growth, CPH ...
Early Cleveland Play House, 1926 In 1917, this Lutheran church at Cedar Avenue and East 73rd Street became the home of the Cleveland Play House. The final show held there - George Bernard Shaw's "Arms And The Man" - took place on April 4, 1927. The company opened its new facility at 8500 Euclid Avenue five days later.
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1933. The Play House Children’s Theatre, later to be known as Curtain Pullers, is founded under the direction of Esther Mullin. Believed to be the first of its kind in America, the program provides free theatre education to Cleveland youngsters.
