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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.
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.
A timeline of events in the early history of the Cleveland Play House. Date. Event. 1915. Charles S. Brooks and Minerva Kline Brooks invite 8 friends to their drawing room at 1598 East 115th St. to discuss the formation of an art theatre. May 1916. The first play, Death of the Tintagiles, is performed at The Play House.
DateEvent1915Charles S. Brooks and Minerva Kline ...May 1916The first play, Death of the Tintagiles, ...1917An old Lutheran church on Cedar Avenue is ...Dec. 21, 1917Olive Russell’s The Garden of the ...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 ...
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.
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 ...
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Apr 7, 2009 · 1949: The Play House opens the 77th Street Theatre, a former Christian Science church, on Euclid Avenue, with "Romeo and Juliet." 1954: Cleveland premiere of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible."
