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Cleveland Public Theater The 2021-22 season continues the world premiere of Breakout Session (or Frogorse), which was slated to finish its run before the coronavirus pandemic. The play examines the topic of an anti-bias training session. Executive Artistic Director Raymond Bobgan says, with so much change in America over the past 18 months, the production is being updated by its playwright, Nikkole Salter.
Cleveland Public Theater has announced its upcoming season, which picks up where it left off before the coronavirus pandemic.
The Gordon Square-based theater will present “Breakout Session (or Frogorse),” which examines the subject of police bias. It was slated to close the 2019-2020 season, before the pandemic. Now, it’s been updated by the playwright ahead of its return this October.
Northeast Ohio theatre scene remains vibrant, offering virtual events while stages remain dark
Updated Mar 16, 2021;
Posted Feb 22, 2021
Valet parking sits empty in front of Playhouse Square on March 12, 2020, the day the performing arts center closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The Plain Dealer
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CLEVELAND, Ohio Had it not been for the pandemic, theatergoers in Northeast Ohio might be talking about that performance of “The Cher Show” they just saw at Playhouse Square, or making plans to see the Great Lakes Theater’s production of “Agatha Christie’s Black Coffee” at the Hanna this weekend.
Instead, theatres across the region remain dark for the 49th consecutive week. But there is light at the end of the tunnel.
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“Jazz is social music,” says Jerome Sabbagh. “Playing music with people, interacting, having a musical conversation, so to speak, and doing that in front of an audience – that’s what gives this music its meaning.”
It has been a difficult year for Sabbagh. Like millions of other musicians, theatre actors, comedians, dancers and live performers of all kinds, the jazz saxophonist and composer has had gigs cancelled as live venues all over the world have closed.
An autumn reopening?
“Usually I perform regularly in New York. I was supposed to tour Japan for 10
days. That got cancelled,” Sabbagh says. “I probably would have worked in Europe over the summer – obviously I didn’t even travel there. It’s a lot less work all