Big Box
Past programming
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Week #7: The Lives of a Poet
February 19, 2015 - February 21, 2015Through linked poems, songs and monologues, Ray McNiece presents a memoir on stage depicting the many facets of his…
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Week #6: Rouge Étude or How Sherlock Holmes Became a Misogynist
February 12, 2015 - February 14, 2015A study in violent seduction crescendos between young Sherlock and a world-famous violinist, bringing Holmes’ Str…
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Week #5: (Style is) The Answer to Everything—A (Subversive) Women’s Programme (Across the Century)
February 5, 2015 - February 7, 2015Which came first? The chicken or the egg? Host Penny Bingo considers this and other questions as she takes her audi…
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Week #4: Orphan Kiss (Left) and Turning Toward the Other
January 29, 2015 - January 31, 2015Searching for connection in a world beyond feeling, five people—stuck with themselves, by themselves—await the…
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Week #3: F*** Me, Love Me, Aphrodite and Black Virgins are Not for Hipsters
January 22, 2015 - January 24, 2015In "F*** Me, Love Me Aphrodite," a thwarted artist is compelled to stalk the dive bar she believes is blessed by th…
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Week #2: Unintended Consequences and Into Pieces
January 15, 2015 - January 17, 2015A dance exploration of daily life, vulnerability and noticing. Driven by research of Chaos Theory and “The Law of…
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Week #1: Cut It Out
January 8, 2015 - January 10, 2015Rebecca Helmer is a wife and mother becoming increasingly unsettled by her seemingly perfect life. Suffocated by th…
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Week #7 (Mar. 20 – 22) Armature
March 20, 2014 - March 22, 2014What does it mean to live in a "Post-Racial America"? In the fight for Equality, what gets lost as We become more v…
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Week #6 (Mar. 13 – 15): Same Difference
March 13, 2014 - March 15, 2014Anthony and Jahmal are two young black men-thrust together as college roommates and struggling to define themselves…
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Week #5 (Mar. 6 – 8) Illuminated Lizard and Sisters
March 6, 2014 - March 8, 2014"Illuminated Lizard" is the true story of one woman's quest for a way forward-the RIGHT way forward-when her world…
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Week #4 (Feb. 27 – Mar. 1) La Femme
February 27, 2014 - March 1, 2014An exploration of women in society. Do social norms influence women's self-perception and what they believe they ar…
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Week #3 (Feb. 20 – 22) The Importance of Waiting for the Eagle
February 20, 2014 - February 22, 2014The Eagle, agent of Zeus' wrath, comes daily to punish Prometheus for giving humankind the secret of making fire. D…
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Week #2 (Feb. 13 – 15) Funnel Cakes Not Included and Two Kinds of Light
February 13, 2014 - February 15, 2014"Funnel Cakes Not Included" is a darkly humorous look at suicidal depression through the mixed up lens of an amusem…
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Week #1 (Feb. 6 – 8) Nova
February 6, 2014 - February 8, 2014This wickedly satirical one-act opera stars NOVA-life-sized android and sexbot. An "adults only" production that wi…
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Week #8 (Mar. 7 – Mar. 9): These are the Times
March 7, 2013 - March 9, 2013Fact and fiction overlap in this theatrical panorama of Cleveland's heyday. Bernard Schrader discovers a life in th…
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Week #7 (Feb. 28 – Mar. 2): Love in a Time of Media
February 28, 2013 - March 2, 2013"Love in a Time of Media", a fusion of live theatre and film, is a piece about the complex nature of love in a worl…
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Week #6 (Feb. 21 – 23): The Mechanical Monster: Misunderstood and A Canticle
February 21, 2013 - February 23, 2013The Movement Project, Cleveland's newest dance company, goes sci-fi and brings to life mechanical droids with human…
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Week #5 (Feb. 14 – 15): Half Cut and An Unforgotten Memory: A Story Unfolded
February 14, 2013 - February 16, 2013In "Half Cut". Joel is ready to take the plunge and ask for his girlfriend's hand in marriage. While sprucing up an…
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Week #4 (Feb. 7-9): Vigil
February 7, 2013 - February 9, 2013The tenants of a Cleveland inner-city apartment complex have their share of differences but are doing the best they…
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Week #3 (Jan. 31- Feb. 2): The World Above Us
January 31, 2013 - February 1, 2013A story with songs, movies, paintings, poetry, dance and actors, The World Above Us is set mostly in Cleveland and…
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Week #2 (Jan. 24 – 26): The Bird Behind the Curtain and When the Moon was Green Cheese
January 24, 2013 - January 26, 2013Trapped in an undefined room, Claire and Esther's fate seems to be sealed. They follow a daily routine to find a wa…
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Week #1 (Jan. 17-19): Like a Doberman and the Late Night Sketchbook
January 17, 2013 - January 19, 2013In "Like a Doberman on a Quarter Pounder", Howey, one of Cleveland's most respected theatre critics, takes the stag…
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Week #7 (Feb. 12 – 18): Chaos Theory
February 16, 2012 - February 18, 2012The Sophists seem like a theatre company striving for brave, challenging works- but what happens when it all starts…
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Week #6 (Feb. 9 – 11): Divorcing Batman, Dating All of Gotham City and Jesus is Dead, Jerry Garcia is God
February 9, 2012 - February 11, 2012Our heroic divorcee was married to a man who enjoyed dressing up like Batman...for Halloween. No hot nights in the…
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Week #5 (Feb. 2 – 4): The Berlioz Project: A Multidisciplinary MultiMedia Multi-Venue Rock Opera
February 2, 2012 - February 4, 2012In 1827, Romantic Era composer Hector Berlioz was at his wits' end. Disowned by his mother and disdained by the cri…
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Week #4 (Jan. 26 – 28): The Negro Perkins and the Art of Social Graces
January 26, 2012 - January 28, 2012"The Negro Perkins", set in 1898, this piece looks back on an often ignored time in African-American history during…
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Week #3 (Jan. 19 – 21): 1,000 Hills and To the Sea…
January 19, 2012 - January 21, 2012Heads Up Productions, a new, movement based ensemble in Akron, began developing 1,000 Hills in 2010. The piece foll…
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Week #2 (Jan. 12 – 14): October in the Chair
January 12, 2012 - January 14, 2012Deep in the forest, in a place that is not hidden but is very hard to find, the Months of the Year sit around a fir…
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Week #1 (Jan. 5 – 7): The Dreamer and My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Ages
January 5, 2012 - January 7, 2012"The Dreamer" is a solo, multi-media performance examining how a dreamer resolves her unrealistic expectations of u…
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Week #8 (Mar. 4 – 6): Voice Over and Side Effects May Include
March 4, 2011 - March 6, 2011"Voice Over" is a one-act theater piece, approximately 50 minutes in length, developed collaboratively by a diverse…
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Week #7 (Feb. 25 – 27): Cowboy Poet, a C & W Musical
February 25, 2011 - February 27, 2011What happens when a Cowboy Poet, a WASP socialite, and an ex-gang member throw a gala to benefit Adult Literacy in…
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Week #6 (Feb. 18 – 20): Sonic Cinema
February 18, 2011 - February 20, 2011Experimental Orchestra, FiveOne Music aims to deliver an unforgettable night of sights and sounds when local vision…
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Week #5 (Feb. 11 – 13): Through Her Eyes and Fast Forward – Rewind – Stop
February 11, 2011 - February 13, 2011"Through Her Eyes" is about three women that find grace through being beautifully broken from fears and frustration…
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Week #4 (Feb. 4 – 6): The Everything is Everything Project and Sick Fuck
February 4, 2011 - February 6, 2011What does it mean to truly be awake: how many of us sleep - walk through our lives? Through two contrasting monolog…
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Week #3 (Jan. 28 – 30): Mother/Tongue
January 28, 2011 - January 30, 2011In "Mother/Tongue", a family's quiet dysfunction bubbles to the surface as workaholic mother Margot begins obsessiv…
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Week #2 (Jan. 21 – 23): Soliciting for Change and Seppuku
January 21, 2011 - January 23, 2011"Soliciting For Change", a one-woman musical featuring Molly Andrews-Hinders, is the story of a young, progressive…
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Week #1 (Jan. 14 – 16): Ya Mama! and She Cried at the Circus
January 14, 2011 - January 16, 2011"Ya Mama!" is a one woman show that explores how being an artist, a wife, a mother, a Christian, and a Black woman…
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Week #8 (Mar. 5 – 7): McInjun and HonkFest
March 5, 2010 - March 7, 2010"McInjun" is the story of a geeky 15-year-old half-Seminole, half-Irish boy, new to the city of Cleveland, but not…
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Week #7 (Feb. 26 – 28): Hum
February 26, 2010 - February 28, 2010In "Hum", four characters gently weave their disparate narratives. A letter from a long-forgotten ex-girlfriend, a…
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Week #6 (Feb. 19 – 21): Concentric Cycles and Dirt
February 19, 2010 - February 21, 2010As time passes, memories weave a fabric that connects with the present, shaping every moment of our lives. A myster…
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Week #5 (Feb. 12 – 14): Extra! Extra!
February 12, 2010 - February 14, 2010Coming together again in an original collaboration, FiveOne, Carly Dorman, and Sara Lawrence-Sucato deliver the new…
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Week #4 (Feb. 5 – 7): G.S.
February 5, 2010 - February 7, 2010In "G.S.," Gertrude and Alice and George and Alfred find themselves sharing the same atelier in Paris. When their p…
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Week #3 (Jan. 29 – 31): Microscopes and Megaphones
January 29, 2010 - January 31, 2010"Microscopes & Megaphones" is a collaborative project that uses dance, theatre, audio and visual arts to explore "t…
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Week #2 (Jan. 22 – 24): People4Change
January 22, 2010 - January 24, 2010Three Gen-Yers join forces to make a difference in the world after a random experience brings them together. Their…
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Week #1 (Jan. 15 – 17): Cramped and Kill Will
January 15, 2010 - January 17, 2010"Cramped" is an exploration of two women's coming of age, set inside the confines of a life size board game. The ch…
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Week #7 (Feb. 20 – 22): Unethical
February 20, 2009 - February 22, 2009You can't live without this paycheck, so just keep your head down and get through the workday. But when The Company…
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Week #6 (Feb. 13 – 15): InCogNegro
February 13, 2009 - February 15, 2009Black identity in America is complex. As poet Paul Laurence Dunbar suggested, we wear a mask to hide our true selve…
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Week #5 (Feb. 6 – 8): BACKspace
February 6, 2009 - February 8, 2009Big [BOX] presents an evening of dance and music, featuring original choreography by Carly Dorman and Sara Lawrence…
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Week #4 (Jan. 30 – Feb 1): MegLouise Dance Presents Nearly Nude: Deconstructing Beauty
January 30, 2009 - February 1, 2009MegLouise Dance ignites excitement and dialogue with "Nearly Nude: Deconstructing Beauty". Previews of the producti…
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Week #3 (Jan. 23 – 25): And Then You Die and Claus for a Moment
January 23, 2009 - January 25, 2009What races through a man's mind as he runs for his life? Hit the road in this comic and revealing solo piece about…
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Week #2 (Jan. 15 – 18): Summer Nights and Fireflies
January 15, 2009 - January 18, 2009Summer Nights and Fireflies takes us to a tiny sawmill town in eastern Texas, the home of Zandra Richards. She's a…
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Week #1 (Jan. 9 – 11): The BeetleBug and the Bad Work and Kissmet
January 9, 2009 - January 11, 2009Big [BOX] 2009 opens with a double bill - puppetry and theatre combine in The Beetlebug and the Bad Worm from Theat…
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Big [Box]
January 4, 2008 - February 24, 2008Cleveland Public Theatre Executive Artistic Director Raymond Bobgan is proud to announce the participating artists…
