HeArd Past Performances from 2016: January-October

Margaret Wise Brown's Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny

Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 10:00 AM (performance for schools)

Saturday, January 16, 2016 at 11:00 AM (public performance)

Ohio Theatre in Cleveland's Playhouse Square

1151 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44113

Performing interpreters: Christine Anastasia Mason & Merry Beth Pietila

For tickets call: (v) 216-241-5490, X318

LeLand Gantt's Rhapsody in Black

Tuesday February 2, 2016 at 10:00 AM (performance for schools)

Ohio Theatre in Cleveland's Playhouse Square

1151 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44113

Performing interpreters: Erin LaFountain & Betty Bridgewater

For tickets call: (v) 216-241-5490, ext. 318

David Howard & Bret Simmon's The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig

Sunday, February 7, 2016 at 3:00 PM

True North Cultural Arts at French Creek Nature Center

4530 Colorado Ave, Village of Sheffield, Ohio 44054

Performing interpreters: Larry Nehring & Christine Anastasia Mason

For tickets call and request seating in the interpreted section: (v)(440) 949-5200 ext. 221

David Epley's Doktor Kaboom! LIVE WIRE!

Thursday February 11, 2016 at 10:00 AM (performance for schools)

Ohio Theatre in Cleveland's Playhouse Square

1151 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44113

Performing interpreters: Erin LaFountain & Merry Beth Pietila

For tickets call: (v) 216-241-5490, ext. 318

Disney's The Little Mermaid Jr. Presented by Yarnell Youth Company

Sunday, February 28, 2016 at 2:00 PM

Fine Arts Association in Willoughby

38660 Mentor Avenue, Willoughby, Ohio 44094

Performing interpreters: Colleen Ticherich, Debi Epstein, Vince Reddy, & Rachel Gerard

For tickets, call the ticket office and request seating in the interpreted section: (v) 440-951-7500

Bernard Pomerance's The Elephant Man

Sunday, March 6, 2016 at 2:00 PM C.K. Rickel Theatre at Royce Hall for the Performing Arts on the campus of Lake Erie College 391 West Washington Street, Painesville, Ohio. Access to the theater is off of Gillette Street in Painesville.  Performing interpreters: Mark Howdieshell & Merry Beth Pietila

For tickets click the link above to purchase online or call the box office: (v) 440-428-7092

The 2016 Great Lakes Theater production of

Agatha Christie's  And Then There Were None

Sunday, March 20, 2016 at 3:00 PM

Sunday, March 20, 2016 at 3:00 PM

Hanna Theatre in Cleveland's Playhouse Square

1511 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44113

Performing interpreters: Debi Epstein, Melissa O'Grady, & Christine Anastasia Mason

Creative Sign Consultant: Jenine Mahendranath

For tickets phone Kelly Florian: (v)216-241-5490, X318 or email kflorian@greatlakestheater.org

Percossa's The Box Brothers

Wednesday May 4, 2016 at 10:00 AM (performance for schools)

Great Lakes Theater's Hanna Theatre at PlayhouseSquare in Cleveland

2067 East Fourteenth Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44115

Performing interpreters: Erin LaFountain & Vince Reddy 

For tickets call: (v) 216-241-5490, ext. 318

Bill Blagg's The Magic of Bill Blagg LIVE!  

Friday May 6, 2016 at 11:00 AM (performance for schools)

Saturday May 7, 2016 at 12:00 PM (public performance)

Connor Palace Theatre 

in Cleveland's Playhouse Square

1615 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio  44115; 

Performing interpreters: Erin LaFountain & Colleen Ticherich

For tickets call: (v) 216-241-5490, ext. 318

The 2016 Great Lakes Theater production of

Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt's The Fantasticks

Sunday, May 29, 2016 at 3:00 PMGreat Lakes Theater's Hanna Theatre at Playhouse Square in Cleveland

2067 East Fourteenth Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44115

Performing interpreters: Erin LaFountain, Debi Epstein, & Doug Braun

For tickets phone Kelly Florian: (v) 216-241-5490, X318 or email kflorian@greatlakestheater.org

Alan Menken & Howard Ashman's Little Shop of Horrors

Sunday, June 26, 2016 at 2:00 PM

Fine Arts Association in Willoughby

38660 Mentor Avenue, Willoughby, Ohio 44094

Performing interpreters: Merry Beth Pietila, Erin LaFountain, Colleen Ticherich

For tickets, call the ticket office and request seating in the interpreted section: (v) 440-951-7500

David Grapes & Todd Olson's My Way

Sunday, October 23, 2016 at 3:00 PM

at The Hanna Theatre in Cleveland's Playhouse Square

2067 East 14th Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44113

Performing interpreters: Ariana Zimcosky, Vince Reddy, & Debi Epstein

For tickets phone Kelly Florian: (v) 216-241-5490, ext.318 or email kflorian@greatlakestheater.org

John Steptoe's Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters

Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 11:00 AM (sensory-friendly performance for schools)Saturday, October 29, 2016 at 11:00 AM (public performance)at The Ohio Theatre in Cleveland's Playhouse Square 1519 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44113

Performing interpreters: Erin LaFountain & Betty Bridgewater

To book a school field trip please contact Julie Okuley at

(voice phone) 216-348-7909 or Julie.Okuley@playhousesquare.org

For tickets to the public Saturday performance call: (v) 216-241-5490, ext.318 and ask for seating near the interpreters.

William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Sunday, October 30, 2016 at 3:00 PMGreat Lakes Theater performance at The Hanna Theatre in Cleveland's Playhouse Square 2067 East 14th Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44113 Performing interpreters: Erin LaFountain, Rachel Hollander, & Melissa O'Grady

For tickets contact Kelly Florian and ask for seating near the interpreters:

                                  Phone (v) 216-241-5490, ext.318, or email kflorian@greatlakestheater.org

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol: Sensory-Friendly Performance 

A very special event for children/adults on the autism spectrum and their families.

Wednesday, November 23, 2016 11:00 AM-12:45 PM

at The Ohio Theatre in Cleveland's Playhouse Square

1519 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44113

Performing interpreters: Melissa O'Grady & Jocelyn A. McCullough-Brindo

For tickets contact Kelly Florian and ask for seating near the interpreters: 

Phone (v) 216-241-5490, ext.318, or email kflorian@greatlakestheater.org

Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Thursday, December 1, 2016 at 7:30 PM

at Near West Theatre in Cleveland's Gordon Square Arts District

6702 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44113

For tickets purchase online or phone the ticket office: (v) 216-961-6391 

Performing interpreters: Erin LaFountain, Betty Bridgewater, Vince Reddy, & Merry Beth Pietila 

Special interpreting services:Camarie Shepard & Peter Parsons

The 2016 Great Lakes Theater production of

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

Sunday, December 4, 2016 at 3:00 PM

at The Ohio Theatre in Cleveland's Playhouse Square

1519 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44113

Performing interpreters: Melissa O'Grady & Jocelyn A. McCullough-Brindo

Creative sign consultant: Jenine Mahendranath 

For tickets contact Kelly Florian and ask for seating near the interpreters: 

Phone (v) 216-241-5490, ext.318, or email kflorian@greatlakestheater.org

Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park                                       $10 tickets to this performance are available to members of the Deaf community.

Offer not valid with any other discount or promotion, nor on prior sales.

Tickets are available for purchase online at this link. 

American Sign Language interpretation for patrons from the Northeast Ohio Deaf community is supported for this performance by a grant from VSA (Very Special Arts) the International Organization on Arts and Disability, founded more than thirty-five years ago by Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith to increase access to the arts for all.

Disney's Beauty and the Beast

Sunday, December 18, 2016 at 2:00 PM

at Fine Arts Association in Willoughby

38660 Mentor Avenue, Willoughby, Ohio 44094

Performing interpreters: Merry Beth Pietila, Erin LaFountain, Ariana Zimcosky, & Colleen Ticherich

Creative sign consultant: Jenine Mahendranath

For tickets call the ticket office and request seating in the sign-interpreted section: (v) 440-951-7500