Alumni Dinner and Oberlin Summer Theater Festival

The Oberlin Club of Cleveland invites you to dinner at Magpie Pizza and a production of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun with the Oberlin Summer Theater Festival.

DATE:
Tuesday, July 19th - REGISTER TODAY!

TIME:
5:00PM

LOCATIONS:
Magpie Pizza
65 East College Street
Oberlin, OH 44074

Hall Auditorium
67 North Main Street
Oberlin, OH 44074

Street parking is available.

COST: There will be a prix-fixe menu of $18 (includes tax and gratuity). Tickets to A Raisin in the Sun are free and will be passed out during dinner. Dinner costs are payable to the Alumni Association when you register.

Dinner is at 5:00 p.m., A Raisin in the Sun is at 7:00 p.m.

About Magpie Pizza:
Magpie Pizza is one of Oberlin's newest restaurants, located in the East College Street Project, next to the Alumni Office. Featuring real, fresh, local ingredients in their gourmet pizzas, Magpie has been kind enough to open its doors to the Oberlin Club of Cleveland. The prix-fixe menu will include an individual pizza (choose from a great selection of toppings), side salad, beverage and tax/gratuity. You are welcome to bring your own wine/beer. No corkage fee will be charged.

About The Oberlin Summer Theater Festival:
The Oberlin Summer Theater Festival's 2011 production of A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry's moving tale of a dream deferred in 1950s Chicago, plays July 8-29, and is directed by Justin Emeka '95, Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater. This classic drama chronicles a black family's ambitious pursuit of a career, a home, love, and the strength to survive in a hostile world. When the Youngers come into a small fortune during hard times, will the unexpected boon bring them closer to their dreams or tear them apart? Both heart-wrenching and heartwarming, the story still finds resonance over fifty years after its premiere.

OSTF is a professional, not-for-profit summer theater company, operating under the auspices of Oberlin College but administered independently of the Theater & Dance Program. The Festival’s Acting Company consists of a combination of professional Equity actors, local non-equity players, and interns (recent alumni and current Oberlin students). They are building a core intergenerational acting ensemble, composed mostly of Oberlin graduates who will return to Oberlin as their summer artistic home to do meaningful work with a supportive community of like-minded professional artists. The company works as a collaborative ensemble to create accessible and bold productions.

Check out more information about the Oberlin Summer Theater Festival (now in its 3rd season) by visiting http://www.oberlin.edu/ostf.

RSVP: As this event was quite popular last year and tickets are limited, please RSVP to the Alumni Office online at DINNER & THEATER or by calling 440-775-8692 no later than Wednesday, July 13th.