Ken Ludwig’s The Games Afoot to Premiere at Cleveland Play House; Season Announced

Cleveland Play House will present the world premiere of Ken Ludwig’s The Games Afoot or Holmes for the Holidays, to play the Allen Theatre, November 25-December 18.

Aaron Posner will direct this murder mystery comedy in which an acclaimed actor of the 1930s, William Gillette, invites his Sherlock Holmes co-stars to his eccentric Connecticut mansion for a Christmas Eve celebration. When one of the guests is murdered, Gillette employs the persona of the master detective he’s made famous on the stage.

The theater has also announced programming for the rest of its 2011-2012 season, which will open with Galileo (September 16-October 9), written by Bertolt Brecht, translated by David Edgar, and directed by Michael Donald Edwards. The season will continue with the new musical Daddy Long Legs (October 21-November 13), featuring music and lyrics by Paul Gordon, book by John Caird, adapted from the novel by Jean Webster, and direction by Caird.

In 2012, Cleveland Play House will present Ten Chimneys (January 13-February 5), written by Jeffrey Hatcher, directed by Michael Bloom; Radio Golf (February 10-March 4), written By August Wilson, directed by Lou Bellamy; Red (March 16-April 8), the 2010 Tony Award winning play by John Logan, directed by Anders Cato; and In the Next Room or the vibrator play (April 13-May 6), written by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Laura Kepley.

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