On stage
• CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Opera will present Puccini’s “Turandot” March 31 and April 2, 7 and 8 at the State Theatre in Playhouse Square Center. Performances will take place March 31 and April 7-8 at 8 p.m. and April 2 at 2 p.m. Tickets range from $25 to $135 and may be purchased online at www.cleve landopera.org or www.tick ets.com, by phone at (800) 766-6048 or at the State Theatre Box Office, 1519 Euclid Ave. Discounts are available for students, senior citizens and groups of 10 or more. “Turandot” will be sung in Italian with English “subtitles” projected above the stage.
• MERRIMAN VALLEY — “Streets of Home,” a new musical by Chuck Keiper and Bonnie Jane Eaver, will take the next step up in its development in the form of two workshop performances at Weathervane Community Playhouse, 1301 Weathervane Lane, April 3- 4. Susan Speers, professor of theater arts at The University of Akron, directs this work that speaks to America’s attitude toward the immigrant experience and examines the importance of immigrants to America. “Streets of Home” began its dramatic life with a staged reading presented in 2005 at Weathervane as part of its Sundays at Seven: Salon Reading Series. (Its original title was “Immigrants: An American Experience.”) The current version of the show takes the musical to a more complete staging through Weathervane’s “step-up” initiative in which staged readings progress to a full production presented on the theater’s Main Stage. Set in 1976 on Ellis Island and also in a small Pennsylvania city, “Streets of Home” contemplates the meaning of freedom, patriotism, opportunity and family. It addresses the American experience through the eyes of an elderly Italian immigrant, Antiono Pallano. Audience members also will be invited to participate in a discussion of the musical. General admission tickets are $10 each. For tickets, call the Weathervane Box Office at (330) 836-2626.
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