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The Gershwins on Broadway Cleveland Jazz Orchestra and The Musical Theater Project promise to play your favorite Gershwin songs at this event that features the CJO's horn section, the Joe Hunter Trio, and featured vocalists Treva Offutt and Evelyn Wright. It takes place at 7:30 p.m. at the Maltz Performing Arts Center. Check the website for ticket prices.
Anton Chekhov is most famous for his dramas, including The Seagull. Western Reserve Playhouse, which produced that show virtually in October, is now jumping into the turn-of-the-century playwright s comedies with the three shorts On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco, The Bear and The Swan Song.
The night of Russian comedic sketches, dubbed Fragments of Farce, will run at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Stories about human foibles include a man whose speech about the evils of tobacco turns into a complaint about his overbearing wife; a man and a widow whose argument over money turns into a duel to the death, and possibly love; and a finale with a stage actor and servant discussing a life of theater.