Peterborough Players Announces Summer Grand Restart
The lineup will in August begin with a play of great importance to the Players: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town.by BWW News Desk
The Peterborough Players has shared the lineup for their Summer 2021 Grand Restart. The season consists of three shows presented in bold, fresh, and safe ways: a perennial classic with an intimate connection to the Players, a high-energy musical with heart and relevance, and a U.S. Premiere play. After a year spent asking big questions of ourselves and confronting a global pandemic with lasting impact on the performing arts, we knew we had to come back in a meaningful way, says Associate Artistic Director Tom Frey, We knew we needed to not only honor what we ve been through but find a way to celebrate the joy of coming together again.
Cuyahoga County Board of Health Vaccination data from the Cuyahoga County Board of Health shows thousands of individuals have received a COVID-19 vaccine through the health department s clinics. Countywide, 38 percent of residents are fully vaccinated.
Cuyahoga County’s COVID-19 numbers are improving, although vaccination rates have slowed, according to health officials.
The county is averaging about 120 new COVID-19 cases per day, and hospitalizations and intensive care unit admissions have remained stagnant, said Jana Rush, the county’s director of epidemiology, in a Friday press conference.
“We are continuing to go in the right direction,” Rush said.
The testing positivity rate, which measures the number of COVID-19 tests that come back positive in county hospitals, has dropped to 5 percent, down from 6 percent at the beginning of April, she added.