Issue 4, 2025-2026, umb-exec@case.edu.                                              

The Week of September 16th, 2025

In Theater:

PTG's Play in a Day

Saturday, September 20th
Form due September 18th @ 5 PM

24-hour play festival! Written, directed, produced, performed, and designed all in this time frame - try it out, have fun, do something new!

Form HERE

PTG Live! Writer's Meeting #1

Sunday, September 21st
2:15 PM - 4 PM
Thwing 302

Live from Cleveland, it’s Friday night! Join us for a night of students' sketches, live band, and a professor's cold open - we need writers for this to happen, so join us this weekend!

Form HERE
 

PTG Tech Interest Form

Due Wednesday, September 24th @ 11:59 PM

Form HERE

Players' Theatre Festival

October 24th and 25th
Interest Form due September 21st

Two-day festival celebrating student-produced theatre. The lineup includes…

•  The Completed Works, a fully produced performance of short plays featuring both published plays and student new works

• The Incomplete Works, a workshop reading of revised student new works

Form HERE

Play Dates: A PTG Book Club

Sunday, September 28th @ 1 PM
Clark 103

Register HERE

The Pajama Show

Saturday, September 20th @ 9 PM
MPAC Roe Green Theater

CWRU Film Society Showings:

This week, the CWRU Film Society is showing Air Force One and Cinema Paradiso in Strosacker Auditorium. Our full schedule is available on our website films.cwru.edu.

Love movies? Looking for something fun to do? We’d love to have you join our staff. All you have to do is show up by 6:15 PM and stay a little late on movie nights to help out. Staff members get lots of perks, including free stuff, while having a good time. If you’re interested, show up early to a showing or email us at filmofficers@cwru.edu for more information.

Friday, September 19, 2025: 7:00 p.m., 9:30 p.m., 11:59 p.m.
Air Force One (1997)
Rated R (124 mins.)
Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen
With Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close
Format: 35mm
Cosponsored by the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Read more about it at IMDb
Purchase Tickets on CampusGroups

Communist radicals led by Ivan Korshunov hijack Air Force One with US President James Marshall and his family on board. Vice President Kathryn Bennett negotiates from Washington, D.C., while Marshall fights to rescue the hostages on board. Includes a scene shot at Severance Hall!

Saturday, September 20, 2025: 7:00 p.m., 10:30 p.m.
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Rated PG (174 mins.)
Directed by: Giuseppe Tornatore
With Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Antonella Attili
Format: Digital
Read more about it at IMDb
Purchase Tickets on CampusGroups

Salvatore, a famous film director, returns to his hometown for the funeral of the local theater’s film projectionist, Alfredo. He reminisces about his life as a young boy falling in love with cinema.