Start the holidays at Clague Playhouse with 'A Christmas Cactus'

The cast of "A Christmas Cactus" - (front) Nancy Allen as Adelaide Booker, James Rankin as Fred Booker, Nicole Daniel as Cactus O’Riley, Justin Sherman as Stuart Windsor (rear) Craig Stadden as Neville F. Smedley and Assad Khaishgi as Ramon Ramirez. Photo by James Ely
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Clague Playhouse continues their 84th season with "A Christmas Cactus" by Eliott Byerrum and directed by Douglas A. Farren. 

Christmas Eve is no bed of roses for struggling private eye Cactus O'Riley (Nicole Daniel) who has a bad case of the holiday blues. The last surprise package she needs is a lovelorn deputy D.A. (Justin Sherman), a pair of armed-and-goofy fugitives (Assad Khaishgi and Craig Stadden) hunting some dead private eye named Jake Marley, and her secretary, Fred’s (James Rankin) overbearing mother (Nancy Allen), who mistakes a tense hostage situation for just the perfect little holiday murder mystery party. Comedy, mystery and romance converge in this uplifting contemporary Christmas tale where goodwill and justice triumph.  

"A Christmas Cactus" runs Friday, Nov. 11, through Sunday, Dec. 11, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12, and Thursday, Dec. 1, are sold out. There is no performance on Thanksgiving.
 
Tickets are $16 for adults and $15 for seniors and students and may be purchased by calling the box office, 440-331-0403, Wednesday through Saturday from 1-6 p.m. Cash, check, Discover, MasterCard and Visa are accepted. Clague Playhouse at 1371 Clague Rd., south of Detroit Road. Free parking and handicapped accessible.