Sign Stage on Tour to perform ‘James and the Magic Peach’

Deaf and hearing audiences alike can partake in a special production by Sign Stage on Tour on May 24 of "James and the Giant Peach."

The play will be simultaneously performed orally and in American Sign Language. The show will be presented 2 p.m. in the main theater at the Reed Whipple Cultural Center.

Tickets are $7 adults, $5 teens and seniors and $3 children age 12 and under. They are available by phone at 229-6211 or at the cultural center's box office, 821 Las Vegas Blvd. North. Box office hours are 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday.

Roald Dahl's tale of a lonely, unhappy boy who is given a gift by a mysterious man has been a favorite of children. James' adventure inside a giant peach while accompanied by a host of larger-than-life-sized insects takes him from the garden of his mean aunts to the Empire State Building. It's a story of friendship, love, sadness and triumph.

Sign Stage on Tour is the traveling component of Cleveland Signstage Theatre, whose mission is to produce educational programs and performances about deaf culture that promote awareness and demonstrate the value of cultural diversity between deaf and hearing communities.

Deaf and hearing actors perform together onstage.

As the actors use sign language, another actor speaks through a microphone, so that all members of the audience can understand and be entertained.