For 21 years the partnership between the Cleveland Public Theatre and Y-Haven, a treatment facility in Cleveland for formally homeless and addicted men have performed HEAVENLY miracles. Their goal is to help participants maintain sobriety and improve self-sufficiency. This program has demonstrated that it DOES have the power to effect social change as well as reinforce participants’ confidence in themselves. The men practice constructive behaviors through the process of creating and performing a play based upon their own experiences. 
Over the course of four months, the men develop skills in theatre arts while sharing and confronting their own life stories through role-playing and writing exercises. The participants focus on strengthening communication skills and increasing self-awareness through exercises in writing, movement, vocalization and storytelling. Their stories generated about their lives and experiences are the basis of the plot to the play they will write and perform.
This material is shaped into a play with the help of the Cleveland Public Theatre staff, which the men rehearse, produce and perform for audiences of other at-risk populations, students
and the general public. The two week touring of the play is challenging, often 10-hour days, much of it physical work begins travels throughout the community to centers, shelters, churches and schools which pair the performances with post-show talkbacks with the audience.
