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Steps & Stages Play

Thank You for Joining Us!

Thank you to everyone who attended Roots Through Ruin, the powerful 2025 production of the Y-Haven Theatre Project. Created and performed by the men of Y-Haven, this original work explored resilience, healing, and redemption through a hauntingly poetic lens.

We are grateful to Cleveland Public Theatre for their continued partnership and to our community for showing up in support of this transformative collaboration.

About the Y-Haven Theatre Project

Each year, Y-Haven residents work with professional artists to create an original production that brings personal experiences to the stage. This long-standing partnership with Cleveland Public Theatre is a vital part of our mission to empower individuals in recovery and transition.

Steps and stages play
Steps and stages play
Steps and stages play
Steps and stages play
Steps and stages play

 STEPS & STAGES PLAY

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Since 1999, Cleveland Public Theatre and Y-Haven have collaborated to create an original theater production, performed by residents of Y-Haven, based on their personal experiences. The play is an example of the transformational power of the arts and helps participants develop skills and capacities that support their sobriety and transition to employment, permanent housing and independent living. All ticket proceeds benefit Y-Haven. 

Addiction and homelessness are inflictions that often hide in the shadows, may be affecting someone you know. Yet, with the courageous participation of some residents at Y-Haven and the guidance and creativity of the talented Cleveland Public Theatre staff, the YMCA of Greater Cleveland is casting a spotlight on this issue. By bringing their stories to light on stage, we aim to humanize recovering addicts' challenging journey on their never-ending path to sobriety and productivity. 

Y-Haven and the Cleveland Public Theatre have partnered over the past 26 years on this theatrical production to engage, educate, and inspire Cleveland audiences. Featuring Y-Haven residents and former residents who have no theatrical training, this moving performance explores the challenges and realities of living in recovery from substance.