"If/Then" feels like a live cocktail party in a high-rise bar somewhere in Manhattan where snide jokes about flyover states win you another round.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:11PMThe high-octane offender "Pure Shock Value" begins with Ethan (a game Brian Kenneth Armour) on a couch, his hand furiously moving under a ratty throw covering his lap. He isn't wat…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:37AMThough Cleveland's classic theater company had been eyeing "My Fair Lady" for years, the rights to the Tony-winning smash have long been unavailable in anticipation of a Broadway r…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 04:12AMBefore there was "Hamilton," Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop history of the American founding father, there was his Tony-winning smash "In the Heights," opening Friday at th…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 04:12AMIn the thrilling two-hander, Ro Boddie and Angel Moore bring Preacher King and the mysterious maid Camae to life with a crackling, sexual tension.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:07AMEnsemble Theatre launches two plays dealing with race in America on Friday.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:04PMAfter two intermissionless hours, I didn't want to leave; I wanted to see it again, that very night, to decipher more clues and drink in just what Hall was talking about - that potent sense …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:14PMWill Eno's "The Realistic Joneses" is high, absurdist art that also dares to be entertaining.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:00AMKatori Hall's "The Mountaintop" imagines the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s last night on Earth.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:00AMThursday night, rising star Ciara Renee will literally - well, with the help of some eye-poppin' CGI - take flight as Hawkgirl in the hotly anticipated new series "DC's Legends of Tomor…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 02:03PMWhy does "Little Shop" 2016 at the Cleveland Play House feel flat and uninspired much of the time? Maybe it's because it isn't content to shah boop its way into our ears and hearts…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:44PMCatch the regional premiere of "The Realistic Joneses" by Will Eno," the playwright dubbed "a Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation" by The New York Times.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 01:40PM"The Good Peaches" tells the story of Aurora, a young girl tasked with delivering a wedding dress to a queen. But a violent storm knocks her off-course and into an adventure beyond…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:41PM"Annie," Audrey II and Doc Frankenstein storm into Cleveland theaters this week.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 08:00PMStill feeling that Christmas spirit after Christmas? Buddy the "Elf" brings holiday cheer (and spaghetti-with-maple-syrup) to Playhouse Square this week.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 08:38PM'A Gent's Guide,' 'The Crucible' and 'The Secret Garden' among the top productions of 2015
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:47PMA Play House legend, Gould is remembered by managing director Kevin Moore as "a kind and generous soul."
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 01:05PMDespite the cheekiness of its vulva-shaped set, "Feefer Rising" is, for the most part, grindingly earnest, which makes it about as fun as a pelvic exam.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:56PMSleigh bells are ringing -- and crooners are singing -- at Cleveland's area theaters.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:59PMSold as an original Christmas musical with an eye on a New York run, "Kris Kringle" has Broadway aspirations with "Waiting for Guffman" execution.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:55PMIn Dobama's "Peter and the Starcatcher," 13 actors perform more than 100 roles, jumping in and out of well-honed dialects and characters with a light-footed nimbleness and somethin…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:05PMCirque Du Soleil is coming to Cleveland State University's Wolstein Center April 27 for seven performances only.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:27PMWhen you buy a ticket to "Peter and the Starcatcher," the endlessly inventive prequel to Peter Pan opening at Dobama Theatre on Friday, Dec. 4, you'll want to make sure that along …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:10PMExecutive artistic director Raymond Bobgan sent participating artists an email last week telling them the series, originally slated to run for four weeks this spring, wouldn't go on as plann…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 10:16PM"The Wizard of Oz" and seven other shows open this week as Cleveland gears up to celebrate the holidays with a whirlwind of offerings onstage.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:26PMBill Berloni's dogs have co-starred with the likes of Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in "The Audience," played sidekick to Elle Woods in "Legally Blonde" and chased t…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:59PMCLEVELAND, Ohio - Among the theatrical chestnuts raining down on the calendar this holiday season is something new - "Kris Kringle," a musical making its pre-Broadway debut in the …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:44AMAt some of Northeast Ohio's professional theaters, the holidays enter with all the traditional trimmings: the "Christmas Story" leg lamp, Tiny Tim's crutch. But "holiday show&…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:37PM"Kent State had broken a world record; it was the first 'Mountaintop' production to make King white," playwright Katori Hall wrote in her essay posted on the website TheRoot.com.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 08:45AMSam Shepard's "Ages of the Moon" opens at Ensemble Theatre Friday.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:05PMTanya Barfield is a smart, funny playwright with a gift for spinning current, global events into the stuff of living-room drama. And in "The Call," she doesn't let anyone - white o…
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