Friday, August 14, 2015
People whose kids had grown up participating in the shows in the theater's old space – the stuffy third-floor ballroom of the St. Patrick Church Social Hall in Ohio City – entered the ne…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 01:02PMMonday, August 10, 2015
Thursday, Aug. 13, The Musical Theater Project, "I Am What I Am: Gays, Lesbians and the American Musical." If you missed this world-premiere, rainbow-colored concert when …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:12PMJoel Grey comes to the Cleveland Play House with two performances of his one-man show "Joel Grey: Up Close and Personal" at the Allen Theatre in October.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 10:22AMTuesday, August 4, 2015
Plans to expand the series from two weeks to three began in the fall of 2014 and were only bolstered by this season's "off-the-charts" attendance to shows such as "Motown,&quo…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMMonday, August 3, 2015
Catch Mary Poppins, Tracy Turnblad, Julius Caesar, Jesus of Suburbia and the free-love lovin' tribe on stage this week.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 10:37AMFriday, July 31, 2015
In Edward Albee's aggressively weird premise, Jerry bends Peter's ear, insisting that he listen to his grotesquely fascinating, car-wreck stories about his loathsome, lecherous landlady a…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 01:12PMWednesday, July 29, 2015
AKRON, Ohio – On Nov. 3, the hit musical "The Producers" is supposed to open at the University of Akron's EJ Thomas Hall, kicking off its popular Broadway series. That's what the…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 01:50PMMonday, July 27, 2015
Edward Albee's celebrated classic "The Zoo Story" and Rome Neal's celebrated retelling of a classic, "Julius Caesar Set in Africa," open this week in Cleveland.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:32PMFriday, July 24, 2015
"Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella," a charmer of a production with a clever, updated book by Douglas Carter Beane ("The Little Dog Laughed"), blows the dust off the ori…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:00PMThursday, July 23, 2015
At 21, Kyle Jean-Baptiste will also be the youngest actor to play Victor Hugo's hero on Broadway and in any of producer Cameron Mackintosh's U.S. versions of the mega-hit musical.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMMonday, July 20, 2015
In 2004, Arthur Miller wrote: "Memory after almost sixty years is not to be relied on but there are a few events, faces, meetings, partings that do cling to the brain unaltered. One of …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:30PMTuesday, July 21-Sunday, Aug. 2, KeyBank Broadway Series, Connor Palace: "Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella," music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, new book by…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:30PMSaturday, July 18, 2015
Cleveland Public Theatre's 2015-16 lineup features one of the hottest regional theater titles of the season: "Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play."
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:00PMThursday, July 16, 2015
On Saturday at the Cleveland Public Library, the 2015 Regional Tony – presented to Cleveland Play House managing director Kevin Moore and artistic director Laura Kepley at the 69th Annual …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 01:20PMTuesday, July 14, 2015
In the explosive "American Idiot" at the Beck Center for the Arts, director Scott Spence harnesses the vitality of his young cast and keeps the show moving like a Greyhound with a …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:30AMMonday, July 13, 2015
Thursday, July 16-Sunday, Aug. 2, Mamaí Theatre Company: "A Streetcar Named Desire," by Tennessee Williams, directed by Mitchell Fields. "STELLAAAAAAAAA!" Perfo…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:39PMFriday, July 10, 2015
"This grant celebrates Cleveland Play House's contributions to the community during its first 100 years and helps set the stage for its success in the next 100," said Gund Foundati…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:13PMIn Liz Duffy Adams' "The Train Play" at Convergence-Continuum, a locomotive hurtles toward the end of time carrying just the collection of erudite oddballs you'd expect in an absur…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:23PMThursday, July 9, 2015
A visceral, generational connection to Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Green Day is what director Scott Spence is counting on to bring decidedly younger crowds to "American Idiot."
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 10:15AMMonday, July 6, 2015
Green Day, Lerner and Loewe and "Fun Home's" Jeanine Tesori bring beautiful music to area stages this week.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:00PMFriday, June 26, 2015
Like celluloid Everyman Jimmy Stewart, Cleveland's Charles Kartali had the ability to tap into a universal humanity no matter what character he played.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:25PMMonday, June 22, 2015
Catch "The Train Play" at Convergence Continuum (think Hitchcock meets Hawking) and an encore presentation of Theater Ninjas' "TingleTangle" (think Weimar cabaret meets &…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:32PMFriday, June 19, 2015
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Before we get to the arty, heady stuff tackled by speakers at the Theatre Communications Group conference in Playhouse Square Friday morning – Aristotle, Thornton Wilde…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 04:32PMThursday, June 18, 2015
This week, the National New Play Network (NNPN) announced that that CPT would share in an $8,000 grant to develop the world-premiere play "The Ghosts of Lote Bravo" by Hilary Betti…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 10:00AMTuesday, June 16, 2015
Catch Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in "The Audience" in Cleveland Heights!
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:15PMMonday, June 15, 2015
Monday, June 15, Karamu Theatre: A staged reading of "Home," by Samm-Art Williams, directed by Dale Ricardo Shields. Presented in conjunction with Project1Voice, this Tony Award-no…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 11:23AMSaturday, June 13, 2015
One of the reasons TCG chose Cleveland as the spot for its 25th annual convention is in the very bricks and mortar of Playhouse Square itself.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 11:17AMThursday, June 11, 2015
We help Karamu House celebrate its first century with some of our favorite moments from the past 100 years.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 02:09PMBefore Caitlyn Jenner broke the Internet, Cleveland 's Christine Howey, born Dick Howey, began living openly as a woman in her hometown. The pioneer tells her story in "Exact Change,&qu…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMMonday, June 8, 2015
Yeah, but how do the dinosaurs feel about their de-extinction? Find out this weekend in "Triassic Parq."
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:51PMSunday, June 7, 2015
Friend and designer Lex Liang dropped by (in between putting the finishing touches on the Tony Award gala at The Plaza) to snap a few pics of Kepley getting all glammed up before she hits th…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:36PM 
