Friday, February 13, 2015
"Joe Turner's Come and Gone," directed with a sure hand and a winning coach's eye for team building by Terrence Spivey, is as skillfully rendered and solid as the oak trim around t…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 02:56PMWednesday, February 11, 2015
Precision performances - Broadway quality and better - are what give this love story its real bite.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMMonday, February 9, 2015
None Too Fragile Theater brings Martin McDonagh's "The Lonesome West" to Northeast Ohio and "Love Letters" hits the boards at Dobama Theatre for one night only.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 11:01AMNext May, Great Lakes Theater will bring "The Fantasticks" back to Cleveland as the sixth and final offering of its 2015-16 season.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:34AMWednesday, February 4, 2015
Like human special effects, the seven acrobats defy gravity (a woman balances on one foot atop a man's head) and move in reverse (a man flies backward through a hula hoop) . . . They are &qu…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:15PMTuesday, February 3, 2015
Though "Fire on the Water" has moments of weirdness that spark into true inspiration, most of the time, the show is all wet, comically cloying and preachy or designed for children …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:23PMMonday, February 2, 2015
The regional premiere of "Dogfight" the musical, featuring talent from the Baldwin Wallace University Music Theatre Program, opens Beck Center for the Arts.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 02:20PMThe five guys of the title, a collection of acrobatic, swivel-hipped young things, did their best to roast people alive in their seats at the Allen Theatre on opening night.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 11:30AMFriday, January 30, 2015
Rubinstein was 25, a year older than composer Stephen Schwartz, who penned the show's music and lyrics, when the curtain rose on "Pippin" at the Imperial Theatre in October of 1972.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 11:31AMIn "Pippin," acrobats dangle from trapezes some 15 feet above the stage, shimmy up and down poles that disappear into the rafters and perform precarious balancing acts on everythin…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 11:12AMTuesday, January 27, 2015
In Sterling and Becky, playwright Greg Pierce has delivered cocooned humans who peel back layer after layer as the play progresses, and Dobama's actors prove expert at the emotional striptea…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 11:53AMMonday, January 26, 2015
Cleveland Public Theatre's "Fire on the Water," Ensemble Theatre's "Thurgood" and Cleveland Play House's "Five Guys Named Moe" are coming to a stage near you th…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 02:24PMSaturday, January 24, 2015
George Brant's "Grounded" opens at the Public Theater starring Anne Hathaway in April and Rajiv Joseph's "The Guards at the Taj" premieres at the Atlantic Theater Company…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 02:31PMFodor's cited the theater's 100th anniversary in 2015, its 1,300 productions seen by more than 12 million people, and its historic move to Playhouse Square's Allen Theatre complex in 2011.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 10:44AMFriday, January 23, 2015
"In my opinion, Louis Jordan was the first rapper," B.B. King said of the legendary bandleader. "He just didn't use the four-letter words that are being used today."
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:14PMThat reinvention of "Five Guys Named Moe" started with an audacious concept: What if the five guys were a boy band like 'N Sync or New Edition?
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 11:13AMThursday, January 22, 2015
Fire reported in a basement break room at Connor Palace at Playhouse Square this morning.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 10:41AMMonday, January 19, 2015
Opening this weekend: "Slowgirl" at Dobama Theatre and "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" at Karamu Theatre.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 02:00PMWednesday, January 14, 2015
Get "STOMP"ed at Playhouse Square and go on a "Neverending" journey at Ensemble Theatre this weekend.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 02:00PMFriday, January 9, 2015
Joining the actors, dancers, singers and poets taking over CPT's James Levin Theatre for Big Box '15 is a very special guest: one Ms. Penny Bingo, star of "(Style Is) the Answer to Ever…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 10:44AMTuesday, December 23, 2014
Artful roadkill, a step-by-step homage to one of the greatest musicals of all time and the most creative use of an umbrella we've ever seen made 2014 a year to remember.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:17PMA glam rock general, a demon lover, telemarketing superheros and one terrible prom date made the Top 10 theater offerings pop in 2014.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:00PMMonday, December 15, 2014
In the intimate confines of the Jelliffe Theatre and led by the electrifying Robert E. Hunter as snake-oil-slick evangelist Jonas Nightingale, "Leap of Faith" delivers the raucous …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:58AMTuesday, December 9, 2014
Johnson's debut play "American Falls" is like electro-shock therapy -- it clears your brain of anything that has come before it.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 02:00PMDobama's "Civil War Christmas" is a technical marvel, a gorgeous looking, finely tuned show where entrances and exits are choreographed with balletic precision. . . So it's a pity …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:30AMThursday, December 4, 2014
"As soon as he opens his mouth, the room goes quiet to listen. And it's not because he's famous -- he's just the most interesting human ever." -- BW grad Chris McCarrell, speaking …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMWednesday, December 3, 2014
The oddly chemistry-free production is as comfortably bland and forgettable as the socks your Aunt Clara sends you every year at Christmas.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 04:11PMTuesday, December 2, 2014
The donation, said Art Falco, Playhouse Square's president and CEO, is also the largest one-time gift that the downtown arts complex has ever received.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMMonday, December 1, 2014
Cleveland Play House offers patrons an early holiday gift: an additional performance of "A Christmas Story" at 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 21.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 10:28AMWednesday, November 26, 2014
Armed with a series of Excel spreadsheets, director Nathan Motta keeps track of 15 actors playing 60 roles, including Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln; Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, a freed slave an…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 10:00AMFor nostalgia junkies, there are tried-and-true favorites -- "A Christmas Carol" and "A Christmas Story" -- as well as new family-friendly offerings from Broadway such as…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 08:00AM 
