Wednesday, November 26, 2014
For 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 08:00AMWednesday, November 19, 2014
"She walked in here in her Ugg boots, looking fabulous," says BW student Julia Hines of her mentor Donna McKechnie. "She'd just gotten back from Italy and she got up and the s…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 11:02AMThe Cleveland theater scene is awash in classics of late, with three beloved or, at the very least, venerated, productions on the boards: "The Three Sisters," "A Chorus Line&q…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:02AMFriday, November 14, 2014
Soon enough, Kyle Carthens will start to remind you of a young Will Smith back in the day, when the star was leaner and hungrier, before he'd bulked up and gorged on fame. They share an effo…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMTuesday, November 11, 2014
Think of "Woman and Scarecrow" as Prilosec for the heartburn of more than a century's worth of romantic imagery featuring lovelies expiring before their time . . . with the excelle…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMFriday, November 7, 2014
In the "Seize Single Seats" promotion, a cheeky echo of the rousing song "Seize the Day" by Alan Menken and Jack Feldman from their Tony-winning score, people willing to …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 02:06PMThe cast of gymnastic boy-men (and the occasional girl, hair tucked under her newsboy's cap) . . . are taut, whirling dervishes; a rainbow of buff Tasmanian devils in short pants and suspend…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 01:36PMMonday, November 3, 2014
Beginning today, Cleveland theater buffs can enter their names in an online lottery at www.playhousesquare.org/giftlottery to win one of 2,300 free tickets to five separate holiday performan…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 10:37AMFriday, October 31, 2014
Set in The Hill, a predominantly white Midwestern suburb in 1988, "How We Got On" centers on three 15-year-old kids -- two black and one "part Latino" -- suburbanites arm…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMMonday, October 27, 2014
"The Norwegians" at Dobama Theatre has everything a lover of twisted Coen Brothers noir could ever want: hit men with funny accents; women scorned, hell-bent on revenge; and Texas …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMWednesday, October 22, 2014
Based on the cult classic films filled with geysers of blood and comic, low-rent special effects, this goofy, gore-ious send-up of a send-up is exactly what it should be: a broad, profane, p…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:25PMThe idea of artist as superhero, fighting the evil of ennui and braving the derision of unsympathetic crowds for peanuts, is an obvious and delicious theme: actors and painters and playwrigh…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 01:32PMThursday, October 16, 2014
"The Neighbor's Grief Is Greener," created and performed by The Visual Theatre of Emanuella Amichai, in partnership with the Jewish Federation of Cleveland, has been delayed becaus…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:30PMMacabre souls willing to bathe in blood can pay extra for the privilege of sitting in the "Splatter Zone," seats close enough to the onstage mayhem to receive a proper drenching du…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMFriday, October 10, 2014
In this engaging, ethereal Q&A, Albee both eulogizes his friend and fans the flame of her legend. (The flamboyant high priestess of the New York City art world died in 1988 at age 88.)
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:48PMWednesday, October 8, 2014
The orchestra, lead by conductor Darryl Archibald, sizzles all night long. The ridiculously good-looking cast is superb; ensemble members and headliners belt and hold notes longer than lungs…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:05PMDirector Victoria Bussert, who staged last season's fresh, sexually charged "Sweeney Todd," has once again taken a well-worn product and transformed it, creating what feels like a …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMThursday, October 2, 2014
Actress Katie Nabors makes an arresting Anna Christie – Eugene O'Neill's hard-bitten prostitute with taste for whiskey and a hatred of men – and that's saying something. The role at the …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMWednesday, October 1, 2014
In the Great Lakes Theater season opener, director Tracy Young transports the action to Windsor, Wisconsin, at the dawn of 1947 where her Falstaff is a thinly disguised Orson Welles, complet…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMSaturday, September 27, 2014
Not only have advance single-ticket sales for "Les Miz" shattered the record held by "Sweeney Todd" but advance sales for "Merry Wives" and "Les Miz"…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMThursday, September 25, 2014
On Sunday afternoon, clouds threatened and a stiff wind swept hats off heads in the Karamu House parking lot. But inside the Jelliffe Theatre, "Mississippi" Charles Bevel's joyous …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMTuesday, September 23, 2014
In her new job, Gina Vernaci will still bringing the hits of Broadway to Cleveland's downtown theater district, but she'll also be tasked with helping to turn Playhouse Square "into a 2…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:28PMMonday, September 22, 2014
It's hard to love or even like the couple at the center of "Belleville." Lena Dunham's insufferable, entitled Hannah Horvath might even roll her eyes at them were they to guest in …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 02:52PMSunday, September 21, 2014
"The Book of Mormon" national tour is returning to Cleveland for a limited run Aug. 25-30. The catch: Right now, you can only get tickets to "Mormon" with a season-ticket…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00AMSaturday, September 20, 2014
Bristling with sexy malice and life, Laura Kepley's production of "The Little Foxes" is fleet-footed, lean and mean, just like the Hubbards, a rapacious Southern family hell-bent o…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 11:48AMSunday, September 14, 2014
An embarrassment of riches awaits the theater buff on Northeast Ohio's smaller professional stages.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00AMFriday, September 12, 2014
In both the off-Broadway and Broadway productions of "[title of show]," the creators played themselves, "Two Nobodies in New York," as one song goes, along with real-life…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:53PMThe play opens in what appears to be a mundane call center where a dozen telemarketers work the phones. But that call center is in a submarine, those temps are superheroes raising money to p…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMThe director: "Mississippi" Charles Bevel CLEVELAND, Ohio -- "Mississippi" Charles Bevel wasn't born in Cleveland (and with a name like that, how could he be?), but his c…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 08:59AMThursday, September 11, 2014
Ingenues are a dime a dozen. The characters we remember have claws. But few have talons as sharp as Regina Hubbard Giddens, the ruthless aristocrat at the center of Lillian Hellman's "T…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMGreat Lakes Theater's reimagined "Les Miz" promises to be one of the freshest takes on Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil's Tony-winning musical since the beloved theatrical…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 08:59AM 
