Thursday, September 11, 2014
Great 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 08:59AMWednesday, September 10, 2014
"A play is not only on paper," Lillian Hellman once said. "It is there to share with actors, directors, scene designers, electricians . . . " Whether it's working on Broa…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMBroadway groupies know "Motown's" Emilio Sosa as a costume designer with an exquisite sense of color and an unfailing eye for how clothes should hug a body in motion.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 08:59AMSaturday, September 6, 2014
The dizzying speed of Kaley Voorhees' ascent to the world's largest stage is the stuff of a sentimental Hollywood movie -- Ohio girl, plucked from bucolic obscurity, hits the Big Apple and b…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMThursday, September 4, 2014
in October, Ciara Renee will star in the U.S. premiere of the hotly anticipated Disney musical "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" at La Jolla Playhouse. Renee will bring her formidable …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:55PMWednesday, September 3, 2014
How did an unknown from a Cleveland 'burb beat out hundreds of seasoned hopefuls jockeying for a top spot in the longest-running musical on the Great White Way? It all started last year, whe…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:41PMThe Cleveland Foundation had awarded the Cleveland Play House two grants totaling $350,000.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 10:38AMTuesday, August 26, 2014
Jeff Rosenberg, a Shaker Heights native and Ohio University alum, centers his film on one man's Quixotic quest to turn the jaw-dropping double-murder trial of O.J. Simpson into a whiz-bang s…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 08:09PMMonday, August 25, 2014
Opening Friday, Aug. 29 at Blank Canvas Theatre: "Hair."
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 10:49AMMonday, August 18, 2014
Once, PlayhouseSquare's Senior Vice President of Theater Operations Gina Vernaci recalled seeing Ciara Renee enter a room in a white, flowing pantsuit. "For a moment it felt like the wo…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:45PMWednesday, August 13, 2014
Following Tuesday night's performance of "Aladdin" at the New Amsterdam Theatre, the Broadway cast -- led by Tony Award-winning actor James Monroe Iglehart as the Genie -- asked th…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:37PMWith "Amazons and Their Men," artistic director Clyde Simon brings the fifth work by Harrison to the Liminis theater, only this time, he's directing the show, and the results aren'…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 01:39PMTuesday, August 12, 2014
"He came into the play with a real sense of humility," said Rajiv Joseph of Robin Williams, star of his Broadway-debut play "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo." "In a …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 04:34PMWednesday, August 6, 2014
So why mount the show today, when U.S. troops have pulled out of Iraq and President Obama has promised a similar withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of 2014? The idealistic notion that ar…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 01:58PMThursday, July 31, 2014
Forty songs are featured or excerpted in "I Am What I Am: Gays, Lesbians and the American Musical," a repertoire spanning 85 years, from Cole Porter's slyly coded "I'm a Gigol…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:38PMThursday, July 24, 2014
Constantine Maroulis, the shaggy-haired charmer who has made Broadway hay since he was the sixth-place finalist on the fourth season of "Idol," offers an inspired send-up of the Re…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 02:18PMWednesday, July 23, 2014
You know you're in for an intimate dose of realism when you see the set: the dayroom of a 1960s mental hospital in all its impersonal and sterile dreariness, complete with locked grates over…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 02:05PMTuesday, July 22, 2014
"Arcadia" has lost none of its power to enthrall, confound and charm. Fact is, as scientists warn of close shaves with species-killing asteroids and the deadly creep of climate cha…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 02:30PMThursday, July 17, 2014
Each year, more and more companies are joining the ranks of warm-weather producers, offering everything from light musicals -- the theatrical equivalent of a beach read -- to chewier, headie…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 11:28AMTuesday, July 15, 2014
Mel Brooks, the genius who brought the borscht belt to Broadway with "The Producers," penned both the music and the lyrics, so who else is to blame for the serviceable if not unfor…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 02:06PMFriday, July 11, 2014
It's hard to beat the irresistible idea for the show itself. On Dec. 4, 1956, Samuel Cornelius Phillips, a scrappy, upstart producer from nowhere Alabama (played with crackling energy and do…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:05AMThursday, July 10, 2014
The monster patiently awaits his cue wearing a pair of orange shorts and pontoon-sized flip-flops. Soon Christopher Aldrich, who plays the world's most famous green creature -- Kermit being …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMSaturday, June 28, 2014
"Possum Dreams" feels like an unhinged cousin to "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "God of Carnage;" it's a play with similar DNA but willing to go further,…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 04:10PMFriday, June 27, 2014
Break out your slickers and chainsaws, my ghastly ghoulies. "Evil Dead – The Musical" is coming to Playhouse Square this fall, a Halloween hors d'oeuvre just for you. Tickets for…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 01:48PMCleveland Public Theatre has joined the National New Play Network, a potent alliance of more than 70 nonprofit theaters that champions the writing and production of new plays.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:00PMTuesday, June 24, 2014
But the memorial for preservationist and visionary Ray Shepardson at the State Theatre yesterday had the joy, passion and emotional realness of a truly great performance. A nutshell review? …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:09PMMonday, June 23, 2014
Sometimes, the Gods of the Great White Way smile upon you, and you get a second bite at Big Apple fare -- in this case, the 2013 production of Douglas Carter Beane's "The Nance."
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:24PMThursday, June 19, 2014
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Raymond Bobgan's first professional production at Cleveland Public Theatre was a 1994 show called "Pinocchio Rising," an adult version of the fairy tale sandblas…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:00PMMonday, June 16, 2014
There is much to admire about the production of "Heartbreak House" now at Pilgrim Church, particularly the sharp, shrewd characterizations delivered by an absolutely crackerjack en…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00PMFriday, June 13, 2014
Longtime "Law & Order" star S. Epatha Merkerson is returning to Karamu House on the eve of its centennial celebration (the arts and cultural organization was founded in 1915 by…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMWednesday, June 11, 2014
As Alexa, Ring, barefoot and dressed in faded pastels -- a lilac top and chinos the color of green tea -- is elemental and divine. She splatters white paint across the charcoal tarpaulin lik…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 02:37PM 
