Friday, April 11, 2014
Deborah Zoe Laufer's "Informed Consent," an intriguing play about the
promise and pitfalls of genetics research -- thorny legal and moral issues that
were unimaginable only a few y…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 01:49PMSunday, April 6, 2014
Dobama Theatre has always championed edgy, fresh, character-driven plays, but its 55th season might be the one filled with the most characters, both in a literal and figurative sense.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:00PMBeginning nest season, Dobama will join Great Lakes Theater and the Cleveland Play House as Greater Cleveland's third full-time Equity house.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:00PMFriday, March 28, 2014
Playwright Brue Norris' corrosive, hilarious and emotionally raw work has deservedly won a wheelbarrow full of awards – including an Olivier, a Pulitzer and a Tony – for ripping the Band…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 02:12PMOh, what a feeling -- and oh, the legwarmers, the artistic strip-club numbers and the treasure trove of '80s hits, from "Gloria" to "Maniac." The musical saga of Alex Owe…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMTuesday, March 25, 2014
Topping the KeyBank Broadway Series 2014-15 hit list: last year's Tony darlings "Kinky Boots," scored by Cyndi Lauper, and the revival of "Pippin," infused with Cirque du…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:28PMThe play unfolds in real time as Jessie Cates, middle-aged, divorced and unemployable, announces to her mother, Thelma, that she has decided to kill herself. At precisely 9:30 p.m. that even…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMFriday, March 7, 2014
The new Cleveland Public Theatre production will no doubt be the most audacious "Titus" on record.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMSunday, March 2, 2014
Let it be said: Nothing was jaw-droppingly awful, but few gowns wowed. The boys were uncharacteristically more interesting, eschewing black for burgundy, shocking-blue or the cream jacket fa…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 11:19PMThursday, February 27, 2014
The Outcalt's $2.5 million donation to PlayhouseSquare's theater preservation fund is largest gift from a family in PlayhouseSquare history.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 08:43PMTuesday, February 25, 2014
As all gifted directors know, dunderheaded casting can spoil the most ingenious play. Clever chef that he is, Fee has selected a gourmet line-up to serve Ira Levin's diabolical dish.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMMonday, February 24, 2014
The goal of the annual competition is to increase the awareness of the works of William Shakespeare and the richness of the Bard's native tongue.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMFriday, February 21, 2014
With "Breath and Imagination," a musical based on the life of the celebrated tenor -- one of the highest-paid musicians of his time, black or white -- playwright Daniel Beaty seeks…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:00PMFriday, February 14, 2014
When he sat down to write "Deathtrap," Ira Levin fashioned the struggling Sidney Bruhl after himself, creating an endlessly self-reflecting mirror which, for more than a quarter of…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:36AMTuesday, February 11, 2014
In any incarnation, "Carrie" is a big, broad, melodramatic fairy tale, though Stephen King's 1974 Gothic Cinderella story looks chillingly prescient in the age of cyber bullying an…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:21AMSaturday, February 8, 2014
"Les Miserables" will premiere in the fall, in repertory with William Shakespeare's
"The Merry Wives of Windsor."
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:00PMFriday, February 7, 2014
George Gershwin's glorious score and the artists interpreting it – to the very marrow of their bones, it seems – the stars of this streamlined "Porgy and Bess."
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AM"Carrie" is a good fit for director Victoria Bussert, who knows a little something about musical thrillers. Her celebrated production of "Sweeney Todd" for Great Lakes Th…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00AMTuesday, February 4, 2014
Playwright Charles Smith was inspired to write "Knock Me A Kiss" after learning of the famously short marriage of Yolande Du Bois to Countee Cullen, a poet and rising star of the H…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AM"Ceremonies in Old Dark Men," about a widowed barber and his grown children trying to survive in 1950s Harlem, premiered off-Broadway in 1969 and is now considered an American clas…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMMonday, February 3, 2014
News that United Airlines will close its hub at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport rippled through the Cleveland's PlayhouseSquare Monday. The largest performing arts center outside of …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:44PMSunday, February 2, 2014
"The idea that this production is now on the road going across America to me is the most exciting step in the journey so far, because this is really an American masterpiece," Paulu…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00AMMonday, January 27, 2014
Though set behind a Vermont coffee shop called The Green Sheep, "The Aliens" is the antithesis of caffeinated. Its refusal to feed our collective short attention span is part of wh…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 01:18PMFriday, January 17, 2014
Fact is, the thought of a "Yentl" without those campy, Bab-sian trappings sounds as appetizing as a bowl of matzo ball soup without the dumplings. Happily, the dish served up at th…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMMonday, January 13, 2014
In "Exact Change," written and performed by poet and critic Christine Howey, her journey from a man named Dick to a woman named Chris informs the best parts of the riveting but ult…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:03PMThursday, January 9, 2014
"Chicago," set in the debauched days of the late 1920s, is a stripped-down, minimalist affair and the absence of scenic busy-ness is why all eyes are relentlessly drawn to the bodi…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMFriday, December 27, 2013
A sociopathic barber, vampiric fairies and the world's worst boss made the 2013 professional theater season in Cleveland a dark, brutal delight. Large local and visiting companies reimagined…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:00PMSunday, December 22, 2013
Before Ann Hampton Callaway brings her "boom shaka-lakas" and more to Cleveland's Nighttown on New Year's Eve, she shared a few trade secrets and dished about how she managed to ge…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00AMThursday, December 12, 2013
On April 1, previews begin for "The Velocity of Autumn" by Cleveland Heights playwright Eric Coble at Broadway's Booth Theatre, with the knockout cast that won raves this fall duri…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:52PMTuesday, December 10, 2013
“The Big Meal” of the title is the smorgasbord of life; some, like Nicole, want to eat it all up in big, breathless gulps. Others, like Sam, are more careful, finicky eaters.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMSaturday, December 7, 2013
the star of this sugarplum of a Cleveland Play House production is the set by Robert Mark Morgan, built to approximate the nimbleness of film, the medium that first introduced America to lit…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 08:00AM 
