Saturday, September 21, 2013
The sounds of classic rhythm and blues will shake Karamu Theatre for Lee Summers' "From My Hometown," which opens a 2013-14 season that includes a new holiday show and a reprise of…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMCleveland Public Theatre launches a season of decidedly femme-centric fare with an encore run of Holly Holsinger, Chris Seibert and Raymond Bobgan's "Insomnia: The Waking of Herselves,&…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMGreater Cleveland's smaller professional troupes still offer up grand, ambitious and provocative productions, from Rajiv Joseph's "Animals Out of Paper" at Ensemble Theatre to Tom …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMThursday, September 12, 2013
Thanks to 'The Bards of the Burning River', a trio is establishing itself as a bumper crop of playwrights in Cleveland.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 01:00PMTuesday, September 10, 2013
In "Time Stands Still," Pulitzer prize winner Donald Margulies, who teaches playwriting at Yale University, has fashioned a brutally funny, contemporary "Days of Wine and Rose…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:58PMTuesday, September 3, 2013
The annual "Season on Sale" event at PlayhouseSquare begins at 11 a.m. Friday and is the time to score single seats to hot, upcoming shows, from the best of the Great White Way (th…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:00PMSunday, August 25, 2013
Describes following the Baldwin Wallace University Musical Theatre Showcase from rehearsal to New York to the results
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 10:29AMWednesday, August 14, 2013
The cast of "SPANK!" and friends. Suzanne Sole as E.B. Janet (second from left in leopard top), Graydon Long as Hugh Hanson (center) and Danielle Trzcinski as Tasha Woode (sixth fr…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 11:37AMThursday, August 8, 2013
Mark your calendar for September 6 when Ensemble actors take the stage at CMA’s Mix First Friday Happy Hour from 5 p.m. – 9 p.m. to perform scenes from the play by Cleveland Heights nati…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:00PMWednesday, August 7, 2013
Using the tagline “Great Scripts. Cleveland Artists” as a rallying cry, Ensemble Theatre board president Ian Wolfgang Hinz says audiences in Northeast Ohio will support challenging mater…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:00PMTuesday, August 6, 2013
In four weeks at the State Theatre in PlayhouseSquare, Disney’s “The Lion King” grossed more than $6.5 million in 32 sold out performances.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:00PMCleveland Public Theatre's Student Theatre Enrichment Program (STEP), the city's longest-running arts and job training program for urban teens launched in 1995, presents free work in area pa…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:00PMThursday, July 25, 2013
The Who's original "Tommy" album that inspired the Ken Russell film and Broadway show. How would you imagine the average high school grad uses those precious summer month…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 02:27PMWednesday, July 24, 2013
Artist Kent Twitchell installs a mural of actress Ruby Dee at the Karamu House Theatre. Scott Shaw/Plain Dealer Ruby Dee made her first Cleveland stage appearance at Playhouse Squa…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:27PMMonday, July 22, 2013
Passersby in cars slowed and gaped at the image taking shape on the side of the Karamu Performing Arts Theatre building in Cleveland's Fairfax neighborhood -- a 40-foot-tall mural of Ruby De…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00AMFriday, July 19, 2013
"Boston Marriage," a turn-of-the-century euphemism for women living together who may or may not have been getting it on, is a comedy of manners the likes of which you have never se…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:46PMMonday, July 15, 2013
All hail the scatting, belting, eat-your-heart-out-Mariah-Carey stylings of Jessica L. Cope as the Lady of the Lake, a shimmering prima donna who is King Arthur’s muse and protector. She's…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00PMFriday, July 12, 2013
In his debut as Mufasa’s loyal servant Zazu, a nervous Nellie of an African red-billed hornbill, Andrew Gorell, a 2012 graduate of the Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Play House …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:33PMPeruse Cleveland Public Theatre’s 2013-14 season and you’ll notice an unusual pattern: Eight of its 10 announced main-stage productions are written exclusively by women or are collaborat…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMSaturday, July 6, 2013
"It's the most complicated puppet in the show, and there are a lotta puppets in that show," says Andrew Gorell, a 2012 graduate of the Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Pla…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:00PMFriday, June 21, 2013
"Africa is NOTHING like 'The Lion King!' " Elder Price shouts. Neither, thank God, is "The Book of Mormon," possibly the most foulmouthed, funny -- and yes, bighearted --…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:00PMMonday, June 17, 2013
With "Medea," the Mama Theatre Company, much like the titular sorceress and priestess of Hecate, has made a howling entrance onto the city's artistic scene. The cast is tight, the …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:00PMFriday, June 14, 2013
For Broadway vet Robert Lopez, there is nothing more important than the emotional arc of the story, though "emotional arc" is not the first thing that pops to mind when describing …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:19PMTuesday, June 11, 2013
"Telephone" is a frustrating and fascinating mind game of a play by poet Ariana Reines that explores technology as both boon and bane, arguing that the more plugged in we are, the …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:52PMFriday, June 7, 2013
So how did a skinny kid from middle-of-nowhere Michigan wind up in the most Tony-nominated musical on Broadway? The training Kyle Post received at Baldwin Wallace University sure helped. So …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:00PMThere are four nominees vying for best musical at the 67th Annual Tony Awards tonight -- including the kinetic "Bring It On" and hometown favorite "A Christmas Story," co…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:00PMThursday, June 6, 2013
The post-apocalyptic tale, devised by CPT's executive artistic director Raymond Bobgan and his cast, is a mash-up of hero mythology a la Joseph Campbell -- remember your VHS tapes of him? --…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 10:00AMMonday, June 3, 2013
"The Pitmen Painters" is a cerebral thrill that deconstructs the notion of art and who makes it.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:28PMFriday, May 31, 2013
Like a wide-brimmed hat with too many embellishments -- feathers and sequins and fruit, oh my -- "Crown's" slender narrative, at least as it plays out in the Karamu Theatre product…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:02PMFriday, May 24, 2013
Tonight and Saturday, Blank Canvas Theatre will present a concert version of "Merrily We Roll Along," the dark musical comedy featuring Stephen Sondheim's Tony-nominated music and …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:13PMThursday, May 23, 2013
Michael Bloom said he couldn't be making his exit as artistic director of the nation's first regional theater at a better moment. "I'm very pleased to be leaving on a high note. I'm rea…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:06PM 
