Friday, March 1, 2013
The dark Douaihys: From left, Charles (Christopher Sanders), Joseph (Chris Richards) and Uncle Bill (Bernard Canepari) in "Sons of the Prophet," now onstage at Dobama Theatre. Nath…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:00PMWednesday, February 27, 2013
Dorothy Silver in "The Velocity of Autumn" at the Beck Center for the Arts in spring 2012. Courtesy of the Beck Center for the Arts Before Eric Coble's "The Velocit…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 04:00PMTuesday, February 26, 2013
As embodied by Laurie Birmingham, Madame Arcati is a batty whirlwind in brown velvet. Whether attempting to sense ectoplasmic energy through her wrists, munching on cucumber sandwiches or ch…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:16PMFriday, February 22, 2013
As Bessie Smith, Miche Braden is as fun as sin. Backed by a tight, three-man band, the jazz and blues veteran who cut her teeth playing clubs in her hometown of Detroit delivers an unforgett…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:00PMSaturday, February 16, 2013
View full size "For pure originality and expressiveness, it's hard to imagine any Broadway chorus line topping the solo dances performed here by an 83-year-old woman with a superfluity …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00AMSunday, February 10, 2013
For the 2013-14 season, Cleveland Play House Artistic Director Michael Bloom has landed some of the hottest properties from the best of Broadway, including Tony darlings "Venus in Fur&q…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00AMSaturday, February 9, 2013
"With my having been a club singer and working with jazz cats and blues cats, doing R&B and rock 'n' roll and everything, it just kind of lived in me -- the life of an entertainer o…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00AMTuesday, February 5, 2013
The ocean of opportunity that was opened to girls like Pokie by the civil rights movement threatened to swamp the world of her elders, who prized family and filial duty above all else, and p…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:00PMMonday, February 4, 2013
"The Gospel According to James" is an unsettling, urgent, beautifully written drama that demands that we pay attention to the scourge of racism in ways "Django Unchained"…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:00PMWednesday, January 30, 2013
According to a press release issued Wednesday afternoon, a transformer in the electrical vault in the basement of the Hanna "malfunctioned and began smoking," said Tom Einhouse, Pl…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:01PMTuesday, January 22, 2013
Cleveland Play House costume designer David Kay Mickelsen describes how he created the timeless pieces in "Bell, Book and Candle," now onstage at the Allen Theatre through Sunday, …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:00PMMonday, January 21, 2013
"Fiction" concerns the insufferable Linda and Michael Waterman -- glib, brainy authors who have been married 20 years and know everything. They also get off on arguing about the so…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:00PMFriday, January 18, 2013
"Bell, Book and Candle" is rarely performed, and yet its influence -- the idea of a paranormal being falling for an unremarkable human -- is shot through pop culture, from the long…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMWednesday, January 16, 2013
The nearly 500 glam, glitzy getups are reason alone to catch the show. Because where else are you likely to see men with the abs of Brad Pitt in "Troy" outfitted as orange lizards,…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:00PMSaturday, January 12, 2013
Sexy witches, thrill killers, unrepentant gamblers, Mormon missionaries and armless, legless knights are but a few of the characters coming to Cleveland stages in 2013.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00AMFriday, January 11, 2013
There are some 260 quick changes during "Priscilla Queen of the Desert," some 15 seconds long, others 45 seconds long. "There are quick changes happening onstage, there are qu…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00AMMonday, January 7, 2013
Cleveland Public Theatre's Big Box series never fails to bring the most esoteric works to the stage, and its 11th cycle does not disappoint. The best title in the eight-week menu of offering…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:00PMWhile Tri-C students often enter acting and design competitions at the regional conference, they've never been asked to stage a full-scale production at the Kennedy Center American College T…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 01:18PMSaturday, December 29, 2012
The 2012 professional theater season in Cleveland proved you can pack a house without programming "The Music Man."
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:30PMFriday, December 21, 2012
The trouble with "Annie" isn't this production -- the performances, on the whole, were solid and some even soared -- but the musical itself. Admit it: "Hard Knock Life" p…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:00PMFriday, December 14, 2012
Nothing sets those visions of sugarplums dancing like Great Lakes Theater's production of "A Christmas Carol" -- onstage at the Ohio Theatre through Sunday, Dec. 23 -- except for t…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:00PMWhether dining out before a show or catching a weekend matinee, ticket holders flocking to PlayhouseSquare have more choices than ever about where to eat, drink and be merry in the city's pr…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00AMTuesday, December 11, 2012
When last Dorothy Silver headlined a drama, it was Eric Coble's "The Velocity of Autumn" at the Beck Center for the Arts, and Silver so outshone her co-star that it was almost like…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:00PMMonday, December 10, 2012
"Devised theater" like "The Secret Soical" is by its nature a leap of faith. Lots of cooks often make the soup, collaborating on the script and character development. The…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:00PMFriday, December 7, 2012
"A Carol for Cleveland" is original work brimming with heart, its roots planted deeply into the city's sooty soil. The script is littered with crowd-pleasing touchstones, from navi…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:00PMMonday, December 3, 2012
"Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical" is a scream, a clever send-up of skin flicks in the Ron Jeremy days, when production values were as low as the woodman's hairy gut. A special chee…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:00PMSaturday, December 1, 2012
In championing "A Carol for Cleveland," Bloom passed on more tried-and-true fare, including the Sherlock Holmes Christmas mystery "The Game's Afoot," a box-office home ru…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 02:00PMMembers of the bizarro wait staff from "Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant" join forces with Cleveland Public Theatre artists to create "The Secret Social," a delicious piece…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00AMMonday, November 19, 2012
in the play's first act, Lee has all the fun. And in Cliff Bailey, director Clyde Simon has found a burly, deft comedian. Though he lacks the feline sexiness and menace of a Malkovich (who w…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:00PMFriday, November 16, 2012
I'd be a Grinch not to tip a tiara to Tim Tavcar, who gives a vanity-free performance as pot-bellied female impersonator Polly Esther. Tavcar, in a towering wig of ginger curls, the hair on …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 08:00PMMonday, November 12, 2012
While top-notch shows are onstage at the city's professional houses, there are also ambitious, inventive, dare I say "must-see" productions at area colleges. Cleveland State Univer…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:00PM 
