Monday, 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 07:00PMFriday, November 9, 2012
"The Whipping Man," now playing in the intimate Second Stage theater of the Cleveland Play House, is a production that achieves holistic perfection. It fires on all cylinders, righ…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:06PMSunday, November 4, 2012
Shaker Heights native Russell G. Jones has carved out an enviable career on the New York stage, where he has built a reputation as "an artist's artist," says "Whipping Man&quo…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00AMMonday, October 29, 2012
Despite some flaws in the script and pacing issues -- a few scenes needed a swig of Red Bull -- Samuel D. Hunter's 2011 Obie-winning play resonates now more than ever, and the Dobama Theatre…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:00PMFriday, October 26, 2012
Kevin David Thomas was to have appeared on Broadway with fellow Baldwin Wallace University alum Jill Paice next month in the hotly anticipated Gothic confection "Rebecca." Instead,…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:00PMTuesday, October 16, 2012
In the Beck Center's "The Little Dog Laughed," director Scott Plate, department chair of the music theater program at Baldwin Wallace University, lets it all hang out and then some…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:00PMThursday, October 11, 2012
Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons is on board to play Alexandra, an 80-year-old artist who blockades herself in her home and threatens to blow it to smithereens rather than end her days i…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 10:00PMWednesday, October 10, 2012
"Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays" makes no apologies for being what it is -- a piece of agitprop theater gift-wrapped as a collection of one-acts by some of America's …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:00PMMonday, October 8, 2012
Racehl York embodies the brash, bawdy Reno Sweeney -- made famous by Ethel Merman when the musical first set sail on Broadway in 1934 -- with a wink and a purr. And her pipes? Gather 'round,…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:00PMWednesday, October 3, 2012
First produced in 1985 during the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis, Larry Kramer's historic play is as much a call to arms as a piece of theater. Twenty-seven years later, despite an effective …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMMonday, October 1, 2012
Structurally, "The Winter's Tale," first printed in the folio of 1623 and grouped with the Bard's comedies, is two plays in one: a tragedy with a pastoral spliced on the end. That …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:00PMSunday, September 30, 2012
World-weary audiences of the '30s flocked to Broadway and the bijou to be transported to a place without bread lines and bad news, where life is de-lightful, de-licious and de-lovely. "…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00AMFriday, September 21, 2012
"Lombardi," the season opener for the Cleveland Play House, features hard-hitting perfomances from Bob Ari and DeeDee Rescher in a look at the man behind the football legend.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:00PMTuesday, September 18, 2012
As Ronnie in Stephen Adly Guirgis' irresistibly titled play, Anjanette Hall spends much of her time in a bra and underwear, proudly spewing obscenities that would make David Mamet blush, all…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:11PMSunday, September 9, 2012
The 2012-13 season offers a smorgasbord of the classic and the cutting-edge.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00AMCharlotta Enflo, managing director of Dobama Theatre, easily landed the hot script "The Motherf - - - - - With the Hat" in April. "It might have been the title," Enflo de…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00AM"You go off singing happy songs with a big smile on your face," says Rachel York, who will hoof it at PlayhouseSquare as evangelist-turned-nightclub-singer Reno Sweeney in the Roun…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00AMAlison Garrigan has been madly stitching away, creating the over-the-top costumes for "Xanadu," the show that will open the 2012-13 season at the Beck Center for the Arts.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:59AMMoliere's "The Imaginary Invalid" has been moved from the 17th century to the 1960s with pop music and few 2012 issues, such as health care and who should be paying for it.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:59AMCleveland Public Theatre's Raymond Bobgan didn't have to work hard to find a director for "Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays." He just read off the names of the work's c…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:59AMKaramu fans have clamored to see "The Color Purple," but the show had eluded artistic director Terrence Spivey for two years.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:59AM"For Lombardi, it wasn't enough to win -- he had to humiliate. He was obsessed with winning. Second place was not an option. He not only had to beat his opponents, he had to drive them …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:59AMSunday, August 26, 2012
"For my money, Vicky Bussert is running the finest musical theater program in the country," said Broadway talent agent Chris Nichols. "And I'll tell anybody who'll listen"
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:45AMSunday, August 19, 2012
Adler in her own words straight, no chaser as she is in this essential collection of classroom lectures on the works of Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller and others, will lea…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00AMSunday, August 12, 2012
Lakewood performer brings the house down singing Joplin classics like "Cry, Baby" and "Me and Bobby McGee."
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00AMTuesday, August 7, 2012
"Mark O'Donnell was very kind and unassuming when he came to visit the theater where he got his start," said Beck Center for the Arts artistic director Scott Spence, who directed O…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:30PMSaturday, August 4, 2012
Cleveland Public Theatre artistic director Raymond Bobgan believes in risk-taking and encourages agents to send him new, edgy scripts. Cleveland Public Theatre executive artistic director Ra…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:00PMFriday, August 3, 2012
Joplin was famous for her ruined rasp, a growl that started like a whisper then built to a wail, her sound the embodiment of a generation unleashed. Davies can match the superstar's power an…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00PMTuesday, July 31, 2012
Donning Joplin's beads and bangles will be Stephani's understudy, Lakewood native Mary Bridget Davies, who is no stranger to the vocal stylings of the legendary Pearl.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 04:28PMSaturday, July 28, 2012
"I saw Cat's photo, and I got the chills," said Randy Johnson, writer-director of the new musical "One Night with Janis Joplin," of his star, Cat Stephani. "Hadn't h…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:00PMTuesday, July 24, 2012
One of Matt Polk's first assignments at Boneau/Bryan-Brown, a publicity firm in the heart of New York's Times Square, was to make sure "The Lion King's" Julie Taymor arrived at Radio City Mu…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:48PM 
