13 stories by "David Ritchey"
[Eric Coble] has honed a tight two-act script from which not a word can be cut. Each line moves the story forward. His work is a knee-slapping, whoop and holler comedy.
The stage version was written by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer. This is not the same script as the movie Yentl, which starred Barbra Streisand.
This music-filled autobiography hits the high points of his life and provides a frame work on which to hang thirty-three of his songs.
A Carol for Cleveland celebrates the city, kind people and Cleveland's winter weather. Cleveland's Allen Theatre provides the perfect home for this new play by Eric Coble that is based on a …
Mary Bridget Davies plays Joplin. She has the Joplin sound-rough, ragged, energetic and emotional-and evokes Joplin with help from the costumes and wigs.
An autobiographical musical revue seems a misnomer or impossibility. However, Sondheim on Sondheim makes the impossible possible.
In the Next Room is played in a set that works perfectly for the script and for The Cleveland Play House's Second Stage.
When two little boys get in a fight, it triggers an adult battle between their parents. For 90 minutes, the parents squabble about their sons.
His new play, "The Game's Afoot (or Holmes for the Holidays)," was the backdrop for our conversation.
This is a "message" play and the message seems to have been delivered long ago. What is left is a charming musical comedy of the old-fashioned style—singers sing, actors say funny lines, t…
Unfortunately, the 1912 novel doesn't leap forward and seem appropriate 100 years later. The script is thin and transparent by today's standards, without the surprises and unexpected twists …
So much is special about the production of "The Life of Galileo," is now playing in the Allen Theatre, Cleveland Play House, PlayhouseSquare. First, the company has renovated and moved into …
