MEDERT AUDITORIUM

by Roy Berko - May 28, 2024

What did our critic think of THE PROSPECT OF EQUALITY at Ensemble?...

by Roy Berko - May 07, 2024

What did our critic think of SIGNIFICANT OTHER at Dobama?...

by Roy Berko - May 03, 2024

What did our critic think of COMPANY at Connor Palace? Stephen Sondheim is generally considered the most important composer/lyricist of the 20th century American musical theater.  Many consider him to be the person who reinvented the genre. ...

by Roy Berko - April 29, 2024

Juke box musicals are stage theatrical presentations in which a majority of the compositions were written before the presentation was conceived, rather than being original music conceived for that show.  They tend to be long on songs and short on a well-conceived plot. ...

by Roy Berko - April 17, 2024

9 to 5:  The Musical is a theatre piece based on the 1980 hit film, with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton and a book by Patricia Resnick.  It is now on stage at Chagrin Valley Little Theatre....

by Roy Berko - March 25, 2024

What did our critic think of BACH AT LEIPZIG at Seat Of Pants?...

by Roy Berko - March 25, 2024

Sir John Falstaff is at it again!  Yes, the chubby delightful bumbler, who was in the Bard’s HENRY IV, Parts 1 and 2, is now lighting up the stage in Great Lakes Theater’s THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, thanks to Elizabeth I.  The Queen was so infatuated with the character that, according to rumor, she...

by Roy Berko - March 19, 2024

What did our critic think of REQUIEM at Cleveland Public Theatre?...

by Roy Berko - March 19, 2024

What did our critic think of ORDINARY DAYS at BWU Musical Theatre Program In Collaboration With Playhouse Square/Cleveland? Adam Gwon, who wrote the music and lyrics for ORDINARY DAYS, which recently finished its run as part of the Playhouse Square/Baldwin Wallace  annual collaboration, was in atten...

by Roy Berko - March 10, 2024

What did our critic think of SOMETHING CLEAN at Dobama?...