Lauren B. Smith

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Hope Summer Repertory Theatre opened the final production of their critically acclaimed 48th season this last last night with SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, and BroadwayWorld has an exclusive first look!

Hope Summer Repertory Theatre opens its season rep season tonight with West Side Story, and BroadwayWorld has your first look!

Len Jenkin, the author of LIKE I SAY, which he refers to as a 'sober-minded comedy,' is the recipient of three Obie Awards and received an Emmy nomination.

convergence-continuum continues its 2016 Season with the Ohio premiere of Len Jenkin's LIKE I SAY.

convergence-continuum continues its 2016 Season with the Ohio premiere of Len Jenkin's LIKE I SAY.

Book buyers spend an estimated $1.08 billion dollars each year purchasing romance novels. Since 1972 when Avon printed Kathleen Woodiwiss's 'The Flame And The Flower,' supposedly the first U.S. published book of that genre, almost 55% of all paperbacks sold in the U.S. have centered on romantic relationships with optimistic endings, whose covers usually feature a handsome buff man saving a helpless woman. These types of stories also dominate E-book downloads.

Liz Duffy Adams, whose play, 'The Reckless Ruthless Brutal Charge Of It, or The Train Play' is now on stage at convergence continuum is noted for being an American abstract writer. The word 'abstract' may be the key to confronting 'The Train Play.'

convergence-continuum presents three new plays by local graduate-student playwrights at the 2015 NEOMFA Playwrights Festival. The Festival features three world-premiere plays: one full-length (two-act) play by final-year MFA candidate Monica Morgan, and two one-act plays by second-year grad students Lisa Langford and Cutler Smith. These plays are part of a three-year intensive program of study under playwright and Cleveland State University professor Mike Geither, and are co-produced by convergence-continuum and the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts (NEOMFA) in Creative Writing consortium. This will be the fourth year convergence-continuum has mounted the Festival at its performance space, the Liminis, 2438 Scranton Rd., Cleveland 44113 in the historic Tremont neighborhood.

convergence-continuum presents three new plays by local graduate-student playwrights at the 2015 NEOMFA Playwrights Festival. The Festival features three world-premiere plays: one full-length (two-act) play by final-year MFA candidate Monica Morgan, and two one-act plays by second-year grad students Lisa Langford and Cutler Smith. These plays are part of a three-year intensive program of study under playwright and Cleveland State University professor Mike Geither, and are co-produced by convergence-continuum and the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts (NEOMFA) in Creative Writing consortium. This will be the fourth year convergence-continuum has mounted the Festival at its performance space, the Liminis, 2438 Scranton Rd., Cleveland 44113 in the historic Tremont neighborhood.

convergence-continuum opens its 2012 Season with the Ohio premiere of The Hyacinth Macaw, described as 'a lyrical, beautiful and strangely comic tale' by Mac Wellman.

What happens when you put a veteran lighting designer with a museum day job in the director's chair for his first time at the helm of a show about museums? Magic. Cory Molner's freshman directing debut THE MUSEUM PLAY features amazing performaces by Clyde Simon and Lauren B. Smith, and is not to be missed.

convergence-continuum, continues its 2011 Season at the Liminis theatre with the Mid-West premiere of The Museum Play by Jordan Harrison - a dark and comic exploration of untenable longings to posses the past, and the preservation of love and desire. The Museum Play will be the third work by playwright Jordan Harrison to be produced by convergence-continuum, who have previously presented Harrison's Act a Lady and Finn in the Underworld.

convergence-continuum, continues its 2011 Season at the Liminis theatre with the Mid-West premiere of The Museum Play by Jordan Harrison - a dark and comic exploration of untenable longings to posses the past, and the preservation of love and desire. The Museum Play will be the third work by playwright Jordan Harrison to be produced by convergence-continuum, who have previously presented Harrison's Act a Lady and Finn in the Underworld.

convergence-continuum, continues its 2010 Season at the Liminis theatre with the Ohio premiere of Say You Love Satan, a sinfully comic tale of temptation, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa.

convergence-continuum, continues its 2010 Season at the Liminis theatre with the Ohio premiere of Say You Love Satan, a sinfully comic tale of temptation, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa.