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Roy Berko, a life-long Clevelander, holds degrees, through the doctorate from Kent State, University of Michigan and Case--WesternReserve/The Pennsylvania State University. Roy was an actor for many years, appearing in more than 16 plays, 8 TV commercials, and 3 films. He has directed more than 30 productions. A member of the American Critics Association and The Cleveland Critics Circle, he has been an entertainment reviewer for more than fifty years. For three years he was a regular on Channel 5, ABC-Cleveland's "Morning Exchange" and "Live on 5," serving as the stations communication consultant. He has also appeared on "Good Morning America." Roy served as the Director of Public Relations for the Volunteer Office in the White House during the first Clinton Administration. He was a professor of communication and psychology who taught at George Washington University, University of Maryland, Notre Dame College of Ohio, Towson University. and Lorain County Community College. Roy is the author of 38 books. He was selected by Cleveland Magazine as one of the most interesting people in Cleveland.  He was named the outstanding theater reviewer in the Midwest and one of the top ten reviewers in the country by Broadwayworld.  He was also recognized by Google as one of the most important and influential arts journalists/critics in the United States.

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Wonderful Town

Favorite Show

Chorus Line, Fiddler on The Roof, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, West Side Story, Something Rotten, Pippin



Review: HAIRSPRAY at Connor Palace

Review: HAIRSPRAY at Connor Palace

December 6, 2023

What did our critic think of HAIRSPRAY at Connor Palace? The farcical, yet message-loaded HAIRSPRAY, is the type of musical that in a bad production falls flat, but in a good production the audience gets all-kinds of involved.

Review: BLACK NATIVITY at Karma In Partnership With Cleveland Play House

Review: BLACK NATIVITY at Karma In Partnership With Cleveland Play House

December 4, 2023

What did our critic think of BLACK NATIVITY at Karma In Partnership With Cleveland Play House? Langston Hughes, the author of BLACK NATIVITY, now on stage at the Allen Theatre, in a joint production between Karamu, the country’s oldest black producing theater and the Cleveland Play House, the nati

Review: PIPPIN at BW Musical Theatre Program

Review: PIPPIN at BW Musical Theatre Program

November 21, 2023

What did our critic think of PIPPIN at BW Musical Theatre Program? In the Fall of 1971, while chaperoning a group of college students to New York, I saw PIPPIN, the Stephen Schwartz (music and lyrics), Roger Hirson (book), Bob Fosse (director/choreographer) musical.

Review: TROUBLE IN MIND at Seat Of Pants Productions

Review: TROUBLE IN MIND at Seat Of Pants Productions

November 7, 2023

What did our critic think of TROUBLE IN MIND at Seat Of Pants Productions? The late-Alice Childress, the author of TROUBLE IN MIND, now being staged by Seat of the Pants Productions, was an American novelist, playwright, and actress, who was acknowledged as the only African-American woman to have wr

Review: GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY at Connor Palace

Review: GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY at Connor Palace

November 6, 2023

What did our critic think of GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY at Connor Palace? David Greene, the Senior Vice President of Programming at Playhouse Square, informs theater-goers in his program notes for GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY that “it is a non-traditional musical which features songs by music lege

Review: THE ISLAND at Ensemble

Review: THE ISLAND at Ensemble

October 30, 2023

What did our critic think of THE ISLAND at Ensemble? Native South Euclid resident and Brush High School grad, Dr.

Review: DRACULA: THE BLOODY TRUTH at Great Lakes Theater

Review: DRACULA: THE BLOODY TRUTH at Great Lakes Theater

October 23, 2023

What did our critic think of DRACULA: THE BLOODY TRUTH at Great Lakes Theater? The cast worked hard, the stagehands did their part with great enthusiasm, but all in all DRACULA: THE BLOODY TRUTH just didn’t live up to expectations.

Review: THE GROWN-UP at Convergence-continuum

Review: THE GROWN-UP at Convergence-continuum

October 16, 2023

What did our critic think of THE GROWN-UP at Convergence-continuum? THE GROWN-UP, Pulitzer Prize finalist Jordan Harrison’s play, which is now on stage at convergence-continuum, in its Ohio premiere, uses fantasy to explore how quickly life changes and, therefore, that life is too short to miss a

Review: CAT'S PAW at Beck Center For The Arts

Review: CAT'S PAW at Beck Center For The Arts

September 28, 2023

What did our critic think of CAT'S PAW at Beck Center For The Arts? William Mastrosimone, the author of CAT’S-PAW, now on stage in the Studio Theatre at Beck Center, states, “In the early 80s I was shocked by the questionable methods of some activists who called themselves environmentalists.

Review: EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR at Convergence-continuum

Review: EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR at Convergence-continuum

August 14, 2023

What did our critic think of EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR at Convergence-continuum? Perhaps one of the most famous, or infamous of Shakespeare’s stage directions, ‘Exit, pursued by a bear’ in Act III of THE WINTER’S TALE, sees Antigonus meet death in the most unlikely of ways: at the hands – o




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