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Review: RENT at Cain Parkby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(06/18/2023) - What did our critic think of RENT at Cain Park?
Review: A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM at Kent State University Porthouse Theatreby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(06/12/2023) - What did our critic think of A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM at Porthouse (Kent State University)?
Review: MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL at KEY BANK STATEby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(06/10/2023) - What did our critic think of MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL at KEY BANK STATE?
Review: THE SHOW THAT GOES WRONG at Chagrin Valley Little Theatreby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(06/06/2023) - What did our critic think of THE SHOW THAT GOES WRONG at Chagrin Valley Little Theatre? In 1923 there was THE TORCHBEARERS. In 1982 the stage was filled with hysterical disasters during NOISES OFF. Now there is THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG, the zany Laurence Olivier Award winner.
Review: DOUBT: A PARABLE At Beck Center For The Artsby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(06/05/2023) - What did our critic think of DOUBT: A PARABLE at Beck Center For The Arts?
Review: WALKING TO BUCHENWALD at Convergence-continuumby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(06/05/2023) - What did our critic think of WALKING TO BUCHENWALD at Convergence-continuum? At the start of the opening night of BUCKENWALD, it appeared that no matter the quality of the script the audience was in for a rough night. Lighting guffaws, a confusing scene with actors speaking directly to the audience, but talking to other actors seemingly miles apart, with no visual means of the messages being conveyed. Not a healthy beginning.
Review: THE LIGHT at Ensembleby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(05/29/2023) - What did our critic think of THE LIGHT at Ensemble?
Review: DEAR EVAN HANSEN at Connor Palaceby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(05/17/2023) - Dear Evan Hansen at Connor Palace is a top-ranking musical drama that highlights social anxiety, suicide, family angst, and teenage drug addiction. Based on real-life incidents, it explores the complexities of mental health and societal investigation. With a pop-contemporary musical theatre sound, it is a must-see musical for those interested in boundary-pushing storytelling.
Review: KEN LUDWIG'S MORIARTY: A NEW SHERLOCK HOLMES ADVENTURE at Cleveland Play Houseby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(05/13/2023) - What did our critic think of KEN LUDWIG'S MORIARTY: A NEW SHERLOCK HOLMES ADVENTURE at Cleveland Play House?
Review: AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' at GREAT LAKES THEATERby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(05/08/2023) - What did our critic think of AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' at GREAT LAKES THEATER? The setting in which a musical production takes place, often affects the pleasure one gets from the experience. A perfect case in point is AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' presently being staged by Great Lakes Theater in its intimate Hanna Theatre home.
Photos: First Look at Great Lakes Theater's AIN'T MISBEHAVIN'by Blair Ingenthron - Cleveland
(04/30/2023) - Great Lakes Theater (GLT) closes out its 61st season with a jazzy musical celebration of Fats Waller, Ain't Misbehavin', performing in the company's intimate and audience-friendly home at the Hanna Theatre, Playhouse Square running through May 21, 2023. Check out photos from the production here!
Review: TINA: THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL at Connor Palaceby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(04/29/2023) - What did our critic think of TINA: THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL at CONNOR PALACE?
Review: THE BUBBLY BLACK GIRL SHEDS HER CHAMELEON SKIN at Karamuby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(04/28/2023) - What did our critic think of THE BUBBLY BLACK GIRL SHEDS HER CHAMELEON SKIN at Karamu? It's been called '...[a] sharp and tasty new musical...charming...as the show ingeniously turns professional perkiness, the lifeblood of the American musical, into a funny, poignant comment on ethnic self-denial.'
Review: WHAT WE LOOK LIKE at DOBAMAby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(04/25/2023) - What did our critic think of WHAT WE LOOK LIKE at DOBAMA?
Review: BECOMING DR. RUTH at Cleveland Play Houseby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(04/12/2023) - What did our critic think of BECOMING DR. RUTH at Cleveland Play House?
Photos: First Look At BECOMING DR. RUTH At Cleveland Play Houseby A.A. Cristi - Cleveland
(04/07/2023) - CPH invites audiences to journey through the life of world-renowned sex therapist, Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer. See photos from the production.
Review: AS YOU LIKE IT at Great Lakes Theaterby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(04/07/2023) - What did our critic think of AS YOU LIKE IT at Great Lakes Theater?
Photos: First Look at Great Lakes Theater's AS YOU LIKE ITby Blair Ingenthron - Cleveland
(03/26/2023) - Great Lakes Theater (GLT), Cleveland's Classic Company, continues its 61st season with Shakespeare’s, As You Like It, performing in the company’s intimate and audience-friendly home at the Hanna Theatre, Playhouse Square, running through April 8, 2023. Check out photos from the production below!
Photos: First Look at SENSE AND SENSIBILITY at Great Lakes Theaterby Blair Ingenthron - Cleveland
(02/12/2023) - Great Lakes Theater (GLT) has released production photos for its production of Jane Austen’s classic, Sense and Sensibility, performing in the company’s intimate and audience-friendly home at the Hanna Theatre, Playhouse Square through March 5, 2023. GLT’s Associate Artistic Director, Sara Bruner, and Artistic Associate, Jaclyn Miller, will co-direct this production. Check out the photos here!
Exclusive: First Look at Justin Collette and the Cast of BEETLEJUICE on Tourby Stephi Wild - Broadway
(12/15/2022) - The North American Tour of Beetlejuice the Musical kicked off this month in Paducah, KY, before its official launch at the Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco, CA. The tour will haunt 27 cities across North America with more dates to be announced. BroadwayWorld has your exclusive first look at the production in all new photos!
Review: HAMILTON at Key Bank Stateby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(12/09/2022) - What did our critic think of HAMILTON at Key Bank State?
Review: THE LAND OF OZ at Dobamaby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(12/08/2022) - What did our critic think of THE LAND OF OZ at Dobama? Since 1959, Dobama Theatre has been dedicated to premiering important new plays by established and emerging playwrights in professional productions of the highest quality. THE LAND OF OZ, is a good selection for them to undertake.
Review: THE MOST FABULOUS STORY EVER TOLD at Convergence-continuumby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(12/04/2022) - What did our critic think of THE MOST FABULOUS STORY EVER TOLD at Convergence-continuum?
Review: THE WILD PARTY at BWU Musical Theatre Programby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(11/11/2022) - What did our critic think of THE WILD PARTY at CWU Musical Theatre Program?
Review: THE GREAT LEAP at Cleveland Play Houseby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(11/06/2022) - What did our critic think of THE GREAT LEAP at Cleveland Play House?
Review: DESCRIBE THE NIGHT at Ensembleby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(11/04/2022) - What did our critic think of DESCRIBE THE NIGHT at Ensemble?
Review: BREAKOUT SESSION at Cleveland Public Theaterby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(10/31/2022) - What did our critic think of BREAKOUT SESSION at Cleveland Public Theater? Nikkole Slater, BREAKOUT SESSION (OR FROGORSE), was commissioned in 2020 by CPT, with funding from the National New Play Network (NNPN). It was the intention of funding to have the author write a play that cast a spotlight on racism, bias and violence. Her goal was to ask, 'Can a society legislate a change of heart?' It was 'inspired by Cleveland's Consent Decree with the U.S. Department of Justice, which required the Police Department to go through anti-bias training.'
Review: INSURRECTION: HOLDING HISTORY at Convergence-continuumby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(10/25/2022) - What did our critic think of INSURRECTION: HOLDING HISTORY at Convergence-continuum? Is it true that in order to understand your present, you must understand your past? If you understand the past, and could insert yourself into the events happening, could you change your present? Could you actually change the course of history?
Review: LES MISERABLES National Tour at Key Bank Stateby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(10/17/2022) - What did our critic think of LES MISERABLES (2022 TOUR) at Key Bank State? This is a musical with the word 'miserable' in the title, has physical beatings and numerous onstage deaths, and lacks a typical happy ending. Is this the stuff musicals are made of? Not usually. But, there is no reason that serious subjects cannot be treated in the musical form. Les Miz proves that contention, as does 'Next to Normal' and 'Dear Evan Hanson,' and proves it well.
Photos: LES MISERABLES North American Tour Opens in Clevelandby Stephi Wild - Broadway
(10/13/2022) - Cameron Mackintosh’s acclaimed production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning musical phenomenon, LES MISÉRABLES, officially opened last night at Playhouse Square in Cleveland, OH. Check out photos from the red carpet!
Review: THE THIN PLACE at Dobamaby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(10/09/2022) - What did our critic think of THE THIN PLACE at Dobama?
Review: THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIIME at Beck Center For The Artsby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(10/03/2022) - What did our critic think of THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIIME at Beck Center For The Arts? THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME, which is now on stage in the Senney Theater in the Beck Center complex, is a play by Simon Stephens which is based on British writer Mark Haddon's book of the same name, which, in turn was based on the 1892 short story 'The Adventure of Silver Blaze.'
Review: AMERICAN MARIACHI at Cleveland Play Houseby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(09/25/2022) - What did our critic think of AMERICAN MARIACHI at Cleveland Play House?
Photos: Meet the Company of the LES MISERABLES National Tourby Jennifer Broski - Broadway
(09/20/2022) - Cameron Mackintosh's production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg's Tony Award-winning musical phenomenon, LES MISÉRABLES, is about to hit the road. The show will relaunch its tour of North America in October 2022 at Playhouse Square in Cleveland, OH and will play more than 60 week-long and multi-week engagements through the next two years and beyond.
Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at Great Lakes Theaterby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(09/19/2022) - What did LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS is the kind of show that many love to hate while others love it. The topics of abuse and drug use, which are not in the wheelhouse of musicals, sometimes turn people off, as does the phy-sci-centered plot. The GLT production is as good as you are going to get. It solidly hits all the comic and horror notes. It’s a must see for the script’s fans! our critic think of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at Great Lakes Theater?
Review: BUYER & CELLAR at Beck Center For The Artsby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(09/12/2022) - What did our critic think of BUYER & CELLAR at Beck Center For The Arts? Barbra Streisand's career started in the gay nightclub, The Lion, located in New York's Greenwich Village. Her films and music have amassed huge support, especially from the gay community. She, and her works, are larger than life, leading to her being selected by 'Out Magazine' as one of the '12 Greatest Female Gay Icons of All Time.'
Review: FROZEN at Key Bank Stateby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(08/14/2022) - What did our critic think of FROZEN at Key Bank State?
Review: WEST SIDE STORY at Porthouse/Kent State Universityby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(08/12/2022) - What did our critic think of WEST SIDE STORY at Porthouse/Kent State University? In the fall of 1957, I had a mind-blowing experience. I saw the newly opened Broadway production of WEST SIDE STORY. At the time, all I knew about the show was that it was based on ROMEO AND JULIET and it had opened to positive reviews two days before.
Review: OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD at The Seat Of The Pants Productionsby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(08/08/2022) - What did our critic think of OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD at The Seat Of The Pants Productions? The Seat of the Pants Productions' mission states that 'Our hope is to create theater that challenges minds, moves hearts, and mobilizes hands and feet - in both performers and patrons.'
Review: SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM at Cain Park--Alma Theatreby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(08/07/2022) - What did our critic think of SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM at Cain Park--Alma Theatre?
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