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Review: A LIGHT IN THE NIGHT: A HANUKKAH PLAY at Tailspinnerby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(12/10/2023) - What did our critic think of A LIGHT IN THE NIGHT: A HANUKKAH PLAY at Tailspinner?
Review: HAIRSPRAY at Connor Palaceby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(12/06/2023) - 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.
Photos: Get a First Look at THE WIZ Broadway-Bound Revivalby Chloe Rabinowitz - Broadway
(12/05/2023) - Get a first look at photos of The Wiz revival coming to Broadway!
Review: BLACK NATIVITY at Karma In Partnership With Cleveland Play Houseby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(12/04/2023) - 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 nation’s first resident company, was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist.
Review: LITTLE WOMEN at Dobamaby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(12/04/2023) - What did our critic think of LITTLE WOMEN at Dobama?
Review: TROUBLE IN MIND at Seat Of Pants Productionsby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(11/07/2023) - 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 written, produced, and published plays for four decades.
Review: GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY at Connor Palaceby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(11/06/2023) - 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 legend and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Bob Dylan.”
Photos: Exclusive First Look at the 25th Anniversary Tour of MAMMA MIA!by Stephi Wild - Broadway
(11/06/2023) - We have your exclusive first look at the 25th Anniversary North American Tour of Mamma Mia! Check out the photos here!
Review: Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN at Cleveland Play Houseby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(11/01/2023) - What did our critic think of MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN at Cleveland Play House?
Review: THE ISLAND at Ensembleby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(10/30/2023) - What did our critic think of THE ISLAND at Ensemble? Native South Euclid resident and Brush High School grad, Dr. Alan Wieder, is on a quest “to stem the tide of forgetfulness.” The oral historian, who has been on the faculties of both South Africa’s University of Western Cape and Stellenbosch University, is concerned that “few young South Africans know of the contributions or the sensibilities regarding the social justice and the revolution against class disparity and racism in the world.”
Exclusive Photos: Get A First Look At Britney Coleman, Judy McLane, & More COMPANY on Tourby Joshua Wright - Broadway
(10/24/2023) - BroadwayWorld has an exclusive first look at the national tour of the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's and George Furth's Company, winner of five 2022 Tony Awards including Best Musical Revival.
Review: DRACULA: THE BLOODY TRUTH at Great Lakes Theaterby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(10/23/2023) - 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.
Photos: First Look at Great Lakes Theatre's DRACULA: THE BLOODY TRUTHby Blair Ingenthron - Cleveland
(10/22/2023) - Great Lakes Theater (GLT) continues its 62nd season with the bloody good romp, Dracula: The Bloody Truth, performing in the company’s intimate and audience-friendly home at the Hanna Theatre, Playhouse Square from October 20 – November 5, 2023. Check out the photo from the production here!
Review: THE GROWN-UP at Convergence-continuumby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(10/16/2023) - 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 any moment of it.
Review: MAKE BELIEVE at Dobamaby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(10/10/2023) - What did our critic think of MAKE BELIEVE at Dobama?
Review: THE WIZ (THE TOURING COMPANY) at Connor Palaceby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(10/08/2023) - What did our critic think of THE WIZ (THE TOURING COMPANY) at Connor Palace?
Photos/Video: First Look at the North American Tour of FUNNY GIRLby Stephi Wild - Broadway
(10/05/2023) - Hello, gorgeous! All new photos and video footage have been released from the North American Tour of Funny Girl. Check them out here!
Review: CAT'S PAW at Beck Center For The Artsby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(09/28/2023) - 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: CLYDE'S at Karmaby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(09/24/2023) - What did our critic think of CLYDE'S at Karma?
Photos: First Look at Great Lakes Theater's NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812by Blair Ingenthron - Cleveland
(09/24/2023) - Great Lakes Theater (GLT) opens its 62nd season with the Northeast Ohio premiere of Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, performing in the company’s intimate and audience-friendly home at the Hanna Theatre, Playhouse Square now through October 8, 2023. Check out production photos here!
Review: THURGOOD At Cleveland Play Houseby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(09/18/2023) - What did our critic think of THURGOOD at Cleveland Play House?
Review: LUNGS at Ensemble Theaterby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(09/12/2023) - What did our critic think of LUNGS at Ensemble?
Review: AN EVENING WITH AUDRA MCDONALD at BLOSSOM Music Centerby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(08/21/2023) - What did our critic think of AN EVENING WITH AUDRA MCDONALD at BLOSSOM Music Center?
Review: EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR at Convergence-continuumby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(08/14/2023) - 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 – or rather the claws – of a bear.
Review: FUN HOME at Alma Theatre-Cain Parkby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(08/13/2023) - What did our critic think of FUN HOME at Alma Theatre-Cain Park?
Review: SIX THE MUSICAL Tour at Playhouse Square: Connor Palaceby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(08/10/2023) - What did our critic think of SIX THE MUSICAL (TOURING COMPANY) at Playhouse Square: Connor Palace?
Review: ERMA BOMBECK: AT WIT'S END at Cleveland Play Houseby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(08/09/2023) - What did our critic think of ERMA BOMBECK: AT WIT'S END at CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE?
Photos: ERMA BOMBECK: AT WIT'S END At Cleveland Play Houseby A.A. Cristi - Cleveland
(08/01/2023) - CPH partners with Suburban Outlaw® Productions to bring humorist and nationally syndicated columnist Erma Bombeck to life on stage this summer in the hit solo play, ERMA BOMBECK: AT WIT'S END by Allison and Margaret Engel. See photos from the production.
Review: THE PROM at Porthouse Theatre/Kent State Universityby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(07/30/2023) - What did our critic think of THE PROM at Porthouse Theatre/Kent State University?
Review: WHO COULD ASK FOR ANYTHING MORE at Blossom Music Centerby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(07/27/2023) - What did our critic think of WHO COULD ASK FOR ANYTHING MORE at Blossom Music Center? About ten minutes before the Blossom music complex was to be filled by glorious music, an announcement asked all attendees who were sitting on the lawn to come into the pavilion as bad weather was moving into the area.
Review: ONCE ON THIS ISLAND at Beck Center For The Artsby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(07/11/2023) - What did our critic think of ONCE ON THIS ISLAND at Beck Center For The Arts?
Review: THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES at Porthouseby Roy Berko - Cleveland
(07/05/2023) - What did our critic think of THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES at Porthouse? It’s summer, a time of year in Northeastern Ohio for escapist activities. This is the only logical reason that Porthouse would pick a show like Roger Bean’s jukebox musical THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES.
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.
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