BWW Review: SOMETHING ROTTEN is a must see musical farce at Playhouse Square/Connor Palace
"Something Rotten" is a theatrical treat…a wonderfully conceived and performed musical farce.
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BWW Review: Superb HAND TO GOD Demands Attention with Laughter and Angst at Dobama
"Hand to God" is a brilliant production, and places a spotlight on lost people caught up in their inabilities to cope with grief and abandonment.
BWW Review: FREAKY FRIDAY at Cleveland Play House
If you go to the theater for enjoyment, Cleveland Play House's "Freaky Friday" is your thing.
BWW Review: YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU at Karma
During the late 1920s and into the 1940s, the United States went through the great depression.
BWW Review: Disturbing, Funny BETWEEN RIVER AND CRAZY at the Cleveland Play House
Pulitzer Prize Winner and Steinberg Distinguished Playwright, Stephen Adly Guirgis, whose script 'Between Riverside and Crazy,' is now on stage at Cleveland Play House, is noted for writing plays that feature racial discord and the definition of family, while examining 'self-interest, self-delusion,
BWW Preview: 2017 Season is About to Raise the Curtain at the Shaw Festival
Those nice people from the North who are getting ready to create great theater are beaconing people from CLE to be their guests.
BWW Review: A Female HAMLET Brings a Twist to the Play at Great Lakes Theater, Well, Almost . . .
Having been summoned home to Denmark from school in Germany to attend his father's funeral, he is shocked to find his mother Gertrude already remarried to his Uncle Claudius, the dead king's brother, who has declared himself the king, though young Hamlet is the actual heir to the crown.
BWW Review: HARM'S WAY Examines the Underbelly of Humanity at Convergence Continuum
Cleveland is in the midst of 'The Mac Wellman Homecoming Festival,' presented by Playwrights Local, in partnership with Cleveland State University Department of English, the NEOMFA Creative Writing Program, and the Michael Schwartz Library, with performances by Playwrights Local, Theater Ninjas, c
BWW Review: A Tale of Disinterring Bodies Makes For Wild Night of Irish Black Comedy at none too fragile
Partake in the free shot of Jamison, which is the hallmark of the pre-show ritual at none-too-fragile, sit back, and allow yourself to be immersed in an Irish black comedy, complete with skull battering, blunt language and a wee bit of fun.
BWW Review: THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME at Connor-Palace/Cleveland
When the 2016-17 Key Bank Broadway series was announced, I was ecstatic.
BWW Review: Ensemble's 2017 COLOMBI NEW PLAYS FESTIVAL Features OCCUPATION DAD at Ensemble
Ensemble Theatre's 'Playwrights' was established in the early 1990's by Don Bianchi, one of the founders of Dobama, and Park Goist, a professor of American Studies at Case Western Reserve.
BWW Review: 'Honey, Honey,' MAMMA MIA! Makes Yet Another Stop at Cleveland's Connor Palace
Yes, the jukebox musical 'Mamma Mia!' is back in Cleveland.
BWW Review: FLOYD COLLINS Melodramatically Spelunkers Into Eternal Fame at Blank Canvas
'Floyd Collins,' now on stage at Blank Canvas Theatre, isn't your typical musical.
BWW Review: HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE Makes For a Slow Haunting Trip at Cleveland Play House
The mission of the Cleveland Play House is to produce plays that 'inspire stimulate and entertain.
BWW Interview: Nancy Maier and OPEN A NEW WINDOW: THE SONGS OF JERRY HERMAN by The Musical Theater Project
Nancy Maier left New York and a budding career to move to Cleveland.
BWW Review: Compelling THE FLICK Unreels as a Must See Production at Dobama
Annie Baker, who deservedly won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her play The Flick, was perceived by the awarding committee as one of 'the most impressive dramatists of her generation.
BWW Review: I CALL MY BROTHERS Challenges and Confounds at Cleveland Public Theatre
It's no wonder in this age of xenophobia, racial profiling and baiting, irrational interpretation of regulations, police brutality and alternate facts being spewed, that when a car bomb goes off in the center of a large American metropolis, a Muslim young man would become paranoid.
BWW Review: Well Done BARBECUE Lights Up Cleveland Public Theatre
Addiction, whether it's alcohol, drugs, sex, racism, obsessive compulsion or eating, is no funny matter.
BWW Review: Ensemble Hits a Hole-in-One with RADIO GOLF
August Wilson is considered not only one of the greatest of African American playwrights, but of all theatrical writers.
BWW Review: Well-Conceived BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY at Lakeland Civic Theatre
The capsule judgement of my review of the Broadway production of The Bridges of Madison County stated, 'The Bridges of Madison County' is one of those special, intimate, meaningful, well-conceived and performed shows that deserved a longer shelf-life than it is getting.
BWW Review: WAIT UNTIL DARK Underwhelming at Great Lakes Theater
Over the last number of years Great Lakes Theater has cobbled together seasons consisting of Shakespearean classics, musicals and mystery plays.
BWW Review: BRING IT ON: THE MUSICAL at Beck Center For The Arts/Baldwin Wallace University's Musical Theatre Program
Mention Lin-Manuel Miranda and the musical sensation Hamilton comes to mind.
BWW Review: BASKERVILLE A SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY at Cleveland Play House
Ken Ludwig is the crown king of writing modern farcical plays.
BWW Review: DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM, CLEVELAND BALLET, GROUNDWORKS at Ohio Theatre
Founded in 1969, the Dance Theatre of Harlem, which is housed in the Harlem section of New York City, was the first black professional classical ballet company.
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O.A.R. Blossom Music Center (9/11-9/11) |
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Come From Away Renaissance Theatre (3/12-3/21) |
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In the Heights The Youngstown Playhouse (8/28-9/06) |
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The Rocky Horror Show Short North Stage - Garden Theater (10/22-10/31) |
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The Secret Garden Weathervane Playhouse (8/20-9/06) |
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A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum Near West Theatre (4/16-5/02) |
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The Amish Project Western Reserve Playhouse (9/11-9/13) |
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Elijah: Prophet of Fire Ohio Star Theater (5/15-11/05) PHOTOS VIDEOS |