BWW Review: LINES IN THE DUST - Riveting, Edifying and Upsetting at CPT
In 2011, Kelly Williams-Bolar served a 10-day jail sentence for illegally sending her children to a suburban school outside of her Akron, Ohio district.
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BWW Review: Cain Park's Anti-Pollution THE TOXIC AVENGER Will Delight Many!
There seems to be a trend in the choices theaters are making regarding musicals they produce.
BWW Review: HEATHERS the Musical at Beck Center - Rockin' Music, Teen-aged Angst and Great Choreography!
A teenaged girl snarls at another, 'I know who I'm sitting with at lunch, do you?' Yes, high school can be a time of great angst or hellish glee.
New Theatre, Playwrights Local 4181, to Produce Local Writers' Scripts
Purpose is to develop "a playwrights' center," which means they will "develop plays (and playwrights), produce plays, and otherwise provide our dramatists with a long-needed home.
BWW Review: Must See STEEL MAGNOLIAS Filled With Pathos and Comedy at Allen
STEEL MAGNOLIAS is now in an extended run at the Hanna Theatre, as part of the Key Bank Broadway series.
BWW Review: Blank Canvas's THE WILD PARTY, Not a Musical for Everyone
THE WILD PARTY is a musical by Michael John LaChiusa and George C.
BWW Review: Albee Exorcises his Demons in THREE TALL WOMEN at convergence-continuum
Edward Albee's THREE TALL WOMEN, a version of which is now on stage at convergence-continuum, has quite a pedigree.
BWW Review: Great Lakes Theatre's THE FANTASTICKS is a Pleasant Experience
THE FANTASTICKS, the Tom Jones (book and lyrics) and Harvey Schmidt (music) musical holds the honor of being 'the only Off-Broadway show to have won a Tony.
BWW Review: Insightful, Thought Stimulating WRESTLING JERUSALEM at CPT
Shortly into WRESTLING JERUSALEM, Aaron Davidman's self-written and performed one-man play, now on stage at the newly remodeled James Levin Theatre at Cleveland Public Theatre, Davidman tells a joke.
BWW Review: MATILDA, Not Everything It is Cracked Up To Be at State Theatre
Matilda Wormwood is a precocious five-year old who loves to read and has the ability to perform telekinesis.
BWW Review: Superb THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEEANE at none too fragile
The Irish are a unique brand of people.
BWW Review: Award winning JERUSALEM Misses the Mark at Ensemble
If you go to see JERUSALEM, now on stage at Ensemble Theatre, don't expect it to be about people living in the Israeli city of that name, or of the 2013 film of the same name concerning a group of messianic pilgrims abandoning their native Sweden to emigrate to Palestine.
BWW Review: MARIE ANTOINETTE - History with a Modern Twist and Potential Relevance at Dobama
The subject of David Adjmi's play, MARIE ANTOINETTE, was a delicate beauty, with gray-blue eyes and ash-blond hair, who following the Seven Years War, was used by her scheming mother, Empress Maria Theresa, to cement an alliance between Austria and France by arranging a marriage to Louis-Auguste.
BWW Review: TALLEY'S FOLLY, a Tale of Love Overcoming Prejudices and Uncertainty, at Actors' Summit
Theatre, as do all of the arts, represents the era from which it comes or is written about.
BWW Review: LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST - Lesser Script Done with Extended Farce at Great Lakes Theater
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, a production of which is now on stage at Great Lakes Theater, is one of Shakespeare's earliest plays.
BWW Review: Cleveland Orchestra and Joffrey Ballet Combine for a Thrilling Evening
What happens when you bring together the music of composer Bela Bartok, noted for developing new sounds for a new century, The Cleveland Orchestra under the direction of Franz Welser-Most, and The Joffrey Ballet, under the creative vision of Ashley Wheater, and the sounds of two well-trained opera s
BWW Review: MR. WOLF is Thought-provoking, Dark, Confounding at Cleveland Play House
Over the last several years much attention has been drawn to the abduction of children and, in rare cases, their return.
BWW Review: BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROL KING MUSICAL delight at Conner Palace
King is being portrayed by the very talented Abby Mueller.
BWW Review: Well Written SHINING CITY on Stage at Beck Center
SHINING CITY, Conor McPherson's script now on stage at Beck Center, is a play about people who are in a search for 'self.
BWW Review: BOOTY CANDY Pushes the Envelope at convergence-continuum
Both Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT) and convergence-continuum (con-con) are noted for producing 'on the edge' theatre.
BWW Review: Groundworks Dance Theater Stresses Imagination You Can See at Breen Center
The reconfigured Groundworks Dance Theater, with two new dancers this season, again proved that they are one of the area's premiere dance companies in their presentation of 'Falling Awake,' in its world premiere, and Artistic Director David Shimotakahara's spellbinding, 'Ghost Opera.
BWW Review: Devised SEXCURITY Probes for Sense-of-self and Identity at Cleveland Public Theatre
Native Clevelander Darren Katz and Israeli born, Yuval Boim, have many things in common.
BWW Review: A KID LIKE JAKE Explores the Effects of Heredity and Environment at none too fragile
In their catalog, Dramatists Play Service, which owns the production rights to Daniel Pearle's A KID LIKE JAKE, states, 'On the eve of the admissions cycle for Manhattan's most exclusive private schools, Alex and Greg have high hopes for their son Jake, a precocious four-year old who happens to pref
BWW Review: THE 39 STEPS, British Farcical Fun, at Blank Canvas
What do you do if you are bored? If you are Richard Hannay, the major character in Patrick Barlow's THE 39 STEPS, now on stage at Blank Canvas, you go to the theater to see 'something mindless and trivial.
BWW Review: LUNA GALE Expertly Places the Spotlight on the Child Welfare System at the Cleveland Play House
As revealed in the CPH program: 43 percent of children placed in the child welfare system in Ohio are eventually returned to their families, 24 percent are taken in by relatives ('kinship care'), 15 percent are adopted and 14 percent stay in the system until they become adults.
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The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show The Dinner Detective Cleveland (9/12-9/12) |
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Hairspray Short North Stage - Garden Theater (11/19-12/20) |
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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 |