BWW Review: THE LOUSH SISTERS LOVE DICK'NS: GREAT EXPECTATIONS at Cleveland Public Theatre
It's that time of year when local theatre offerings center on 'peace on earth' and how each of us should be kind and better (e.
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BWW Review: Production Outperforms Script at convergence-continuum
Geoffrey Hoffman, in his directorial notes in the convergence-continuum program for BOB: A LIFE IN FIVE ACTS, states, 'Bob is an everyman .
BWW Review: KRIS KRINGLE THE MUSICAL Gets World Premiere at Olmsted Falls Performing Arts
It's that time of year when local theatres fill their stages with holiday cheer.
BWW Review: Existential AGE OF MAN at Ensemble
Sam Shepard, the author of AGES OF THE MOON, now on stage at Ensemble Theatre, is noted for writing plays that are frank and often absurd.
BWW Feature: There's a Cleveland Atmosphere to Broadway Theatre
Last season over twenty performers with Cleveland area connections played on Broadway.
BWW Review: TALL SKINNY CRUEL CRUEL BOYS - Theater Ninja Offers a Thought-Provoking Scare-Treat
Theater Ninjas, which bills itself as 'the Food Truck of Cleveland Theater' due to its having no permanent home, but relishes its nomadic pattern of trying out 'new and exciting spaces to perform,' is noted for rethinking what theater can be.
BWW Review: Meticulously Written, Directed and Performed THE CALL at Dobama
Tanya Barfield, author of THE CALL, which is now on stage at Dobama Theatre, didn't want to write the play.
BWW Review: What is THE HAPPY SAD at Convergence-Continuum
Tyson Douglas Rand, director of THE HAPPY SAD now in production at convergence-continuum, in his program notes for the show, states, 'What is THE HAPPY SAD? Well.
BWW Review: Farcical BAT BOY THE MUSICAL is a Blood-Sucking 'Hoot' at Blank Canvas
In June 23, 1992, if you believed the supermarket tabloid, 'Weekly World News,' you'd have accepted that a 'large-eyed, fanged human child' was found in a southern West Virginia cave.
BWW Review: Cesear's Forum's THE INVESTIGATION is an Excruciating Personal Experience
As the actors lined up for the curtain call of Cesear's Forum's THE INVESTIGATION, Peter Weiss's play about the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963-65, I was on an emotional trip far, far way.
BWW Review: Memerizing Production of Arthur Miller's THE CRUCIBLE at Cleveland Play House
Arthur Miller, the author of THE CRUCIBLE, which is now in production at the Cleveland Play House's Outcalt Theatre, was one of the most important modern American playwrights.
BWW Review: Shakespeare's Epic Tragedy KING LEAR at GLT is a Moving Experience
In his program notes for Great Lakes Theater's production, director Joseph Hanreddy states, 'KING LEAR, with its titanic range of emotional, vast physical landscape, dark ironic humor and snarl of mysteries, contradictions, ambiguity and paradoxes, render it one of the theater's greatest challenges
BWW Review: Aesthetically Exquisite THE SECRET GARDEN at GLT
Every once in a while a theater-goer is privileged to participate in a staged production that aesthetically enfolds them.
BWW Review: Poignant, Compelling, MOTHERS AND SONS Captivates at Beck
In her directorial notes for the Beck Center's production of Terrance McNally's MOTHERS AND SONS, Sarah May states, 'I was so struck by this play when I saw it on Broadway.
BWW Review: The Theatre of the Absurd...WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF at Lakeland Civic Theatre
Edward Albee, author of WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, now in production at The Lakeland Civic Theatre, is one of the best known Theatre of the Absurd American writers.
BWW Review: Emotionally Draining, Intellectually Satisfying DEATH OF A SALESMAN at Ensemble
Arthur Miller's DEATH OF A SALESMAN, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning drama, now on stage at Ensemble Theatre, is universally recognized as one of, if not the greatest modern American play.
BWW Review: Well-conceived THE SPITFIRE GRILL at Beck Center
Opening night of THE SPITFIRE GRILL was a special evening for the Beck Center for the Arts.
BWW Review: World Premiere of Ken Ludwig's A COMEDY OF TENORS Delights at Cleveland Play House
The Cleveland Play House opened its 100th season in a lavish and theatrically exciting way.
BWW Review: Surprising OR, at Dobama
Dobama Theatre's mission statement indicates that it is its purpose to 'premiere the best contemporary plays by established or emerging playwrights.
The Under-Belly of Politics Well-Explored at Ensemble Theatre/In Memorium: Kyle Jean Baptiste
What could be more appropriate in this year, which leads up to a presidential election, than to examine the political hacks who run the campaigns.
BWW Review: TEAR IT OFF, a Romance Novel Comes Alive at convergence-continuum
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BWW Review: Classic OUR TOWN Gets Nice Traditional Read at Blank Canvas
I consider OUR TOWN, which is now being performed at Blank Canvas, to be one of the greatest plays of the 20th century.
BWW Reviews: Must See HAIRSPRAY Leaves 'em Dancing in the Aisles at Porthouse Theatre
The farcical yet message-loaded 'Hairspray' is the type of musical that in a bad production falls flat, but in a good production leaves the audience energized and dancing in the aisles.
BWW Blog: A Clevelander's View of the Shaw Festival 2015
Jackie Maxwell, the Shaw Festival's Artistic Director, states, 'I have always found that theatre is at its best when the audience spans several generations - a guarantee that the story being told on stage is being taken in and reacted to in a variety of ways, enriching the experience for all.
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Ruthless! The Musical Renaissance Theatre (1/29-2/07) |
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The Fantasticks Theatre in the Circle (9/11-9/13) |
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Rush at Rocket Arena Rocket Arena (9/17-9/18) |
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The Amish Project Western Reserve Playhouse (9/11-9/13) |
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Hairspray Short North Stage - Garden Theater (11/19-12/20) |
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The Rocky Horror Show Short North Stage - Garden Theater (10/22-10/31) |
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The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show The Dinner Detective Cleveland (9/19-9/19) |
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Sweeney Todd Short North Stage - Garden Theater (9/26-10/17) |
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Dear Evan Hansen Short North Stage - Garden Theater (1/23-2/14) |
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Annie Near West Theatre (11/20-12/06) |