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BWW Reviews: Groundworks Dance Theater Captivates at Cain Park
As the capacity audience was settling in on opening night of Groundworks Dance Theatre's summer concert in Cain Park's Alma Theatre, there was a loud electronic sound stage right.
BWW Reviews: Green Day's AMERICAN IDIOT is A Mixed Bag at Beck
Local theatres each tend to have a niche audience based on the venue's play selection.
BWW Reviews: THE RECKLESS RUTHLESS BRUTAL CHARGE OF IT or THE TRAIN PLAY Confounds at Convergence-Continuum
Liz Duffy Adams, whose play, 'The Reckless Ruthless Brutal Charge Of It, or The Train Play' is now on stage at convergence continuum is noted for being an American abstract writer.
BWW Reviews: Opinions Differ on TRIASSIC PARQ THE MUSICAL AT BLANK CANVAS
As I sat shaking my head in disbelief of what I was seeing and hearing on the Blank Canvas Theatre stage, those around me were howling with uncontrollable laughter.
BWW Reviews: 'Prepare Ye' - Updated Musical Arrangements and Script, 'All for the Best' in Cain Park's GODSPELL
The story goes that in 1970, while attending college in Pittsburgh, John-Michael Tebelak went to church on Easter Sunday.
BWW Reviews: A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC Opens 2015 Season at Porthouse
What do 'West Side Story,' 'Gypsy,' 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,' 'Company,' 'Follies,' 'Sweeney Todd' 'Sunday in the Park with George,' and 'Into the Woods,' all have in common? Yes, they are shows which have music written by Steven Sondheim.
BWW Reviews: Chris Howey Reveals All in the Funny, Often Sad, Always Compelling EXACT CHANGE
In her book, 'Dress Codes: of three girlhoods-my mother's, my father's and mine,' Noelle Howey writes, 'I have a dad who is a woman much like me, but with better legs.
BWW Reviews: Pulitzer Prize winning THE YOUNG MAN FROM ATLANTA at Beck Center
On the surface, Horton Foote's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, THE YOUNG MAN FROM ATLANTA, now in production at Beck Center, tells the tale of the Kidders (Will and Lily Dale), a Houston, Texas couple who, in 1950, take different paths in coping with the death of Bill, their only son.
BWW Reviews: Disappointing DONTRELL, WHO KISSED THE SEA at Cleveland Public Theatre
About fifteen years ago, an African American student on a Semester at Sea around the world educational cruise jumped overboard.
A View of Broadway from the North Coast
New York is about 500 miles from Cleveland.
BWW Reviews: WOLVES, a Supposed Modern Fairy Tale, Frustating at Convergence Continuum
Steve Yockey's WOLVES: AN URBAN FABLE, now on stage at convergence-continuum, centers on three people, Ben and Jack, ex-lovers who still live in the same apartment, and Wolf, a trick that Jack picks up one night at a bar.
BWW Reviews: FAIRFIELD Delights and Challenges Beliefs at CPH
Cleveland Heights School Board member, Eric Coble, has an inside track on understanding the way schools work.
BWW Reviews: BENGAL TIGER - A Mental and Emotional Challenge at Ensemble
In BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO, Cleveland Heights native Rajiv Joseph's, surreal dark play, ghosts roam the streets of Baghdad in 2003.
BWW Reviews: Dobama's SUPERIOR DONUTS, Dessert for Both the Laughers and the Thinkers
Tracy Letts, the author of SUPERIOR DONUTS, now on stage at Dobama, is an accomplished playwright, actor, and screenwriter.
BWW Reviews: Brilliant IN A WORD at Cleveland Public Theatre
What are the feelings of a husband and wife when they want to conceive a child, but can't? What are the ramifications for that childless family when they are given the opportunity to adopt the 'perfect' child? What is it like when that family becomes aware that their child is autistic? How do parent
BWW Reviews: BAD JEWS, Bad Title, Bad Script at Actors' Summit
Shortly into Actors' Summit's production of BAD JEWS, several things become obvious.
BWW Reviews: THE TEMPEST Brews Up a Storm at GLT
William Shakespeare is considered by most experts on English language theatre as being the greatest of all writers.
BWW Reviews: CPH'S VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE Entertains, But...
As the lights came up at the start of Cleveland Play House's VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE, the audience is exposed to a comfortable large morning room, backed up by a piano area, and stairs to an upstairs.
BWW Reviews: KINKY BOOTS will 'Raise You Up' at the Conner Palace Theatre
o resounding applause, Gina Vernaci, the Executive Producer of Playhouse Square, the woman responsible for cobbling together each year's Key Bank Broadway Series, announced at the local KINKY BOOTS' press opening, that Cleveland's 32,000 subscribers constituted the largest body of audience for any o
BWW Reviews: Beck's LEND ME A TENOR - Farce at its Funny Best!
Some people go to the theatre to be educated.
BWW Reviews: Sir Isaac Newton Wonderfully Unmasked at Convergence-continuum
One of the major issues in watching a historidrama is figuring out what is real, what is fiction, and what is fantasy.
BWW Reviews: Plays About Gay Marriage Have a Successful Return Visit to Cleveland Public Theatre
In October of 2012, when Cleveland Public Theatre first staged, STANDING ON CEREMONY THE GAY MARRIAGE PLAYS, 'same sex marriage was legal in nine states (Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont and Washington and the District of Columbia).
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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) |