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BWW Reviews: PILOBOLUS - Dance Cleveland's Gift to Area's Aficionados
PILOBOLUS is noted for adding both physical and theatrical elements to dance presentations. They have been credited, in their 44 years of performances, to have added a new way for audiences to look at dance....
BWW Reviews: Ensemble's THURGOOD is a Perfect Black History Month Treat
Thurgood Marshall has been called the 'greatest lawyer of the 20th Century,' 'Mr. Civil Rights,' and is credited with doing 'more than any other American to lift the burden of racism from our society.' It is only appropriate that his life and judicial story be told during Black History month. Ensemb...
BWW Reviews: FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE, STORY LIGHT, Musically Big at Cleveland Play House
Cleveland Play House has in its recent history included small cast musicals in its offerings. Those shows included TAPPIN' THROUGH LIFE (Maurice Hines), BREATH AND IMAGINATION (Roland Hayes), WOODY SEZ; LIFE AND MUSIC OF WOODY GUTHRIE (Woody Guthrie), THE DEVIL'S MUSIC: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BESSIE ...
BWW Reviews: JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE Helps Celebrate 100th Anniversary of Karamu
On June 15, 2015, Karamu, the country's oldest continuously performing Black Theatre, will celebrate its 100th birthday....
BWW Reviews: Compelling, Well-written, Well-acted SLOWGIRL at Dobama
On the surface, Greg Pierce's SLOWGIRL, which is now on stage at Dobama, is the tale of a teenager who finds herself living a real-life nightmare and her confronting the issues with her reclusive uncle, who has problems of his own....
BWW Reviews: Must See, Thought Provoking, Entertaining EINSTEIN, at Actors' Summit
Brian Zoldessy, one of the area's most awarded actors, seems to be making a career of bringing real people to life. He was Ned Weeks, the AIDS activist in Ensemble's THE NORMAL HEART, Sigmund Freud, the recognized father of Psychoanalysis in Actors' Summit's FREUD'S LAST SESSION, and now he's reinca...
BWW Reviews: Funky, Fun, HIGH FIDELITY, A MUSICAL at Blank Canvas
Pat Ciamacco, artistic director at Blank Canvas, has a 'thing' for off-beat musicals. Sure, he produced 'Hair' and 'Godspell,' but it's more likely that what you'll see mounted on his stage are 'Beach Blanket Party,' 'Debbie Does Dallas,' and 'Texas Chainsaw Musical.' I'm surprised he's missed out o...
BWW Reviews: MARY POPPINS Continues the Happy Holiday Tradition at Beck
Like retail stores, local theatres realize that they need a big December holiday season to make enough profits to sustain themselves for rest of the year....
BWW Reviews: CPT's AMERICAN FALLS is an Existentialist Tale of Hearing and Destruction
The existentialists ask, 'What does it mean to exist? What is our purpose in being?' 'American Falls,' Miki Johnson's drama which showcases eight people living in a small town-six alive, two dead-is an existentialist exercise....
BWW Reviews: A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS - A Massive and Impressive Undertaking at Dobama
Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel is noted for crafting play scripts which impact directly on the lives of people. A review of her works illustrates that she writes about issues that need to be expressed (AIDS, sexual abuse, prostitution, degradation of the individual), she favors writing about emot...
BWW Reviews: It's That Time of Year - Irving Berlin's WHITE CHRISTMAS at State Theatre
The holiday season is upon us. Many local theatres are geared to make your days merry and bright. Curtains have or will shortly go up on the likes of 'A Christmas Carol,' 'A Christmas Story,' and 'Santaland Diaries.' Even The Key Bank Broadway series is ringing in the season with a holiday musical, ...
BWW Reviews: Farcical HOUNDS OF BASKERVILLES at Actors' Summit
There's a moor, a diabolical hound, a maiden, a man who dies of a heart attack (well, maybe), a butler who carries around a tray of plastic food and wears an obvious fake beard, an attempt to perform CPR on an obvious stuffed dummy, men in a sauna wearing towels over their suits, men dressed as wome...
BWW Reviews: THE NUTCRACKER - Orchestra and Chorus Superb, Short Version and Dancing Proficient
From 1981 until about 2000, Cleveland audiences were enchanted with Dennis Nahat, the then artistic-director of Cleveland Ballet, later the Cleveland San Jose Ballet' s version of 'The Nutcracker.' Often starring the wunderkinds of the company, Karen Gabay and Raymond Rodriguez, the production was f...
BWW Reviews: TERMINUS - A Play Which Indulges the Author's Inner 16-Year-Old Self Compels at Convergence-Continuum
'The story is told in verse, densely packed with rhyme, which has to be spoken so that it sounds like natural language.' 'Much of the play concerns a battle between angels and demons.' 'There is little action in the play, just a series of monologues.' The descriptions are vivid, 'fingernails pierce ...
BWW Reviews: A CHORUS LINE is 'One Singular Sensation at Baldwin Wallace University
Baldwin Wallace is a powerhouse in providing talent to the Broadway stage. In the past year, over a dozen of the program's grads have listed, 'a proud graduate of Baldwin Wallace' in their Great White Way 'Playbill' resumes....
BWW Reviews: A Clevelander's View on Some Broadway, Fall, 2014 Productions
New York City is approximately 500 miles from Cleveland. People from the North Coast often make the trek there to partake in the shopping, dining, but most often, the theatre. In order to keep the locals abreast of the Great White Ways offerings, I review some of the shows. Here is a sampling of wha...
BWW Reviews: THE NORWEGIANS - An Extremely Odd Comedy at Dobama
C. Denby Swanson's 'The Norwegians,' now on stage at Dobama Theatre, centers on Tor and Gus, two Minnesota Norwegians, who are hit men who offer to 'whack' individuals who have 'done others wrong.' Olive, a former Texan, has been mistreated by her boyfriend. She meets Betty, who has hired Tor and Gu...
BWW Reviews: Enjoyable MAKING GOD LAUGH at Actor's Summit
Families can be interesting to observe. Take for example, the family who is the subject of Sean Grennan's 'Making God Laugh,' the 125th main stage production of Actors' Summit....
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BWW Reviews: Delightful [title of show] at Beck Center for the Arts
Truth, well maybe the truth, can be stranger than fiction. According to the show, itself, the musical '[title of show],' yes, that's the title of the show, which is now appearing on stage at Beck Center's Studio Theater, was conceived when one of the script's authors received an announcement about a...
BWW Reviews: Impressive, Must-See LES MIZ at Great Lakes Theater
'LES MISERABLES' is a classic historical novel by Victor Hugo. It is probably one of the most noted literary pieces of the 19th century. 'LES MISERABLES,' Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel's musical adaptation of the novel has become an epic of the musical theatre stage....
BWW Reviews: 'Cool' MOTOWN THE MUSICAL Rocks the State Theatre
The State Theatre in PlayhouseSquare is rocking. Rocking with sounds of the likes of Diana Ross, The Supremes, The Jackson Five, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. Rocking with a full orchestra, a visually stimulating electronically enhanced production, and the story of Berry Gordy....
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PARADE Weathervane Playhouse, Akron (6/18-7/19) |
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The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show The Dinner Detective Cleveland (6/13-6/13) |
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Dr. Seuss'' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical Palace Theatre Columbus (12/08-12/13) |
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Little Feat Bringing Their 'The Last Farewell Tour' To Goodyear Theater On November 9th Goodyear Theater (11/09-11/09) |
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Sweeney Todd Short North Stage - Garden Theater (9/26-10/17) |
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The Light by Loy A. Webb Soft Belly Theatre (6/17-6/19) |
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A BEAUTIFUL NOISE The Stranahan Theater (6/16-6/21) |
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Mean Girls Beck Center for the Arts (7/10-8/09) |
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Cassidy Theatre (8/07-8/23) |
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