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Review: SPEECH AND DEBATE at Convergence-continuum

Review: SPEECH AND DEBATE at Convergence-continuum

by Roy Berko — August 6, 2024

It is entirely appropriate that convergence-continuum, with its tendency of challenging conventional notions by choosing plays because they contain controversial topics, stage Stephen Karam’s SPEECH AND DEBATE, which examines teenage angst as it relates to love, self-acceptance and what happens wh

Review: THE PROM at Chagrin Valley Little Theatre

Review: THE PROM at Chagrin Valley Little Theatre

by Roy Berko — August 5, 2024

In 2010 a gay Mississippi high school student was banned from going to her senior prom by the school’s Board of Education because she wanted to bring her girlfriend as her date.

Review: ANNIE at Porthouse/Kent State University

Review: ANNIE at Porthouse/Kent State University

by Roy Berko — July 24, 2024

Terri Kent, the Artistic Director of Porthouse Theatre, Kent State University’s summer home on the grounds of Blossom Center, states in her program notes for ANNIE: I believe the arts have the power to transform lives and I believe in miracles.

Review: COMPANY at Connor Palace

Review: COMPANY at Connor Palace

by Roy Berko — May 3, 2024

What did our critic think of COMPANY at Connor Palace? Stephen Sondheim is generally considered the most important composer/lyricist of the 20th century American musical theater.

Review: ALWAYS...PATSY CLINE at Great Lakes Theater

Review: ALWAYS...PATSY CLINE at Great Lakes Theater

by Roy Berko — April 29, 2024

Juke box musicals are stage theatrical presentations in which a majority of the compositions were written before the presentation was conceived, rather than being original music conceived for that show.

Review: THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR at GREAT LAKES THEATER

Review: THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR at GREAT LAKES THEATER

by Roy Berko — March 25, 2024

Sir John Falstaff is at it again!  Yes, the chubby delightful bumbler, who was in the Bard’s HENRY IV, Parts 1 and 2, is now lighting up the stage in Great Lakes Theater’s THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, thanks to Elizabeth I.

Review: ORDINARY DAYS at BWU Musical Theatre Program

Review: ORDINARY DAYS at BWU Musical Theatre Program

by Roy Berko — March 19, 2024

What did our critic think of ORDINARY DAYS at BWU Musical Theatre Program In Collaboration With Playhouse Square/Cleveland? Adam Gwon, who wrote the music and lyrics for ORDINARY DAYS, which recently finished its run as part of the Playhouse Square/Baldwin Wallace  annual collaboration, was in a

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