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BWW Review: ELF THE MUSICAL at Beck Center For The Arts
Each holiday season Beck Center presents a child-centric show. The scripts are the likes of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, THE LITTLE MERMAID, and SHREK. These are selections that have audience involving stories, well-known music and lyrics, show-stoppers, farcical humor or dramatic intrigue, and the opportu...
BWW Review: INTO THE WOODS at Baldwin Wallace Music Theatre Program
INTO THE WOODS is a musical with a book by James Lapine and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
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BWW Review: THE PROM at Cleveland's Playhouse Square
In 2010 a gay Mississippi high school student was banned from coming to her senior prom by the school’s Board of Education because she wanted to bring her girlfriend as her date. She challenged the ruling, which resulted in the cancellation of the prom. The student and the ACLU sued the distri...
BWW Review: AIRNESS at Dobama
Air guitar is a form of dance and movement in which performers pretend to play an imaginary electric guitar. Performances include exaggerated strumming motions and recorded rock music often coupled with loud singing or lip-synching....
BWW Review: WHERE DID WE SIT ON THE BUS? at Cleveland Play House
For the last several years more and more attention has been placed on The Black Lives Matter and Me-Too movements, woke language, microaggression, radical feminism, transgenderism, Critical Race Theory and aggression against Asians. They have become issues for laws, politics, education, media and th...
BWW Review: THE TEMPEST at Great Lakes Theater
THE TEMPEST, now on stage at Great Lakes Theatre, is thought to be Shakespeare's last known play. The script almost defies classification as it contains both tragic and comic themes, as well as romance. It explores many themes, including magic, betrayal, revenge, and family....
BWW Review: NEW BEGINNINGS (CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA) at Jack, Joseph And Morton Mandel Concert Hall
The return to a live performance program, 'New Beginnings,' staged on October 14 and 17, just reinforced the orchestra's masterful sound and ability to captivate an audience....
BWW Review: MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM at Karamu
Written in 1982, the play is set in a recording studio in Chicago in 1920. It deals with issues of race, the attitudes of Blacks regarding Whites, religion, and the historic exploitation of Black recording artists by white producers....
BWW Review: THE EXONERATED at Beck Center For The Arts
The death penalty carries the inherent risk of executing an innocent person....
BWW Review: THE LION KING at Key Bank State Theatre/Playouse Square
THE LION KING, whose North American touring company, which recently opened in CLE's Playhouse Square's Key Bank State Theatre, has an enviable record. It is the third longest running show in Broadway history, clocking a little over 9,300 curtain raisers. Only THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (12,370) and th...
BWW Review: BROADWAY BOUND at Beck Center For The Arts
A native New Yorker, Neil Simon is recognized as Broadway's King of Comedy. Following his very successful 1961 production of COME BLOW YOUR HORN, Simon's name on a script basically meant instant box office sell-outs during the era from 1960-1980, the Great White Way's era of comic plays....
BWW Review: OLIVER PARKER! at Convergence-continuum
Clyde Simon, the artistic director and one-man-band who founded convergence-continuum, CLE's Tremont-housed theatre, has an affinity for choosing challenging shows. Scripts that no other local performance venue will stage....
BWW Review: THIS GIRL LAUGHS, THIS GIRL CRIES, THIS GIRL DOES NOTHING at BECK CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Finegan Kruckemeyer, the author of THIS GIRL LAUGHS, THIS GIRL CRIES, THIS GIRL DOES NOTHING, now on stage at Beck Center for the Arts, was born in Ireland and has lived much of his life in Tasmania, an island state of Australia....
BWW Review: THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK at Blossom Center
As I was walking into the pavilion at Blossom Music Center, the woman in front of me kept stopping to take pictures on her I-phone. She stopped, turned around smiled and said, 'Sorry, I'm from New Orleans. My husband and I are on a trip to see various outdoor music venues. This is the most beautiful...
BWW Review: AMELIE at Mercury Theatre
Amélie, which is now on stage at Mercury Theatre, is a musical is based on the romantic comedy film of the same name....
BWW Review: BROOKLYN, THE MUSICAL at Porthouse/Kent State
BROOKLYN, THE MUSICAL, now being staged at Porthouse Theatre, on the grounds of Blossom Center, premiered on Broadway in October, 2004 and ran for 284 performances. Though the run wasn't long, and many of the reviews found the script 'trite and non-realistic,' it did accumulate a solid cult followin...
BWW Review: DIRECTOR'S CHOICE: VERB BALLET at Breen Center For The Arts
Friday, June 26, after a Covid-induced period of Zoom-only dance recitals, Cleveland's 'classical ballet with a dash of American modern dance' company, joined the world of the living with a performance of three pleasing pieces, at the Breen Center.
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BWW Review: QUILTERS proves to be a pleasant way to bring back live theater to Porthouse
The weather forecast was for storms, possibly a tornado. The actress scheduled to play the lead role wasn't going to perform. Cars stood at odd angels blocking spaces in the parking lot. But, in reality, none of this mattered. Opening night for Quilters, the first show after a year of theatrical dar...
BWW Review: THE CHOIR OF MAN at Mimi Ohio
Walking into the Mimi Ohio theatre for The Choir of Men was almost a surreal experience. After receiving my tickets, based on the self-imposed over year-long Covid lockup, my mind was bouncing. Do I wear a mask? How close will others be in the auditorium? Do I greet people by shaking hands, hugging,...
BWW Review: ORDINARY DAYS at CASSIDY THEATRE
In these days of angst, many theaters have attempted to stream various types of entertainment. The formats have been mostly musical reviews, with a few scripted musicals being attempted.
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BWW Review: CALL ME ELIZABETH at Youngstown Playhouse
Call Me Elizabeth, which was recently streamed by Youngstown Playhouse, is a solo performance piece about the early life of Elizabeth Taylor. It was written by Kayla Boye and is set in May 1961.
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BWW Review: BECK CENTER BROADWAY ALUMS IN CONCERT at Beck Center For The Arts/on-line
Beck's stream is a total must see!...
BWW Review: GOING SOLO at Verb Ballets
VERB BALLETS BRIGHTENS THE PANDEMIC WITH AN IMPRESSIVE DISPLAY OF 'GOING SOLO'...
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La Malasangre ( Bad Blood) LatinUs Theater Compay (5/22-6/07) |
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Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer Richie Furay bringing the hits to The Kent Stage July 16th The Kent Stage (7/16-7/16) |
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A Taste of Ireland - The Irish Music and Dance Sensation Goodyear Theater (6/20-6/20) |
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Speech & Debate Beck Center for the Arts (5/29-6/28) |
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The Wizard of Oz Cassidy Theatre (10/06-10/25) |
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Speech & Debate Studio Theater (5/29-6/28) |
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Kassandra Babel Box Theater (5/08-6/06) |
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The Fray & Dashboard Confessional Jacobs Pavilion (8/12-8/12) |
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Walk On: The Power of Carousel Cleveland Museum of Art, Gartner Auditorium (6/14-6/14) |
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A BEAUTIFUL NOISE The Stranahan Theater (6/16-6/21) |
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