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BWW Review: Flawed People Fighting for Connection Appear in Beck's Disappointing BODY AWARENESS
by Roy Berko - October 10, 2016
Annie Baker won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in drama for THE FLICK, a thoughtful drama concerning three employees of an art-house movie theatre.
Photo Flash: First Look at BODY AWARENESS at Beck Center
by BWW News Desk - October 06, 2016
Beck Center for the Arts continues its eclectic 2016-2017 theater season with Body Awareness by Annie Baker, October 7 through November 6, 2016 in the Studio Theater. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
Love, Lust & Literature to Collide in SEX WITH STRANGERS at Cleveland Play House
by BWW News Desk - October 06, 2016
The digital revolution has changed the way that people work, create, and even the way they find love. Laura Eason's smart two-person comedy Sex With Strangers explores the internet's impact on writers Ethan and Olivia, and its effect on them both professionally and personally.
Live Music, Latin Food & 'Best of' Showcase Set for CELEBRANDO THREE YEARS at CPT
by BWW News Desk - October 06, 2016
Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT) Executive Artistic Director Raymond Bobgan has announced the launch of CPT'S 2016-2017 season with the world premiere of the latest original work by the Teatro Publico de Cleveland ensemble, ¡Celebrando Three Years!, to run October 6-8, 2016 in CPT's historic Gordon Square Theatre.
CPT & Teatro Publico de Cleveland to Celebrate Three Years of Original Bilingual Plays
by BWW News Desk - October 06, 2016
Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT) Executive Artistic Director Raymond Bobgan announces the cancellation of The Ghosts of Lote Bravo by Hilary Bettis, which was previously scheduled to premiere at CPT during the 2016-2017 theatrical season. In its place, the theatre will premiere a new work by the Teatro Publico de Cleveland ensemble, ¡Celebrando Three Years!, to run October 6-8, 2016 in CPT's historic Gordon Square Theatre.
Mamaí Theatre Company Announces 2017 Summer Season at Playhouse Square
by BWW News Desk - October 05, 2016
Mamai Theatre Company announces its 2017 summer season will take place in downtown Cleveland at Playhouse Square in the Helen Rosenfeld Lewis Bialosky Lab Theatre. Mamai Board of Directors President David Schiopota states, "The steady and unfaltering work of Co-Artistic Directors Bernadette Clemens and Christine McBurney to fulfill their vision and follow their artistic passions has enthused Northeast Ohio audiences and pushed the bounds of classical theatre in Cleveland. I am elated to announce that Mamai Theatre Company's next season will be presented at Playhouse Square."
Beachwood High School to Celebrate Opening of Auditorium with Concert by The Cleveland Orchestra
by BWW News Desk - October 05, 2016
 On Saturday evening, November 5, 2016, The Cleveland Orchestra will join with Beachwood High School to dedicate the school's newly renovated auditorium and celebrate the school system's outstanding music education programs.  This concert is made possible by the Alfred Lerner In-School Performance Fund, created through a gift to The Cleveland Orchestra's endowment by Mrs. Norma Lerner and the Lerner Foundation.  Tickets for the free concert will be available on the Beachwood Schools website at www.beachwoodschools.org/clevelandorchestra.aspx. 
Cleveland Orchestra's Annual Gala Raises Over A Million Dollars
by BWW News Desk - October 04, 2016
The Cleveland Orchestra today announced that the 2016 Annual Gala held on Saturday, October 1 raised - for the third year in a row - more than a million dollars.  This year's Cleveland Orchestra Gala raised $1,100,000, thanks to the overwhelming generosity of the sponsors, patrons, and long-time supporters. 
Photo Flash: BWW Looks at Great Lakes Theatre's TWELFTH NIGHT
by BWW News Desk - October 03, 2016
Great Lakes Theater (GLT) will commence its 2016-17 season at the Hanna Theatre, Playhouse Square with a Fall Repertory that features the Tony Award-winning musical classic, My Fair Lady and Shakespeare's enchanting romantic comedy, Twelfth Night. The productions will be performed in rotating repertory September 23 - October 30, 2016. Victoria Bussert will direct My Fair Lady. Drew Barr will direct Twelfth Night. My Fair Lady (Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner / Music by Frederick Loewe / Adapted from George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion) is presented by arrangement with TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC.
BWW Review: Eric Coble's Mesmerizing MARGIN OF ERROR Exposes Political Machinations
by Roy Berko - October 03, 2016
The Cleveland area has been and is ripe with playwrights. Mike Geither, David Hansen, Margaret Lynch, Jonathan Wilhelm, Michael Oatman, Eric Schmiedl and Faye Sholiton are only a few of the present-day writers. Historically, Langston Hughes, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee were proud area playwrights. Probably no local scribe has been more prolific than Eric Coble.
Photo Flash: TWELFTH NIGHT at Great Lakes Theater
by BWW News Desk - October 02, 2016
An enchanting romantic comedy, Shakespeare Twelfth Night completes GLT's Fall Repertory pairing. Hope seems lost when a violent shipwreck separates young Viola from her boat and twin brother. However, tragedy quickly turns romantic when she washes ashore in Illyria - an exotic island that is about to be turned topsy-turvy by love. To survive in her strange new world, she disguises herself as a boy messenger and enters the employ of an island inhabitant. Misplaced affections and misunderstood intentions result when she unexpectedly becomes an object of desire to the woman her employer sent her to woo! Time may correct the course of the isle's myriad misguided lovers, but not before the Bard bewitches all in his enchanting comedy.
Cleveland Public Theatre Presents 44 PLAYS FOR 44 PRESIDENTS
by BWW News Desk - September 30, 2016
Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT) is proud to announce the regional premiere of 44 Plays by 44 Presidents, written by Andy Bayiates, Sean Benjamin, Genevra Gallo-Bayiates, Chloe Johnston and Karen Weinberg (of the Neo-Futurists). The CPT production is co-directed by Dan Kilbane and Caitlin Lewins. 44 Plays by 44 Presidents is onstage October 6 through 29th in CPT's James Levin Theatre.
BWW Review: THE WHIPPING MAN Mesmerizes at none too fragile
by Roy Berko - September 30, 2016
THE WHIPPING MAN, which is now on stage at none too fragile theatre, is a tale set at the close of the Civil War in which Caleb DeLeon, a Confederate soldier returns to his Richmond, Virginia, palatial home, now a charred wreckage, to find his family missing and two former slaves, Simon and John, still there in spite of the their now being free men. Caleb is badly wounded. The former slaves take care of him. As the story unfolds, an examination of friendship, faith and the meaning of freedom are revealed as there is a probing of the question asked each year during the Passover Seder, 'Why is this night different from all other nights?'
LIKE I SAY to Open Next Month at convergence-continuum
by BWW News Desk - September 28, 2016
convergence-continuum continues its 2016 Season with the Ohio premiere of Len Jenkin's LIKE I SAY.
Cast Announced for Cleveland Premiere of SILENCE! THE MUSICAL
by BWW News Desk - September 28, 2016
Here is the ultimate - unauthorized - parody of The Silence of the Lambs! In the Academy Award-winning film The Silence of the Lambs, rookie FBI agent Clarice Starling matches wits with the brilliant but insane cannibal, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, to catch the serial killer known only as Buffalo Bill. Clarice must face her own demons and race the clock to unlock Lecter's clues before another innocent girl is killed and skinned by Bill. It's a hair-raising thriller that's kept countless millions on the edges of their seats and permeated the pop lexicon with delightfully creepy quotes like "I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti" and of course "It places the lotion in the basket."
Live Music, Latin Food & 'Best of' Showcase Set for CELEBRANDO THREE YEARS at CPT
by BWW News Desk - September 27, 2016
Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT) Executive Artistic Director Raymond Bobgan has announced the launch of CPT'S 2016-2017 season with the world premiere of the latest original work by the Teatro Publico de Cleveland ensemble, ¡Celebrando Three Years!, to run October 6-8, 2016 in CPT's historic Gordon Square Theatre.
BWW Review: 'Wouldn't it be Loverly' If All Theatre Was As Enchanting at GLT's MY FAIR LADY?
by Roy Berko - September 27, 2016
MY FAIR LADY, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's award winning and universally praised musical, based on George Bernard Shaw's play, PYGMALION, centers on Eliza Doolittle, an uneducated Cockney flower girl who, in an attempt to 'become a proper lady,' takes lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a self-centered egotist.
BWW Review: LBJ Historidrama Compels at Cleveland Play House
by Roy Berko - September 26, 2016
Our nation is in the midst of a national election, and local theatres have responded with a series of plays that examine various foibles and stories of political intrigue. Ensemble is staging former County Commissioner Peter Lawson Jones' THE BLOODLESS JUNGLE (September 15-October 2) about a rising idealistic political star running for a pivotal Congressional seat. The Musical Theater Project is featuring THE CRADLE WILL ROCK (September 21 & September 25), a play about Unionism with political undertones. Cleveland Public Theatre is presenting 44 PLAYS FOR 44 PRESIDENTS (October 6-29), which showcases the life and times of the 44 Presidents of the United States, featuring an all-female cast. And, Cleveland Play House just opened ALL THE WAY (September 17-October 9), a Tony-Award winning drama that examines the power of one person to transform a country.
Cleveland POPS Orchestra Presents 18th Annual Scholarship Competition
by BWW News Desk - September 22, 2016
The Cleveland POPS Orchestra announces the eighteenth annual competition for its Jean L. Petitt Memorial Music Scholarship. This year's competition will be held on Sunday,November 20, 2016, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. at The Cleveland Institute of Music, 11021 East Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio 44106.
Canton Symphony Orchestra Celebrates Prince and David Bowie With THE MUSIC OF BOWIE AND PRINCE
by BWW News Desk - September 21, 2016
David Bowie and Prince are two of the greatest enigmas in pop music history.  Always unique, interesting and creative, their music continues to inspire.  The Canton Symphony Orchestra relives some of their musical moments and presents The Music of Bowie and Prince Thursday, November 10 at 8:00pm at Umstattd Performing Arts Hall (2323 17th Street NW, Canton).  The concert is presented with support from News-Talk 1480 WHBC and Mix 94.1.
The Musical Theater Project to Stage THE CRADLE WILL ROCK in Concert This Fall
by BWW News Desk - September 21, 2016
The Musical Theater Project, Kent State University and Beck Center for the Arts are partnering to produce in concert The Cradle Will Rock - a political fable written by Marc Blitzstein.
Verb Ballets 2016-17 Season Kicks Off 30th Anniversary Company Celebration
by BWW News Desk - September 20, 2016
Verb Ballets, under the direction of Dr. Margaret Carlson, Producing Artistic Director, and Richard Dickinson, MFA, Associate Director, presents dynamic programming for the 2016-17 season through bold artistry, unique style, and technical excellence. Verb Ballets begins its 30th Anniversary Celebration in 2017. The company has an exciting line-up of main-stage performances throughout Northeast Ohio and continues the Ballet Up-Close in-studio series to engage audiences in the creative process.
BWW Review: RUTHLESS!, Farcical Romp at Beck, But . . .
by Roy Berko - September 20, 2016
Adorable eight-year-old girls are supposed to play with dolls, be obsessed with the color pink, and gossip about their friends on a smart phone. Right? Wrong, if you are Tina Denmark. She wants to be a theatrical star. Now! Not later, NOW! (foot stomp!) What will she do to get her dream?

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