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I had one of my greatest experiences in the theatre when, on June 30, 1960, I attended the opening of 'Oliver!' at the New Theatre in London, England.

The Stratford Festival of Canada, whose present artistic director is Atoni Cimolino, started on July 13, 1953, when Sir Alec Guiness walked onto a stage located in a large tent and spoke the first lines of what has become the internationally-recognized celebration of theatre.

'Thrilling,' 'exciting' and 'amazing' is how the cast members of Hathaway Brown Theatre Institute's upcoming production of A CHORUS LINE described the time they spent with Broadway veteran Gay Marshall.

Olmsted Performing Arts (OPA) in Olmsted Falls will unleash the split-personality of "Jekyll & Hyde" on the Olmsted Performing Arts Center (OPAC) stage August 1 -3, and 8 - 10.

This week the winner of the Olmsted Performing Arts art contest inspired by "Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical" was announced.

convergence-continuum continues its 2014 Season with the Ohio premiere of Jordan Harrison's darkly-comedic look at the role of artists during wartime.

It probably will come as shock to many to know that when the play, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' a script by Dale Wasserman, based on Kent Kesey's novel of the same name, opened on Broadway in 1963, in spite of a cast that included Kirk Douglas, Gene Wilder, William Daniels, Ed Ames and Joan Te

Czech born Thomas Stoppard is a Jewish British playwright who escaped from his birth country in 1939, just before the Nazi occupation.

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Written by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe HONK! is the story of Ugly, whose odd, gawky looks instantly incite prejudice from his family and neighbors.

Edward Albee's OCCUPANT.

On a November Saturday afternoon in 2007, I anxiously entered the Hilton Theatre in New York.

The Cleveland Orchestra joins the world in mourning the death earlier today of Lorin Maazel, who served as The Cleveland Orchestra's fifth Music Director through a remarkable decade, 1972-82.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's glorious musical, the award-winning SUNSET BOULEVARD, will get a new production at Mercury Summer Stock from today, July 11-26, 2014.

Olmsted Performing Arts (OPA) in Olmsted Falls brings the fun, funny and heartfelt 'Once Upon A Mattress' to the Olmsted Performing Arts Center (OPAC) Youth Stage in July.

Beck Center for the Arts presents The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein, today, July 11 through August 17, 2014 on the Mackey Main Stage.

Part concert, part history lesson, and a lot of rock 'n roll-- that's 'Million Dollar Quartet', now on stage at the Ohio Theatre in PlayhouseSquare.

"My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding" is returning to Actors' Summit Theater, in time for the 9th International Cleveland-Akron Gay Games.

There was 'Star Trek.

The Musical Theater Project and Cleveland Public Theatre will present "I Am What I Am: Gays, Lesbians and the American Musical" on Sunday, August 10, 2014 at 2pm and 7pm.

The Cleveland Orchestra proudly announces its community arts partnership with the 2014 Gay Games, being held this summer in Northeast Ohio.

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Andrew Lloyd Webber's glorious musical, the award-winning SUNSET BOULEVARD, will get a new production at Mercury Summer Stock fromJuly 11-26, 2014.

Altar Boyz introduces a struggling Christian boy band from Greenville, Ohio, who are on the last night of their 'Raise the Praise' U.

Last year's Porthouse production of 'South Pacific' joined the beautiful and gifted Kayce Cummings (Green) as Nellie Forbush with suave and talented Greg Violand as Emile DeBecque, with Terri Kent, the theatre's artistic director.