CLEVELAND THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 179

The PlayhouseSquare Community Engagement & Education Department and Oberlin College Department of Theater & Dance are set to present the premiere of the choreopoem "Why I Had to Dance," written by Ntozake Shange and choreographed and directed by Dianne McIntyre, in February.

MEMPHIS, the 2010 Tony® Award Winner for Best Musical, opens at PlayhouseSquare on Tuesday, February 28 for a limited engagement.

CAPSULE JUDGEMENT: SPRING AWAKENING is an emotionally stirring, relevant, and well staged production.

Charles Fee, Producing Artistic Director of Great Lakes Theater (GLT), unveiled a six-production array of classics to headline the company's 2012-13 season.

Max Raabe & Palast Orchester embark on a 2012 U.

CAPSULE JUDGMENT: IN ARABIA WE'D ALL BE KINGS gets an impressive production and is a perfect vehicle to open CPH's new Lab Theatre.

In her 22-year career, comedian Kathleen Madigan has never been hotter! Her Showtime special, "Gone Madigan," is in constant rotation, and its DVD-CD tops the Amazon and iTunes charts.

Fairmount Center for the Arts will welcome celebrated Broadway actress and former Fairmount student, Elena Shaddow, to their upcoming benefit, Discover the Artist Within, on Saturday, March 3, 2012, at John Carroll University's Dolan Center.

Check out what's playing Cleveland and Akron for the month of February!

Beck Teen Theater is set to present Reckless, a satirical comedy by Tony-nominated playwright, Craig Lucas in the Studio Theater, February 24 through March 4, 2012.

Virtuoso saxman Boney James will celebrate the first anniversary of the release of his #1 charted album, Contact, with a return to PlayhouseSquare's intimate Ohio Theatre March 29th at 8 pm.

Television and movie legend William Shatner will bring his one-man show, SHATNER'S WORLD: WE JUST LIVE IN IT (www.

From the moment the house lights dim and the opening chords of 'Aquarius' fill the theatre HAIR is a non-stop, energy-driven force of nature.

The McCoy Center for the Arts (100 W.

Lou Bellamy, Artistic Director of the acclaimed Penumbra Theatre, will direct the Cleveland Play House production of Radio Golf, the Tony Award®-nominated finale of playwright August Wilson's unprecedented ten-play cycle chronicling African-American life in the 20th century.

Ask any actor or stage technician and they'll probably tell you that the real drama of the theatre occurs backstage and not onstage where the audience can see it.

MISS ABIGAIL'S GUIDE TO DATING, MATING, & MARRIAGE is coming to PlayhouseSquare's East 14Th Street Theatre for a limited engagement February 8-12, 2012.

Peking Acrobats are set to appear at PlayhouseSquare's Palace Theatre Sun.

Elmo, Zoe, Abby Cadabby, Telly Monster and Zoe's pet rock Rocco are set for Sesame Street Live "Elmo's Super Heroes" at State Theatre - PlayhouseSquare from Thursday, March 8th through Sunday, March 11th.

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On Friday, January 20, 2012, the hit Off-Broadway comedy MISS ABIGAIL'S GUIDE TO DATING, MATING, AND MARRIAGE! kicks off its first national tour at the Downstairs Cabaret Theatre in Rochester, NY.

Great Lakes Theater, in partnership with WCPN 90.

The 2009 Tony Award Winning Musical Revival HAIR: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, is coming to PlayhouseSquare for a limited engagement January 17-29 as a part of the KeyBank Broadway Series.

Cleveland Play House (CPH) will to produce Jeffrey Hatcher's backstage comedy Ten Chimneys as the inaugural production in the new Second Stage, one of only three fully outfitted, flexible theatres in the nation.

Tickets go on sale today, Friday, Jan.