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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. 

Great Lakes Theater (GLT) has kicked off the second half of its 62nd season with the world-famous mystery Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express. Check out production photos here!

Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT) has announced the return of its quintessential play development series, Test Flight, back with four up-and-coming Northeast Ohio playwrights. Learn more here!

DANCECleveland and the National Center for Choreography-Akron collaborate to support Hélène Simoneau Danse (HSD) in March. Free public events include a master class and work-in-progress showing, as well as a creative residency and guest classes for The University of Akron dance students.

Dobama Theatre's 2023/24 mainstage season continues with the Regional Premiere of SOMETHING CLEAN this March. Performances run March 8-30, 2024. Learn more about the show here!

Beck Center for the Arts, one of the oldest continuously running Youth Theater programs in the nation is proud to announce the Mean Girls High School Version during the 75th Youth Theater Season.

Cleveland Public Theatre will present the USA debut of Hanoch Levin's REQUIEM, directed by Raymond Bobgan. The play will run from March 14 to April 6, featuring a diverse cast led by Peter Lawson Jones. Learn more here!

Lisa Langford, the author of THE BREAKFAST AT THE BOOKSTORE, which is getting its world premiere at Karamu, the nation’s oldest African American theater, is a Cleveland based actress and playwright.  

Cello student Karim Maggio wins the 2024 Presser Foundation Undergraduate Scholar Award.

The 2022 Olivier Award-winning Best New Musical, BACK TO THE FUTURE: The Musical will come to Cleveland as part of the 2023-24 KeyBank Broadway Series at Playhouse Square.

Gerardo Teissonnière and Alexander Kobrin are set to headline CIM's new Young Artist Piano Seminar. Stay tuned for this exciting event!

Great Lakes Theater has unveiled their 2024-25 Season at Hanna Theatre.

Monica is a native Puerto Rican pediatrician who graduated from San Juan Bautista School of Medicine in 1996 and finished her pediatric residency in 2000. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in genetic epidemiology at Case Western Reserve.

NCCAkron and The University of Akron School of Dance, Theatre, and Arts Administration announce the fifth year of 21st Century Dance Practices, a capsule series of classes taught by working dance artists.

Playhouse Square has announced Karamu House as its first “affiliate company,” a designation for established, professional Northeast Ohio arts organizations that are significant to our cultural life and have a relationship with Playhouse Square.

Beck Center for the Arts will display artwork by local artists. The Portrait Show is a free visual arts exhibition on view in Beck Center's main building now until February 26, 2024.

An enduring partnership between CIM and the Asheville Symphony Orchestra has resulted in a major career break for a current student. 

Dobama Theatre has announced the launch of a new community engagement initiative - the FULL CIRCLE program. This new venture connects members of communities represented in the scripts Dobama produces to both artists during the rehearsal process and to patrons through audience engagement offerings.

What did our critic think of AT THE WAKE OF A DEAD DRAG QUEEN at Dobama? Dobama bills itself as the area’s Off-Broadway theatre.  It is “dedicated to premiering important new plays by established and emerging playwrights in professional productions of the highest quality.

Beck Center for the Arts displays the artistic work of local artists, including those created by the namesake of the institution. Watercolor Paintings by Kenneth C.

Beck Center for the Arts invites the public to a free Eclipse event on the Lakewood, Ohio campus on Monday, April 8, 2024 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Ohio Contemporary Ballet presents, Cleveland Inspirations, a program on February 10, 2024, at the Breen Center for the Performing Arts featuring two world premieres based on local Cleveland history plus the last chance to see Gerald Arpino’s, Celebration. Robert Gardner has re-imagined Bacchanale, a work made famous by the great ballerina, Anna Pavlova.

The Cleveland Orchestra presented its 2024 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Service in the Arts Awards on Sunday. Learn more about the honorees here!

Broadwayworld Cleveland's Roy Berko recognizes each year local theaters, performances, writers, performers and technicians of plays staged by area professional theaters during the January 1-December 31 year. 

Playhouse Square announced that single tickets for the upcoming engagements of ANNIE and STOMP will go on sale Friday, January 12th.