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Holy Mother of BINGO!
Holy Mother of BINGO!
12/12 - 12/20/2025


Fridays, December 12 & 19, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. Saturdays, December 13 & 20, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. Sundays, December 14 & 21, 2025 at ...

SpongeBob Squarepants
SpongeBob Squarepants
12/5 - 1/4/2026


All Aboard! From December 5th, 2025- January 4th, 2026, join us under the sea for a bold and bright adventure! Whether you're a lifelong fan ...

The SpongeBob Musical
12/5 - 1/4/2026


The SpongeBob Musical is set to delight audiences at Beck Center for the Arts from December 5, 2025, to January 4, 2026. This vibrant production ...

Spring Awakening
Spring Awakening
2/13 - 3/1/2026


In collaboration with Oberlin College & Conservatory Music Theater Program. Don't miss out- come see what everyone will be talking about! ...

James and the Giant Peach
James and the Giant Peach
3/20 - 3/29/2026


Fridays, March 20 & 27, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. Saturdays, March 21 & 28, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. Sundays, March 22 & 29, 2026 at ...

James and the Giant Peach
James and the Giant Peach
3/20 - 3/29/2026


Fridays, May 1 & 8, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. Saturdays, May 2 & 9, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. Sundays, May 3 & 10, 2026 at ...

Two Trains Running
Two Trains Running
2/27 - 3/29/2026


August Wilson’s Two Trains Running takes us to 1969 Pittsburgh, inside a small diner that’s seen better days — much like the neighborhood around it. ...

Speech & Debate
Speech & Debate
5/29 - 6/28/2026


Speech & Debate is a sharp, funny, and heartfelt musical about three high school misfits who team up to expose the truth, find their voices, ...

Mean Girls
Mean Girls
7/10 - 8/9/2026


Step into the world of Mean Girls the Musical , where humor meets heartfelt moments in a story about friendship, identity, and the challenges of high ...



Beck Center For The Arts Will Present ART TREASURES 2025 November 8– December 27


by A.A. Cristi - October 29, 2025

Beck Center for the Arts will present Art Treasures 2025 November 8–December 27 in Lakewood, OH. The annual holiday art exhibition and sale features paintings, jewelry, photography, sculpture, and more by local Northeast Ohio artists....

MJ THE MUSICAL Star Tavon Olds-Sample Lands Lead Role in SHADOW DANCE Film


by Josh Sharpe - October 09, 2025

Tavon Olds-Sample, who is currently playing the 'middle' Michael Jackson in Broadway's MJ: The Musical, is set to star as an aspiring young dancer in the new coming-of-age feature film Shadow Dance....

MJ THE MUSICAL Star Tavon Olds-Sample Lands Lead Role in SHADOW DANCE Film


by Josh Sharpe - October 09, 2025

Tavon Olds-Sample, who is currently playing the 'middle' Michael Jackson in Broadway's MJ: The Musical, is set to star as an aspiring young dancer in the new coming-of-age feature film Shadow Dance....

THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL is Coming to Beck Center for the Arts


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 08, 2025

Beck Center for the Arts will present intergenerational experience that is fun for all, The SpongeBob Musical. Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets here. ...

Beck Center For The Arts to Present Cultural Heritage Exhibition: Tracey Lind and Danté Rodriguez


by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 10, 2025

Beck Center for the Arts will present Cultural Heritage Exhibition 2025: Tracey Lind and Danté Rodriguez. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets to the event. ...

Beck Center For The Arts Hosts Rita Elswick: Photography Exhibition


by Stephi Wild - September 02, 2025

Beck Center for the Arts will present Rita Elswick: Photography Exhibition, featuring this local artist’s framed photographs, prints, and cards. Learn more about the event here!...

Beck Center For The Arts To Present ANDY WARHOL IN IRAN This Fall


by A.A. Cristi - August 27, 2025

Beck Center for the Arts will present Brent Askari’s Andy Warhol in Iran October 3–November 2, 2025, directed by Sarah May. The play imagines Warhol’s 1976 trip to Tehran, where he encounters a young revolutionary in a gripping mix of comedy, thriller, and political drama....

JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH, ALICE BY HEART and More Set for Beck Center For The Arts 2025–2026 Youth Theater Season


by A.A. Cristi - August 19, 2025

Beck Center for the Arts has announced its 2025–2026 Youth Theater Season. The lineup features four productions that highlight comedy, mystery, fantasy, and poignant storytelling, offering opportunities for students and entertainment for audiences of all ages....

Tom and Cindy Einhouse Honored At Beck Center 2025 Spotlight Gala Fundraiser


by A.A. Cristi - July 03, 2025

Beck Center for the Arts' Spotlight Gala theme, “A Standing Ovation: Celebrating Vision & Impact” celebrates Tom and Cindy Einhouse, and their outstanding legacy of leadership in the arts in Northeast Ohio....

A CHORUS LINE Comes to Beck Center Next Month


by Stephi Wild - June 12, 2025

Beck Center for the Arts will present A Chorus Line next month. A Chorus Line is THE 1975 musical, with music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban, book by James Kirkwood, Jr., and Nicholas Dante....

Past Shows


The Spotlight Gala at Beck Center for the Arts honors Tom and Cindy Einhouse for their significant contributions to the arts in Northeast Ohio. This ...

Bringing Down the House
Bringing Down the House
10/24 - 10/26/2025


Jules, Sydney, and Elliot have some big dreams.  An up-and-coming musical team, they’ve rented a creaky old theater for six weeks to mount a production of ...

BETWEEN THE LINES
5/2 - 5/11/2025


Between the Lines is a new musical inspired by the novel by Jodi Picoult and her daughter Samantha van Leer, focusing on an outsider named ...

THE TEMPEST
2/28 - 3/9/2025


The Tempest, Shakespeare’s final work, tells the story of Prospero and his daughter Miranda, who have been stranded on an enchanted island due to exile. ...

CHANNELING GRIMM
12/13 - 12/22/2024


CHANNELING GRIMM is a playful adaptation of the classic fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, written by Tracy Wells and directed by Rachel Spence. When ...


The Cultural Heritage Exhibition & Experience 2024 at Beck Center for the Arts showcases a diverse array of local visual artists. Featured talents include Augusto ...


In a whimsical gathering of supernatural beings, The Monster Bash of Dreadstone Manor invites audiences into a world where monsters come together every hundred years ...

The Sunshine Boys
9/12 - 10/6/2024


Beck Center for the Arts presents Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys, a comedic exploration of two former vaudevillians, Al and Willie, who have not spoken ...

Beautiful, the Carole King Musical


A Tony and Grammy Award Winner, this nostalgic yet fresh musical tells the story of the early life and career of Carole King, using songs ...

A Doll's House, Part 2
A Doll's House, Part 2
5/31 - 6/30/2024


This Tony Award Nominee for Best Play 2017 picks up fifteen years after Nora Helmer slammed the door on her stifling domestic life, but now ...

Jitney
Jitney
4/5 - 5/5/2024


Written in 1979, first produced in 1982, this play was set, and produced in Pittsburgh, PA. When Playwright Wilson took his mother to see that ...

Ride the Cyclone
Ride the Cyclone
2/9 - 2/25/2024


In this spooky, hilariously outlandish story, the lives of six teenagers from a Canadian chamber choir are cut short in a freak accident aboard a ...

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat


The irresistible family-friendly musical about family! Go on the journey of the trials and triumphs of Joseph, the favorite son of Israel. If only his ...

Cat's-Paw
Cat's-Paw
9/22 - 10/22/2023


In this tight drama, a political thriller with intel reminiscent a Tom Clancy novel, an unusual terrorist (who is brilliant….and oh, so correct) is the ...

Ghost the Musical
Ghost the Musical
2/10 - 2/26/2023


Sam and Molly are lovers, and when Sam dies he becomes caught between our world and what lies next. Molly is in danger and Sam ...

Elf the Musial
Elf the Musial
12/2 - 12/30/2022


Based on the beloved holiday film, this hilarious big-elf-living-in-a-small world comedy follows Buddy the Elf in his quest to find his true identity in a ...

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever


Join us for this delightful comedy based on the best-selling young-adult book. Beth’s inexperienced mother is put in charge of the church’s Christmas pageant, when ...

Buyer & Cellar
Buyer & Cellar
9/9 - 10/9/2022


Barbra Streisand to Harpers Bazaar, Instead of just storing my things in the basement, I can make a street of shops and display them. Taking ...

Something Rotten!
Something Rotten!
7/8 - 8/7/2022


Set in 1595 the story of two brothers, who just happen to be the nemeses of a little known Mr. William Shakespeare, are desperate to ...

The Legend of Georgia McBride


Hes young, he's broke, his landlord's knocking at the door, and he's just found out his wife is pregnant. To make matters even more desperate, ...

Bugsy Malone
Bugsy Malone
5/6 - 5/15/2022


Based on the hit 1976 film, and featuring a catchy, swinging score by the composer of The Muppet Movie, Bugsy Malone is good, clean, comedic ...

Meteor Shower
Meteor Shower
4/1 - 5/1/2022


Written by Steve Martin, (yes, that Steve Martin.), this wild and crazy play pulls back the curtain on two married couples and the extreme transformation ...

High School Musical
High School Musical
3/18 - 3/27/2022


Disney Channels smash hit movie musical comes to life on our stage! Troy, Gabriella, and the students of East High must deal with issues of ...

Lizzie the Musical
Lizzie the Musical
2/4 - 2/27/2022


This international sensation took the world by storm in over 60 cities in six countries in five languages across four continents before the pandemic took ...

Elf the Musical
Elf the Musical
12/3 - 1/2/2022


Based on the beloved holiday film, this hilarious big-elf-living-in-a-small world comedy follows Buddy the Elf in his quest to find his true identity in a ...

THE REAL VALKYRIES OF VALHALLA
THE REAL VALKYRIES OF VALHALLA
12/10 - 12/19/2021


Join us for this action-packed comedy based on Norse Mythology. Odin, Loki, Thor and other marvel-ous characters tell their origin stories through humor, battles, and ...

The Exonerated
The Exonerated
10/8 - 11/7/2021


This docu-drama recounts first-person narratives in dramatic form through the legal records of six wrongly convicted inmates. The accounts of these falsely-accused former convicts explore ...

The Exonerated
The Exonerated
10/8 - 11/7/2021


This docu-drama recounts first-person narratives in dramatic form through the legal records of six wrongly convicted inmates. The accounts of these falsely-accused former convicts explore ...

Little Tech Shop of Horrors: WHEN GOOD SCIENCE GOES BAD


In this hilarious parody of Little Shop of Horrors, the students of The Mushkin Technical Academy have to deal with the same problems as any ...

Broadway Bound
Broadway Bound
9/10 - 10/3/2021


The final play in Simon's semi-autobiographical trilogy (Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues), Broadway Bound continues Eugene and Stanley's brotherly journey as they discover and ...

Broadway Bound
Broadway Bound
9/10 - 10/3/2021


Broadway Bound Playwright: Neil SimonDirector: William Roudebush Featuring Broadway legend Austin Pendleton as BenKate--- Susan Stein Ben---Austin Pendleton (AEA)Eugene---Zach Palumbo Stan---Daniel Telford Blanche---Anne McEvoy Jack---Alan ...

The Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing


This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing reminds us we are all born of flesh and made of dreams. Finegan Kruckemeyer brings ...

Beck Broadway Alums in Concert


Beck Center has a sterling reputation of cultivating talented performers who go on to success in hit Broadway shows and associated tours; making their mark ...

Beck Broadway Alums in Concert


Beck Center has a sterling reputation of cultivating talented performers who go on to success in hit Broadway shows and associated tours; making their mark ...

5x15: Five World Premiere 15-Minute Musicals


The tenth collaborative partnership of Baldwin Wallace University Music Theatre Program and Beck Center for the Arts brings you the winners of National Alliance for ...

5x15: Five World Premiere 15-Minute Musicals


The tenth collaborative partnership of Baldwin Wallace University Music Theatre Program and Beck Center for the Arts brings you the winners of National Alliance for ...

James and the Giant Peach
James and the Giant Peach
5/8 - 5/17/2020


When James finds himself magically transported into a gigantic peach, he discovers human-sized insects with equally oversized personalities! Thanks to James' quick wit and creative ...

King Lear
King Lear
5/31 - 6/30/2019


In William Shakespeare's royal-family tragedy, the aging King Lear divides his estate between his three daughters, ultimately refusing his youngest and favorite her share because ...

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill


Nicknamed Lady Day by saxophonist Lester Young, Billie Holiday was one of the greatest jazz voices of all time. The award-winning Lady Day at Emersons ...

Once
Once
2/8 - 2/24/2019


A testament to the transcendent power of love and music takes center stage with Beck Centers eighth annual collaboration with the esteemed Baldwin Wallace University ...

Shrek The Musical
Shrek The Musical
12/7 - 1/6/2019


Based on the smash-hit DreamWorks Animation film, Shrek The Musical is a Tony Award®-winning fairy tale adventure. "Once upon a time, there was a little ...

An Act of God
An Act of God
9/14 - 10/7/2018


Written by 13-time Emmy Award® winner David Javerbaum (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart), this exceptionally witty comedy delivers a new meaning to the phrase ...

Gypsy
Gypsy
7/6 - 8/12/2018


“Broadway’s own brassy, unlikely answer to King Lear.” – Variety Winner of multiple Tony, Grammy, and Drama Desk Awards for both the original production and ...

Bent
Bent
6/1 - 7/1/2018


The influential play Bent follows a group of gay men finding ways to survive persecution before and after the Night of the Long Knives. Within ...

Hair
Hair
2/9 - 2/25/2018


Beck Center and Baldwin Wallace University Music Theatre Program collaborate for the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking musical that introduced rock and roll to Broadway. ...

Disney's The Little Mermaid
Disney's The Little Mermaid
12/1 - 12/31/2017


Join us under the sea...again! Beck Center's award-winning production returns for another holiday season filled with family, magic, and more. Perfect for all ages, this ...

Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot
10/6 - 11/5/2017


Waiting for Godot is a tragic comedy in which Samuel Beckett explores the futility of man's hope. Two wandering vagrants wait in the middle of ...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest


One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, based on the novel by Ken Kesey, tells the story of institutional madness where obedience and conformity are the ...

Bring It On The Musical
Bring It On The Musical
2/10 - 2/26/2017


Beck Center and Baldwin Wallace Music Theatre Program team up in 2017 with Bring It On The Musical, the 2013 Tony Award nominee for Best ...

Disney's The Little Mermaid
Disney's The Little Mermaid
12/2 - 12/31/2016


Based on the classic fairy tale and film, The Little Mermaid begins under the sea where Princess Ariel is fascinated by the forbidden land above. ...

Body Awareness
Body Awareness
10/7 - 11/6/2016


It's Body Awareness week and Phyllis along with her partner, Joyce, are hosting a guest artist in their home. Their family is quickly divided as ...

Ruthless!
Ruthless!
9/16 - 10/16/2016


Ruthless! is a campy cult favorite about Tina Denmark, the greatest song-and-dance sensation to ever hit the third grade. When her school holds auditions for ...

Shining City
Shining City
4/1 - 5/1/2016


Shining City is a psychological thriller set in Dublin. The story follows a guilt-ridden man who reaches out to his therapist after seeing the ghost ...

In the Heights
In the Heights
2/12 - 2/28/2016


Before HAMILTON, there was IN THE HEIGHTS! This original musical comes from Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creative mastermind and recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Award. IN ...

Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins
12/4 - 1/3/2016


The magical production that broke all Beck Center box office records returns for the 2015 holiday season! Based on the books by P.L. Travers and ...

CARRIE the musical
CARRIE the musical
2/7 - 3/9/2014


Carrie White is a misfit. At school, she's an outcast who's bullied by the popular crowd, and virtually invisible to everyone else. At home, she's ...

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