A moving comedy about creating community and finding family. From the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright of In the Heights comes a touching comedy set in a local bar where everyone knows your name - and your business. The regulars at Daphne’s Dive are a band of outsiders; among...
A holiday adventure full of comedy, carols, and capers. This wildly inventive holiday mashup of Dickens and Doyle blends mystery, music, humor, and heart in a witty and wondrous theatrical event. When a grown-up Tiny Tim calls on Sherlock Holmes to investigate the mysterious...
Twin sisters confront family and the fate of the world. In the near future, Stella has created a new life with her fiancé Bryan in a remote cabin in the woods. When her sister Cassie comes to visit after a year-long Moon mission, the reunited siblings must find a way to heal old...
A mother’s love knows no bounds. Captivating, affecting and compassionate, this is the story of a single mother in an impossible situation. Faced with seemingly insurmountable odds, Mary Jane relies on unflagging optimism, a sense of humor, and the wisdom of the women around her...
An American Gothic about sisters, secrets, murder, and magic. Montgomery, Alabama, 1955. Ruby is a sensual hoodoo practitioner who has lost her magic. Netta is her devout, newly engaged play-sister with aspirations of climbing the social ladder. As the historic bus boycott...
Small moments can change the course of our lives. Over one fateful summer in Ohio, an unlikely friendship develops between Diana, a fiercely iconoclastic artist and single mom, and Alice, a free-spirited yet naive young housewife. As the Bicentennial is celebrated across the...
In order to create authentic dances for Pothouse’s BRIGADOON, if social media pictures can be trusted, during rehearsals Martin Céspedes, the shows choreographer, wore a kilt. The results are the captivating visual movements that light up the stage.…
Tina Fay’s MEAN GIRLS, with the right level of farce can be a delightful experience. Beck’s staging, inspite of a talented cast, was pleasant. It could have been great with the right concept. Go?, Of course! Most audience members, as displayed by the standing ovation at the end of the…
Another exposure as Cleveland Heights’s Cain Park outstanding production directed by Victoria Bussert the present Director of Oberlin College’s Musical Theater program, which featured Gregg Violand, who will be featured, later this season, in Porthouse’s BRIGADOON.…
An experience that may possibly require more than one visit.…
GREASE, Porthouse-style, is a nostalgic reminder of the era of mid-1900’s and left those of a certain-age satisfied and maybe those of the Information Age/Digital Age asking “what was the attitude, grease and angst” all about. …
Young performers overcame weather and sound issues to bring the vibrant, musical retelling of the 2004 film Mean Girls to the vintage, nostalgic Akron Civic Theater.…
The national tour of A Beautiful Noise rocks into town this week, bringing enough sequins to light up all of Toledo. As the final engagement of Broadway in Toledo’s 2025–2026 season, this musical offers a closer look at the life of Neil Diamond while delivering a thoroughly entertaining evening …
THE GREAT GATSBY: A NEW MUSICAL is Surprisingly Great…
What did our critic think of FREAK THE MIGHTY at Cleveland Play House?…
Dorthy Gale arrives at Stranahan Theater by tornado (and tour bus!) as Broadway in Toledo brings the National Tour of The Wiz to town this week. I had a delightful night easing on down the road with familiar characters reimagined in a creative and moving way. The production is top-quality, featuring…
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AT THE WAKE OF A DEAD DRAG QUEEN by Terry Guest directed by Preston Crowder January 26 - February 18, 2024 OHIO PREMIERE Wig: snatched. Waist: snatched. Life: snatched. Drag star Courtney Berringers welcomes you to her wake. She has recently died, but make no mistake, this isn’t...
LITTLE WOMEN by Heather Chrisler directed by Melissa Crum December 1 - 31, 2023 OHIO PREMIERE The March sisters unwrap the classic tale this holiday season. Taking on the familiar roles of the March sisters, four actors recreate this timeless novel using the family memories...
The ghosts of childhood never disappear. In the attic of one family’s home, four young siblings recreate their everyday lives in a game of make-believe. Meanwhile, the world beneath them holds a more ominous reality. Tony nominee Bess Wohl’s new play is a moving meditation on...
Both hilarious and poignant, WHAT WE LOOK LIKE is the story of the Hodges - a black family that has recently moved to a suburban white neighborhood. When the youngest son is asked to draw a family portrait at school, he creates an imaginary white family and the Hodges are thrown...
THE OTHER PLACE focuses on Juliana, a successful neurologist on the verge of a potential breakthrough whose life takes a disorienting turn. During a lecture to colleagues at an exclusive medical conference, she spots a mysterious young woman in a yellow bikini amidst the crowd...
Mama is up early to prepare a big meal for an important church function and, even with her family on hand to help, time is running short. Love, laughter, and tensions all simmer with three generations of Tucker women under one roof, but things come to a boil as the events...
THE THIN PLACE is the story of two women, Hilda and Linda. Linda communicates, professionally, with the dead, who are still here, just in a different part of here, in the "thin place." She can make those who believe hear them, offering them peace and closure and meaning. Hilda...
After taking aim at The Seagull in Dobamas hit production of Stupid F**king Bird, playwright Aaron Posner returns with an irreverent contemporary remix of Uncle Vanya. Egos clash, hearts hunger, and souls cry out for meaning in this raw and hilarious reimagining of Chekhovs...
A biting, hilarious, hopeful requiem for Black lives. James Ijames award-winning play Kill Move Paradise tells the story of Isa, Daz, Grif and Tiny, four black men who find themselves stuck in a cosmic purgatory in the afterlife. While balancing the reality of their past and the...
Get your Greek on - desperate housewives style. Meet Diane, a permaculture gardener dripping with butch charm. Shes got supernatural abilities owing to her true identitythe Greek god Dionysusand she's returned to the modern world to gather mortal followers and restore the Earth...
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Pippin Short North Stage - Garden Theater (8/06-8/29) |
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The Secret Garden Weathervane Playhouse (8/20-9/06) |
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A Christmas Carol: The Musical Ohio Star Theater (11/18-12/15) PHOTOS |
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Beautiful: The Carole King Musical Renaissance Theatre (5/01-5/09) |
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The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show The Dinner Detective Cleveland (9/12-9/12) |
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Disney Frozen, the Broadway Musical Beck Center for the Arts (7/16-8/15) |
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Violet Beck Center for the Arts (6/04-7/03) |
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The Wizard of Oz Cassidy Theatre (10/06-10/25) |
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Dr. Experimentor and the League of Evil Beck Center for the Arts (10/22-10/25) |
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Hairspray Short North Stage - Garden Theater (11/19-12/20) |
