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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A play about Air Guitar that will shake you all night long. When Nina enters her first air guitar competition, she thinks winning will be easy. But as she befriends a group of charismatic nerds all committed to becoming the next champion, she discovers that there's more to this...
Book, Music and Lyrics by Jay Turvey and Paul Sportelli directed by Matthew Wright music directed by Matthew Dolan choreography by Holly Handman-Lopez Starring: Jim Bray*, Ben Richardson-Piche, Hanna Shykind, Tyler Tanner and Jay Lee June 27 - July 14, 2019 WORLD PREMIERE...
Jane is a promising poet without a muse and a single mother without lessons to pass along. With her dating life in shambles, she goes to a friend’s dinner party where she’s set up with a handsome French doctor. But after the meal and a few glasses of wine, a party game goes...
The Nether is a virtual wonderland that provides total sensory immersion. Just log in, choose an identity and indulge your every desire. But when a young detective uncovers a disturbing brand of entertainment, she triggers an interrogation into the darkest corners of the...
A wildly experimental and inventive grouping of vignettes that asks how to revolutionize language, relationships, work, and life in general while bursting at the seams of conformity. An ensemble of four powerful women and one token male bring this unapologetically provocative...
Ella is given the “gift” of obedience as an infant by a misguided fairy and cannot disobey any order. The strong-willed Ella goes on a quest to rid herself of this horrible curse. During her mystical adventure she encounters an evil stepmother, hungry ogres, enormous giants, a...
One cold November night, Elias and Jenny, a young couple struggling to stay together, stop at a bed & breakfast in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. During their visit they encounter a cheerful innkeeper, her blind friend, and an eerie world crammed with toys, figurines and one very odd...
Nina, a tough, independent woman in Brooklyn, is visited by her estranged father, a former revolutionary in the Black Liberation Movement who seeks to mend their broken relationship. As father and daughter circle one another, deep-rooted wounds are discovered, generational...
Dobama Theatre presents the American Premiere of ON THE GRILL by Dror Keren, directed by Leighann Delorenzo Winner of the 2015 Israeli Academy Award for Best Play Everything is ready for the Israeli Independence Day party at the home of Rochale and her husband Zvika. The lawn...
Everything is ready for the Israeli Independence Day party at the home of Rochale and her husband Zvika. The lawn has seen better days and so has the family. Their grown son is home from Berlin for the holiday and he’s brought an unexpected guest. Grandmother is frail and...
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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) |
