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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Dobama Theatre presents the regional premiere of APPROPRIATE by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Nathan Motta Winner of the 2014-15 Obie Award for Best Play When the patriarch of the Lafayette clan dies, the family is forced to descend upon the crumbling Arkansas homestead to...
Dobama Theatre presents a free reading of a new play by Playwrights' GYM member Catie O'Keefe: 264 HOURS What happens when a group of insomniacs come together to enlighten their minds with a week worth of workshops, seminars and sleep deprived hallucinations? Nothing but sex...
Dobama Theatre presents a reading by Playwrights' GYM member Dr. Mary E. Weems: Monday, May 7, 2018 at 7:00PM Admission is free, with general seating. Join us for a reading from the Playwrights' GYM, Dobama Theatre's professional playwrights' unit. These plays are in various...
Dobama Theatre presents a reading by Playwrights' GYM member Dr. Mary E. Weems: SOCKS: A PLAY ABOUT SEX TRAFFICKING Monday, May 7th, 2018 at 7:00PM Admission is free, with general seating. What happens when an eight year-old Black girl is snatched in Cleveland and sold to the...
Dobama Theatre presents a reading by Playwrights' GYM member Cornell Calhoun III. Monday, April 30, 2018 at 7:00PM Admission is free, with general seating. Join us for a reading from the Playwrights' GYM, Dobama Theatre's professional playwrights' unit. These plays are in...
Dobama Theatre presents a free reading of two plays by Playwrights' GYM members A Reading by Cornell Hubert Calhoun III followed by a reading by Dr. Mary E. Weems: SOCKS: A Play About Sex Trafficking What happens when an eight-year-old black girl is snatched in Cleveland and...
Dobama Theatre presents the Midwest premiere of THE EFFECT by Lucy Prebble, directed by Laley Lippard Winner of the 2012 UK Critics' Circle Award for Best Play Connie and Tristan are volunteers in a clinical drug trial, but when they begin a sudden and illicit romance, they must...
Connie and Tristan are volunteers in a clinical drug trial, but when they begin a sudden and illicit romance, they must ask themselves: is theirs a palpable chemistry—or is it a side effect of the new antidepressant being tested? As their relationship forces the supervising...
Dobama Theatre presents a reading by Playwrights' GYM member Stuart Hoffman: CANON FODDER Monday, March 19, 2018 at 7:00PM Admission is free, with general seating. A tale of literary arousal, depicting an emotionally driven, but socially awkward, bibliophile recounting her...
Dobama Theatre presents a reading by Playwrights' GYM member Lisa Langford: RASTUS AND HATTIE Monday, March 12, 2018 at 7:00PM Admission is free, with general seating. Needra and Marlene enjoy a perfect post-racial friendship until two problematic Black robots make them confront...
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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) |
