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Something Rotten!

6/13 - 7/7/2024

Welcome to the Renaissance and the outrageous, crowd-pleasing musical farce, Something Rotten. Created by Grammy Award-winning songwriter Wayne Kirkpatrick, and successful screenwriters Karey Kirkpatrick and ...

Tootsie

10/3 - 10/27/2024

Call it “musical comedy heaven” (Rolling Stone). Call it “the most uproarious new musical in years!” (The Hollywood Reporter). Call it TOOTSIE! This laugh-out-loud love ...

A Christmas Carol

11/29 - 12/22/2024

by Roy Berko - June 11, 2024

Western culture was struck by numerous changes in the late twentieth century. Many monarchs fell, Socialism, Communism and Democracy made in-roads, the social sciences developed the concepts of psychology and sociology, the industrial revolution changed manufacturing, and the way the middle class w...

Review: THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM SPELLING BEE at Cain Park Alma Theater

by Roy Berko - June 07, 2024

It is only appropriate, since the National Spelling Bee wound down last week, that Cain Park, the Cleveland Heights outdoor entertainment venue, has mounted THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE....

Review: THE PROSPECT OF EQUALITY at Ensemble

by Roy Berko - May 28, 2024

What did our critic think of THE PROSPECT OF EQUALITY at Ensemble?...

Review: SIGNIFICANT OTHER at Dobama

by Roy Berko - May 07, 2024

What did our critic think of SIGNIFICANT OTHER at Dobama?...

Review: COMPANY at Connor Palace

by Roy Berko - May 03, 2024

What did our critic think of COMPANY at Connor Palace? Stephen Sondheim is generally considered the most important composer/lyricist of the 20th century American musical theater. Many consider him to be the person who reinvented the genre. ...

Review: ALWAYS...PATSY CLINE at Great Lakes Theater

by Roy Berko - April 29, 2024

Juke box musicals are stage theatrical presentations in which a majority of the compositions were written before the presentation was conceived, rather than being original music conceived for that show. They tend to be long on songs and short on a well-conceived plot. ...

Review: 9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL at Chagrin Valley Little Theatre

by Roy Berko - April 17, 2024

9 to 5: The Musical is a theatre piece based on the 1980 hit film, with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton and a book by Patricia Resnick. It is now on stage at Chagrin Valley Little Theatre....

Review: BACH AT LEIPZIG at Seat Of Pants

by Roy Berko - March 25, 2024

What did our critic think of BACH AT LEIPZIG at Seat Of Pants?...

Review: THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR at GREAT LAKES THEATER

by Roy Berko - March 25, 2024

Sir John Falstaff is at it again! Yes, the chubby delightful bumbler, who was in the Bard’s HENRY IV, Parts 1 and 2, is now lighting up the stage in Great Lakes Theater’s THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, thanks to Elizabeth I. The Queen was so infatuated with the character that, according to rumor, she...

Review: REQUIEM at Cleveland Public Theatre

by Roy Berko - March 19, 2024

What did our critic think of REQUIEM at Cleveland Public Theatre?...

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CLEVELAND SHOWS


		Botánica LatinUs Theater Company (5/30 - 6/15) BUY NOW & SAVE
		The Robber Bridegroom Studio Theater (5/30 - 6/29)
		The Sunshine Boys Senney Theater (9/13 - 10/6)
		Beethoven's Seventh Blossom Music Center (7/20 - 7/20)
		A Doll's House, Part 2 Beck Center for the Arts (5/31 - 6/30)
		Dvořák’s Sixth Symphony Severance Music Center (7/25 - 7/25)
		Historic Haunts Walking Tour Near West Theatre (10/3 - 10/5)
		The Glass Menagerie Studio Theater (10/4 - 11/3)
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