Stuart Hoffman

The death penalty carries the inherent risk of executing an innocent person.

BERKO PREVIEWS:  BWU PRESENTS BARS, PORTHOUSE REOPENS, DOBAMA ADOPTS LOVE AND RESPECT PROGRAM, CHRISTINE HOWEY AT MALTZ, PHSQ SET TO REOPEN

Beck Center for the Arts is ecstatic to announce Austin Pendleton (My Cousin Vinny, The Muppet Movie, Finding Nemo, and Actors' Equity Association member/AEA),  will play the role of Shelley a?oeThe Machinea?? Levene in Beck Center for the Arts' production of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross. William Roudebush, a former Artistic Director of Beck Center directs this production of Glengarry Glen Ross, 1984 Pulitzer Prize winner and 2005 Tony Award Winner for Revival Play. The New York Times states, a?oe'Glengarry' was built for speed. Much of the beauty of this play comes from its revved-up rhythms.a??

Since 2012, Seat of the Pants, self-referred to as a 'band of storytellers,' has been traversing the countryside in various locations around Northeast Ohio, focusing their actions on 'sharing compelling narratives in unique spaces and developing an aesthetic rooted in imaginative staging and human connection.'

This play (with music) tells the story of a world-weary and disenchanted Aviator whose sputtering plane strands him in the Sahara Desert and a mysterious, regal 'little man' who appears and asks him to 'Please, sir, draw me a sheep.' During their two weeks together in the desert, the Little Prince tells the Aviator about his adventures through the galaxy, how he met the Lamplighter and the Businessman and the Geographer, and about his strained relationship with a very special flower on his own tiny planet.

Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT) Executive Artistic Director, Raymond Bobgan, presents Pandemonium 2017 - CPT's annual benefit and theatrical spectacular - today, September 9, 2017, from 7:00pm through midnight. The Pandemonium 2017 theme is "Unleash."

Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT) Executive Artistic Director, Raymond Bobgan, presents Pandemonium 2017 - CPT's annual benefit and theatrical spectacular - on Saturday, September 9, 2017, from 7:00pm through midnight. The Pandemonium 2017 theme is "Unleash."

Cabaret. It's 1931 in Germany, a country of unrest. We find ourselves at the Kit Kat Klub, a seedy cabaret, a place of decadence and emotional abandonment. Hanging over the entire scene is the aura of the growth of the Nazi party and the impending reign of terror.

Blank Canvas Theatre's Factory Series presents KISS KISS BANG BANG by Stuart Hoffman and directed by Jacqi Loewy. This Cleveland premiere will run from November 10 - 13.

Pat Ciamacco, the curmudgeon of glee and horror, is at it again. While it seems almost by chance, the artistic director of Blank Canvas selects the likes of OUR TOWN, TWELVE ANGRY MEN and OF MICE AND MEN. But most often Ciamacco digs up such scripts as THE WILD PARTY (a play about decadence and uninhibited sexual behavior), REEFER MADNESS (the 'truth' about using marijuana), BAT BOY THE MUSICAL (the tale of a large-eyed fanged human child), TRIASSIC PARQ THE MUSICAL (a songfest 65-million years in the making), DEBBIE DOES DALLAS (a stage version of the 1978 pornographic film), and TEXAS CHAINSAW MUSICAL (the story of a handsome serial killer and his overly affectionate momma, staged complete with a 'blood zone,' where members of the audience chose, if they desired, to be bathed in fake blood!)

Convergence-continuum presents the third production in its 2016 Tweener Series: renowned Cleveland playwright Eric Coble's My Barking Dog, directed by Sarah Greywitt and featuring actors Stuart Hoffman and Amanda Lin Boyd.

Mamai Theatre presents LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN by Oscar Wilde, directed by Bernadette Clemens.

Mamai Theatre presents LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN by Oscar Wilde, directed by Bernadette Clemens.

Cleveland Public Theatre's Executive Artistic Director Raymond Bobgan has announced the Nord Family Foundation Playwright Fellowship Reading Series, a presentation of three new plays by emerging Northeast Ohio playwrights. The 2015-2016 Nord Family Foundation Playwright Fellows are Stuart Hoffman, Gail Nyoka and Greg Vovos. Scroll down to meet them!

Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT) Executive Artistic Director, Raymond Bobgan presents Pandemonium 2015-CPT's annual benefit and theatrical spectacular-on Saturday, September 12, 2015. The Pandemonium 2015 theme is 'Transform.'

Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT) Executive Artistic Director Raymond Bobgan presents the World Premiere of Johanna: Facing Forward, written and directed by Tlaloc Rivas, based on the writings of Johanna Orozco and the investigative journalism of The Plain Dealer's Rachel Dissell.

convergence-continuum presents three new plays by local graduate-student playwrights at the 2015 NEOMFA Playwrights Festival. The Festival features three world-premiere plays: one full-length (two-act) play by final-year MFA candidate Monica Morgan, and two one-act plays by second-year grad students Lisa Langford and Cutler Smith. These plays are part of a three-year intensive program of study under playwright and Cleveland State University professor Mike Geither, and are co-produced by convergence-continuum and the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts (NEOMFA) in Creative Writing consortium. This will be the fourth year convergence-continuum has mounted the Festival at its performance space, the Liminis, 2438 Scranton Rd., Cleveland 44113 in the historic Tremont neighborhood.

convergence-continuum presents three new plays by local graduate-student playwrights at the 2015 NEOMFA Playwrights Festival. The Festival features three world-premiere plays: one full-length (two-act) play by final-year MFA candidate Monica Morgan, and two one-act plays by second-year grad students Lisa Langford and Cutler Smith. These plays are part of a three-year intensive program of study under playwright and Cleveland State University professor Mike Geither, and are co-produced by convergence-continuum and the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts (NEOMFA) in Creative Writing consortium. This will be the fourth year convergence-continuum has mounted the Festival at its performance space, the Liminis, 2438 Scranton Rd., Cleveland 44113 in the historic Tremont neighborhood.

There's a moor, a diabolical hound, a maiden, a man who dies of a heart attack (well, maybe), a butler who carries around a tray of plastic food and wears an obvious fake beard, an attempt to perform CPR on an obvious stuffed dummy, men in a sauna wearing towels over their suits, men dressed as women, and lots of doors slamming.

Clyde Simon, Artistic Director of convergence continuum, has a knack for finding off-beat, provocative plays that incite discussion and strong reactions from the theatre's loyal following. That group, and probably many more, will find themselves entranced by Martin McDonagh's black comedy, 'The Pillowman.'