Dorothy Silver News

BWW Review: Dobama's JOHN Too Much To Do About Nothing

by Roy Berko — October 26, 2018

Annie Baker is the author of 'The Flick,' which had an award-winning production at Dobama last March (e.

Moss & Kitty Carlisle Hart New Play Initiative Winners to Run In Rep At GTC Burbank

by A.A. Cristi — October 17, 2018

Two new character-driven relationship plays, both by award-winning women writers and both inspired by events currently at the forefront of our national consciousness, beat out 1241 other submissions in the inaugural Moss Hart & Kitty Carlisle Hart New Play Initiative.

Photo Flash: JOHN By Annie Baker Opens At Dobama Theatre

by Julie Musbach — October 17, 2018

Dobama Theatre continues its 18/19 Mainstage Season with the Midwest Premiere of John, running October 19 - November 11, directed by Nathan Motta.

BWW Review: Dobama's 'Sunset Baby' exposes the underbelly of the great sacrifice of survival

by Roy Berko — September 8, 2018

BWW Review: Hyper-realistic must see “On the Grill” compels at Dobama

by Roy Berko — June 24, 2018

Karen Hartman And Kenny Leon's GOOD FAITH Completes Yale Rep's 18-19 Lineup

by Stephi Wild — May 16, 2018

YALE REPERTORY THEATRE (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director) will present the world premiere of GOOD FAITH: Four Chats about Race and the New Haven Fire Department, a new play by Karen Hartman, directed by Kenny Leon, February 1-23, 2019.

BWW Review: Dobama's Compelling “Appropriate” expands the definition of dysfunctional family

by Roy Berko — April 23, 2018

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, author of 'Appropriate,' which is now getting a compelling staging at Dobama, Cleveland's 'off-Broadway theatre,' is noted for writing plays that shimmer in spectacle, theatricality, and melodramatic substance.

Photo Flash: Maria Gobetti Directs World Premiere Comedy UNEMPLOYED ELEPHANTS

by Stephi Wild — March 5, 2018

A chance meeting in an airport lounge leads to a Burmese odyssey and a search for a missing monk… and maybe love.

BWW Review: Charming “Love Letters” at Theatre in the Circle

by Roy Berko — February 11, 2018

What happens when you present a charming script and add two of Cleveland's most beloved actors? You get five sold out houses and calls with attempted bribes to get in the door.

Maria Gobetti Directs World Premiere Comedy UNEMPLOYED ELEPHANTS – A LOVE STORY

by Julie Musbach — January 31, 2018

A chance meeting in an airport lounge leads to a Burmese odyssey and a search for a missing monk… and maybe love.

NNPN Announces 72nd Rolling World Premiere PROJECT DAWN

by Julie Musbach — January 29, 2018

National New Play Network, the country's alliance of nonprofit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays, celebrates the continuation of the Rolling World Premiere Project Dawn by Karen Hartman at Unicorn Theatre.

BWW Review: BWW-CLE PROFESSIONAL THEATER TRIBUTES--2017 at Greater Cleveland Theatre

by Roy Berko — December 24, 2017

Greater Cleveland is blessed with a vital theater scene.

BWW Review: MARJORIE PRIME is Prime Offering at Dobama

by Roy Berko — October 15, 2017

Local theater-goers are familiar with the outstanding performance work of Dorothy Silver, often called 'the first lady of Cleveland theater.

PROJECT DAWN, THE ARSONISTS and BR'ER COTTON Open in NNPN Premieres Across the Country

by BWW News Desk — September 22, 2017

National New Play Network, the country's alliance of nonprofit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays, celebrates the opening of three Rolling World Premieres: Project Dawn by Karen Hartman, The Arsonists by Jacqueline Goldfinger, and Br'er Cotton by Te