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Home of boundary-pushing performance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, arts charity and year-round cultural hub Summerhall Arts has announced 36 more shows of the 2026 instalment of its renowned festival programme.

On March 24, the nine graduating seniors from Oberlin's Music Theater program performed for industry professionals at New York’s Alvin Ailey Studios and to a sold-out crowd at the iconic 54 Below, booking over 100 appointments with agents.

Great Lakes Theater will continue its 64th season with Shakespeare's towering tragedy, Macbeth, running March 20 – April 4, 2026, in the Hanna Theatre at Playhouse Square.

​​​​​​​Beck Center for the Arts will present its first annual collaboration through the production of Spring Awakening with Oberlin College and Conservatory Music Theater Program.

Normally, in a who-done-it, the question facing the audience is to figure out who the killer is.  In DIAL M FOR MURDER, which is now on-stage at Great Lakes Theater, Jeffrey Hatcher, who rewrote the present play version of the epic, doesn’t leave us in the air.

The stage of the Mimi Ohio Theatre, Playhouse Square, will glow with good spirits and time-honored tradition when Great Lakes Theater (GLT) presents its 37th production of Charles Dickens' timeless tale, A Christmas Carol.

George Pierre Seurat was a French post-Impressionist artist best known for devising a painting technique entitled Pointillism, “a series of paint or crayon dots of multi-colored paint which allows the viewer's eye to blend colors optically, rather than having the colors physically blended on the canvas.”

Great Lakes Theater will continue its 64th season with Jeffrey Hatcher's sleek, suspense-filled new adaptation of Dial M for Murder, beginning in October. Learn more here!

See production photos for Great Lakes Theater's SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, running September 26 through October 12 in the Hanna Theatre at Playhouse Square.

What did our critic think of OBERLIN COLLEGE ADDS MUSICAL THEATER PROGRAM TO ITS CONSERVATORY OFFERINGS at Oberlin College?

Great Lakes Theater will kick off its 64th season by presenting Stephen Sondheim's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George.

Cortland Repertory Theatre’s production of Hello, Dolly! is running now through June 13 at the Little York Pavilion. Check out all new photos here!

Cortland Repertory Theatre will kick off its 54th annual summer season with its first-ever production of the beloved musical “Hello, Dolly!” Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Beck Center for the Arts has announced its 2025-2026 Professional Theater Season, the 92nd season which includes a big splash, comedies, dramas, musicals, and a new collaboration with Oberlin College & Conservatory Music Theater Program. 

Great Lakes Theater (GLT) continues its 63rd season with Shakespeare’s delightful romantic comedy, Twelfth Night, directed by Producing Artistic Director Sara Bruner^. Check here for the photos.

What did our critic think of WAITRESS at Beck Center For The Arts?

Great Lakes Theater (GLT) sets the stage for the second half of its 63rd season with the playful Peter Pan prequel, Peter and the Starcatcher. Check out photos of the cast in action.

Great Lakes Theater will set the stage for the second half of its 63rd season with the playful Peter Pan prequel, Peter and the Starcatcher. Learn more about the show here!

​Beck Center for the Arts will collaborate with the Baldwin Wallace University Music Theatre program. This season, Waitress is on the menu. Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets.

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