Robert Branch News
BWW Review: Playwrights Local Presents THE PANTHER DANCER, a Bio-Play About Michael Jackson
The mission of Playwrights Local is to support dramatists of Northeast Ohio by presenting locally written works, with the vision of increasing original theater and raising the profile of area playwrights.
Photo Flash: Cleveland's Karamu House Hosts the American Premiere of THE ADVENTURES OF THE BLACK GIRL
Karamu House presents the American premiere of The Adventures of The Black Girl in Her Search for God running now through April 15, 2018.
New Shaw Adaptation Receives American Premiere At Karamu House
Karamu House, the oldest African American theatre in the country, presents the American premiere of The Adventures of The Black Girl in Her Search for God from March 22 through April 15, 2018.
BWW Review: THE CHASTE GENIUS AND HIS DEATHRAY GUN, an interesting history lesson unfolds at convergence continuum
'The Chaste Genius and His DeathRay Gun,' now on stage at congruence continuum, tells the tale of an obsessive, germ phobic genius who lived most of his life trying to get financial backing from the likes of JP Morgan, to develop his ideas.
BWW Review: THINGS AS THEY ARE examines poet Wallace Stevens in world premiere at Playwrights Local
As a play in process, "Things As They Are" needs to be reexamined with an eye for sharpening and tightening the dialogue and ascertaining whether all the visual and audio stimuli are necessary to tell the tale.
BWW Review: HARM'S WAY Examines the Underbelly of Humanity at Convergence Continuum
Cleveland is in the midst of 'The Mac Wellman Homecoming Festival,' presented by Playwrights Local, in partnership with Cleveland State University Department of English, the NEOMFA Creative Writing Program, and the Michael Schwartz Library, with performances by Playwrights Local, Theater Ninjas, c
HARM'S WAY Opens This Week at convergence-continuum
convergence-continuum opens its 2017 season with the Ohio premiere of Harm's Way by Mac Wellman, directed by Clyde Simon.
BWW Review: LIKE I SAY - A Script in Search of a Purpose at convergence-continuum
Len Jenkin, the author of LIKE I SAY, which he refers to as a 'sober-minded comedy,' is the recipient of three Obie Awards and received an Emmy nomination.
New Theatre, Playwrights Local 4181, to Produce Local Writers' Scripts
Purpose is to develop "a playwrights' center," which means they will "develop plays (and playwrights), produce plays, and otherwise provide our dramatists with a long-needed home.
BWW Review: PURE SHOCK VALUE, absurd farce confounds at None Too Fragile
Sean Derry and Alanna Romansky, Co-Artistic Directors of none too fragile have, since its founding in 2010, established the venue as a major theater in the Akron-Cleveland area.
NEOMFA Playwrights Festival Opens 2/11 at convergence-continuum
convergence-continuum presents four world-premiere plays by local graduate-student playwrights at the 2016 NEOMFA Playwrights Festival.
UPDATE: Black Actor Justin Fraley Says He Was Replaced By White Actor as MLK For Full Run Of Kent State's THE MOUNTAINTOP
While the director says performances were divided, the actor says he was replaced for the full run.
Playwright Katori Hall Reacts To White Actor Cast As Martin Luther King, Jr. in THE MOUNTAINTOP
She calls the casting, 'a self-serving and disrespectful directing exercise for a paying audience.
Kent State's African Community Theatre Casts White Actor As Dr. Martin Luther King In THE MOUNTAINTOP
Licensing agency changes contract after controversial production.
BWW Reviews: THE RECKLESS RUTHLESS BRUTAL CHARGE OF IT or THE TRAIN PLAY Confounds at Convergence-Continuum
Liz Duffy Adams, whose play, 'The Reckless Ruthless Brutal Charge Of It, or The Train Play' is now on stage at convergence continuum is noted for being an American abstract writer.
convergence-continuum Presents 'THE TRAIN PLAY', Now thru 7/18
convergence-continuum continues its 2015 Season with the Ohio premiere of Liz Duffy Adams' THE RECKLESS RUTHLESS BRUTAL CHARGE OF IT, or THE TRAIN PLAY, a comic-poetic derailment of apocalyptic nightmares and American dreams.
convergence-continuum to Present 'THE TRAIN PLAY', 6/26-7/18
convergence-continuum continues its 2015 Season with the Ohio premiere of Liz Duffy Adams' THE RECKLESS RUTHLESS BRUTAL CHARGE OF IT, or THE TRAIN PLAY, a comic-poetic derailment of apocalyptic nightmares and American dreams.
BWW Reviews: Sir Isaac Newton Wonderfully Unmasked at Convergence-continuum
One of the major issues in watching a historidrama is figuring out what is real, what is fiction, and what is fantasy.
ISAAC'S EYE Opens Today at convergence-continuum
convergence-continuum, kicks off its 2015 Season with the Ohio premiere of Lucas Hnath's modern send-up of old-fashioned historical dramas, ISAAC'S EYE.
