Scott Spence News

Beck Center for the Arts will reprise the smash hit from 2021, Elf The Musical, a soon to be holiday classic for the stage.  

Infamous the Musical is set to premiere as a Staged Concert this September at St. Edward High School in Lakewood, Ohio. Infamous is a musical recount of the events leading toward Abraham Lincoln's assassination and subsequent manhunt for his killer, John Wilkes Booth.

Beck Center for the Arts has announced the hilarious musical comedy that brings Shakespeare to vibrant life, Something Rotten!   

​​​​​​​Beck Center for the Arts' annual Spotlight Gala will have guests celebrating the venerable local fundraising giant, The George Gund Foundation at Gordon Green.

Beck Center for the Arts is pleased to announce its 2022-2023 Professional Theater Season, the 89th season which includes Tony Award® Winners, comedies, dramas, return of the blockbuster Elf the Musical, and the twelfth collaboration with Baldwin Wallace University Musical Theatre program.  

Beck Center for the Arts has announced the regional premiere of The Legend of Georgia McBride, written by Matthew López, the first Latine writer to win the Tony Award for Best Play.

METEOR SHOWER, an absurdist comedy by Steve Martin, is now on stage at Beck Center for the Arts.

Beck Center for the Arts has announced the regional premiere of Steve Martin's Meteor Shower.

Beck Center for the Arts has announced Elf The Musical, a soon to be holiday classic for the stage.  

Beck Center for the Arts has announced its first live and in-person play since the start of the worldwide pandemic, This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing. Produced by Scott Spence, This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing reminds us we are all born of flesh and made of dreams.

Beck Center for the Arts' annual Spotlight Gala will have guests honoring major donors Wally and Joyce Senney, and Artistic Director Scott Spence, while celebrating 88 years of the professional theater program, in the event space Gordon Green in Gordon Square.

Beck Center for the Arts has announced the extension of The 15-Minute Musical Challenge to March 7, 2021! National Alliance for Musical Theatre created the “15-Minute Musical Challenge” to celebrate the power of musical theatre during the spring of 2020.

Beck Center for the Arts has announced Beck Broadway Alums In Concert. Available for convenient streaming, this production benefits Beck Center.

Beck Center for the Arts has announced its tenth collaboration with Baldwin Wallace University Music Theatre Program, in the form of virtual world premieres of five fifteen-minute brand new musicals, chosen by National Alliance for Musical Theatre.

Becky Mode, the co-creator of Fully Committed, the one-person play which was selected by Time Magazine as one of the top plays of 2000, is a producer, actor and playwright. The play's co-creator, Mark Setlock, is a native Clevelander and graduate of Kent State, who won the 2000 Outer Critics Circle Award for his solo performance in the off-Broadway production of their script.

Beck Center for the Arts has announced its first virtual production, Fully Committed, as the answer to the challenges of producing live theater during a pandemic.

Beck Center for the Arts is ecstatic to announce the regional premiere of Steve Martin's Meteor Shower. Written by actor, comedian, author, playwright, screenwriter, producer, musician and Renaissance Man Steve Martin, this wild and crazy play pulls back the curtain on two married couples and the extreme transformation they experience when the sky is the limit. You'll have a burning desire to find out what happens next.

Beck Center for the Arts celebrates the holidays with an encore production for the entire family, SHREK THE MUSICAL. 

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??

What do 'James and the Giant Peach,' 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' and 'George's Marvelous Medicine' all have in common? They were all written by Roald Dahl.