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.
I checked in with director Victoria Bussert, for a conversation about her run of Spring Awakening which wrapped March 1st at The Beck Center for the Arts in Lakewood, OH. The show was presented in collaboration with the Oberlin College department of Music Theater, in Oberlin, OH, where Bussert is a longtime instructor.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
Playhouse Square and the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Performing Arts will present their 18th annual collaboration, [title of show]. Learn more about this upcoming show here!
National Alliance for Musical Theatre has announced the NAMT Member Theatre and Writer Recipients for the 2024/2025 Writers Residency Grants, part of the Frank Young Fund for New Musicals.
Mention author J. M. Barrie, and the immediate thought is Peter Pan. Peter Pan, the tale of a boy who refused to grow up, which has become a cottage industry. Dolls, movies, a musical play, coloring books, cartoons, Halloween costumes, a non-musical play, and books are all available. There is even a psychological condition, “The Peter Pan Syndrome,” which puts the spotlight on men who refuse to assume responsibility for their boyish actions.
At the end of each year, Broadwayworld Cleveland's Critic Roy Berko elects to recognize productions, performers and technicians to be recognized from Cleveland, OH stagings. The format for these acknowledgments is being altered.
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.
Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning musical Into the Woods (directed by Victoria Bussert) and William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (directed by Producing Artistic Director Sara Bruner) will be performed through November 10, 2024, in the intimate Hanna Theatre, Playhouse Square sharing a single, intricately designed set that subtly connects these fantastical tales. Check out photos from A Midsummer Night's Dream below!