Roy, I sent your review of the Shakesphere Festival on to my cousin Scott. Thought you might like to know how he answered me. Can you ad o...

Poorly conceived 'DIE FLEDERMAUS' at Lyric Opera In the 1860s the Parisian operettas were a tremendous vogue in Vienna. The central ...

'FIDDLER ON THE ROOF' is audience pleaser at Cain Park September 22, 1964 is a significant date. ‘FIDDLER ON THE ROOF’ opened, and ...

‘A CHORUS LINE’ A MUST SEE AT PORTHOUSE In 1975 I went to New York to see Lorain County Community College graduate Chrissy Wilczak in the Br...

‘GREASE’ slides through Cleveland Audience members who came to the Palace Theatre to hear Frankie Avalon recreate his film portrayal of Teen...

‘PICNIC’ fine at Actors' Summi t In the mid-nineteen fifties and for the next decade, three playwrights dominated the U.S. dramatic sce...

Pleasant “A...MY NAME...” at Halle/JCC Watching ‘A...MY NAME WILL ALWAYS BE ALICE’ at the JCC’s Halle Theatre is like eating Chinese food. ...

Outstanding production outshines script at convergence-continuum In the late 1960’s and early to mid-70s the big thing in theatre were plays...

'DIRTY BLONDE' totally delights at CPH When I'm good, I'm very good," Mae West says with a wink, "but when I'm...

'PROOF' adds up at the Cleveland Play House You do not have to know anything about math to appreciate 'PROOF,' now on stage ...

CREDEAUX CANVAS ‘-- Ensemble's last production at the Civic Lucia Columbi, Artistic Director at Ensemble Theatre writes a somber message...

'FULLY MONTY' full of fun at the Palace I was fortunate enough on opening night of ‘THE FULL MONTY, now on stage at the Palace Theat...

'La Cage Aux Folles' fun at Beck, but... “Is the biblical condemnation of homosexuality a rigid commandment broken at dire risk to t...

‘IN THE BLOOD’ awesome at Dobama The average theatre-goer has probably never heard the name Suzan-Lori Parks. It does not flow out of the m...

‘ARMS AND THE MAN' marches to victory “Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born i...

'TARTUFFE' entertains audience, but... Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) was born in Paris on January 15, 1622. As a young boy, he...

‘THE CHOSEN’ well-done and thought provoking When on July 23, 2002 Chaim Potok died, the English speaking world lost one of the few voices w...

'THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD' tedious at Dobama It is reported that when Joyce Casey, the Artistic Director of Dobama Theatre, read the scr...

'JEKYLL AND HYDE' disappoints at CPH Robert Lewis Stevenson’s ‘THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE’ was published in 1886. ...

Wonderful, wonderful dance program by Groundworks David Shimotakahara is not only a brilliant choreographer and dancer, but selects other da...

‘42ND STREET’ DANCES DELIGHTFULLY INTO THE PALACE As one of the key songs of the show, ‘42ND STREET’ states, “Come along and listen to the l...

Roy: Last Friday after the show, my wife and I were wondering out loud for some time what we thought of JEFFERY. I think your review hits th...

The Wild Plum Theatre Comany Emerges Theatre companies come into being to satisfy a need. The local theatre scene has such companies. Kar...

" RAGTIME ' at Cassidy --the first national non-professional production On January 18, 1998 ‘RA GTIME’ o pened on Broadway. Stephe...

'SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION' fine at Charenton In 1967 Harvard Social Psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment that illus...