Though Shakespeare, himself, classified his 1604 MEASURE FOR MEASURE as a comedy, modern literary thinkers refer to it as a problem play,...

When Joseph Stein, Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock joined forces to write FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, now recognized as one of the greatest of Am...

Having endured the great depression, the rise of Fascism and Imperialism, the Holocaust, the dropping of the atomic bomb, and the physic...

  The hallmarks of France’s most widely read author are sword fights, battles for the honor of beautiful women, court intrigue, sexual ...

It is no wonder that the Stratford Festival’s MARY STUART has been extended three times due to sold out houses.  This production, under t...

Leonard Bernstein is noted as the first conductor of a major orchestra who was born in America.  His talent as a composer, author, music lec...

Little did Artistic Director Pat Ciamacco realize when he elected to produce Reginald Rose’s 12 ANGRY MEN that his selection would be fort...

SPAMALOT:  silly fun at Beck You know you aren’t in for the typical Broadway musical, when, at the start of SPAMALOT, now on stage at...

SHREK should please many at Mercury Summer Stock SHREK has music by Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire. It is...

SMOKEY JOE’S CAFÉ, a pleasant summer escape at Cain Park A musical review, by the very nature of its structure, is usually not of great i...

BOOK OF MORMON, is a must see delight at The Palace “Hello, my name is Elder Price and I would like to share with you the most amazing b...

SOUTH PACIFIC lights up Porthouse Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein, Jr. are considered the fathers of modern American musical theat...

Oft brilliant, but flawed MEDEA, introduces new professional theatre company Mamaí,  Cleveland’s newest professional theatre, opened it...

Beck’s THE PITMEN PAINTERS:  truth is often more meaningful then fiction Have you looked at a painting and asked, “What does that mean?” ...

CROWNS is a celebration of “hattitude,” at Karamu CROWNS, now in production at Karamu Theatre, is a musical which not only features gosp...

What makes a man a man explored at Actors’ Summit  Until the late 1960s and 70s, the age of women’s liberation, the writings and speech...

Unnerving musical about the crime of the century at convergence continuum Musicals have come from various sources.  There has been...

Acting overshadows esoteric script at Cleveland Public Theatre Philip Ridley, the author of TENDER NAPALM, now being staged at Cleveland P...

THERE IS A HAPPINESS (and absurdity) at Cleveland Public Theatre Poet, painter and printmaker William Blake was considered to be ma...