Monday, November 04, 2013

Roe Green is honored by the Dramatists Guild Fund in NY gala

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On October 10, at the Dramatists Guild Fund annual gala at the Edison Ballroom in New York, Cleveland’s Roe Green, Founder and President w...
Monday, October 28, 2013

Engrossing, impressive, compelling COCK @ Dobama

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Definitions for the word cock include: an arrogant person, an adult male chicken who often controls a territory, a device for regulating f...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

CWRU/CPH MFA production of TWELFTH NIGHT goes somewhat awry

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TWELFTH NIGHT, now on stage in the Helen Theatre in the Allen Theatre complex of PlayhouseSquare, is the last ensemble presentation of the...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Funny farcical musical blood bath at Blank Canvas

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As audience members smilingly walked out of Blank Canvas’s THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MUSICAL! covered with spatterings of stage blood, I could on...
Monday, October 14, 2013

LILIES, a tale of misguided love at convergence continuum

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French Canadian playwright Michel Marc Bouchard’s LILIES, with the subtitle “the Revival of a Romantic Drama,”  is a moralistic melodra...
Saturday, October 12, 2013

Beethoven and ALS cross paths in the thought-provoking 33 VARIATIONS

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One of the major questions musicologists have asked for years is why the brilliant Ludwig van Beethoven devoted four years of his life to ...
Friday, October 11, 2013

RICHARD III and SWEENEY TODD--an impressive duo of bloodbaths at Great Lakes Theater

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When Great Lakes Theater’s Artistic Director, Charles Fee, sat down to select the Fall 2013-2014 season, he was either in a laughing bad m...
Sunday, October 06, 2013

Impressive SWEENEY TODD shashes its way into the emotions at Great Lakes Theater

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The recent release of a list of the 100 greatest musicals of all times has brought about much controversy in the theatre community.   Tho...

SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE to perform at State Theatre during national tour

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Since its premiere in 2005, SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE, has been a television sensation.  Created by Simon Fuller and Nigel Lythgoe, t...
Thursday, October 03, 2013

Brilliantly conceived and performed SLEEPING BEAUTY @ Palace Theatre

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When the list of productions for the 2013-2014 Key Bank Broadway series was announced, many predicted that the number of season tickets ho...
Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Laura Kepely, new artistic director of Cleveland Play House

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A new era has begun at the Cleveland Play House!  Laura Kepley was recently appointed to be the ninth Artistic Director in the 98-year h...
Saturday, September 28, 2013

ANIMALS OUR OF PAPER @ Ensemble

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Ensemble’s ANIMALS OUT OF PAPER, a challenging look at how the folds affect life Cleveland has several young and...
Monday, September 23, 2013

Farcical BOEING-BOEING amuses at Lakeland

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Farce is light comedy which contains exaggerated, extravagant and improbable situations.  It often contains slapstick incidents and lots o...

TIME STANDS STILL, thought provoking, well conceived @ Dobama

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Nathan Motta, in his first full season as Artistic Director of Dobama, not only selected a dynamic script to start his reign, but has conc...
Saturday, September 21, 2013

SHE LOVES ME, a marzipan musical at Beck

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Marzipan, is a confection that consists mostly of sugar and honey, with a little solid blended in to give it some body.  This, too, descr...
Thursday, September 19, 2013

WOODY [GUTHRIE] SEZ, a dang good 98th season opener at CPH

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Even before the official start of WOODY SEZ, the cast of four set the melodic and emotional mood by playing music and interacting with the...