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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

"Beyond the Horizon," seldom seen classic at Ensemble

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Each year, Ensemble Theatre selects a classic play to be part of their season offerings.  Last year it was “The Iceman Cometh,” which was ...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Compelling, humorous "Informed Consent" enlightens at Cleveland Play House

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If you were carrying a genetic factor that, in the future, doomed you with Alzheimer’s, cancer, or some other disease, even if science did...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

"American Idiot" rocks the Palace, but the hallow book thwarts over-all effect

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In 1968 “Hair,” dubbed the American Tribal Love-Rock musical, exploded on Broadway.  It shocked the nation, but gave an accurate picture o...
Sunday, April 20, 2014

THE DROWNING GIRLS @ Cleveland Public Theatre

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Hint:   Don’t read the program notes before “The Drowning Girls” at Cleveland Public Theatre A person’s identity is based on the cu...
Sunday, April 13, 2014

The Musical Theater Project presents "Deconstructing Kurt Weill"

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The wording on the gravestone of Kurt Weill comes from the song “A Bird of Passage” from his musical, “Lost in the Stars.”  It reads:  “Th...
Tuesday, April 08, 2014

"As You Like It"-- comedic farce delights at Great Lakes Theater

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What do the phrases, “all the world’s a stage” and “too much of a good thing” have in common?  They are both quotes from Shakespeare’s pas...
Monday, April 07, 2014

Reviewer of the Reviewer's Review--Sean Derry

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Hi Roy, I just wanted to personally thank you for your kind words, time travelled, insightful critique, and continued support of none to...
Sunday, April 06, 2014

Actors' Summit..HANDLE WITH CARE, it's mostly Hebrew to me

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Picture this:  on a Thursday night, an American theatrical comedy, one-third of which’s dialogue was spoken in Hebrew, was viewed by an au...
Saturday, April 05, 2014

GIDION'S KNOT @ none too fragile theater

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Last year, none too fragile theater’s ON THE LINE was honored by the Cleveland Critics Circle as being the “Best Non-Musical Production of...
Friday, April 04, 2014

Local actor, Corey Mach, turns on the audience in "Flashdance" at the Palace

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  On opening night, when Corey Mach made his first appearance on stage in “Flashdance The Musical,” the audience, after being prepped abou...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

CLYBOURNE PARK...a Pulitzer Prize view of neighborhood integration and gentrification

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Have you ever wondered, after seeing a play, what might have happened to the characters or even the physical structure in which the story ...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

"'night Mother"--Pulitzer Prize script and maserful acting at Beck

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One of the most common questions I encountered as a counselor when working with someone who had just experienced the suicide of a family m...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Deaf and blind Israeli performers enlighten audience at the Ohio

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If one of the major purposes of theater is to make members of the audience feel and view things in a different light, then “Not By Bread A...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

The Shaw Festival's 2014 season

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  The Shaw Festival is one of the two major Canadian theatre celebrations, the other being The Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario.  ...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

'LOBSTER ALICE': Salvatore Dali and Walt Disney at convergence-contnuum

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Walt Disney was an animator, cartoonist, producer, director, screenwriter, and the voice of Mickey Mouse.  He won 22 Academy Awards.  It i...
Monday, March 17, 2014

"The Westing Game" pleases audience at geauga Lyric Theater Guild

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Before the curtain went up at Geauga Lyric Theater Guild’s production of “The Westing Game,” the three tween boys sitting behind me were d...
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