Monday, June 30, 2014

A satisfying "My Fair Lady" opens the Porthouse 2014 season

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Last year’s Porthouse production of “South Pacific” joined the beautiful and gifted Kayce Cummings (Green) as Nellie Forbush with suave an...
Sunday, June 22, 2014

A MAP OF VIRTUE confounds at convergence continuum

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Every once in a while a theatrical production results in a “what is going on?” and “why is time and energy being wasted on this?” reacti...
Friday, June 20, 2014

Rabbit Run introduces audience to unbridled comic hysteria in "Noises Off"

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Actors know that sometimes, what happens at rehearsals and backstage during a production, is a bigger event than what happens on-stage dur...
Sunday, June 15, 2014

“Heartbreak House” a long sit, but the acting quality may make it worth the effort

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George Bernard Shaw, considered by many to be the premiere English playwright of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, had ve...
Saturday, June 14, 2014

Cleveland Foundation Centennial Meeting highlighted by Cespedes choreography and Collin Powell speech

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In the last century, the Cleveland Foundation, the first community foundation in the world, has given $1.78 billion dollars in grants to ...

Acting far surpasses script in "Possum Dreams" @ none too fragile

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Ed Falco, who teaches writing and literature in Virginia Tech’s MFA program, may best be known for his being the uncle of Edie Falco, wh...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

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Eric Coble, a Cleveland Heights-based writer, is the author of the Alexandra Trilogy.  Each play showcases Alex/Alexa/Alexandra at diffe...
Friday, June 06, 2014

"Tappin' Thru Life"--lots of singing and music and a little tapping at CPH

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“Woody Sez:  The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie,” “Maestro:  Leonard Bernstein,” “The Devil’s Music:  The Life and Times of Bessie Smith,...
Sunday, June 01, 2014

SEMINAR gets an A at Beck Center for the Arts

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When a student pays $5000 for a ten-week educational seminar, s/he doesn’t expect to be verbally attacked, viciously belittled, diminished...
Monday, May 26, 2014

"Voodoo MacBeth" misses its performance mark at Ensemble

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During the great depression of the 1930s the U. S. government attempted to stir up the economy by creating various works projects.  One of...

"We've come a long way baby,"--no, not quite...ANCESTRA @ CPT

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Watching Cleveland Public Theatre’s ANCESTRA is both an enlightening and a depressing experience.  Depressing in that the play adds yet an...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Baldwin Wallace Music Theatre Program's Ciara Renée makes it big on Broadway

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On April 1, Ciara Renée strutted on stage at the Music Box Theatre on West 45th Street as The Leading Player in PIPPIN.  She became one of...
Thursday, May 15, 2014

Cleveland area summer theatre and dance 2014 calendar

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The Cleveland area has a full schedule of summer theatre entertainment.   Here are some of the upcoming stagings: THEATRE OFFERINGS PO...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

"The Bridges of Madison County," well conceived musical that deserved a better fate on Broadway

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Some musicals are filled with flash, glitter, large production numbers and massive choruses.  “The Bridges of Madison County” is not one o...
Monday, May 12, 2014

"Bathroom Humor" flushes as Blank Canvas

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Before the lights went up on Blank Canvas’s production of “Bathroom Humor,” the couple sitting to my right and I carried on an animated co...