Saturday, February 28, 2015

MY HEART IS THE DRUM gets staged premiere at Kent State

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One of the major purposes of collegiate musical theater programs, besides teaching acting, singing and dancing skills, is to expand studen...
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

DOGFIGHT fails to live up to Beck-Baldwin Wallace past productions

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Beck Center for the Arts and Baldwin Wallace’s Musical Theatre Program have, for the past four years, collaborated to produce some outstan...
Wednesday, February 04, 2015

Elements series concludes with FIRE ON THE WATER at Cleveland Public Theatre

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FIRE ON WATER is the fourth play in Cleveland Public Theatre’s Elements Cycle, plays about the environment.  According to Artistic Directo...

Magical PIPPIN almost finds its “Corner of the Sky,” at Connor Palace

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PIPPIN, the Stephen Schwartz (music and lyrics) and Roger O. Hirson (book) magical show is now on stage at The Palace Theatre.  It tells a...
Sunday, February 01, 2015

PILOBOLUS, Dance Cleveland’s gift to area aficionados; area dance previews

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PILOBOLUS is noted for adding both physical and theatrical elements to dance presentations.  They have been credited, in their 44 years ...
Saturday, January 31, 2015

Ensemble’s THURGOOD is a perfect Black History Month treat

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Thurgood Marshall has been called the “greatest lawyer of the 20th Century,” “Mr. Civil Rights,” and is credited with doing “more than any...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE, story light, musically big at Cleveland Play House

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Cleveland Play House has in its recent history included small cast musicals in its offerings. Those shows included TAPPIN’ THROUGH LIFE (M...
Monday, January 26, 2015

JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE helps celebrate 100th anniversary of Karamu

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On June 15, 2015, Karamu, the country’s oldest continuously performing Black Theatre, will celebrate its 100th birthday.  As part of t...
Sunday, January 25, 2015

Compelling, well-written, well acted SLOWGIRL at Dobama

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On the surface, Greg Pierce’s SLOWGIRL, which is now on stage at Dobama, is the tale of a teenager who finds herself living a real-life ni...
Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Hey, Clevelanders…it’s almost Shaw Festival time!

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--> Yes, the snow is on the ground, the weather is miserable, but soon the cold winds will subside and Clevelanders will start their fl...
Saturday, January 17, 2015

Must see, thought provoking, entertaining, EINSTEIN, at Actors’ Summit

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Brian Zoldessy, one of the area’s most awarded actors, seems to be making a career of bringing real people to life.  He was Ned Weeks, the...
Sunday, December 21, 2014

2015 Winter-Spring Cleveland Theater Calenda

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Though the winds and snow are blowing, theater in Cleveland continues on.  Here’s a list of some of the offerings through the spring seaso...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

TIMES THEATER TRIBUTES--2014

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Greater Cleveland is blessed with a vital theatre scene.  It is the purpose of the TIMES THEATRE TRIBUTES to recognize theatrical experien...