Wednesday, April 29, 2015

BENGAL TIGER--a mental and emotional challenge at Ensemble

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In BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO, Cleveland Heights native Rajiv Joseph’s, surreal dark play, ghosts roam the streets of Baghdad...
Sunday, April 26, 2015

Dobama’s SUPERIOR DONUTS, dessert for both the laugher and the thinker

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Tracy Letts, the author of SUPERIOR DONUTS, now on stage at Dobama, is an accomplished playwright, actor, and screenwriter.  He was awarde...

Brilliant IN A WORD @ Cleveland Public Theatre

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What are the feelings of a husband and wife when they want to conceive a child, but can’t?  What are the ramifications for that childless ...
Saturday, April 18, 2015

BAD JEWS, bad title, bad script at Actors’ Summit

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Shortly into Actors’ Summit’s production of BAD JEWS, several things become obvious.  The off-setting title was not only a turn-off for ma...
Sunday, April 12, 2015

THE TEMPEST brews up a storm at GLT

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William Shakespeare is considered by most experts on English language theatre as being the greatest of all writers.  His vast folio of...

CPH’s VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE entertains, but….

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As the lights came up at the start of Cleveland Play House’s VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE, the audience is exposed to a comfortable...
Friday, April 10, 2015

KINKY BOOTS will “Raise You Up” at the Conner Palace Theatre

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To resounding applause, Gina Vernaci, the Executive Producer of Playhouse Square, the woman responsible for cobbling together each year’s ...
Sunday, March 29, 2015

Beck’s LEND ME A TENOR, farce at its funny best!

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Some people go to the theatre to be educated.  Some go to see/listen to a pleasing combination of music and lyrics enclosed in a story.  O...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Sheri Gross to perform in Musical Theater Project’s “Behind the Musical: Hello, Dolly!”

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Combine the talents of Bill Rudman, Artistic Director of The Musical Theater Project (TMTP), music director Nancy Maier, singers Ann Gilb...
Monday, March 23, 2015

Sir Isaac Newton wonderfully unmasked at convergence continuum; CPH 2015-16 season announced

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One of the major issues in watching a historidrama is figuring out what is real, what is fiction, and what is fantasy.  This is especially...
Monday, March 09, 2015

Plays about gay marriage have a successful return visit to Cleveland Public Theatre

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In October of 2012, when Cleveland Public Theatre first staged, STANDING ON CEREMONY THE GAY MARRIAGE PLAYS, “same sex marriage was legal ...
Sunday, March 08, 2015

BECKY SHAW, comedy of bad manners, marvelous at Dobama

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Gina Gionfriddo, the author of BECKY SHAW, now on stage at Dobama Theatre, is one of the new breed of playwrights who reflect topics relev...
Saturday, March 07, 2015

Compelling THE PIANIST OF WILLESDEN LANE at Cleveland Play House

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It is the intent of theater to educate and entertain, and, in the case of some special offerings, enrapture.  Such a piece of theater is T...
Friday, March 06, 2015

DIRTY DANCING THE CLASSIC STORY ON STAGE disappoints at the Conner Palace Theatre

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DIRTY DANCING, THE CLASSIC STORY ON STAGE, which is now in production at the Connor Palace transports the audience back to the summer of 1...
Monday, March 02, 2015

DIAL “M” FOR MURDER, another exciting murder mystery at GLT

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Mystery books are the second highest money-making genre in literature, only exceeded by Romance/Erotica.  They are the highest rated telev...