Sunday, May 31, 2015

Pulitzer Prize winning THE YOUNG MAN FROM ATLANTA @ Beck Center

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On the surface, Horton Foote’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, THE YOUNG MAN FROM ATLANTA, now in production at Beck Center, tells the tale o...
Monday, May 25, 2015

A preview: EXACT CHANGE @ PlayhouseSquare/Helen--original play by local critic, writer and actor, explores his/her transgender journey

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Before transitioning in 1990, Christine Howey was Richard Howey, a celebrated stage actor in Cleveland, known for playing such heavy-hitti...
Saturday, May 23, 2015

Disappointing DONTRELL, WHO KISSED THE SEA @ Cleveland Public Theatre

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About fifteen years ago, an African American student on a Semester at Sea around the world educational cruise jumped overboard.  T...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

2015 Summer Cleveland Theater Calendar

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Some theatres such as Cleveland Play House, Dobama, Great Lakes Theatre and Ensemble are dark for the summer season, but there are lots of...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

A VIEW OF BROADWAY FROM THE NORTH COAST

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New York is about 500 miles from Cleveland.  Several times a year I wander forth to see the bright lights of Broadway and venture into...

Farcical SOMETHING ROTTEN! A VERY NEW MUSICAL delights!

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Did you know that Shakespeare was an arrogant fop?  That he stole the ideas, as well as much of the text from his plays from others?  Are ...
Monday, May 18, 2015

Tyrone, the Satan of Broadway, stars in HAND TO GOD

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Tyrone is evil.  Tyrone, he of big, vacant eyes is both disturbing and funny.  Tyrone is vile, violent and demonic.  Tyrone is raunchy.   ...
Sunday, May 17, 2015

AN AMERICAN IN PARIS builds a stairway to paradise on Broadway

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The 1951 film AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin, is considered by many to be one of the  most...
Sunday, May 10, 2015

WOLVES, a supposed modern fairy tale, a bewildering experience at convergence-continuum

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Steve Yockey’s WOLVES:  AN URBAN FABLE, now on stage at convergence-continuum, centers on three people, Ben and Jack, ex-lovers who still ...
Saturday, May 09, 2015

Behind the scenes story of the Cleveland Play House's Tony Award

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  At the end of each year, the Cleveland Critics Circle meets to select the winners of that year’s performance awards as well as to deal wi...

FAIRFIELD delights and challenges beliefs at CPH

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Cleveland Heights School Board member, Eric Coble, has an inside track on understanding the way schools work.   In his play, FAIRFIELD, he...
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...