Saturday, June 27, 2015

A preview: DANCECleveland and Cain Park Co-Sponsor David Parsons Dance to Celebrate National Day of Dance

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New York City based David Parsons Dance will kick off DANCECleveland’s 60th Anniversary Season with dancing for the whole family.  The s...

Abstract “The Train Play” confounds at convergence continuum

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Liz Duffy Adams, whose play, “The Reckless Ruthless Brutal Charge Of It, or The Train Play” is now on stage at convergence continuum is no...
Monday, June 15, 2015

Opinions differ on TRIASSIC PARQ THE MUSICAL at Blank Canvas

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--> As I sat shaking my head in disbelief of what I was seeing and hearing on the Blank Canvas Theatre stage, those around me w...

“Prepare Ye”--Updated musical arrangements and script ,“All for the Best” in Cain Park’s GODSPELL

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The story goes that in 1970, while attending college in Pittsburgh, John-Michael Tebelak went to church on Easter Sunday.  A theology stud...
Sunday, June 14, 2015

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC opens 2015 season at Porthouse

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What do “West Side Story,” “Gypsy,” “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” “Company,” “Follies,” “Sweeney Todd” “Sunday in the ...
Saturday, June 13, 2015

Chris Howey reveals all in the funny, often sad, always compelling EXACT CHANGE

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In her book, “Dress Codes: of three girlhoods—my mother’s, my father’s and mine,” Noelle Howey writes, “I have a dad who is a woman much l...
Thursday, June 04, 2015

Honky Tonk, Nashville, and pop music invades Actors’ Summit

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--> ALWAYS…PATSY CLINE, now on stage at Actors’ Summit, is a well formed musical review in which a Patsy Cline-imitator wails a...
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 ...