Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Existential AGES OF THE MOON at Ensemble

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Sam Shepard, the author of AGES OF THE MOON, now on stage at Ensemble Theatre, is noted for writing plays that are frank and often absurd....
Friday, November 13, 2015

“So You Think You Can Dance” concert in PHSquare includes 2015 winner Gaby Dia

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“So You Think You Can Dance” is a 13-time Primetime Emmy Award television dance competition show which has just completed its twelfth seas...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Kent State’s Musical Theatre program joins Musical Theater Project for ZORBA!

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“I believe in grabbing at life.”  “Every minute is a new minute.”  Thus states Zorba, the lead character in ZORBA!, a musical that “captu...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

There’s a Cleveland atmosphere to Broadway theatre 2015

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Last season over twenty performers with Cleveland area connections played on Broadway.  So far this season, the trend continues.  Chris ...

FOOL FOR LOVE is a Manhattan Theatre Club gift to students and audiences

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Most Broadway theatre is based on the for-profit model.  Find or write a script, get backers to fund the show, hire a director and the nec...
Monday, November 09, 2015

DAMES AT SEA—a happy flashback to the musicals of the 30s

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The musicals of the 1930s were tap-dancing, bright-lights, happy music, and slight plot-driven spectaculars.  Watching DAMES AT SEA is a...
Sunday, November 08, 2015

SPRING AWAKENING—a brilliant, compelling, creative revival on Broadway

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The late eighteen-hundreds were dark years in Europe.  The times were noted for oppression, strong church controls, guilt, and sexual repr...
Saturday, October 31, 2015

TALL SKINNY CRUEL CRUEL BOYS--Theater Ninja offers a thought-provoking scare-treat

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Theater Ninjas, which bills itself as “the Food Truck of Cleveland Theater” due to its having no permanent home, but relishes its nomadic ...
Saturday, October 24, 2015

Meticulously written, directed and performed THE CALL at Dobama

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Tanya Barfield, author of THE CALL, which is now on stage at Dobama Theatre, didn’t want to write the play.  She stated in a December, 2...
Friday, October 23, 2015

What is THE HAPPY SAD at convergence continuum?

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Tyson Douglas Rand, director of THE HAPPY SAD now in production at convergence-continuum, in his program notes for the show, states, “What...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

Farcical BAT BOY THE MUSICAL is a blood-sucking “hoot” at Blank Canvas

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In June 23, 1992, if you believed the supermarket tabloid, “Weekly World News,” you’d have accepted that a “large-eyed, fanged human child...
Monday, October 19, 2015

Cesear’s Forum’s THE INVESTIGATION is an excruciating personal experience

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As the actors lined up for the curtain call of Cesear’s Forum’s THE INVESTIGATION, Peter Weiss’s play about the Frankfurt Auschwit...
Sunday, October 18, 2015

Mesmerizing production of Arthur Miller’s THE CRUCIBLE at Cleveland Play House

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Arthur Miller, the author of THE CRUCIBLE, which is now in production at the Cleveland Play House’s Outcalt Theatre, was one of the most i...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Shakespeare’s epic tragic KING LEAR at GLT is a moving experience

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In his program notes for Great Lakes Theater’s production, director Joseph Hanreddy states, “KING LEAR, with its titanic range of emotiona...
Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Aesthetically exquisite THE SECRET GARDEN at GLT

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Every once in a while a theater-goer is privileged to participate in a staged production that aesthetically enfolds them. Under the creati...