Saturday, March 26, 2016

BOOTY CANDY pushes the envelope at convergence continuum

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Both Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT) and convergence-continuum (con-con) are noted for producing “on the edge” theatre.  Ironically, bo...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

Groundworks Dance Theater stresses imagination you can see @ Breen Center; IT TAKES TWO--annual fundraising

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The reconfigured Groundworks Dance Theater, with two new dancers this season, again proved that they are one of the area’s premiere dance...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Devised SeXcurity probes for sense-of-self and identity at CPT



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Roy Berko 
Member: Cleveland Critics Circle and American Theatre Critics Association 

 Native Clevelander Darren Katz and Israeli bor...
Saturday, March 19, 2016

A KID LIKE JAKE probes the effects of heredity & environment at none too fragile

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In their catalog, Dramatists Play Service, which owns the production rights to Daniel Pearle’s A KID LIKE JAKE, states, “On the eve of th...
Monday, March 14, 2016

Personal thoughts on the passing of David O. Frazier

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It is with great sadness that I write this tribute to David O. Frazier. When my wife and I walked into many an opening night performanc...

THE 39 STEPS, British farcical fun, at Blank Canvas

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What do you do if  you are bored?  If you are Richard Hannay, the major character in Patrick Barlow’s THE 39 STEPS, now on stage at Bla...
Saturday, March 12, 2016

LUNA GALE expertly places the spotlight on the child welfare system at the Cleveland Play House

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As revealed in the CPH program:  43 percent of children placed in the child welfare system in Ohio are eventually returned to their famil...
Friday, March 11, 2016

THE REVISIONIST exposes the need for connectedness @ Dobama

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 Social anthropologists offer that humans have four basic needs—survival, pleasure, security and territoriality.  They also propose that ...

New ending adds a twist to AND THEN THERE WERE NONE @ GLT

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Agatha Christie is one of the world’s best-selling authors.  Her 66 detective novellas and fourteen short story collections have sold ov...
Sunday, February 21, 2016

MR BURNS: the post-apocalyptic future according to The Simpsons @ CPT

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It should come as no surprise to anyone who has seen Anne Washburn’s MR. BURNS A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY, now in production at Cleveland Pub...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

IN THE HEIGHTS explodes with Latino verve @ Beck Center

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At the start of IN THE HEIGHTS, now in its locally produced premiere at Beck Center, Usnavi chases away Graffiti Pete, a graffiti artis...
Sunday, February 14, 2016

Slight GOLDEN LEAF RAG TIME BLUES at Ensemble

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Director Ian Wolfgang Hinz’s program notes state, “GOLDEN LEAF RAG TIME BLUES is an exploration of prejudice and humanism.”  He continues,...
Friday, February 12, 2016

IF/THEN, in spite of a wonderful score, confuses some at Conner Palace

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I happened to be in D.C. on November 5, 2013 when IF/THEN opened its preview run.  I was fortunate enough to get tickets to opening nigh...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

DETROIT ’67 @ Karamu looks at the riots in the Motor City

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February 1, 1960--North Carolina State University students protested when the administration wouldn’t let a black male’s name appear on th...
Saturday, February 06, 2016

Lakeland Civic Theatre journeys INTO THE WOODS for wishes, choices and consequences

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Most fairy tales start with “Once upon a time,” and end with “And they lived happily ever after.”  Ever wonder if “happily ever after” is ...
Sunday, January 31, 2016

PURE SHOCK VALUE, absurd farce confounds at none too fragile

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Sean Derry and Alanna Romansky, Co-Artistic Directors of none too fragile have, since its founding in 2010, established the venue as a maj...

CPH’s compelling THE MOUNTAINTOP places spotlight on Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Katori Hall, who wrote the award winning play THE MOUNTAINTOP, which is in production at Cleveland Play House, in her script attempts to a...