Tuesday, May 03, 2016

Superb THE BEAUTY QUEENOF LEENANE at none too fragile

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The Irish are a unique brand of people.  Living in a land of rocks, hills, harsh weather, poverty and isolation, they have developed attit...
Sunday, May 01, 2016

Award winning JERUSALEM misses the mark at Ensemble

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  If you go to see JERUSALEM, now on stage at Ensemble Theatre, don’t expect it to be about people living in the Israeli city of that na...
Saturday, April 30, 2016

The Cleveland Ballet is back with new leadership and attitude

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The words, “Cleveland Ballet” to many locals means Dennis Nahat, Ian Horvath, Karan Gabey, Raymond Rodriguez, impr...

Tribute for David O. Frazier, and some quickie reviews (Cirque Du Soleil’s OVO, CPH’s NEW. THEATRE.FESTIVAL and Blank Canvas)

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CELEBRATING OUR RASCAL, a tribute to David O. Frazier A massive turnout filled the State Theatre on April 25 to pay tribute to David O....
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

MARIE ANTOINETTE--history with a modern twist and possible relevance @ Dobama

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The subject of David Adjmi’s play, MARIE ANTOINETTE, was a delicate beauty, with gray-blue eyes and ash-blond hair, who following the Seve...
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Musical Theater Project goes behind the scenes of the FANTASTICKS

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What is the longest running musical in New York City history?  No, it’s not PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, CHICAGO or THE LION KING.  It’s that lit...
Sunday, April 17, 2016

TALLEY’S FOLLY, a tale of love overcoming prejudices and uncertainty, at Actors’ Summit

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Theatre, as do all of the arts, represents the era from which it comes or is written about.  For example, Lanford Wilson’s TALLEY’S FOLLY...
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST—lesser script done with extended farce @ GLT

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LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST, a production of which is now on stage at Great Lakes Theater, is one of Shakespeare’s earliest plays.  As such, some...
Sunday, April 10, 2016

Cleveland Orchestra and Joffrey Ballet combine for a thrilling evening

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Roy Berko What happens when you bring together the music of composer Béla Bartók, noted for developing new sounds for a new century, The ...
Saturday, April 09, 2016

MR. WOLF, thought-provoking, dark, confounding @ Cleveland Play House

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Over the last several years much attention has been drawn to the abduction of children and, in rare cases, their return.  A short time ago...
Friday, April 08, 2016

BEAUTIFUL THE CAROL KING MUSICAL delights at Conner Palace

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As the curtain rises, it’s 1971, Carole King is on stage at Carnegie Hall.  She sings, “So Far Away,” one of her classic hits.  Thus star...
Sunday, April 03, 2016

Well written SHINING CITY on stage @ Beck Center

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SHINING CITY, Conor McPherson’s script now on stage at Beck Center, is a play about people who are in a search for “self.”  Each of the f...
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...