Tuesday, February 28, 2017

I CALL MY BROTHERS challenges and confounds at Cleveland Public Theatre

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It’s no wonder in this age of xenophobia, racial profiling and baiting, irrational interpretation of regulations, police brutality and alt...
Monday, February 27, 2017

Well done Barbecue lights up Cleveland Public Theatre

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Addiction, whether it's alcohol, drugs, sex, racism, obsessive compulsion or eating, is no funny matter. That is unless it's in a...
Saturday, February 25, 2017

Ensemble hits a hole-in-one with Radio Golf

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  August Wilson is considered not only one of the greatest of African American playwrights, but of all theatrical writers.  His themes o...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Well-conceived The Bridges of Madison County @ Lakeland Civic Theatre

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The capsule judgement of my review of the Broadway production of The Bridges of Madison County stated, ““The Bridges of Madison County” is...

WAIT UNTIL DARK underwhelming at Great Lakes Theater

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Over the last number of years Great Lakes Theater has cobbled together seasons consisting of Shakespearean classics, musicals and mystery ...
Saturday, February 18, 2017

Dynamic choreography lights up the stage in Beck Center’s Bring It On: The Musical

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Mention Lin-Manuel Miranda and the musical sensation Hamilton comes to mind.  If not, then, In the Heights, which had a run at Beck Center...
Sunday, January 29, 2017

Farcical Sherlock Holmes’ mystery, Baskerville, at the Cleveland Play House

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Ken Ludwig is the crown king of writing modern farcical plays.  He and the Cleveland Play House seem to have a “thing” for each other.  Lu...
Thursday, January 26, 2017

Review and previews: Dance Theatre of Harlem, The Cleveland Ballet, Groundworks

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DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM @ Ohio Theatre Founded in 1969, the Dance Theatre of Harlem, which is housed in the Harlem section of New York Cit...
Sunday, January 22, 2017

THE NIGHT ALIVE, a downer which confounds @ Dobama

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Conor McPherson, author of THE NIGHT ALIVE, now on stage at Dobama Theatre, is considered one of the important new breed of playwrights wh...
Sunday, January 15, 2017

THE PHANTOM TOLL BOTH not all it could be at Ensemble

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Much like Lewis Carroll’s ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND and L. Frank Baum’s THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF OZ, Norton Juster’s THE PHANTOM ...
Saturday, January 14, 2017

Amy Schwabauer wretches her soul in THIS IS NOT ABOUT MY DEAD DOG @ Playwrights Local

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A present trend in entertainment is story telling before an audience.  “The Moth:  True Stories Told Live,” is one of Public Radio’s highe...
Friday, January 13, 2017

Innovative INTO THE WOODS examines “happily ever after” at Connor Palace

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Contemporary musical theater and jazz, are two major contributions to the arts of the world that have come from the United States.  Origin...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

BWW-Cle Theater Tributes--2016 (BROADWAYWORLD-CLEVELAND PROFESSIONAL THEATER TRIBUTES)

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Greater Cleveland is blessed with a vital theater scene.  It has been the purpose of the TIMES THEATER TRIBUTES, now known as BROADWAYWOR...
Friday, December 16, 2016

KNIFE/MONEY FORK/LOVE intrigues, convergence continuum at a life/death crossroads

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  Theaters such as Blank Canvas, Cesear’s Forum, Ensemble and congruence continuum are the creation of one or two people who invest thei...
Thursday, December 08, 2016

Compelling and relevant Clybourne Park by CPH/CWRU

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This country is in political and social turmoil.   There is a President-elect who appears will win the Electoral College endorsement,...
Tuesday, December 06, 2016

Applause, but no standing ovation for CABARET at Blank Canvas, but big time accolades for Allen Cumming in Concert

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Cabaret .  It’s 1931 in Germany, a country of unrest.  We find ourselves at the Kit Kat Klub, a seedy cabaret, a place of decadence and e...