Sunday, March 26, 2017

“Harm’s Way” examines the underbelly of humanity at convergence continuum

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Cleveland is in the midst of “The Mac Wellman Homecoming Festival,” presented by Playwrights Local, in partnership with Cleveland State...
Saturday, March 25, 2017

A tale of disinterring bodies makes for wild night of Irish black comedy at none too fragile

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Last year none too fragile theatre produced Martin McDonagh’s “The Beauty Queen of Leenane,” one episode of the Leenane trilogy.  The pr...
Thursday, March 23, 2017

Touring “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” less than it should be

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When the 2016-17 Key Bank Broadway series was announced, I was ecstatic.  Three of my favorite recent Broadway shows were liste...
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Ensemble’s 2017 Colombi New Plays Festival features “Occupation Dad”

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Ensemble Theatre’s “Playwrights” was established in the early 1990’s by Don Bianchi, one of the founders of Dobama, and Park Goist, a pro...
Wednesday, March 15, 2017

“Honey, Honey,” “Mamma Mia!” makes yet another stop at Connor Palace

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Yes, the jukebox musical “Mamma Mia!” is back in Cleveland.  And, as has consistently happened in the past, the audience was on its feet...
Sunday, March 12, 2017

“Floyd Collins” melodramatically spelunkers into eternal fame at Blank Canvas

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  “ Floyd Collins ,” now on stage at Blank Canvas Theatre, isn’t your typical musical.  There is no dancing, no show-stopper production n...
Saturday, March 11, 2017

HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE makes for a slow haunting trip at the Cleveland Play House

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The mission of the Cleveland Play House is to produce plays that “inspire stimulate and entertain.”  It further intends to bring bold, ne...
Wednesday, March 08, 2017

Nancy Maier, Jerry Herman, “Open a New Window,” The Musical Theater Project

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Nancy Maier left New York and a budding career to move to Cleveland.  Yes, she traded the Big Apple for Cle! Many know Nancy Maier fr...
Monday, March 06, 2017

Controversial, thought-provoking “A Great Wilderness” at Beck Center’s

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The American Psychological Association, American Counseling Association, American Psychiatric Association and almost all profe...
Sunday, March 05, 2017

Compelling The Flick unreels as a must see production @ Dobama

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Annie Baker, who deservedly won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her play The Flick, was perceived by the awarding committee as one of “th...
Wednesday, March 01, 2017

Exciting Broadway series announced for CLE--2017-2018

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It was an exciting evening at the State Theatre, where a capacity crowd heard Gina Vernaci, architect of the Key Bank Broadway ser...
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...