Sunday, August 27, 2017

“Rhinoceros” challenges the audience to place a spotlight on the absurdity of life today @ con-con

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Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Edward Albee are Theatre of the Absurd playwrights.  Unlike modern-movement writers li...
Saturday, August 12, 2017

Superb “Equus” filled with passion at Blank Canvas

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In the early 1970s, master wordsmith and playwright Peter Shaffer read a small news story, with little details, about a boy who had blin...
Friday, August 04, 2017

2017 Fall Cleveland Theater Calendar

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Here’s a list of some of the offerings of local theatres through the fall season (September-December, 2017). SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL THEATER...
Tuesday, August 01, 2017

“Wilde Tales,” a fun inclusive experience at The Shaw

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 A yearly highlight of the Shaw Festival season are their lunch-time hour productions which are staged in the intimate Court House Theatr...

Tom McCamus is superb in “The Madness of George III” at The Shaw

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G. Bernard Shaw, for whom the Shaw Festival is named and dedicated, wrote in “The Revolutionist’s Handbook,” “Kings are not born, they ar...

The Shaw’s "Saint Joan" is a compelling, effective, inventive production

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Joan d’Arc was born January 6, 1412, and was burned at the stake on October 30, 1431.   During her short life, the oft referred to “Ma...

Delightful, thought-provoking “Androcles And the Lion,” the play to see at Shaw

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George Bernard Shaw, for whom Canada’s Shaw Festival is named, was noted for his strong political, gender, governmental and education vie...

Creative “Me and My Girl” delights at Shaw Festival

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Though America is credited with developing modern musical theater, productions that have a story-line and incorporate dance and song into...

A Clevelander’s view of the Shaw Festival—2017

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The Shaw is one of two major Canadian theater celebrations, the other being The Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario.  Both are prof...
Sunday, July 30, 2017

Porthouse’s “Newsies” makes for a very pleasant evening of theater

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“Newsies” is the Disney produced musical that was inspired by the real-life Newsboys Strike of 1899 in which a group of ragtag ruffian you...
Friday, July 21, 2017

“Best of Broadway’ brings out the best of the Cleveland Orchestra and Festival Chorus at Blossom

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A massive Blossom crowd, a nearly full amphitheater and a lawn in which not a blade of grass was not the covered with blankets, table cl...
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

The hills are alive, once again, with the “Sound of Music” courtesy of Playhouse Square

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As a reviewer who often goes to the theatre three or four times a week, I’m often asked, “How can you see the same show time after time?” ...

GROUNDWORKS DANCE THEATER delights again at Cain Park concert

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As such television programs as “So You Think You Can Dance” and “World of Dance” convince more and more people to appreciate dance as...
Sunday, July 16, 2017

Overly long, thought-provoking “Neighbors” at convergence continuum

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Last year, Dobama Theater’s production of Brenden Jacobs-Jenkins’ “An Octoroon” was selected as Best Non-musical Production by the Clevela...
Thursday, July 13, 2017

I can see you…Idina Menzel delights at Jacobs Pavilion

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Near the end of her delightful concert at Jacobs Pavilion located in the Flats, multi-award winner Idina ...
Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Seldom-staged “City of Angels” now at Beck Center for the Arts

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“City of Angels," a version of which is now on stage at Beck Center, opened on Broadway in December of 1989 and ran through January...