Monday, September 25, 2017

The Musical Theater Project presents “The Impact of OKLAHOMA!”

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March 31, 1943 is a key day in American theatrical history.  It is the date that is often credited with introducing the world to the “boo...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Mesmerizing, emotion-laden “Last of the Boys” at none too fragile

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I t is ironic that the same weekend that Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s 18-hour PBS documentary series “The Vietnam War” started screening, n...
Monday, September 18, 2017

Cleveland Play House opens 2017-2018 with entertaining “Shakespeare in Love”

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Lee Hall, the Tony Award winning musical book writer for “Billy Elliott the Musical,” once wrote, “The point of theatre is transformation:...
Friday, September 15, 2017

Finely performed “Simply Simone” jazzes up Karamu

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Mention the name Nina Simone and your mind probably conjures up jazz.  Yes, Nina, the jazz superstar and writer/performer of such powerho...
Thursday, September 14, 2017

Irreverent “Book of Mormon” delights in return visit at State Theatre

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One of the major concerns in attending a return visit by a Broadway touring show is that the production will be a lesser version.   Those...
Tuesday, September 05, 2017

Janáček’s “The Cunning Little Vixen” to open The Cleveland Orchestra’s 100th season

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The Cleveland Orchestra is on the verge of reaching its centennial.  In celebration of this momentous milestone, the innovative made-fo...
Monday, September 04, 2017

Apollo’s Fire, Cleveland’s award winning Baroque orchestra, opens new season with “Israel in Egypt”

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After selling out concerts at Tangelwood, in Madrid, Spain and BBC programs in London, Apollo’s Fire comes home to open its 2017-2018 seas...
Sunday, September 03, 2017

Opening night standing ovation for Dobama’s “brownsville song (b-side for tray) well-deserved

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Those familiar with the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn think of such words as “ghetto,” “murder,” “rape” and “crime.”  It’s the kin...
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...