Have you ever wondered if your life would have played out differently if, at a young age, you had been able to meet “yourself” a coupl...

If you were a Broadway investor and someone approached you with the idea of producing a musical about a waitress who worked in a diner, wa...

The “new” Cleveland Ballet, under the artistic leadership of Puerto Rico-born Gladisa Guadalupe, a former member of the “old” Cleveland Ba...

Local theater-goers are familiar with the outstanding performance work of Dorothy Silver, often called “the first lady of Cleveland thea...

What do “Beauty and The Beast,” “The Lion King,” “Tarzan,” “The Little Mermaid,” “Aladdin,” and, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” have in com...

In his program notes to Great Lakes Theater’s production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” the show’s director states that the play allows t...

On June 20, 1973 I had one of my mind-blowing experiences in a theater.  I was in London, the theater broker couldn’t get a ticket for t...

Lisa Kron, who is best known for writing the lyrics and book to the musical, “Fun Home,” for which she won both the Tony Award for Best O...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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