Stephen Sondheim, who wrote the music and lyrics for “Sweeney Todd:  The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” which is now in production at Blan...

Several years ago, when I saw the Broadway production of Ayad Akhtar’s Pulitzer Prize winning “Disgraced,” I was totally impressed by th...

When Great Lakes Theater Festival announced in June, 2009, that it’s Associate Artistic Director, Andrew May, was no longer going to be pa...

Sometimes theater is high drama.  At other times it’s for learning about history or philosophy.  “Sassy Mamas,” now on stage at Karamu, is...

Mention the name “Riverdance” and the general thought of many is Michael Flatley.  Yes, Flatley, the Irish dance champion and the theatric...

The South Side of Chicago is noted for its gritty streets, drug dealers, drive by shootings and pressure for Black men and boys to not o...

Truth can often be stranger and more compelling than fiction.  Such is the case of David (Bruce) Reimer and his identical twin brother, Br...

    In December, 1968, about 50 Lorain County Community College students flew to New York.  Some in the clean-scrubbed conservative grou...

What happens when you present a charming script and add two of Cleveland’s most beloved actors?  You get five sold out houses and calls ...

Verb Ballets chose to highlight two young Black choreographers for its “Celebrating Black History” recent program at the Breen Center befo...

In its initial run on Broadway, Stephen Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along” was met with negative reactions.  Fortunately, that hasn’t disc...

One of the purposes of theater is to educate.  Another is to get the audience involved psychologically in the process.  The ultimate end ...

When Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s name appeared on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Ballot, there were many who thought, Sister who?  Little did ...

From the moment patrons entered the lobby of the Ohio Theatre, they knew they were in for a “different” evening of dance.  The Tri-C Jaz...

  An unnamed woman (Anjanette Hall), in an Air Force jump suit, confidently stalks the stage telling us, with eyes flashing and int...

On February 23, the Broadway previews for Tony’s Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning, “Angels in America:  A Gay Fantasia On National Theme...

George and Ira Gershwin penned some of the best popular songs of the 1900s and many film hits including the Academy Award winning, “They C...

THEATER AND DANCE PREVIEW—January 2018—Cleveland Roy Berko January in Cleveland is cold!  There are usually a limited number of theat...