--> Paula Vogel, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of “The Oldest Profession,” now on stage at convergence-continuum, is noted...

Sam Shepard, the author of “The Late Henry Moss,” which is now in production at none too fragile, once wrote, “I believe in my mask-- Th...

Canada's Shaw Festival is a tribute to George Bernard Shaw and his writing contemporaries.   
Many Clevelanders take the four-hour dr...

Cleveland Play House (CPH) Artistic Director Laura Kepley announced the 2018-2019 Season today to a standing-room-only gathering in t...

The history of American musical theater is laced with firsts and trend setters.  Rogers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma” introduced the well-...

Lots of today’s science news concerns controlled drug studies done by pharmaceutical companies, as well as government agencies, to insure ...

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 ...