It’s that time of year again.  Yes, stores are all decked out in holiday decorations, the Allen Theatre lobby is filled with Christmas Trees...

  Convergence-Continuum exposes gay entrapment in THE 20TH CENTURY WAY   Roy Berko (Cleveland Critics Circle & American Theater Critics ...

  Yes, Beck’s ELF “ is tinseled in synthetic sentiment and instantly forgettable. ”   Each holiday season Beck Center presents a child-centr...

INTO THE WOODS is a musical with a book by James Lapine and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.  Yes, that Stephen Sondheim, the man who i...

Entertaining THE PROM, a musical with a social message, gets a deserved standing “O” at the Connor Palace  Roy Berko   In 2010 a gay Mississ...

  Air guitar is a form of dance and movement in which performers pretend to play an imaginary electric guitar.  Performances include exagger...

  For the last several years more and more attention has been placed on The Black Lives Matter and Me-Too movements, woke language, micro-ag...

THE TEMPEST, now on stage at Great Lakes Theatre, is thought to be Shakespeare’s last known play.  The script almost defies classification a...

Appreciative audience welcomes Cleveland Orchestra back to Severance Music Center   Roy Berko   As I glanced around the gorgeous, newly rena...

August Wilson, the author of MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM, which is now in production at Karamu, America’s oldest African American producing the...