THE WILD PARTY--BW’s Music Theatre Program reaches levels of excellence that far exceeds those of college students   The Wild Party  is a mu...

  THE GREAT LEAP at CPH is a slam dunk!   Roy Berko (Member---Cleveland Critics Circle, American Theatre Critics Association)   Lauren Yee, ...

  DESCRIBE THE NIGHT, which is now on stage at Ensemble Theatre, is Cleveland Heights native Rajiv Joseph’s 2018 Obie Award winner for Best ...

  Nikkole Slater,  BREAKOUT SESSION (OR FROGORSE) , was commissioned in 2020 by CPT, with funding from the National New Play Network (NNPN)....

  INSURRECTION:  HOLDING HISTORY less than it should be at Con-Con Roy Berko (Cleveland Critics Circle, American Theatre Critics Association...

    When LES MISERABLE last came to CLE in November of 2018, in part I wrote:   From the very first time I saw “ Les Miserables ,” shortly a...

    Out-of-town published comments about THE THIN PLACE, now on stage at Dobama, include: “a Horror Drama that You Think You’ll Forget, Then...

  THE CURIOUS INCIDENT is well-conceived at Beck, but…   Roy Berko  (Member:  American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle...

      Bruce Norris’s  Clybourne Park  is now on stage as the opening play in Ensemble Theatre’s debut year in its residency at Notre Dame Co...

  Music, humor, empathy--AMERICAN MARIACHI hits all the right notes @ CPH   Roy Berko   “Mariachi is a genre of regional Mexican music that ...

  “The Reluctant Orchid,” a tale of a humble florist who uses a man-eating plant to get rid of his enemies and raise his own status was tran...

Barbra Streisand’s career started in the gay nightclub, The Lion, located in New York’s Greenwich Village.  Her films and music have amassed...

  As I exited the opening night of FROZEN, part of the Broadway Series, which is now on stage at the Key Bank State Theatre, I was surrounde...

    In the fall of 1957, I had a mind-blowing experience.  I saw the newly opened Broadway production of WEST SIDE STORY.  At the time, all ...