Saturday, June 17, 2023

RENT, now on stage at Cain Park, introduced a new era in the history of the American musical theater

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      There are a handful of plays that have had a profound effect on the form we know as the American musical theatre.      SHOWBOAT, with ...
Monday, June 12, 2023

Comedy tonight—A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM @ Porthouse

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  A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM (or A FUNNY THING for short), which is now on stage at Kent State University’s Porthouse Th...
Saturday, June 10, 2023

Sets, costumes and staging bring audience to their feet for MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL

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A jukebox musical is a stage show in which a majority of the songs are well-known before they were inserted into the plot, rather than being...
Tuesday, June 06, 2023

THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG at CVLT is amateur theatre at its funny best

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In 1923 there was THE TORCHBEARERS.  In 1982 the stage was filled with hysterical disasters during NOISES OFF.  Now there is THE PLAY THAT G...
Monday, June 05, 2023

Superlative script, expert directing and compelling acting make for spellbinding Beck production

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  DOUBT:  A PARABLE , which is now on stage at Beck Center for the Arts, won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best P...

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  WALKING TO BUCHENWALD gets better production than script deserves at Con-Con   Roy Berko (American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland ...
Monday, May 29, 2023

THE LIGHT @ ENSEMBLE

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  Ensemble’s Cleveland premiere of  THE LIGHT  is theater at its finest!   Roy Berko (American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critic...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Superlative touring DEAR EVAN HANSEN is an absolutely must see!

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  Rogers and Hammerstein’s “ OKLAHOMA ” ushered in the era of book-centric American musicals that have been designated as “musical comedies....
Saturday, May 13, 2023

CLEVELAND THEATER CALENDAR—June-August, 2023

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    Though it seems like it will never be here, there will be summer and the 216/440/330 theater scene will heat up.  Here’s a list of  some...

KEN LUDWIG’S MORIARTY not one of CPH’s shining moments

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  Ken Ludwig is the crown king of writing modern farcical plays.     Ludwig and the Cleveland Play House seem to have a “thing” for each oth...