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Arthur Miller won the Pulitzer Prize for "Death of a Salesman," and there's no doubt it packs a wallop. Miller's trenchant critique of the American Dream - you can climb the corpor…
See Joel Grey, David Sedaris and the Midwest premiere of "The Call" at Dobama this weekend.
Don't miss "Or," a sparkling sex farce at Dobama Theatre.
Pop the cork on the champagne. The effervescent "Bullets Over Broadway" is in town.
A beautifully spare production of "The Secret Garden," in repertory with "King Lear," kicks off Great Lakes Theater's 54th season.
KeyBank Broadway series at Playhouse Square kicks off its 2015-16 season with "Bullets Over Broadway."
Possessed teens and one very misunderstood bat boy haunts Cleveland's stages this week.
Bat boys, sad clowns, singing ice fishermen and more populate Cleveland's small stages this fall.
Clevelanders romp in a hotel suite in Paris in Ken Ludwig's world-premiere farce "A Comedy of Tenors," opening at the Allen Theatre this weekend.
BEREA, Ohio - On Aug. 29, after learning that their friend and classmate, Broadway phenom Kyle Jean-Baptiste, had died in an accidental fall from a Brooklyn, New York fire escape, the 10 you…
Coming as though from the very air, his voice, a rich tenor filled with ineffable passion, rolled out over Euclid Ave., silencing the dozens there to pay tribute to the rising star who died …
At 21, the Baldwin Wallace grad became the youngest actor and the first African-American to take the Broadway stage in the lead role of Jean Valjean in the mega hit musical "Les Miserab…
Friends and fans of Kyle Jean-Baptiste are planning a memorial to remember him at 2 p.m. Monday in New York's Central Park. The rising star died in what police are calling an accidental fall…
BEREA, Ohio - Students, faculty and friends of Baldwin Wallace University will gather Sunday night to mourn the untimely death and celebrate the life of BW grad and Broadway talent Kyle Jean…
CLEVELAND, Ohio - You know you're in for a good time when you enter the rehearsal room at the Cleveland Play House just as Bobby Conte Thornton, an actor with John Stamos eyebrows and bedroo…
CLEVELAND, Ohio - Eight area elementary schools will be sprinkled with a little of Tinker Bell's pixie dust over the next two years, thanks to a $100,000 grant awarded to Playhouse Square fr…
Mormons and politicians descend on Cleveland to ring bells and kiss babies this week
How hot is Baldwin Wallace University grad Kyle Jean-Baptiste? Judging by this clip, he's as molten as the Earth's core about now. Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator and star of "Hamilton,&quo…
If Thornton Wilder were still kicking up his heels on our hot little third rock from the sun, I'm thinking he'd appreciate the purity of the Blank Canvas Theatre production of "Our Town…
Friday, Aug. 21, Blossom Music Center: Idina Menzel World Tour. If you missed the religious experience of her live performances on Broadway, your chance for redemption is nigh. The "Wic…
People whose kids had grown up participating in the shows in the theater's old space " the stuffy third-floor ballroom of the St. Patrick Church Social Hall in Ohio City " entered the new di…
Thursday, Aug. 13, The Musical Theater Project, "I Am What I Am: Gays, Lesbians and the American Musical." If you missed this world-premiere, rainbow-colored concert when …
Joel Grey comes to the Cleveland Play House with two performances of his one-man show "Joel Grey: Up Close and Personal" at the Allen Theatre in October.
Plans to expand the series from two weeks to three began in the fall of 2014 and were only bolstered by this season's "off-the-charts" attendance to shows such as "Motown,&quo…
Catch Mary Poppins, Tracy Turnblad, Julius Caesar, Jesus of Suburbia and the free-love lovin' tribe on stage this week.