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The timing couldn't have been better -- with her mother finally scheduled for a long--awaited surgery, the BW Showcase was a way to get Adrianna Cleveland's promising career back on track.
What's the Theatre Diva seeing next in NYC?
Jill Paice plays Milo Davenport, a lovelorn American heiress who has a yen for artist Jerry Mulligan (Robert Fairchild), an ex-G.I. knocking around the City of Light in "An American in …
"An American in Paris," a gorgeous fusion of Broadway and ballet, unfolded to spontaneous bursts of applause and shouts of "Bravo!" from the charmed crowd long before the…
Wanna know how Chris McCarrell went from Baldwin Wallace to Broadway?
"Les Miz's" Chris McCarrell and BW's Victoria Bussert: A Broadway reunion made in Cleveland.
An exclusive first look at the 2015 Baldwin Wallace University Music Theatre Showcase.
If you want a Broadway fix without spending the cash for an overpriced plane ticket and monastic cell of a hotel, check back at cleveland.com/onstage and follow me as I head to New York to s…
"Kinky's Tony-nominated costumes are as gloriously gaudy as those in "La Cage aux Folles," only trashier and less arty, with higher hemlines. (Let's just say we're glad Lola a…
Before there was The Bride - Uma Thurman in a yellow tracksuit dispatching a forest of baddies with her samurai sword to avenge her dead love in "Kill Bill" - there was Marjorie, c…
"Night at the Museum" actor Bill Cobbs leads a master class at Karamu Theatre Saturday and Sunday.
"I wrote the play specifically, I hope, so that people who don't know Chekhov can still enjoy it," says Christopher Durang of his Tony-winning comedy "Vanya and Sonia and Mash…
Also in the 2015-16 KeyBank Broadway Series line up: "Bullets Over Broadway" and "If/Then."
"Extremities" at Blank Canvas Theatre and Theater Ninjas' "The Grand Celebration of the Celestial Mystery" open in Cleveland this weekend.
CPH's New Ground Theatre Festival will take place May 6-16 inside the Allen Theatre complex in Playhouse Square.
Dobama Theatre brings Jesse Eisenberg's "The Revisionist" and more to Cleveland for its 2015-16 season.
"Teacher of the Year" is a grade above most high school comedies that trade on sexualized teens, a laugh-out-loud, sweetly-irreverent-but-never-raunchy look at education from the i…
Isaac Newton Newton stuck a needle in his eye - sliding it into the tear duct, to be exact - but no one knows why. "Isaac's Eye is playwright Lucas Hnath's fanciful attempt to answer th…
'Lend Me a Tenor' opens this weekend at the Beck Center for the Arts.
The young actors of Near West Theatre hug and cry and emote on a dime. They are dream subjects, theatrical on and off the stage.
Two-time Tony Award winner Ken Ludwig, celebrated actor and director Austin Pendleton and playwright Rajiv Joseph, a Pulitzer Prize finalist from Cleveland Heights are just some of the talen…
"WildLike" is a taut, emotional drama rich with subtle performances and an exquisite turn by British actress Ella Purnell ""Never Let Me Go" and "Maleficent&quo…
"Isaac's Eye" opens at Convergence-Continuum this weekend.
Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw is both victim and destroyer, ruinous and ruined, a woman trying to hide her damage behind a frozen, first-date smile.
"The Mighty Scarabs!" is a skillful collision of reality and fiction, a funny, lyrical and mournful exploration of what happens to hardwood stars. boys feted as heroes by blacks an…