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Catch "Possum Dreams" at Akron's None Too Fragile Theater this weekend before the show heads to new York for its off-Broadway premiere.
At times, "Dirty Dancing" takes on a playful new life onstage, winkingly exploiting its irresistibly cheesy charm.
Much of this moving, never less-than-engrossing play "The Pianist of Willesden Lane" that opened at the Allen Theatre Wednesday is told in the minor key -- sad, yes, but also haunt…
Though director Charles Fee delivers an elegant production buffed to a high shine, this "Dial 'M' " isn't as nimble as Knott's wily villain.
"Dirty Dancing," "The Pianist of Willesden Lane," "Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays," "Becky Shaw" and "The Mighty Scarabs" ope…
"I was a teenage mambo queen, which was our alternate title if we lost 'Dirty Dancing.' " says Eleanor Bergstein, who wrote the screenplay for the 1987 smash. (In case people thoug…
Set in the chic confines of the Wendices' London flat, "Dial 'M,' " - immortalized on-screen in 1954 by Alfred Hitchcock, and in 3-D, no less - positively oozes with glamour and er…
"Dial 'M' for Murder" and "Philadelphia Story" open this week in Playhouse Square.
The None Too Fragile production of "The Lonesome West" is some of the best theater you'll see this season. But be warned: Potato chips, household appliances and organized religion …
Hal Holbrook brings Mark Twain to life at the Connor Palace at Playhouse Square.
"Joe Turner's Come and Gone," directed with a sure hand and a winning coach's eye for team building by Terrence Spivey, is as skillfully rendered and solid as the oak trim around t…
Precision performances - Broadway quality and better - are what give this love story its real bite.
None Too Fragile Theater brings Martin McDonagh's "The Lonesome West" to Northeast Ohio and "Love Letters" hits the boards at Dobama Theatre for one night only.
Next May, Great Lakes Theater will bring "The Fantasticks" back to Cleveland as the sixth and final offering of its 2015-16 season.
Like human special effects, the seven acrobats defy gravity (a woman balances on one foot atop a man's head) and move in reverse (a man flies backward through a hula hoop) . . . They are &qu…
Though "Fire on the Water" has moments of weirdness that spark into true inspiration, most of the time, the show is all wet, comically cloying and preachy or designed for children …
The regional premiere of "Dogfight" the musical, featuring talent from the Baldwin Wallace University Music Theatre Program, opens Beck Center for the Arts.
The five guys of the title, a collection of acrobatic, swivel-hipped young things, did their best to roast people alive in their seats at the Allen Theatre on opening night.
Rubinstein was 25, a year older than composer Stephen Schwartz, who penned the show's music and lyrics, when the curtain rose on "Pippin" at the Imperial Theatre in October of 1972.
In "Pippin," acrobats dangle from trapezes some 15 feet above the stage, shimmy up and down poles that disappear into the rafters and perform precarious balancing acts on everythin…
In Sterling and Becky, playwright Greg Pierce has delivered cocooned humans who peel back layer after layer as the play progresses, and Dobama's actors prove expert at the emotional striptea…
Cleveland Public Theatre's "Fire on the Water," Ensemble Theatre's "Thurgood" and Cleveland Play House's "Five Guys Named Moe" are coming to a stage near you th…
George Brant's "Grounded" opens at the Public Theater starring Anne Hathaway in April and Rajiv Joseph's "The Guards at the Taj" premieres at the Atlantic Theater Company…
Fodor's cited the theater's 100th anniversary in 2015, its 1,300 productions seen by more than 12 million people, and its historic move to Playhouse Square's Allen Theatre complex in 2011.
"In my opinion, Louis Jordan was the first rapper," B.B. King said of the legendary bandleader. "He just didn't use the four-letter words that are being used today."
