670 stories by "Andrea Simakis"
That reinvention of "Five Guys Named Moe" started with an audacious concept: What if the five guys were a boy band like 'N Sync or New Edition?
Fire reported in a basement break room at Connor Palace at Playhouse Square this morning.
Opening this weekend: "Slowgirl" at Dobama Theatre and "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" at Karamu Theatre.
Get "STOMP"ed at Playhouse Square and go on a "Neverending" journey at Ensemble Theatre this weekend.
Joining the actors, dancers, singers and poets taking over CPT's James Levin Theatre for Big Box '15 is a very special guest: one Ms. Penny Bingo, star of "(Style Is) the Answer to Ever…
Artful roadkill, a step-by-step homage to one of the greatest musicals of all time and the most creative use of an umbrella we've ever seen made 2014 a year to remember.
A glam rock general, a demon lover, telemarketing superheros and one terrible prom date made the Top 10 theater offerings pop in 2014.
In the intimate confines of the Jelliffe Theatre and led by the electrifying Robert E. Hunter as snake-oil-slick evangelist Jonas Nightingale, "Leap of Faith" delivers the raucous …
Johnson's debut play "American Falls" is like electro-shock therapy -- it clears your brain of anything that has come before it.
Dobama's "Civil War Christmas" is a technical marvel, a gorgeous looking, finely tuned show where entrances and exits are choreographed with balletic precision. . . So it's a pity …
"As soon as he opens his mouth, the room goes quiet to listen. And it's not because he's famous -- he's just the most interesting human ever." -- BW grad Chris McCarrell, speaking …
The oddly chemistry-free production is as comfortably bland and forgettable as the socks your Aunt Clara sends you every year at Christmas.
The donation, said Art Falco, Playhouse Square's president and CEO, is also the largest one-time gift that the downtown arts complex has ever received.
Cleveland Play House offers patrons an early holiday gift: an additional performance of "A Christmas Story" at 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 21.
Armed with a series of Excel spreadsheets, director Nathan Motta keeps track of 15 actors playing 60 roles, including Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln; Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, a freed slave an…
For nostalgia junkies, there are tried-and-true favorites -- "A Christmas Carol" and "A Christmas Story" -- as well as new family-friendly offerings from Broadway such as…
"She walked in here in her Ugg boots, looking fabulous," says BW student Julia Hines of her mentor Donna McKechnie. "She'd just gotten back from Italy and she got up and the s…
The Cleveland theater scene is awash in classics of late, with three beloved or, at the very least, venerated, productions on the boards: "The Three Sisters," "A Chorus Line&q…
Soon enough, Kyle Carthens will start to remind you of a young Will Smith back in the day, when the star was leaner and hungrier, before he'd bulked up and gorged on fame. They share an effo…
Think of "Woman and Scarecrow" as Prilosec for the heartburn of more than a century's worth of romantic imagery featuring lovelies expiring before their time . . . with the excelle…
In the "Seize Single Seats" promotion, a cheeky echo of the rousing song "Seize the Day" by Alan Menken and Jack Feldman from their Tony-winning score, people willing to …
The cast of gymnastic boy-men (and the occasional girl, hair tucked under her newsboy's cap) . . . are taut, whirling dervishes; a rainbow of buff Tasmanian devils in short pants and suspend…
Beginning today, Cleveland theater buffs can enter their names in an online lottery at www.playhousesquare.org/giftlottery to win one of 2,300 free tickets to five separate holiday performan…
Set in The Hill, a predominantly white Midwestern suburb in 1988, "How We Got On" centers on three 15-year-old kids -- two black and one "part Latino" -- suburbanites arm…
"The Norwegians" at Dobama Theatre has everything a lover of twisted Coen Brothers noir could ever want: hit men with funny accents; women scorned, hell-bent on revenge; and Texas …