Based on the cult classic films filled with geysers of blood and comic, low-rent special effects, this goofy, gore-ious send-up of a send-up is exactly what it should be: a broad, profane, p…
The idea of artist as superhero, fighting the evil of ennui and braving the derision of unsympathetic crowds for peanuts, is an obvious and delicious theme: actors and painters and playwrigh…
"The Neighbor's Grief Is Greener," created and performed by The Visual Theatre of Emanuella Amichai, in partnership with the Jewish Federation of Cleveland, has been delayed becaus…
Macabre souls willing to bathe in blood can pay extra for the privilege of sitting in the "Splatter Zone," seats close enough to the onstage mayhem to receive a proper drenching du…
In this engaging, ethereal Q&A, Albee both eulogizes his friend and fans the flame of her legend. (The flamboyant high priestess of the New York City art world died in 1988 at age 88.)
The orchestra, lead by conductor Darryl Archibald, sizzles all night long. The ridiculously good-looking cast is superb; ensemble members and headliners belt and hold notes longer than lungs…
Director Victoria Bussert, who staged last season's fresh, sexually charged "Sweeney Todd," has once again taken a well-worn product and transformed it, creating what feels like a …
Actress Katie Nabors makes an arresting Anna Christie " Eugene O'Neill's hard-bitten prostitute with taste for whiskey and a hatred of men " and that's saying something. The role at the cent…
In the Great Lakes Theater season opener, director Tracy Young transports the action to Windsor, Wisconsin, at the dawn of 1947 where her Falstaff is a thinly disguised Orson Welles, complet…
Not only have advance single-ticket sales for "Les Miz" shattered the record held by "Sweeney Todd" but advance sales for "Merry Wives" and "Les Miz"…
On Sunday afternoon, clouds threatened and a stiff wind swept hats off heads in the Karamu House parking lot. But inside the Jelliffe Theatre, "Mississippi" Charles Bevel's joyous …
In her new job, Gina Vernaci will still bringing the hits of Broadway to Cleveland's downtown theater district, but she'll also be tasked with helping to turn Playhouse Square "into a 2…
It's hard to love or even like the couple at the center of "Belleville." Lena Dunham's insufferable, entitled Hannah Horvath might even roll her eyes at them were they to guest in …
"The Book of Mormon" national tour is returning to Cleveland for a limited run Aug. 25-30. The catch: Right now, you can only get tickets to "Mormon" with a season-ticket…
Bristling with sexy malice and life, Laura Kepley's production of "The Little Foxes" is fleet-footed, lean and mean, just like the Hubbards, a rapacious Southern family hell-bent o…
An embarrassment of riches awaits the theater buff on Northeast Ohio's smaller professional stages.
In both the off-Broadway and Broadway productions of "[title of show]," the creators played themselves, "Two Nobodies in New York," as one song goes, along with real-life…
The play opens in what appears to be a mundane call center where a dozen telemarketers work the phones. But that call center is in a submarine, those temps are superheroes raising money to p…
The director: "Mississippi" Charles Bevel CLEVELAND, Ohio -- "Mississippi" Charles Bevel wasn't born in Cleveland (and with a name like that, how could he be?), but his c…
Ingenues are a dime a dozen. The characters we remember have claws. But few have talons as sharp as Regina Hubbard Giddens, the ruthless aristocrat at the center of Lillian Hellman's "T…
Great Lakes Theater's reimagined "Les Miz" promises to be one of the freshest takes on Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil's Tony-winning musical since the beloved theatrical…
"A play is not only on paper," Lillian Hellman once said. "It is there to share with actors, directors, scene designers, electricians . . . " Whether it's working on Broa…
Broadway groupies know "Motown's" Emilio Sosa as a costume designer with an exquisite sense of color and an unfailing eye for how clothes should hug a body in motion.
The dizzying speed of Kaley Voorhees' ascent to the world's largest stage is the stuff of a sentimental Hollywood movie -- Ohio girl, plucked from bucolic obscurity, hits the Big Apple and b…
in October, Ciara Renee will star in the U.S. premiere of the hotly anticipated Disney musical "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" at La Jolla Playhouse. Renee will bring her formidable …