How did an unknown from a Cleveland 'burb beat out hundreds of seasoned hopefuls jockeying for a top spot in the longest-running musical on the Great White Way? It all started last year, whe…
The Cleveland Foundation had awarded the Cleveland Play House two grants totaling $350,000.
Jeff Rosenberg, a Shaker Heights native and Ohio University alum, centers his film on one man's Quixotic quest to turn the jaw-dropping double-murder trial of O.J. Simpson into a whiz-bang s…
Opening Friday, Aug. 29 at Blank Canvas Theatre: "Hair."
Once, PlayhouseSquare's Senior Vice President of Theater Operations Gina Vernaci recalled seeing Ciara Renee enter a room in a white, flowing pantsuit. "For a moment it felt like the wo…
Following Tuesday night's performance of "Aladdin" at the New Amsterdam Theatre, the Broadway cast -- led by Tony Award-winning actor James Monroe Iglehart as the Genie -- asked th…
With "Amazons and Their Men," artistic director Clyde Simon brings the fifth work by Harrison to the Liminis theater, only this time, he's directing the show, and the results aren'…
"He came into the play with a real sense of humility," said Rajiv Joseph of Robin Williams, star of his Broadway-debut play "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo." "In a …
So why mount the show today, when U.S. troops have pulled out of Iraq and President Obama has promised a similar withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of 2014? The idealistic notion that ar…
Forty songs are featured or excerpted in "I Am What I Am: Gays, Lesbians and the American Musical," a repertoire spanning 85 years, from Cole Porter's slyly coded "I'm a Gigol…
Constantine Maroulis, the shaggy-haired charmer who has made Broadway hay since he was the sixth-place finalist on the fourth season of "Idol," offers an inspired send-up of the Re…
You know you're in for an intimate dose of realism when you see the set: the dayroom of a 1960s mental hospital in all its impersonal and sterile dreariness, complete with locked grates over…
"Arcadia" has lost none of its power to enthrall, confound and charm. Fact is, as scientists warn of close shaves with species-killing asteroids and the deadly creep of climate cha…
Each year, more and more companies are joining the ranks of warm-weather producers, offering everything from light musicals -- the theatrical equivalent of a beach read -- to chewier, headie…
Mel Brooks, the genius who brought the borscht belt to Broadway with "The Producers," penned both the music and the lyrics, so who else is to blame for the serviceable if not unfor…
It's hard to beat the irresistible idea for the show itself. On Dec. 4, 1956, Samuel Cornelius Phillips, a scrappy, upstart producer from nowhere Alabama (played with crackling energy and do…
The monster patiently awaits his cue wearing a pair of orange shorts and pontoon-sized flip-flops. Soon Christopher Aldrich, who plays the world's most famous green creature -- Kermit being …
"Possum Dreams" feels like an unhinged cousin to "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "God of Carnage;" it's a play with similar DNA but willing to go further,…
Break out your slickers and chainsaws, my ghastly ghoulies. "Evil Dead " The Musical" is coming to Playhouse Square this fall, a Halloween hors d'oeuvre just for you. Tickets for t…
Cleveland Public Theatre has joined the National New Play Network, a potent alliance of more than 70 nonprofit theaters that champions the writing and production of new plays.
But the memorial for preservationist and visionary Ray Shepardson at the State Theatre yesterday had the joy, passion and emotional realness of a truly great performance. A nutshell review? …
Sometimes, the Gods of the Great White Way smile upon you, and you get a second bite at Big Apple fare -- in this case, the 2013 production of Douglas Carter Beane's "The Nance."
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Raymond Bobgan's first professional production at Cleveland Public Theatre was a 1994 show called "Pinocchio Rising," an adult version of the fairy tale sandblas…
There is much to admire about the production of "Heartbreak House" now at Pilgrim Church, particularly the sharp, shrewd characterizations delivered by an absolutely crackerjack en…
Longtime "Law & Order" star S. Epatha Merkerson is returning to Karamu House on the eve of its centennial celebration (the arts and cultural organization was founded in 1915 by…