As Alexa, Ring, barefoot and dressed in faded pastels -- a lilac top and chinos the color of green tea -- is elemental and divine. She splatters white paint across the charcoal tarpaulin lik…
Cleveland native Mary Bridget Davies, nominated for best lead actress in a musical for her searing portrayal of the late blues rocker in "A Night With Janis Joplin," and Estelle Pa…
Whether crooning "I Can't Give You Anything But Love," the song his father sang to his mother on their first date, or performing a soft shoe next to a buttery spotlight, a stand-in…
Despite my prurient personal bias, I'd wager a hefty bag of Krugerrands that Neil Patrick Harris, as "internationally ignored song stylist" Hedwig Robinson, will deliver a knockout…
Beginning Wednesday, the movie house will join some 500 theaters nationwide to present what producers are calling a "stagecast" or a stage performance of "Driving Miss Daisy&q…
In director Donald Carrier's hands, "Seminar" has the pacing of an unputdownable read, the kind you don't mind losing sleep to finish. Credit is also due to playwright Theresa Rebe…
There is little wit or distinctive characterization in "Ancestra." We see women who make speeches, not real women with complicated emotional lives. A heavy-handed script and histri…
Maurice Hines on show biz etiquette: Like my mother used to say to us, "I want the audience to leave saying, 'I had a good time, baby!' You know why? Because they could be somewhere els…
"People are writing about how Reuben is now a legend -- Reuben was always a legend." -- Joe Garry on his friend and mentor, Reuben Silver.
David Gilbert, president and CEO of Positively Cleveland, expects the three-day theater conference will bring nearly $1 million in revenue to the region.
A new and updated version of Laura Paglin's standout documentary "Facing Forward" is airing in Cleveland and on other PBS stations throughout the country in May.
This hypnotic, loving portrait offers a rare seat at the foot of the legendary theater and film director as he schools a cast of international performers.
Everything about "Grounded" " from the mesmerizing Hannah Cabell to the transporting language of George Brant's propulsive script and director Ken Rus Schmoll's confident, spartan …
Playhouse Square to honor Reuben Silver with a dimming of lights Saturday.
Reuben Silver, legendary artistic director, actor and educator, died early Thursday at the Hospice of the Western Reserve. He was 88 years old.
"You don't come across a lot of characters like this that are written for women, which is unfortunate, because I think women have just as much darkness and bloodlust as men do." --…
"Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant" returns to Cleveland Public Theatre. One of CPT's most popular seasonal entertainments is back for a final farewell. Hailed as "a deliciously …
At 10:30 p.m. as a crowd estimated at nearly 20,000 chanted "light it up, light it up!" what might be the world's largest outdoor chandelier burst to glorious life, accompanied by …
Artistic director Scott Spence clearly enlisted the help of one Ms. Mary Poppins to land the hit musicals waiting in the wings for the Beck Center for the Arts' 2014-15 season. How else to e…
Mary Bridget Davies, born and raised in Cleveland, is in fine company. Also nominated for Tony for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical are Idina Menzel for "If…
"The Velocity of Autumn" will play its final performance Sunday. The black comedy by Cleveland playwright Eric Coble opened at the Booth Theatre, a signature venue on the Great Whi…
"Informed Consent" is all about dramatic collisions and unlikely mash ups, particularly of the seen and the unseen -- the natural world we can touch and the genetic realm we can on…
Estelle Parsons, star of Eric Coble's 'The Velocity of Autumn,' and performer Mary Bridget Davies nab Tony Award nominations.
Why would an A-list celebrity sweat through a 10-month international tour headlining "Richard III," one of the most emotionally and physically demanding roles ever written for the …
York critics have weighed in on Eric Coble's new play "The Velocity of Autumn" and the reviews are mixed.