It treads the path cut by Samuel Beckett: It's funny, but it's all about death and decay; it's absurd, but it still feels like the people you are watching are real. Even so, Coble, who is 44…
As the lights went down on "The Velocity of Autumn" and the actors left the the stage, the intimate, 766-seat theater erupted, pulsing like the Q during a Cavs game when the home t…
Walking the red carpet at Monday's "The Velocity of Autumn" premiere: Lucy Liu, Stephen ("Wicked") Schwartz and Tony nominee Annaleigh Ashford, most recently Stark Sands'…
"I've had so many audience members come up and say, I've got to bring my son to this, I've got bring my mother to this. Now I think I know how to talk to my mom -- I think I'll talk to …
Dear Eric: As you sweat the remaining days before that Monday, April 21, curtain at the Broadway's Booth Theatre, your friends and fans back in Cleveland figure a few pieces of wit and wisdo…
Deborah Zoe Laufer's "Informed Consent," an intriguing play about the promise and pitfalls of genetics research -- thorny legal and moral issues that were unimaginable only a few y…
Dobama Theatre has always championed edgy, fresh, character-driven plays, but its 55th season might be the one filled with the most characters, both in a literal and figurative sense.
Beginning nest season, Dobama will join Great Lakes Theater and the Cleveland Play House as Greater Cleveland's third full-time Equity house.
Playwright Brue Norris' corrosive, hilarious and emotionally raw work has deservedly won a wheelbarrow full of awards " including an Olivier, a Pulitzer and a Tony " for ripping the Band-Aid…
Oh, what a feeling -- and oh, the legwarmers, the artistic strip-club numbers and the treasure trove of '80s hits, from "Gloria" to "Maniac." The musical saga of Alex Owe…
Topping the KeyBank Broadway Series 2014-15 hit list: last year's Tony darlings "Kinky Boots," scored by Cyndi Lauper, and the revival of "Pippin," infused with Cirque du…
The play unfolds in real time as Jessie Cates, middle-aged, divorced and unemployable, announces to her mother, Thelma, that she has decided to kill herself. At precisely 9:30 p.m. that even…
The new Cleveland Public Theatre production will no doubt be the most audacious "Titus" on record.
Let it be said: Nothing was jaw-droppingly awful, but few gowns wowed. The boys were uncharacteristically more interesting, eschewing black for burgundy, shocking-blue or the cream jacket fa…
The Outcalt's $2.5 million donation to PlayhouseSquare's theater preservation fund is largest gift from a family in PlayhouseSquare history.
As all gifted directors know, dunderheaded casting can spoil the most ingenious play. Clever chef that he is, Fee has selected a gourmet line-up to serve Ira Levin's diabolical dish.
The goal of the annual competition is to increase the awareness of the works of William Shakespeare and the richness of the Bard's native tongue.
With "Breath and Imagination," a musical based on the life of the celebrated tenor -- one of the highest-paid musicians of his time, black or white -- playwright Daniel Beaty seeks…
When he sat down to write "Deathtrap," Ira Levin fashioned the struggling Sidney Bruhl after himself, creating an endlessly self-reflecting mirror which, for more than a quarter of…
In any incarnation, "Carrie" is a big, broad, melodramatic fairy tale, though Stephen King's 1974 Gothic Cinderella story looks chillingly prescient in the age of cyber bullying an…
"Les Miserables" will premiere in the fall, in repertory with William Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor."
George Gershwin's glorious score and the artists interpreting it " to the very marrow of their bones, it seems " the stars of this streamlined "Porgy and Bess."
"Carrie" is a good fit for director Victoria Bussert, who knows a little something about musical thrillers. Her celebrated production of "Sweeney Todd" for Great Lakes Th…
Playwright Charles Smith was inspired to write "Knock Me A Kiss" after learning of the famously short marriage of Yolande Du Bois to Countee Cullen, a poet and rising star of the H…
"Ceremonies in Old Dark Men," about a widowed barber and his grown children trying to survive in 1950s Harlem, premiered off-Broadway in 1969 and is now considered an American clas…