670 stories by "Andrea Simakis"
Twins Days festival can be bittersweet. Just ask Richard Boudreau.
Cleveland Public Theatre's STEP program offers teens a dress rehearsal for life.
"Hamilton" at Playhouse Square in Cleveland blew the top off season subscription sales, but there's still a way to get tickets.
She is skeptical of miracles and the men who want to deify her child.
The summer stages of Northeast Ohio are alive with eclectic offerings.
"Really Really" warns us of a future that belongs to an army of soulless Mark Zuckerbergs.
Playwright Greg Vovos gives addiction a human face in Dobama's 'How to be a Respectable Junkie.'
'Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812' by Lakewood native Dave Malloy 'heartfelt and fearless story-telling,' says star Josh Groban.
"Dave's score is unlike anything I have heard before not to mention sung," says star Josh Groban.
Donald Trump has his cake and eats it, too.
New West Theatre founder Stephanie Morrison Hrbek's new act: growing the theater's endowment.
Eric Coble's new play asks what happens when a modern-day Mary shows up in small town America.
'Salvage' features an all-female cast, a rarity on any stage, anywhere.
The irreverence of 'The Book of Mormon' + the heart and soul of old Broadway.
"Lizzie" opens Friday at the Ohio Theatre.
Like the Dobama production, the devilish hand puppet Tyrone is rude, lewd and hellaciously funny.
Corey Cott is poised to break big as Donny, a songwriter and piano prodigy from blue-collar Cleveland whose dreams of musical stardom are derailed when duty calls after Pearl Harbor.
In Stephen Aldy Guirgis' Pulitzer Prize winning-play, everyone is running some sort of scam to get what they want.
Dobama Theatre's 2017-18 season features artificial intelligence, kid detectives, a female desert warrior and pill-popping lovers.
In an ingenious bit of staging, director Charles Fee brings the audience onstage to be members of a jury - witnesses to a prosecution.
"Hamlet's endless question is, 'Who am I?' And to have two completely different Hamlets . . . is an amplification of that idea."
The films deliver a view of two Clevelands - one whiter and more prosperous, the other, as its mostly black residents describe it, as deadly and ravaged as a war-torn city in Iraq.
The set doubles as Christopher's brain, a singular place filled with minutiae and wonders.
Edgy and family-friendly works on tap at the 12th annual celebration of new works.
That everything old is new again is a speed bump we didn't expect.
