670 stories by "Andrea Simakis"
Revelation, like chemo, kills as it cures.
Mary Bridget Davies returns for one night only as Janis Joplin in Playhouse Square.
"Ten little soldier boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine . . ."
"The previous ending, the romantic ending, feels false to me. And, essentially, it is false," said Great Lakes Theater producing artistic director Charles Fee.
Karamu's day-care center shuttered and after school arts-education plan suspended in cost-cutting move.
Ten people are lured to a remote island and picked off one by one in Agatha Christie's dark thriller, which begins performances Friday at Great Lakes Theater.
"What would happen to a pop culture narrative pushed past the fall of civilization?"
"And Then There Were None," the world's best selling mystery, makes its Hanna Theatre debut Saturday.
In "Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play" at CPT, humans try to save civilization, one "Simpson's" episode at a time.
"In the Heights" is an ambitious undertaking, requiring performers to execute a melange of music and dance styles, from salsa and mambo to rap and hip-hop and more.
"If/Then" feels like a live cocktail party in a high-rise bar somewhere in Manhattan where snide jokes about flyover states win you another round.
The high-octane offender "Pure Shock Value" begins with Ethan (a game Brian Kenneth Armour) on a couch, his hand furiously moving under a ratty throw covering his lap. He isn't wat…
Though Cleveland's classic theater company had been eyeing "My Fair Lady" for years, the rights to the Tony-winning smash have long been unavailable in anticipation of a Broadway r…
Before there was "Hamilton," Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop history of the American founding father, there was his Tony-winning smash "In the Heights," opening Friday at th…
In the thrilling two-hander, Ro Boddie and Angel Moore bring Preacher King and the mysterious maid Camae to life with a crackling, sexual tension.
Ensemble Theatre launches two plays dealing with race in America on Friday.
After two intermissionless hours, I didn't want to leave; I wanted to see it again, that very night, to decipher more clues and drink in just what Hall was talking about - that potent sense …
Will Eno's "The Realistic Joneses" is high, absurdist art that also dares to be entertaining.
Katori Hall's "The Mountaintop" imagines the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s last night on Earth.
Thursday night, rising star Ciara Renee will literally - well, with the help of some eye-poppin' CGI - take flight as Hawkgirl in the hotly anticipated new series "DC's Legends of Tomor…
Why does "Little Shop" 2016 at the Cleveland Play House feel flat and uninspired much of the time? Maybe it's because it isn't content to shah boop its way into our ears and hearts…
Catch the regional premiere of "The Realistic Joneses" by Will Eno," the playwright dubbed "a Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation" by The New York Times.
"The Good Peaches" tells the story of Aurora, a young girl tasked with delivering a wedding dress to a queen. But a violent storm knocks her off-course and into an adventure beyond…
"Annie," Audrey II and Doc Frankenstein storm into Cleveland theaters this week.
Still feeling that Christmas spirit after Christmas? Buddy the "Elf" brings holiday cheer (and spaghetti-with-maple-syrup) to Playhouse Square this week.
