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…
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…
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…
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.
Thanks to Cleveland and Oberlin Opera Theaters, what might have been a rough-edged run-through of a new work, Nkeiru Okoye's "Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed That Line to Freedom," …
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 …
Katori Hall's "The Mountaintop" imagines the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s last night on Earth.
Will Eno's "The Realistic Joneses" is high, absurdist art that also dares to be entertaining.
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.
Alan Rickman achieved worldwide renown as a film star, but he always was drawn back to the theater.
"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…
Some shows become iconic due to their music. Others have unforgettable drama. But there is only one show that has become a classic due to a man-eating plant: "Little Shop of Horrors,&qu…
"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.
'A Gent's Guide,' 'The Crucible' and 'The Secret Garden' among the top productions of 2015
A Play House legend, Gould is remembered by managing director Kevin Moore as "a kind and generous soul."
Despite the cheekiness of its vulva-shaped set, "Feefer Rising" is, for the most part, grindingly earnest, which makes it about as fun as a pelvic exam.
Sleigh bells are ringing -- and crooners are singing -- at Cleveland's area theaters.
Sold as an original Christmas musical with an eye on a New York run, "Kris Kringle" has Broadway aspirations with "Waiting for Guffman" execution.
"A Christmas Story" has become A Cleveland Story. Nowhere is the 1983 holiday film more celebrated than Cleveland, where much of the movie was filmed and which is home to the A Ch…
In Dobama's "Peter and the Starcatcher," 13 actors perform more than 100 roles, jumping in and out of well-honed dialects and characters with a light-footed nimbleness and somethin…
The mega-hit Broadway show "Hamilton" is on the move -- a production will open in Chicago next September. Producers said Tuesday that performances will begin Sept. 27 at the newly …