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Dobama Theatre brings Jesse Eisenberg's "The Revisionist" and more to Cleveland for its 2015-16 season.
Cleveland's David Spero has been managing Ted Neeley for almost a decade. So, naturally, he would know fascinating facts about the man who's played Jesus thousands of times in "Jesus Ch…
Ted Neeley has played the role of Jesus in "Jesus Christ Superstar" thousands of times. Now, 42 years since the film was released, a remastered version will be screened at Clevelan…
"Teacher of the Year" is a grade above most high school comedies that trade on sexualized teens, a laugh-out-loud, sweetly-irreverent-but-never-raunchy look at education from the i…
His mom has died from cancer. His wife has left him for another, more promising man and for a hip, new life in New York City. His on-the-verge indie rock band has imploded. Francis Falbo has…
Isaac Newton Newton stuck a needle in his eye - sliding it into the tear duct, to be exact - but no one knows why. "Isaac's Eye is playwright Lucas Hnath's fanciful attempt to answer th…
A striking collaboration between Groundworks DanceTheater, the Aeolus Quartet, composer Steven Snowden, and other artists, the new "House of Sparrows" dance presented Saturday amou…
'Lend Me a Tenor' opens this weekend at the Beck Center for the Arts.
The young actors of Near West Theatre hug and cry and emote on a dime. They are dream subjects, theatrical on and off the stage.
Two-time Tony Award winner Ken Ludwig, celebrated actor and director Austin Pendleton and playwright Rajiv Joseph, a Pulitzer Prize finalist from Cleveland Heights are just some of the talen…
"WildLike" is a taut, emotional drama rich with subtle performances and an exquisite turn by British actress Ella Purnell ""Never Let Me Go" and "Maleficent&quo…
"Isaac's Eye" opens at Convergence-Continuum this weekend.
When the Playhouse Square Foundation embarked 33 years ago on what became the reclamation of the district's five theaters, the Ohio Theatre auditorium was the first space to be restored. Its…
"Ballet 422," a new documentary tracing the development of a new work at New York City Ballet, opens at Cedar Lee Theatre Friday, March 13 and runs through Thursday, March 19.
Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw is both victim and destroyer, ruinous and ruined, a woman trying to hide her damage behind a frozen, first-date smile.
Jessica Wallis, director of Ballet in Cleveland, didn't just invite anyone to headline her group's gala Friday. She asked Misty Copeland, Carlos Lopez and Michele Wiles, luminaries who boast…
"The Mighty Scarabs!" is a skillful collision of reality and fiction, a funny, lyrical and mournful exploration of what happens to hardwood stars. boys feted as heroes by blacks an…
Catch "Possum Dreams" at Akron's None Too Fragile Theater this weekend before the show heads to new York for its off-Broadway premiere.
At times, "Dirty Dancing" takes on a playful new life onstage, winkingly exploiting its irresistibly cheesy charm.
Much of this moving, never less-than-engrossing play "The Pianist of Willesden Lane" that opened at the Allen Theatre Wednesday is told in the minor key -- sad, yes, but also haunt…
Watch fans of the "Dirty Dancing" movie share their excitement about the classic film coming to life on stage at Playhouse Square's Connor Theatre through Sunday, March 22.
Compagnie Kafig, coming to Playhouse Square Saturday on the DanceCleveland series, is a troupe of men from Brazil sporting a blend of hip-hop, Capoeira, acrobatics, and sheer physicality.
Though director Charles Fee delivers an elegant production buffed to a high shine, this "Dial 'M' " isn't as nimble as Knott's wily villain.
"Dirty Dancing," "The Pianist of Willesden Lane," "Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays," "Becky Shaw" and "The Mighty Scarabs" ope…
Guests at the 24th annual Jump Back Ball Jump Back to the Future presented by PlayhouseSquare Partners had a room full of characters dressed like the 1980's sci-fi classic "Back to the …