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The oddly chemistry-free production is as comfortably bland and forgettable as the socks your Aunt Clara sends you every year at Christmas.
All Ralphie wanted for Christmas was an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model air rifle! Nothing else would do.
In honor of their production of "A Christmas Story,…
"A Christmas Story" is a modern classic " set in the past. It's a 1983 film set in 1939 that continues to find more and more fans every year.
The tale of young Ralphie's dream …
The new Near West Theatre nears completion in the Gordon Square Arts District of Cleveland's Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood after conclusion of a $30 million campaign aimed at creating a West…
The donation, said Art Falco, Playhouse Square's president and CEO, is also the largest one-time gift that the downtown arts complex has ever received.
Cleveland Play House offers patrons an early holiday gift: an additional performance of "A Christmas Story" at 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 21.
Armed with a series of Excel spreadsheets, director Nathan Motta keeps track of 15 actors playing 60 roles, including Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln; Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, a freed slave an…
For nostalgia junkies, there are tried-and-true favorites -- "A Christmas Carol" and "A Christmas Story" -- as well as new family-friendly offerings from Broadway such as…
Cuyahoga Arts and Culture announced nearly $27.2 million in operating and special project grants to local arts organizations for 2015-16 in one of the nation's largest local public-funding p…
"She walked in here in her Ugg boots, looking fabulous," says BW student Julia Hines of her mentor Donna McKechnie. "She'd just gotten back from Italy and she got up and the s…
The Cleveland theater scene is awash in classics of late, with three beloved or, at the very least, venerated, productions on the boards: "The Three Sisters," "A Chorus Line&q…
Soon enough, Kyle Carthens will start to remind you of a young Will Smith back in the day, when the star was leaner and hungrier, before he'd bulked up and gorged on fame. They share an effo…
Think of "Woman and Scarecrow" as Prilosec for the heartburn of more than a century's worth of romantic imagery featuring lovelies expiring before their time . . . with the excelle…
Choreographer Rami Be'er's expertly-crafted work "If At All," performed by his Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company last week at Playhouse Square, was nothing short of inspirational.
In the "Seize Single Seats" promotion, a cheeky echo of the rousing song "Seize the Day" by Alan Menken and Jack Feldman from their Tony-winning score, people willing to …
The cast of gymnastic boy-men (and the occasional girl, hair tucked under her newsboy's cap) . . . are taut, whirling dervishes; a rainbow of buff Tasmanian devils in short pants and suspend…
Beginning today, Cleveland theater buffs can enter their names in an online lottery at www.playhousesquare.org/giftlottery to win one of 2,300 free tickets to five separate holiday performan…
After taking in a concert performance of Chaslin's opera 'Clarimonde' by Cleveland's Opera Per Tutti, guest reviewer Mark Satola welcomes a fully-staged production.
Set in The Hill, a predominantly white Midwestern suburb in 1988, "How We Got On" centers on three 15-year-old kids -- two black and one "part Latino" -- suburbanites arm…
Though it occasionally slides from fun to self-consciously "fun," the Beck Center for Arts' "[title of show]" nails the joy of what it means to be onstage, in the moment,…
Not even Rami Be'er, the director of Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, will say definitively what his work coming to the DanceCleveland series next week is about.
"The Norwegians" at Dobama Theatre has everything a lover of twisted Coen Brothers noir could ever want: hit men with funny accents; women scorned, hell-bent on revenge; and Texas …
Johannes Wieland's "wait. now. go now," presented Friday by Groundworks DanceTheater, was a visceral example of the choreographer's aim to challenges preconceptions and expand the …
Special offers associated with this show include dinner and a show at Morgan's Smokehouse on the Square. Call the box office (440-286-2255) for details. On Halloween night, come in costume a…
"The Ashley Bouder Project" coming to Playhouse Square Saturday, courtesy of Ballet in Cleveland, seeks both to educate and entertain.
