Great Lakes Theater's reimagined "Les Miz" promises to be one of the freshest takes on Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil's Tony-winning musical since the beloved theatrical…
"A play is not only on paper," Lillian Hellman once said. "It is there to share with actors, directors, scene designers, electricians . . . " Whether it's working on Broa…
Broadway groupies know "Motown's" Emilio Sosa as a costume designer with an exquisite sense of color and an unfailing eye for how clothes should hug a body in motion.
The dizzying speed of Kaley Voorhees' ascent to the world's largest stage is the stuff of a sentimental Hollywood movie -- Ohio girl, plucked from bucolic obscurity, hits the Big Apple and b…
in October, Ciara Renee will star in the U.S. premiere of the hotly anticipated Disney musical "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" at La Jolla Playhouse. Renee will bring her formidable …
How did an unknown from a Cleveland 'burb beat out hundreds of seasoned hopefuls jockeying for a top spot in the longest-running musical on the Great White Way? It all started last year, whe…
The Cleveland Foundation had awarded the Cleveland Play House two grants totaling $350,000.
One of the Northeast Ohio's cultural gems, Dance Showcase is a free night of dance featuring no fewer than eight local companies, all on one stage.
Cleveland's Gordon Square Arts District has completed a $30 million campaign that has transformed a West Side neighborhood into a mecca for the arts. Now it's planning for an encore with a m…
Jeff Rosenberg, a Shaker Heights native and Ohio University alum, centers his film on one man's Quixotic quest to turn the jaw-dropping double-murder trial of O.J. Simpson into a whiz-bang s…
Opening Friday, Aug. 29 at Blank Canvas Theatre: "Hair."
Once, PlayhouseSquare's Senior Vice President of Theater Operations Gina Vernaci recalled seeing Ciara Renee enter a room in a white, flowing pantsuit. "For a moment it felt like the wo…
Following Tuesday night's performance of "Aladdin" at the New Amsterdam Theatre, the Broadway cast -- led by Tony Award-winning actor James Monroe Iglehart as the Genie -- asked th…
With "Amazons and Their Men," artistic director Clyde Simon brings the fifth work by Harrison to the Liminis theater, only this time, he's directing the show, and the results aren'…
"He came into the play with a real sense of humility," said Rajiv Joseph of Robin Williams, star of his Broadway-debut play "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo." "In a …
So why mount the show today, when U.S. troops have pulled out of Iraq and President Obama has promised a similar withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of 2014? The idealistic notion that ar…
Eight short works, including four premieres, made for an entertaining night with Inlet Dance Theatre at Cain Park in Cleveland Heights Thursday. Best of all, several of the dances were gems.
Forty songs are featured or excerpted in "I Am What I Am: Gays, Lesbians and the American Musical," a repertoire spanning 85 years, from Cole Porter's slyly coded "I'm a Gigol…
Choreographer Anthony Krutzkamp's new ballet "Similar" nearly brought down the house at Cain Park Saturday as performed by Cleveland's Verb Ballets.
Cuyahoga County may resume giving $20,000 grants to individual artists in 2015, but only after giving the program a thorough re-evaluation, the leader of the county's arts funding agency sai…
Constantine Maroulis, the shaggy-haired charmer who has made Broadway hay since he was the sixth-place finalist on the fourth season of "Idol," offers an inspired send-up of the Re…
You know you're in for an intimate dose of realism when you see the set: the dayroom of a 1960s mental hospital in all its impersonal and sterile dreariness, complete with locked grates over…
"Arcadia" has lost none of its power to enthrall, confound and charm. Fact is, as scientists warn of close shaves with species-killing asteroids and the deadly creep of climate cha…
Motivated to revamp some of ballet's core maneuvers, Verb Ballets guest choreographer Anthony Krutzkamp crafted "Similar" in part to revamp the running and lifting that occupied hi…
Elaine Stritch, who became a sort of shorthand for acting longevity since she made her Broadway debut in "Loco" in 1946, died Thursday at 89 in her home state of Michigan " far fro…