Each year, more and more companies are joining the ranks of warm-weather producers, offering everything from light musicals -- the theatrical equivalent of a beach read -- to chewier, headie…
Director MaryJo Alexander takes a risk with the Actors' Summit production of "Back to Bacharach and David": to test whether the songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David really are ind…
Lorin Maazel, who never quite touched the heart of this community when he led the Cleveland Orchestra four decades go, still leaves an exceptional musical legacy, the editorial board writes.
Mel Brooks, the genius who brought the borscht belt to Broadway with "The Producers," penned both the music and the lyrics, so who else is to blame for the serviceable if not unfor…
Conductor and composer Lorin Maazel, who led the Cleveland Orchestra from 1972 to 1982, has died at his home in Virginia while preparing for the annual Castleton Festival. He was 84. A music…
The successor to legendary former Cleveland Orchestra music director George Szell, Maazel left his own major impact on the ensemble, serving as its music director from 1972 to 1982.
Conductor and composer Lorin Maazel, who led the Cleveland Orchestra from 1972 to 1982, has died at his home in Virginia while preparing for the annual Castleton Festival. He was 84.
It's hard to beat the irresistible idea for the show itself. On Dec. 4, 1956, Samuel Cornelius Phillips, a scrappy, upstart producer from nowhere Alabama (played with crackling energy and do…
The monster patiently awaits his cue wearing a pair of orange shorts and pontoon-sized flip-flops. Soon Christopher Aldrich, who plays the world's most famous green creature -- Kermit being …
Cleveland's cultural organizations pulled in nearly one third of the $9.36 million in Ohio Arts Council grants announced on Monday, and nearly 11 percent of the statewide total went to five …
The City Club of Cleveland will hold a free public forum on July 24 on the suspension of individual Creative Workforce Fellowship grants in Cuyahoga County.
"Possum Dreams" feels like an unhinged cousin to "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "God of Carnage;" it's a play with similar DNA but willing to go further,…
Break out your slickers and chainsaws, my ghastly ghoulies. "Evil Dead " The Musical" is coming to Playhouse Square this fall, a Halloween hors d'oeuvre just for you. Tickets for t…
Cleveland Public Theatre has joined the National New Play Network, a potent alliance of more than 70 nonprofit theaters that champions the writing and production of new plays.
But the memorial for preservationist and visionary Ray Shepardson at the State Theatre yesterday had the joy, passion and emotional realness of a truly great performance. A nutshell review? …
Ray Shepardson discovered the then-empty theaters of Playhouse Square in 1970, when they were in bad shape and on the brink of demolition. The great success of "Jacques Brel" prove…
Sometimes, the Gods of the Great White Way smile upon you, and you get a second bite at Big Apple fare -- in this case, the 2013 production of Douglas Carter Beane's "The Nance."
A $9 million gift from Sherwin-Williams CEO Chris Connor and family has given a big boost to Playhouse Square's newly announced $100 million capital campaign, the theater district said Frida…
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Raymond Bobgan's first professional production at Cleveland Public Theatre was a 1994 show called "Pinocchio Rising," an adult version of the fairy tale sandblas…
"Jersey Boys" arrives in theaters this weekend, continuing a trend of movie musical adaptations that have been hit or miss.
There is much to admire about the production of "Heartbreak House" now at Pilgrim Church, particularly the sharp, shrewd characterizations delivered by an absolutely crackerjack en…
All the connotations of "summer" also apply to GroundWorks DanceTheater's 'Summer Series," now playing at Cain Park: fresh, light and thoroughly enjoyable.
Longtime "Law & Order" star S. Epatha Merkerson is returning to Karamu House on the eve of its centennial celebration (the arts and cultural organization was founded in 1915 by…
Cleveland native Ruby Dee, who died Thursday at 91, used her great voice as an actress and an activist.
As Alexa, Ring, barefoot and dressed in faded pastels -- a lilac top and chinos the color of green tea -- is elemental and divine. She splatters white paint across the charcoal tarpaulin lik…