"You don't come across a lot of characters like this that are written for women, which is unfortunate, because I think women have just as much darkness and bloodlust as men do." --…
"Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant" returns to Cleveland Public Theatre. One of CPT's most popular seasonal entertainments is back for a final farewell. Hailed as "a deliciously …
At 10:30 p.m. as a crowd estimated at nearly 20,000 chanted "light it up, light it up!" what might be the world's largest outdoor chandelier burst to glorious life, accompanied by …
An eclectic group of artists has been awarded the 2014 Cleveland Arts Prize, the organization announced Friday. They include theater directors, designers, filmmakers, visual artists, arts ad…
Artistic director Scott Spence clearly enlisted the help of one Ms. Mary Poppins to land the hit musicals waiting in the wings for the Beck Center for the Arts' 2014-15 season. How else to e…
Mary Bridget Davies, born and raised in Cleveland, is in fine company. Also nominated for Tony for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical are Idina Menzel for "If…
"The Velocity of Autumn" will play its final performance Sunday. The black comedy by Cleveland playwright Eric Coble opened at the Booth Theatre, a signature venue on the Great Whi…
PlayhouseSquare and its contractors subjected the district's new outdoor chandelier - scheduled for a ceremonial lighting on Friday - to numerous tests during its design and fabrication to m…
"Informed Consent" is all about dramatic collisions and unlikely mash ups, particularly of the seen and the unseen -- the natural world we can touch and the genetic realm we can on…
Estelle Parsons, star of Eric Coble's 'The Velocity of Autumn,' and performer Mary Bridget Davies nab Tony Award nominations.
Why would an A-list celebrity sweat through a 10-month international tour headlining "Richard III," one of the most emotionally and physically demanding roles ever written for the …
Rebirth: The revival of Playhouse Square's theaters helped save downtown Cleveland and launched a national movement to preserve historic silent movie palaces and vaudeville houses.
If there is an album from 2000s that packed the kind of punch that could transition into a full-blown musical, it is "American Idiot." But it's not the only one.
PlayhouseSquare will light its new chandelier -- a symbolic centerpiece -- on Friday, May 2, in a rain-or-shine ceremony intended to highlight $16 million worth of new outdoor amenities, gat…
York critics have weighed in on Eric Coble's new play "The Velocity of Autumn" and the reviews are mixed.
It treads the path cut by Samuel Beckett: It's funny, but it's all about death and decay; it's absurd, but it still feels like the people you are watching are real. Even so, Coble, who is 44…
Green Day's "American Idiot," the musical, has been called a rock opera that embodies the fight of millennials to understand their place in the post 9/11 social and political lands…
Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, one of the biggest local public arts funding agencies in the U.S., distributed more than $16 million in 2013, supporting programs that reached millions and employe…
As the lights went down on "The Velocity of Autumn" and the actors left the the stage, the intimate, 766-seat theater erupted, pulsing like the Q during a Cavs game when the home t…
Walking the red carpet at Monday's "The Velocity of Autumn" premiere: Lucy Liu, Stephen ("Wicked") Schwartz and Tony nominee Annaleigh Ashford, most recently Stark Sands'…
"I've had so many audience members come up and say, I've got to bring my son to this, I've got bring my mother to this. Now I think I know how to talk to my mom -- I think I'll talk to …
Author E.L. Doctorow smiles during an interview in his office at New York University, in this 2004 file portrait. AP Photo/Mary Altaffer E.L. Doctorow has won this year's Library of Congress…
Ray Shepardson, widely credited as the citizen activist who spearheaded the preservation of the Playhouse Square theaters in Cleveland in the 1970s, died Monday in Wheaton, Ill., at age 70.
Dear Eric: As you sweat the remaining days before that Monday, April 21, curtain at the Broadway's Booth Theatre, your friends and fans back in Cleveland figure a few pieces of wit and wisdo…
Jessica Lang Dance, the young, New York-based troupe that appeared on the DanceCleveland series at Playhouse Square Saturday, looked more like three companies than merely one.