When he sat down to write "Deathtrap," Ira Levin fashioned the struggling Sidney Bruhl after himself, creating an endlessly self-reflecting mirror which, for more than a quarter of…
In any incarnation, "Carrie" is a big, broad, melodramatic fairy tale, though Stephen King's 1974 Gothic Cinderella story looks chillingly prescient in the age of cyber bullying an…
Inspired by the similarities between animals and humans, Inlet Dance Theatre built a dance for the Cleveland Museum of Natural History celebrating the fabulous behaviors performed by all spe…
"Les Miserables" will premiere in the fall, in repertory with William Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor."
George Gershwin's glorious score and the artists interpreting it " to the very marrow of their bones, it seems " the stars of this streamlined "Porgy and Bess."
"Carrie" is a good fit for director Victoria Bussert, who knows a little something about musical thrillers. Her celebrated production of "Sweeney Todd" for Great Lakes Th…
"Ceremonies in Old Dark Men," about a widowed barber and his grown children trying to survive in 1950s Harlem, premiered off-Broadway in 1969 and is now considered an American clas…
Playwright Charles Smith was inspired to write "Knock Me A Kiss" after learning of the famously short marriage of Yolande Du Bois to Countee Cullen, a poet and rising star of the H…
News that United Airlines will close its hub at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport rippled through the Cleveland's PlayhouseSquare Monday. The largest performing arts center outside of …
"The idea that this production is now on the road going across America to me is the most exciting step in the journey so far, because this is really an American masterpiece," Paulu…
Cleveland arts calendar for Northeast Ohio for Jan. 31-Feb. 6
DanceCleveland will partner with New York choreographer Camille Brown to create a new work following the receipt of a 2014 Joyce Award.
By Steve SucatoWhen Walmart heiress Nancy Laurie founded New York-based Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet a decade ago, skepticism abounded over the troupe with a big-city budget and a small-to…
Though set behind a Vermont coffee shop called The Green Sheep, "The Aliens" is the antithesis of caffeinated. Its refusal to feed our collective short attention span is part of wh…
Dancers with Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet - appearing in Cleveland this week - aren't just permitted to dance elsewhere. They're encouraged to.
Fact is, the thought of a "Yentl" without those campy, Bab-sian trappings sounds as appetizing as a bowl of matzo ball soup without the dumplings. Happily, the dish served up at th…
Rep. Marcia Fudge and actress Kathleen Turner are getting awards on Thursday night from Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage.
GE Lighting, based at Nela Park in East Cleveland, will sponsor the new PlayhouseSquare chandelier and light the giant decorative element with high-tech fixtures that will have to stand up t…
In "Exact Change," written and performed by poet and critic Christine Howey, her journey from a man named Dick to a woman named Chris informs the best parts of the riveting but ult…
"Chicago," set in the debauched days of the late 1920s, is a stripped-down, minimalist affair and the absence of scenic busy-ness is why all eyes are relentlessly drawn to the bodi…
A sociopathic barber, vampiric fairies and the world's worst boss made the 2013 professional theater season in Cleveland a dark, brutal delight. Large local and visiting companies reimagined…
Before Ann Hampton Callaway brings her "boom shaka-lakas" and more to Cleveland's Nighttown on New Year's Eve, she shared a few trade secrets and dished about how she managed to ge…
On April 1, previews begin for "The Velocity of Autumn" by Cleveland Heights playwright Eric Coble at Broadway's Booth Theatre, with the knockout cast that won raves this fall duri…
There's a bit of Cleveland onstage at PlayhouseSquare's Broadway Series production of "Wicked." Beachwood High School grad Alex Wyse plays Boq, the Munchkin man whose unrequited lo…
"The Big Meal" of the title is the smorgasbord of life; some, like Nicole, want to eat it all up in big, breathless gulps. Others, like Sam, are more careful, finicky eaters.