Shaker Heights residents Julia and Larry Pollock have donated $1 million to the Cleveland Museum of Art's capital campaign. In recognition, the museum is naming its Focus Gallery for the Pol…
Describes following the Baldwin Wallace University Musical Theatre Showcase from rehearsal to New York to the results
Two troupes, the Cleveland Shakespeare Festival and the Ohio Shakespeare Festival, keep the timeless works of the Bard alive in the summer months. Cleveland Shakes will offer a free performa…
The Cleveland Arts Prize's executive director, Marcie Bergman, has resigned. Bergman helmed the organization starting in late 2006. The first awards she oversaw were in 2007.
Nathan Motta, who took over from Joel Hammer as Dobama Theatre's artistic director in February, wants to expand the reach of the Cleveland Heights company. "My real goal is to continue …
The cast of "SPANK!" and friends. Suzanne Sole as E.B. Janet (second from left in leopard top), Graydon Long as Hugh Hanson (center) and Danielle Trzcinski as Tasha Woode (sixth fr…
A list of theater auditions for Northeast Ohio
Mark your calendar for September 6 when Ensemble actors take the stage at CMA's Mix First Friday Happy Hour from 5 p.m. " 9 p.m. to perform scenes from the play by Cleveland Heights native R…
Using the tagline "Great Scripts. Cleveland Artists" as a rallying cry, Ensemble Theatre board president Ian Wolfgang Hinz says audiences in Northeast Ohio will support challenging material …
Performing Arts…Starting in September: American Girl Ages: 7-12 Times: Sept 9th – Sept 25th Mondays and Wednesdays 4-6 Location: Arts Center (Sept 23 & …
Simon & Schuster, 304 pp., $25 Carlo Collodi first told this tale with “The Adventures of Pinocchio” 130 years ago. We are all familiar with the idea of an inanim…
Cleveland Public Theatre's Student Theatre Enrichment Program (STEP), the city's longest-running arts and job training program for urban teens launched in 1995, presents free work in area pa…
In four weeks at the State Theatre in PlayhouseSquare, Disney's "The Lion King" grossed more than $6.5 million in 32 sold out performances.
The production claims a sterling Tevye (George Roth), earth-mother Golde (Tracee Patterson) and winning supporting cast that invigorate the world of Sholom Aleichem and the village of Anatev…
A respected national arts leader, Jason Schupbach, praised Cleveland's efforts at "creative-placemaking" during a two-day visit Thursday and Friday to see programs in Detroit-Shore…
The Cleveland dance company's concert Thursday provided an overview of what founder and executive/artistic director Bill Wade has accomplished in 12 seasons.
The Who's original "Tommy" album that inspired the Ken Russell film and Broadway show. How would you imagine the average high school grad uses those precious summer month…
Cleveland arts calendar for Northeast Ohio for July 26-Aug. 1
Artist Kent Twitchell installs a mural of actress Ruby Dee at the Karamu House Theatre. Scott Shaw/Plain Dealer Ruby Dee made her first Cleveland stage appearance at Playhouse Squa…
Passersby in cars slowed and gaped at the image taking shape on the side of the Karamu Performing Arts Theatre building in Cleveland's Fairfax neighborhood -- a 40-foot-tall mural of Ruby De…
"Boston Marriage," a turn-of-the-century euphemism for women living together who may or may not have been getting it on, is a comedy of manners the likes of which you have never se…
What often keeps the evening on fascinating track is the melding of vocal and instrumental music with visual images projected behind the piano.
Among the highlights are a concert reading of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's 1981 musical, "Merrily We Roll Along," three new multimedia concerts and three new cabarets.
All hail the scatting, belting, eat-your-heart-out-Mariah-Carey stylings of Jessica L. Cope as the Lady of the Lake, a shimmering prima donna who is King Arthur's muse and protector. She's a…
The company, which is in its 35th season at the College of Wooster's Freedlander Theatre, continues to expand its artistic horizons by taking up beloved and neglected fare, some of which can…