Opera lovers around the world next week will experience the periodic glories of""Francesca" -- possibly for the first time -- when it is telecast as part of the series "T…
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Solid Gold Dancers for Christ hoof in "Sister Act" at the Palace Theatre in PlayhouseSquare. Joan Marcus REVIEW Sister Act What:The KeyBank Broadway Series presents the …
Chicklet (Sarah Maria Hess) channels her multiple personalities with the help of amateur surfing psychiatrist Star Cat (Troy Bruchwalski) as her pals watch in "Psycho Beach Party,"…
From left, Chris McCarrell (Gabe), Katherine DeBoer (Diana) and Scott Plate (Dan) in "Next to Normal," now onstage at the Beck Center for the Arts. Ben Meadors REVIEW Ne…
There was even a bonus: the artistic director traveled with his dancers and stayed afterward to answer questions from the audience in typically zany and tart fashion.
Hollis Resnik as Mother Superior eyes Deloris Van Cartier (Ta'Rea Campbell), her sister under the skin, in the national touring company production of "Sister Act." Euclid native Re…
The dark Douaihys: From left, Charles (Christopher Sanders), Joseph (Chris Richards) and Uncle Bill (Bernard Canepari) in "Sons of the Prophet," now onstage at Dobama Theatre. Nath…
Nathan Motta, Dobama's 5th artistic director in 54 years. Steve Wagner In its 54-year history, Dobama Theatre has had only four artistic directors. This month, Nathan Motta became…
The staging and spare sets deftly convey the opera's special balance between sacred simplicity and revolutionary squalor.
Dorothy Silver in "The Velocity of Autumn" at the Beck Center for the Arts in spring 2012. Courtesy of the Beck Center for the Arts Before Eric Coble's "The Velocit…
As embodied by Laurie Birmingham, Madame Arcati is a batty whirlwind in brown velvet. Whether attempting to sense ectoplasmic energy through her wrists, munching on cucumber sandwiches or ch…
Those in the audience who had never seen "Barber" -- or any opera -- must have left the theater eager to explore the art form.
As Bessie Smith, Miche Braden is as fun as sin. Backed by a tight, three-man band, the jazz and blues veteran who cut her teeth playing clubs in her hometown of Detroit delivers an unforgett…
For its first program of 2013, GroundWorks explores many facets of its adventurous art at the Breen Center for the Performing Arts, offering two world premieres and the revival of a recent w…
View full size "For pure originality and expressiveness, it's hard to imagine any Broadway chorus line topping the solo dances performed here by an 83-year-old woman with a superfluity …
Jeff Bowen's off-Broadway musical, "Now.Here.This.," closed last year despite great reviews. To keep a piece of it alive, Bowen turned to Kickstarter to see if he could "crowd…
As directed by Martin Friedman, the production pierces the heart of the subject and draws the audience deeply into the journey of a mother suffering from bipolar disorder.
For the 2013-14 season, Cleveland Play House Artistic Director Michael Bloom has landed some of the hottest properties from the best of Broadway, including Tony darlings "Venus in Fur&q…
"With my having been a club singer and working with jazz cats and blues cats, doing R&B and rock 'n' roll and everything, it just kind of lived in me -- the life of an entertainer o…
The new Met production of Verdi's "Rigoletto" is telecast Saturday, Feb. 16 in movie theaters as part of the "The Met: Live in HD" series.
Weare's "Inamorata" will have its premiere next week at the Breen Center for the Performing Arts on a program with a new work by GroundWorks DanceTheater artistic director David Sh…
The ocean of opportunity that was opened to girls like Pokie by the civil rights movement threatened to swamp the world of her elders, who prized family and filial duty above all else, and p…
"The Gospel According to James" is an unsettling, urgent, beautifully written drama that demands that we pay attention to the scourge of racism in ways "Django Unchained"…
According to a press release issued Wednesday afternoon, a transformer in the electrical vault in the basement of the Hanna "malfunctioned and began smoking," said Tom Einhouse, Pl…