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Olde Towne Hall Theatre is starting it's 34th season Friday October 12th with Neil Simmon's "Plaza Suite"!Hilarity abounds in this portrait of three couples successively occupying …
"Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays" makes no apologies for being what it is -- a piece of agitprop theater gift-wrapped as a collection of one-acts by some of America's …
An emergency meeting with the community is planned at the main center, 8400 Fairmount Road 7:30 p.m. Oct. 11. During that time the board and staff members hope generous donors will step forw…
Racehl York embodies the brash, bawdy Reno Sweeney -- made famous by Ethel Merman when the musical first set sail on Broadway in 1934 -- with a wink and a purr. And her pipes? Gather 'round,…
Sessions devoted to general operating support are being held today through Wednesday at the Idea Center in PlayhouseSquare.
First produced in 1985 during the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis, Larry Kramer's historic play is as much a call to arms as a piece of theater. Twenty-seven years later, despite an effective …
Since planting roots in Boise in 2005 and going full time three years later, the Trey McIntyre Project has won wide acclaim for the choreographer's penetrating artistry and the dancers' vibr…
Structurally, "The Winter's Tale," first printed in the folio of 1623 and grouped with the Bard's comedies, is two plays in one: a tragedy with a pastoral spliced on the end. That …
World-weary audiences of the '30s flocked to Broadway and the bijou to be transported to a place without bread lines and bad news, where life is de-lightful, de-licious and de-lovely. "…
Artists all over Northeast Ohio are figuring out how to use Kickstarter to fund creative projects and interact directly with a community interested in their work.
Photographer Jan Thrope's latest project is "Innervisions: The Play," a performance that showcases the joy, hopefulness, resiliency and activism going on in Cleveland's low-income …
"Lombardi," the season opener for the Cleveland Play House, features hard-hitting perfomances from Bob Ari and DeeDee Rescher in a look at the man behind the football legend.
Scarlett Johansson will tap into her feline side later this year when she plays Maggie the Cat on Broadway. Producers on Thursday unveiled the Tony Award-winning Johansson in a revival of Te…
As Ronnie in Stephen Adly Guirgis' irresistibly titled play, Anjanette Hall spends much of her time in a bra and underwear, proudly spewing obscenities that would make David Mamet blush, all…
The 2012-13 season offers a smorgasbord of the classic and the cutting-edge.
"You go off singing happy songs with a big smile on your face," says Rachel York, who will hoof it at PlayhouseSquare as evangelist-turned-nightclub-singer Reno Sweeney in the Roun…
Charlotta Enflo, managing director of Dobama Theatre, easily landed the hot script "The Motherf - - - - - With the Hat" in April. "It might have been the title," Enflo de…
Alison Garrigan has been madly stitching away, creating the over-the-top costumes for "Xanadu," the show that will open the 2012-13 season at the Beck Center for the Arts.
Moliere's "The Imaginary Invalid" has been moved from the 17th century to the 1960s with pop music and few 2012 issues, such as health care and who should be paying for it.
Cleveland Public Theatre's Raymond Bobgan didn't have to work hard to find a director for "Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays." He just read off the names of the work's c…
Karamu fans have clamored to see "The Color Purple," but the show had eluded artistic director Terrence Spivey for two years.
"For Lombardi, it wasn't enough to win -- he had to humiliate. He was obsessed with winning. Second place was not an option. He not only had to beat his opponents, he had to drive them …
The small opera company led by soprano Andrea Anelli will perform the last two operas in Puccini's "Il Trittico" at CPT in the spring.
Cleveland-born John Morris Russell is one of the most well-rounded conductors in the field and the leader of the Blossom Festival Orchestra's season finale this weekend. Russell, who grew up…
"For my money, Vicky Bussert is running the finest musical theater program in the country," said Broadway talent agent Chris Nichols. "And I'll tell anybody who'll listen"
