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I wouldn't be where I am today if it weren't for my musical parents, who implanted in me a respect for the arts that later blossomed into a genuine love.
Adler in her own words straight, no chaser as she is in this essential collection of classroom lectures on the works of Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller and others, will lea…
Forty years of historic preservation and renovation in Cleveland's downtown theater complex have made the city a recognized leader in design for the performing arts
Lakewood performer brings the house down singing Joplin classics like "Cry, Baby" and "Me and Bobby McGee."
In little more than an hour, Elkins employs a banquet of dance styles, including hip-hop, and gender-bending ideas to catapult the story of Maria and her adventures in nanny-hood.
Choreographer Doug Elkins blends ballet, hip-hop, modern and other styles into "Fraulein Maria," his surprising and witty mash note to Rodgers and Hammerstein's popular swan song.
"Mark O'Donnell was very kind and unassuming when he came to visit the theater where he got his start," said Beck Center for the Arts artistic director Scott Spence, who directed O…
Marvin Hamlisch, who composed or arranged the scores for dozens of movies including "The Sting" and the Broadway smash "A Chorus Line," has died in Los Angeles. He was 68.
The John Marshall High School graduate won the 2003 Tony Award for co-writing "Hairspray" with Thomas Meehan. Mark O'Donnell was in Lakewood last year in a fund-raising event for t…
Cleveland Public Theatre artistic director Raymond Bobgan believes in risk-taking and encourages agents to send him new, edgy scripts. Cleveland Public Theatre executive artistic director Ra…
Joplin was famous for her ruined rasp, a growl that started like a whisper then built to a wail, her sound the embodiment of a generation unleashed. Davies can match the superstar's power an…
Donning Joplin's beads and bangles will be Stephani's understudy, Lakewood native Mary Bridget Davies, who is no stranger to the vocal stylings of the legendary Pearl.
Porthouse Theatre breathes new life into the legendary musical, "Sound of Music," in this summer-season finale.
"I saw Cat's photo, and I got the chills," said Randy Johnson, writer-director of the new musical "One Night with Janis Joplin," of his star, Cat Stephani. "Hadn't h…
Rachel Joyce, an actor turned playwright, has bracing insight into character. She first imagined "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry" as a radio play for the BBC and then rewrot…
Tracking down the mural was difficult, but raising $150,000 to restore it promises to be an even bigger challenge.
A meta-critical assessment of "Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me," Harvey Pekar's posthumous graphic memoir.
The Great Tail Fin Wars of the late 1950s, between Chrysler and Cadillac; the Prius-Hummer face-offs of the early 2000s; these are just some of the stories in Paul Ingrassia's 'Engines of Ch…
The Geauga Lyric Theater Guild invites you to take an exhilarating
journey past the second star to the right and straight on till morning.
Editors Ilya Kaminsky and Katherine Towler have gathered a diversity of visionaries that make nearly everyone feel welcome, from atheist to orthodox. In these interview-essays, poets such as…
One of Matt Polk's first assignments at Boneau/Bryan-Brown, a publicity firm in the heart of New York's Times Square, was to make sure "The Lion King's" Julie Taymor arrived at Radio City Mu…
In 2007, Elizabeth A. Davis, a struggling actress working at Starbucks and other name-tag jobs, sat in New York's Sunshine Cinema on her "first movie date" with a guy named Jordan Richard. "…
For Orin Wolf, one of the producers of "Once," arguably the hottest ticket on Broadway since winning eight Tonys, it all started with four borrowed fans.
You don't need to visit an airport this summer to travel and watch people behaving badly -- this batch of August mysteries satisfies while you stay cool. For starters: Slaughter keeps her wo…
The professional ensemble will present concerts at Saint Ignatius High School's Breen Center for the Performing Arts and Plymouth Church and First Unitarian Church of Cleveland in Shaker Hei…
