The Shaker Theatre Arts Department will present “Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac” at 7 p.m. Nov. 19 and Nov. 20 in the Large Auditorium, 15911 Aldersyde Drive.
If you are suppressing an inner rock star that wants to be unleashed, or if you consider yourself a “groupie” of the great rock bands of the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s, or if you want to escape the conventions of everyday life and carve out a comfortable niche with like-minded, self-proclaimed nerd…
It was prom night all over again for the many enthusiastic attendees of the National Broadway Tour of “The Prom” at Playhouse Square in downtown Cleveland. Everyone was soaking in the nostalgia, a few even clad in prom dresses and tuxes, reliving his or her own prom story. But it is highly u…
Sheri Gross has joined the Cleveland Jewish News as interim arts reviewer. She had been writing guest reviews for the CJN.
The cult classic, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” featuring Simply His Servants, Cleveland’s award-winning Rocky Horror cast, returned to Cedar Lee Theater in Cleveland Heights.
In the beginning, Philadelphia-based theater artist Jesse Bernstein wrote a one-man play about the ancient Jerusalem scribe who compiled the holy, sacred first Torah.
What do audience members expect when they attend a play penned by William Shakespeare? Vintage Shakespeare? A director’s personal interpretation? Maybe a modern twist while maintaining the integrity of the original work? If this is an accurate assessment of what the audience was looking for …
Who would have thought that a journey from Cleveland to the mystical African Savannah would be as easy as a trip downtown to witness the magic of Disney’s “The Lion King”?
Cleveland Public Theatre announced it will move fully to a choose-what-you-pay model for tickets to all productions, citing “the spirit of radical hospitality” in a news release Sept. 27.
For more than a decade, Nighttown in Cleveland Heights was an integral part of the Baldwin Wallace Music Theater Department’s curriculum, giving students the opportunity to perform in a nightclub setting before a live audience, similar to the experience they would encounter as working artists.
In 2011, the Cleveland Jewish News reported both the unfortunate state of Jewish theater in Northeast Ohio and the spark of a possible resurgence.
At the start of 2020, the stage was literally set for a New York City audition reading of Mike Petrone’s “Caesar: The Musical” before an audience filled with potential backers and producers. A studio recording of the songs in this Broadway-bound passion project had also been created for dist…
Chagrin Valley Little Theatre will kick off its 92nd season with an online fundraiser game, “Murder by the Falls: ‘Nursery Crimes’” at 7 p.m. Sept. 10.
How renowned is Neil Simon? He has been showered with more Academy and Tony nominations than any other writer and is the only playwright to have four Broadway productions running simultaneously. In 1983, he became the only living playwright to have a Broadway theater named after him.
From the start, none too fragile theatre in Akron has produced plays that offer the darker and more disturbing sides of the modern zeitgeist. Works like Neil LaBute’s “In a Forest, Dark and Deep,” Johnna Adams’ “Sans Merci,” and Matt Pelfrey’s “Pure Shock Value” take the stage rather than an…
A clear sign that the New York City theater scene is coming back to life after its March 2020 pandemic shutdown is the September 2021 world premiere of “A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet.” This show – the first new musical to debut Off-Broadway since theaters went dark – is the brainchild…
We’ve all had a difficult 15 months living under the shadow of COVID-19 – the health scares, the isolation, the heartbreaking personal and professional losses. And, of course, there has been the absence of live theater.
Founded in 2000, convergence-continuum’s core mission has been to “produce contemporary, cutting-edge plays that examine our current culture in innovative, environmental settings.”
In the 1990s, there were two blips on the nation’s pop culture radar that some of us are still recovering from: Boy bands and contemporary Christian music.
Since Dorothy Silver’s passing July 17, there has been a steady stream of heartfelt posted and printed testimonials from those whose lives she touched upon arriving in Cleveland in 1955 with her brilliant husband and favorite scene partner, Reuben, who died in 2014.
