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…

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.

While sitting in your seat in Porthouse Theatre’s outdoor amphitheater, it is likely that “Bklyn: The Musical” will seem particularly familiar. It is not because the show is tapping universal truths, resonating with social relevance or conjuring commonly held slice-of-life scenarios, which i…