“Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?” If you can shout out the answer to Patchy the Pirate’s question, you will want to doggy paddle over to Blank Canvas Theatre to see the Cleveland debut of “The SpongeBob Musical.” If you are not familiar with the happy-go-lucky sponge and his kooky co…
Interplay Jewish Theatre will present a staged reading of “The Dogs of Pripyat” at 7 p.m. Aug. 28 at the Mandel Jewish Community Center’s Stonehill Auditorium.
We are so fortunate to live in a city that values the performing arts. This is evident by the fact that there are so many opportunities to be involved in theater; whether onstage, backstage or in the audience. Cleveland is home to top-notch professional venues, vibrant youth theater programs…
In 1982, Jill Koslen-Freireich became founder and director of Beachwood Community Theater, where she has been a “theater mom” to hundreds of students.
The curtain will go up at Ensemble Theatre’s 43rd season Sept. 23 at its new location, Notre Dame College in South Euclid. The theater used Coventry PEACE Building in Cleveland Heights since 2010.
The 2022 BorderLight International Theatre + Fringe Festival will present the solo show, “The Pink Hulk: One Woman’s Journey to Find the Superhero Within,” written and performed by three-time cancer survivor and patient advocate Valerie David. Three performances will be held July 22 and 23 a…
Co-presented by BorderLight and Interplay Jewish Theatre, and supported by the Jewish Federation of Cleveland’s Cleveland-Israel Arts Connection, “Oasis” will take to the stage as part of the 2022 BorderLight International Theatre + Fringe Festival.
Chagrin Valley Little Theatre will present “Newsies” from July 22 through Aug. 13 on Friday and Saturday nights at 8 p.m. with two Sunday matinees on July 31 and Aug. 8 at 2 p.m., according to a news release.
Reviews have called the 2015 musical, “Something Rotten,” with book by John O’Farrell and Karey Kirkpatrick, and music by Karey and Wayne Kirkpatrick, “Broadway’s funniest, splashiest, slap-happiest musical comedy in at least 400 years.” And the production at Beck Center for the Arts is inde…
“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth.”
(JTA) — Lea Michele will replace Beanie Feldstein as the lead of Broadway’s revival of the extremely Jewish musical “Funny Girl,” with Jewish Broadway legend Tovah Feldshuh stepping into a key supporting role.
Interplay Jewish Theater will have a staged reading of “Bauer,” a play by Lauren Gunderson retelling the story of Rudolf Bauer, a European artist who was jailed by the Nazis, from 3 to 5 p.m. Aug. 7 at the Mandel Jewish Community Center at 26001 S. Woodland Road in Beachwood.
Scary-licious sci-fi meets paranormal pop/rock in Porthouse Theatre’s horror musical comedy “Little Shop of Horrors,” and while it may make you second guess purchasing a venus flytrap anytime soon, the show will definitely have you bopping in your seat.
Ensemble Theatre has announced a residency on the Notre Dame College campus in South Euclid.
In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Alabama, ultimately contributing to an acceleration of the pace of civil rights reform. Harper Lee’s celebrated novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” was published shortly after that in 1960, in the early stages of the civi…
The audience was certainly buzzing on the way out of the Hanna Theatre following Great Lakes Theater’s opening performance of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The 39 Steps.” Some attendees had gone in blind, thinking they were merely seeing a farcical stage adaptation of the 1935 film of the same name (a…
With a cast of 100 children, Stagecrafters Theatre’s “SHREK the Musical” is in rehearsal at the Pepper Pike Learning Center in preparation for a four-performance run May 13 through May 15 at the Orange High School auditorium in Pepper Pike.
Four days after the city terminated the founder and director of Beachwood’s children’s theater program and theater camp, Beachwood Mayor Justin Berns reached out to residents with a letter to offer “clarity” on the cancellation of Beachwood Theater Camp.
Students at Playmakers Youth Theatre will stage “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “Seussical” for the first time in two years since COVID-19 forced the Mandel JCC’s youth theater to go dark.
After two years of virtual programming, Interplay Jewish Theatre is preparing for a return to in-person performances with Alice Eve Cohen’s “What I Thought I Knew” on May 2 and May 3 at Dobama Theatre in Cleveland Heights.
