Wednesday, June 11, 2014
As Alexa, Ring, barefoot and dressed in faded pastels -- a lilac top and chinos the color of green tea -- is elemental and divine. She splatters white paint across the charcoal tarpaulin lik…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 02:37PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 8, 2014
Cleveland native Mary Bridget Davies, nominated for best lead actress in a musical for her searing portrayal of the late blues rocker in "A Night With Janis Joplin," and Estelle Pa…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 11:07PM[SHARE]Friday, June 6, 2014
Whether crooning "I Can't Give You Anything But Love," the song his father sang to his mother on their first date, or performing a soft shoe next to a buttery spotlight, a stand-in…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 5, 2014
Despite my prurient personal bias, I'd wager a hefty bag of Krugerrands that Neil Patrick Harris, as "internationally ignored song stylist" Hedwig Robinson, will deliver a knockout…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Beginning Wednesday, the movie house will join some 500 theaters nationwide to present what producers are calling a "stagecast" or a stage performance of "Driving Miss Daisy&q…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 10:20AM[SHARE]Monday, June 2, 2014
In director Donald Carrier's hands, "Seminar" has the pacing of an unputdownable read, the kind you don't mind losing sleep to finish. Credit is also due to playwright Theresa Rebe…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 11:15AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 1, 2014
There is little wit or distinctive characterization in "Ancestra." We see women who make speeches, not real women with complicated emotional lives. A heavy-handed script and histri…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 01:19PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 29, 2014
Maurice Hines on show biz etiquette: Like my mother used to say to us, "I want the audience to leave saying, 'I had a good time, baby!' You know why? Because they could be somewhere els…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]"People are writing about how Reuben is now a legend -- Reuben was always a legend."
-- Joe Garry on his friend and mentor, Reuben Silver.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 14, 2014
David Gilbert, president and CEO of Positively Cleveland, expects the three-day theater conference will bring nearly $1 million in revenue to the region.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 13, 2014
A new and updated version of Laura Paglin's standout documentary "Facing Forward" is airing in Cleveland and on other PBS stations throughout the country in May.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 01:08PM[SHARE]This hypnotic, loving portrait offers a rare seat at the foot of the legendary theater and film director as he schools a cast of international performers.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 12, 2014
Everything about "Grounded" " from the mesmerizing Hannah Cabell to the transporting language of George Brant's propulsive script and director Ken Rus Schmoll's confident, spartan …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:21AM[SHARE]Friday, May 9, 2014
Playhouse Square to honor Reuben Silver with a dimming of lights Saturday.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:20PM[SHARE]Reuben Silver, legendary artistic director, actor and educator, died early Thursday at the Hospice of the Western Reserve. He was 88 years old.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 01:20AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 8, 2014
"You don't come across a lot of characters like this that are written for women, which is unfortunate, because I think women have just as much darkness and bloodlust as men do." --…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:03PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 4, 2014
"Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant" returns to Cleveland Public Theatre. One of CPT's most popular seasonal entertainments is back for a final farewell. Hailed as "a deliciously …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 2, 2014
At 10:30 p.m. as a crowd estimated at nearly 20,000 chanted "light it up, light it up!" what might be the world's largest outdoor chandelier burst to glorious life, accompanied by …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 10:50PM[SHARE]Artistic director Scott Spence clearly enlisted the help of one Ms. Mary Poppins to land the hit musicals waiting in the wings for the Beck Center for the Arts' 2014-15 season. How else to e…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Mary Bridget Davies, born and raised in Cleveland, is in fine company. Also nominated for Tony for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical are Idina Menzel for "If…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 01:12PM[SHARE]"The Velocity of Autumn" will play its final performance Sunday. The black comedy by Cleveland playwright Eric Coble opened at the Booth Theatre, a signature venue on the Great Whi…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:13PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 29, 2014
"Informed Consent" is all about dramatic collisions and unlikely mash ups, particularly of the seen and the unseen -- the natural world we can touch and the genetic realm we can on…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 01:30PM[SHARE]Estelle Parsons, star of Eric Coble's 'The Velocity of Autumn,' and performer Mary Bridget Davies nab Tony Award nominations.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 08:21AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 26, 2014
Why would an A-list celebrity sweat through a 10-month international tour headlining "Richard III," one of the most emotionally and physically demanding roles ever written for the …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 22, 2014
York critics have weighed in on Eric Coble's new play "The Velocity of Autumn"
and the reviews are mixed.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 04:13PM[SHARE]It treads the path cut by Samuel Beckett: It's funny, but it's all about death and decay; it's absurd, but it still feels like the people you are watching are real. Even so, Coble, who is 44…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:09PM[SHARE]As the lights went down on "The Velocity of Autumn" and the actors left the the stage, the intimate, 766-seat theater erupted, pulsing like the Q during a Cavs game when the home t…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 04:09AM[SHARE]Monday, April 21, 2014
Walking the red carpet at Monday's "The Velocity of Autumn" premiere: Lucy Liu, Stephen ("Wicked") Schwartz and Tony nominee Annaleigh Ashford, most recently Stark Sands'…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 01:13PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 20, 2014
"I've had so many audience members come up and say, I've got to bring my son to this, I've got bring my mother to this. Now I think I know how to talk to my mom -- I think I'll talk to …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 14, 2014
Dear Eric: As you sweat the remaining days before that Monday, April 21, curtain at the Broadway's Booth Theatre, your friends and fans back in Cleveland figure a few pieces of wit and wisdo…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:16PM[SHARE]Friday, April 11, 2014
Deborah Zoe Laufer's "Informed Consent," an intriguing play about the
promise and pitfalls of genetics research -- thorny legal and moral issues that
were unimaginable only a few y…
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