(Nov. 5 1:30 AM) - Travel to the magical land of Narnia with four English school children in the Beck Center Youth Theater's production of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe on the Mackey Main Stage, November 5 to 8, 2009, at the Beck Center for the Arts. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday with an already sold-out student matinee performance at 10 a.m. on Thursday, November 5.
(Nov. 4 3:29 PM) - Nickelodeon and Broadway Across America present Storytime Live!--the first-ever live family theatrical tour featuring characters from four of the current top-rated preschool television shows: Dora the Explorer, The Backyardigans, Wonder Pets! and Ni Hao, Kai-lan.
(Nov. 4 2:43 PM) - The Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory has announced that Constantine Kitsopoulos will conduct the production of Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème, which will be presented in repertory with Johathan larson's Rent in February, 2011.
(Nov. 2 8:12 PM) - PlayhouseSquare's annual Tinsel Town Holiday Celebration for Families is scheduled for Saturday, December 12 from 3 - 5 p.m. in the Idea Center® at PlayhouseSquare (1375 Euclid Ave.), immediately following the 1 p.m. performance of The Royal Winnipeg Ballet's Nutcracker, presented by PNC.
(Nov. 1 1:30 AM) - Great Lakes Theater Festival opens the season with Rupert Holmes' Tony Award-winning THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD and Shakespeare's enchanting TWELFTH NIGHT.
(Oct. 31 1:30 AM) - The Killing Room is a ghost story set in the South. A lonely pianist in a silent moviehouse begins having uncontrollable nightmares. The dreams focus on the pianist's dead parents, the true identity of his father, and something far scarier. Being pushed toward madness, the pianist goes on a wild quest for answers through his past. But the answers he finds may ultimately destroy him.
(Oct. 30 11:05 AM) - Tickets will go on sale Friday, Nov. 6 for the Charlotte premiere engagement of the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award winning hit musical JERSEY BOYS, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, playing the Belk Theater March 31 - April 18, 2010.
(Oct. 30 2:30 AM) - Cleveland's Karamu House presents the Ohio premiere of Yellowman, an award winning drama that explores racism within the Black community.
(Oct. 30 2:00 AM) - The Cleveland Shakespeare festival is bringing to the stage the Ohio and regional premiere of William Shakespeare's Land of the Dead: A true and accurate account of the 1599 zombie plague, a new play by John Heimbuch.
(Oct. 29 4:18 PM) - Legendary producer, John Kenley, passed away peacefully on October 23, 2009. He was 103.
Over 60 years ago, John Kremchek appeared with Martha Graham as a dancer-acrobat in John Murray Anderson's Greenwich Village Follies. Mr Anderson told young Kremchek to change his name to Kenley where it has remained ever since.
(Oct. 29 12:30 AM) - The Human Race Theatre Company annonces the 2009-2010 Eichelberger Loft Season. From Little League to the Big Apple, from the glory that was Spain to the glamour that is Cleveland, from Charles Dickens to David Hare, the 2009-2010 Eichelberger Loft Season of The Human Race Theatre Company will present loads of laughs, scores of songs, and even titillate the intellect a bit.
(Oct. 28 1:18 PM) - Cleveland's Karamu House presents the Ohio premiere of Yellowman, an award winning drama that explores racism within the Black community.
(Oct. 28 10:50 AM) - Children's auditions for Royal Winnipeg Ballet's production of Nutcracker, will take place Saturday November 7th at 10 a.m. in The Idea Center at PlayhouseSquare, located at 1375 Euclid Avenue. This production of Nutcracker is presented by National City, now a part of PNC.
(Oct. 28 12:30 AM) - The Community Engagement & Education Department at PlayhouseSquare is hosting its annual "Fall for the Arts" evening of professional development for Northeast Ohio educators of all grade levels and subjects on Wednesday, October 28 from 4 - 8 p.m.
(Oct. 27 12:34 PM) - As previously reported, Kyle Beltran, Rogelio Douglas Jr., Natalie Toro and Shaun Taylor-Corbett are set to star in the upcoming National Tour of IN THE HEIGHTS, which will launch October 27 at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. Complete casting has been announced today.
(Oct. 26 1:30 AM) - Young professionals are invited to take a private tour of PlayhouseSquare's historic theaters on Monday, October 26 at 6 p.m. The tour begins with cocktails and appetizers in the beautiful RJF Presidents' Club in the Palace Theatre.
(Oct. 24 2:00 AM) - Based on the beloved book by Janelle Cannon, Stellaluna tells the tale of a baby bat whose life is flitting along right on schedule--until an owl attacks her mother one night, knocking the bewildered batlet out of her loving grasp.