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DOBAMA THEATRE

2340 Lee Rd.
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118

PETER/WENDY
PETER/WENDY
12/6 - 12/29/2024


Think a happy thought… A fresh, lyrical, atmospheric interpretation of the classic story. When the boy that never grew up flies into Wendy’s nursery window ...

THE HOT WING KING
THE HOT WING KING
1/24 - 2/16/2025


The sauce ain't the only thing spicy in this kitchen...

THE WOLVES
THE WOLVES
3/7 - 3/30/2025


Pulitzer Prize Nominee! A girls indoor soccer team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigor of a pack of ...

RUST: A Story of Steel and Grit


WORLD PREMIERE! This is the true story of one woman’s experience in the steel industry, her struggle to find peace, and the courage she summoned ...


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Vote For The 2024 BroadwayWorld Cleveland Awards; BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL at The Youngstown Playhouse Leads Best Musical!


by BWW Awards - December 16, 2024

Voting continues for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Cleveland Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Latest Standings Announced For The 2024 BWW Cleveland Awards


by BWW Awards - December 09, 2024

Don't miss your chance to vote for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Cleveland Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Photos: First Look At PETER/WENDY At Dobama Theatre


by A.A. Cristi - December 06, 2024

Dobama Theatre’s 2024/25 mainstage season continues with the Professional Cleveland Premiere of Peter/Wendy. See photos from the production....

First Standings Announced For The 2024 BWW Cleveland Awards


by BWW Awards - December 02, 2024

Check out the first stats for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Cleveland Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

PETER/WENDY Comes to Dobama This Holiday Season


by Stephi Wild - November 08, 2024

The second production for Dobama Theatre's 2024/25 mainstage season will be the Professional Cleveland Premiere of Peter/Wendy by Jeremy Bloom. The production will run this December at Dobama, Cleveland's Off-Broadway Theatre....

Video: First Look at WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME at Cleveland Playhouse


by Joshua Wright - October 18, 2024

Get a first look at What the Constitution Means to Me at Cleveland Play House. Performances run October 12th through November 3rd, 2024. ...

Review: POTUS at Dobama


by Roy Berko - October 11, 2024

What did our critic think of POTUS at Dobama?...

Video: Inside Rehearsals For WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME at Cleveland Playhouse


by Joshua Wright - October 09, 2024

Get a sneak peak into early rehearsals for What the Constitution Means to Me at Cleveland Play House. Performances run October 12th throgh November 3rd, 2024....

POTUS Opens Dobama Theatre's 24/25 Season


by Stephi Wild - August 28, 2024

The first production of Dobama Theatre's 2024/25 mainstage season is the Cleveland Premiere of POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive. The production of this three-time Tony nominee will run from October 4-27, 2024 at Dobama, Cleveland's Off-Broadway Theatre....

Photos: First Look at SIGNIFICANT OTHER at Dobama Theatre


by Stephi Wild - April 25, 2024

Dobama Theatre has released photos from Regional Premiere production of SIGNIFICANT OTHER by Joshua Harmon, directed by Colin Anderson. The production runs April 26 – May 19, 2024 at Dobama, Cleveland’s Off-Broadway Theatre....

Past Shows

POTUS Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive


A raunchy and irreverent comedy about the women in charge of the man in charge of the free world. See the 3x Tony nominee!

POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive


POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive makes its Cleveland premiere at Dobama Theatre, running from October 4 ...

SIGNIFICANT OTHER
SIGNIFICANT OTHER
4/26 - 5/19/2024


Jordan’s running out of girlfriends. Now he needs a boyfriend. Jordan Berman would love to be in love, but that’s easier said than done. So, ...

SOMETHING CLEAN
SOMETHING CLEAN
3/8 - 3/30/2024


SOMETHING CLEAN by Selina Fillinger directed by Shannon Sindelar March 8 -30, 2024 REGIONAL PREMIERE The line between love and complicity isn’t clean. Charlotte is ...

AT THE WAKE OF A DEAD DRAG QUEEN


AT THE WAKE OF A DEAD DRAG QUEEN by Terry Guest directed by Preston Crowder January 26 - February 18, 2024 OHIO PREMIERE Wig: snatched. ...

LITTLE WOMEN
LITTLE WOMEN
12/1 - 12/31/2023


LITTLE WOMEN by Heather Chrisler directed by Melissa Crum December 1 - 31, 2023 OHIO PREMIERE The March sisters unwrap the classic tale this holiday ...

Make Believe
10/13 - 11/5/2023


Four young siblings recreate their everyday lives in a game of make-believe in their attic, while the world beneath them bodes a more sinister reality. ...

MAKE BELIEVE
MAKE BELIEVE
10/6 - 10/29/2023


The ghosts of childhood never disappear. In the attic of one family’s home, four young siblings recreate their everyday lives in a game of make-believe. ...

WHAT WE LOOK LIKE
WHAT WE LOOK LIKE
4/21 - 5/14/2023


Both hilarious and poignant, WHAT WE LOOK LIKE is the story of the Hodges - a black family that has recently moved to a suburban ...

WHAT WE LOOK LIKE
WHAT WE LOOK LIKE
4/21 - 5/14/2023


WORLD PREMIERE COMEDY! Both hilarious and poignant, WHAT WE LOOK LIKE is the story of the Hodges - a black family that has recently moved ...

THE OTHER PLACE
THE OTHER PLACE
3/10 - 4/2/2023


THE OTHER PLACE focuses on Juliana, a successful neurologist on the verge of a potential breakthrough whose life takes a disorienting turn. During a lecture ...

STEW
STEW
1/27 - 2/19/2023


REGIONAL PREMIERE 2021 Pulitzer Prize Finalist Mama is up early to prepare a big meal for an important church function and, even with her family ...

STEW
STEW
1/27 - 2/19/2023


Mama is up early to prepare a big meal for an important church function and, even with her family on hand to help, time is ...

THE LAND OF OZ
THE LAND OF OZ
12/2 - 12/31/2022


Based on the second book in L. Frank Baum’s Oz series, young Tip escapes an evil witch, then sets out on an adventure to the ...

The Thin Place
The Thin Place
10/7 - 10/30/2022


THE THIN PLACE is the story of two women, Hilda and Linda. Linda communicates, professionally, with the dead, who are still here, just in a ...

LIFE SUCKS.
LIFE SUCKS.
4/22 - 5/22/2022


After taking aim at The Seagull in Dobamas hit production of Stupid F**king Bird, playwright Aaron Posner returns with an irreverent contemporary remix of Uncle ...

KILL MOVE PARADISE
KILL MOVE PARADISE
3/4 - 3/27/2022


A biting, hilarious, hopeful requiem for Black lives. James Ijames award-winning play Kill Move Paradise tells the story of Isa, Daz, Grif and Tiny, four ...

HURRICANE DIANE
HURRICANE DIANE
1/21 - 2/13/2022


Get your Greek on - desperate housewives style. Meet Diane, a permaculture gardener dripping with butch charm. Shes got supernatural abilities owing to her true ...

AIRNESS
AIRNESS
10/29 - 11/21/2021


A play about Air Guitar that will shake you all night long. When Nina enters her first air guitar competition, she thinks winning will be ...

Life Sucks.
4/23 - 5/23/2021


Aaron Posner Contemporary American Theatre Company...

Kill Move Paradise
1/22 - 2/14/2021


Four black men find themselves stuck in a waiting room for the afterlife. As they attempt to make sense of their new paradise, Isa, Daz, ...

The Other Place (White)
4/24 - 5/24/2020


Just as Juliana Smithton’s research leads to a potential breakthrough, her life takes a disorienting turn. During a lecture to colleagues at an exclusive beach ...


The Old Man has kept his post as the sole caretaker of the moon for as long as he (or his wife, the Old Woman) ...

Wakey, Wakey
10/16 - 11/10/2019


Will Eno; dir: Christopher Mirto....

Stupid Fing Bird
9/6 - 9/29/2019


WORLD PREMIERE by Aaron Posner Sort of adapted from The Seagull by Anton Chekhov Directed by Howard Shalwitz An aspiring young theatre director named Conrad ...

33 1/3: A New Musical
33 1/3: A New Musical
6/27 - 7/14/2019


Book, Music and Lyrics by Jay Turvey and Paul Sportelli directed by Matthew Wright music directed by Matthew Dolan choreography by Holly Handman-Lopez Starring: Jim ...


Interplay Jewish Theatre, LLC...

This
This
4/26 - 5/26/2019


Jane is a promising poet without a muse and a single mother without lessons to pass along. With her dating life in shambles, she goes ...

The Nether
The Nether
3/8 - 3/31/2019


The Nether is a virtual wonderland that provides total sensory immersion. Just log in, choose an identity and indulge your every desire. But when a ...

Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.


A wildly experimental and inventive grouping of vignettes that asks how to revolutionize language, relationships, work, and life in general while bursting at the seams ...

Ella Enchanted
Ella Enchanted
11/30 - 12/30/2018


Ella is given the “gift” of obedience as an infant by a misguided fairy and cannot disobey any order. The strong-willed Ella goes on a ...

John
John
10/19 - 11/11/2018


One cold November night, Elias and Jenny, a young couple struggling to stay together, stop at a bed & breakfast in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. During their ...

Sunset Baby
Sunset Baby
9/7 - 9/30/2018


Nina, a tough, independent woman in Brooklyn, is visited by her estranged father, a former revolutionary in the Black Liberation Movement who seeks to mend ...

On The Grill
On The Grill
6/21 - 7/8/2018


Everything is ready for the Israeli Independence Day party at the home of Rochale and her husband Zvika. The lawn has seen better days and ...

On The Grill
On The Grill
6/20 - 7/8/2018


Dobama Theatre presents the American Premiere of ON THE GRILL by Dror Keren, directed by Leighann Delorenzo Winner of the 2015 Israeli Academy Award for ...

Appropriate
Appropriate
4/20 - 5/20/2018


Dobama Theatre presents the regional premiere of APPROPRIATE by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Nathan Motta Winner of the 2014-15 Obie Award for Best Play When ...

264 Hours: a Playwrights' GYM Reading


Dobama Theatre presents a free reading of a new play by Playwrights' GYM member Catie O'Keefe: 264 HOURS What happens when a group of insomniacs ...

A Reading by Dr. Mary E. Weems


Dobama Theatre presents a reading by Playwrights' GYM member Dr. Mary E. Weems: Monday, May 7, 2018 at 7:00PM Admission is free, with general seating. ...

Socks: A Play About Sex Trafficking (Playwrights' GYM Reading)


Dobama Theatre presents a reading by Playwrights' GYM member Dr. Mary E. Weems: SOCKS: A PLAY ABOUT SEX TRAFFICKING Monday, May 7th, 2018 at 7:00PM ...

A Reading by Cornell Hubert Calhoun III


Dobama Theatre presents a reading by Playwrights' GYM member Cornell Calhoun III. Monday, April 30, 2018 at 7:00PM Admission is free, with general seating. Join ...

Playwrights' GYM Reading: Cornell Hubert Calhoun III and Dr. Mary E. Weems


Dobama Theatre presents a free reading of two plays by Playwrights' GYM members A Reading by Cornell Hubert Calhoun III followed by a reading by ...

The Effect
The Effect
2/28 - 3/25/2018


Dobama Theatre presents the Midwest premiere of THE EFFECT by Lucy Prebble, directed by Laley Lippard Winner of the 2012 UK Critics' Circle Award for ...

The Effect
The Effect
3/2 - 3/25/2018


Connie and Tristan are volunteers in a clinical drug trial, but when they begin a sudden and illicit romance, they must ask themselves: is theirs ...

Canon Fodder: a Playwrights' GYM Reading


Dobama Theatre presents a reading by Playwrights' GYM member Stuart Hoffman: CANON FODDER Monday, March 19, 2018 at 7:00PM Admission is free, with general seating. ...

Rastus and Hattie


Dobama Theatre presents a reading by Playwrights' GYM member Lisa Langford: RASTUS AND HATTIE Monday, March 12, 2018 at 7:00PM Admission is free, with general ...

Grounded
Grounded
1/17 - 2/11/2018


An ace fighter pilot’s career in the sky is ended early due to an unexpected pregnancy. Reassigned to operate military drones from a windowless trailer ...

Grounded
Grounded
1/19 - 2/11/2018


An ace fighter pilot’s career in the sky is ended early due to an unexpected pregnancy. Reassigned to operate military drones from a windowless trailer ...

SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE BAKER STREET IRREGULARS


It’s December on the streets of London, Sherlock Holmes is missing, and a young girl’s grandfather has been abducted. Who will save the day? The ...

Marjorie Prime
Marjorie Prime
10/13 - 11/12/2017


In the not-too-distant future it’s the age of artificial intelligence, and 85-year-old Marjorie has a handsome new companion programmed to recount the distant, fading memories ...

Sherlock Holmes: The Baker Street Irregulars


Dobama Theatre presents the regional premiere of Sherlock Holmes: The Baker Street Irregulars, adapted by Eric Coble from the graphic novels by Tony Lee and ...

brownsville song (b-side for tray)


In the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, a life with infinite potential is tragically cut short. That is where the story both begins and ends. As ...

HAND TO GOD
4/21 - 5/21/2017


The good children of Cypress, Texas are taught to obey the Bible in order to evade Satan’s hand. But when students at the Christian Puppet ...

THE FLICK
3/3 - 3/26/2017


In a run-down movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35 millimeter film projectors ...

THE NIGHT ALIVE
1/20 - 2/12/2017


Conor McPherson; dir: Randall Arney....

AN OCTOROON
10/21 - 11/13/2016


Branden Jacobs-Jenkins; dir: Nathan Motta....

AN OCTOROON
10/21 - 11/13/2016


Branden Jacobs-Jenkins; dir: Nathan Motta....

THE MYSTERY OF LOVE & SEX
9/2 - 10/2/2016


A coming-of-age story that challenges the loving heart of a modern family as childhood friends Charlotte and Jonny start a romance when they go off ...

THE MYSTERY OF LOVE & SEX
9/2 - 10/2/2016


A coming-of-age story that challenges the loving heart of a modern family as childhood friends Charlotte and Jonny start a romance when they go off ...

MARIE ANTOINETTE
4/22 - 5/22/2016


In David Adjmi’s contemporary take on the young queen of France, Marie is a confection created by a society that values extravagance and artifice. But ...

THE REVISIONIST
3/4 - 4/3/2016


Jesse Eisenberg; dir: Leighann Delorenzo....

THE REALISTIC JONESES
1/22 - 2/14/2016


Will Eno; dir: Shannon Sindelar....

PETER AND THE STARCATCHER
12/4 - 1/3/2016


Tony-winning Peter and the Starcatcher upends the century-old story of how a miserable orphan comes to be The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (a.k.a. ...

THE CALL
10/23 - 11/15/2015


Tanya Barfield; dir: Jennifer Nelson....

OR,
9/4 - 10/4/2015


The free love of the '60s...the 1660s...is riotously explored in this recent Off-Broadway farce based on real-life playwright Aphra Behn's undercover spy and romantic romps ...

SUPERIOR DONUTS
4/24 - 5/24/2015


Tracy Letts; dir: Nathan Motta....

BECKY SHAW
3/6 - 3/29/2015


In Gina Gionfriddo’s BECKY SHAW, a newlywed couple fixes up two romantically challenged friends: wife’s best friend, meet husband’s sexy and strange new co-worker. When ...

SLOWGIRL
1/23 - 2/17/2015


Greg Pierce; dir: Leighann Delorenzo....


It's 1864, and Washington, D.C. is settling down to the coldest Christmas Eve in years. In the White House, President and Mrs. Lincoln plot their ...

KIN
4/25 - 5/25/2014


Bathsheba Doran; dir: Shannon Sindelar....

MADE IN AMERICA
3/7 - 4/6/2014


Dobama Theatre: Joel Hammer; dir: Scott Miller....

THE ALIENS
1/24 - 2/23/2014


Two angry young men sit behind a Vermont coffee shop and discuss music and Bukowski. When a lonely high-school student arrives on the scene, they ...

THE BIG MEAL
12/6 - 1/5/2014


Five generations share the moments, both epic and intimate, that make a life. From the excitement and awkwardness of a first date to the grief ...

Night Bloomers
5/12 - 6/4/2006

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