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PETER AND THE STARCATCHER Comes to Great Lakes Theater
by Stephi Wild - Jan 7, 2025

Great Lakes Theater will set the stage for the second half of its 63rd season with the playful Peter Pan prequel, Peter and the Starcatcher. Learn more about the show here!
Photos: A CHRISTMAS CAROL at Great Lakes Theater
by Blair Ingenthron - Nov 24, 2024

Great Lakes Theater is presenting its 36th production of Charles Dickens’ timeless tale, A Christmas Carol, running through December 22, 2024. Check out production photos here!
Great Lakes Theater To Present A CHRISTMAS CAROL
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 4, 2024

Great Lakes Theater has announced the return of A CHRISTMAS CAROL, a beloved holiday tradition in Northeast Ohio, running from November 29 to December 22, 2024, at the Mimi Ohio Theatre.
Photos: First Look at Great Lakes Theater's THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
by Blair Ingenthron - Mar 24, 2024

Check out production photos from Great Lakes Theater's production of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor here!
Photos: First Look at Great Lakes Theater's AGATHA CHRISTIE'S MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
by Blair Ingenthron - Feb 11, 2024

Great Lakes Theater (GLT) has kicked off the second half of its 62nd season with the world-famous mystery Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express. Check out production photos here!
World Premiere of Ken Ludwig's MORIARTY: A NEW SHERLOCK HOLMES ADVENTURE is Coming to Cleveland Play House
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 8, 2023

Cleveland Play House will bring its 2022-2023 season to a close with the world premiere production of Ken Ludwig's Moriarty: A New Sherlock Holmes Adventure. Running April 29 through May 21 in the Allen Theatre at Playhouse Square.
BWW Review: LOBBY HERO at Blank Canvas Asks, 'What is the Moral Thing to Do?”
by Roy Berko - Aug 24, 2019

Kenneth Lonergan is noted for writing about decent people who are unexpectedly challenged by issues of ethics. In his 'Lobby Hero,' now on stage at Blank Canvas, the 2016 Oscar winner for 'Manchester by the Sea' specifically asks, 'What happens when emotions come in conflict with principles.'
BWW Review: ANGELS IN AMERICA, PART TWO Continues Tony Kushner's Saga at Ensemble
by Roy Berko - Apr 29, 2018

Tony Kushner, the award winning author of 'Angels In America Parts One and Two,' says of his work, 'The question I am trying to ask is how broad is a community's embrace? How wide does it reach?'
BWW Review: Pulitzer Prize Winning Angels in America, Part 1 is Compelling at Ensemble
by Roy Berko - Jan 11, 2018

Lucky you. It is unnecessary to go to New York to see a production of this epic. It is now running at Ensemble Theatre as part of their 'We The People' 2017-2018 season. The first segment, subtitled 'Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches,' is running until January 28. In April, 'Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika,' will be staged at the theatre.
Ensemble Rings In 2018 With ANGELS IN AMERICA: PART ONE: MILLENIUM APPROACHES
by BWW News Desk - Jan 5, 2018

New York City in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. In the first part of Tony Kushner's epic, a gay man is abandoned by his lover when he contracts the AIDS virus, and a closeted Mormon lawyer's marriage to his pill-popping wife stalls.
ANGELS IN AMERICA Opens Friday at Ensemble Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Jan 2, 2018

New York City in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. In the first part of Tony Kushner's epic, a gay man is abandoned by his lover when he contracts the AIDS virus, and a closeted Mormon lawyer's marriage to his pill-popping wife stalls.
Ensemble Rings In 2018 With ANGELS IN AMERICA: PART ONE: MILLENIUM APPROACHES
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 20, 2017

New York City in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. In the first part of Tony Kushner's epic, a gay man is abandoned by his lover when he contracts the AIDS virus, and a closeted Mormon lawyer's marriage to his pill-popping wife stalls.
BWW Review: DESIRE: Tennessee Williams in Others' Words
by Nancy Grossman - May 4, 2017

Zeitgeist Stage Company introduces new faces that meld into an impressive ensemble to convey the unusual and flawed characters from the mind of Williams and the pens of half a dozen eclectic playwrights in DESIRE: AN EVENING OF PLAYS BASED ON SIX SHORT STORIES BY TENNESSEE WILLIAMS. A self-admitted aficionado of Williams, Director David J. Miller mixes and matches his cast to meet the challenge of portraying diverse personalities.
At Last! AMAZING GRACE Cast Album Will Arrive on 2/26
by Nicole Rosky - Feb 10, 2016

DMI Soundtracks announced today that the Broadway cast album of Amazing Grace will be released on February 26; with digital download pre-orders available on February 12. Amazing Grace will be available to purchase on all digital download and streaming services, as well as in-store. The recording was co-produced and engineered by six-time Grammy Award winner Frank Filipetti and co-produced and arranged by Joseph Church.
AMAZING GRACE Plays Final Performance on Broadway Today
by Sally Henry Fuller - Oct 25, 2015

Amazing Grace, the new musical playing at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre (208 West 41st Street), will play its final performance on Sunday, October 25. On that date, the show will have played 24 preview performances and 114 regular performances.
AMAZING GRACE Cast Will Reunite in November to Record Cast Album; Hits Shelves in January
by Nicole Rosky - Oct 23, 2015

The producers of Amazing Grace just announced that DMI Soundtracks will record the Broadway cast album of Amazing Grace on Monday, November 2nd. The album will be available in January, 2016. The recording will be produced and engineered by six-time Grammy Award winner Frank Filipetti. The tracklist for the digital album and CD is as follows:
STAGE TUBE: SHARE A Moment Of Grace With AMAZING GRACE's Princess Peyai, Harriet D. Foy
by Michael Dale - Oct 23, 2015

AMAZING GRACE is Harriet D. Foy's fourth Broadway production, but the first in which she has created a role. 
STAGE TUBE: AMAZING GRACE's Tom Hewitt Shares A Moment of Grace
by Michael Dale - Oct 20, 2015

'I've never been in a show that moved people quite like this.'
STAGE TUBE: AMAZING GRACE's Chuck Cooper Shares A Moment of Grace
by Michael Dale - Oct 15, 2015

Chuck Cooper became a Broadway star playing a heartless pimp in THE LIFE, but seeing the audience's reaction and the end of AMAZING GRACE often moves him to tears.
AMAZING GRACE Enters Final Weeks of Broadway Performances
by Nicole Rosky - Oct 12, 2015

Amazing Grace, the new musical playing at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre (208 West 41st Street), will play its final performance on Sunday, October 25. On that date, the show will have played 24 preview performances and 114 regular performances.

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