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Review: TARTUFFE: BORN AGAIN at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
by Amanda Callas - Jul 18, 2024

Tartuffe: Born Again is an imaginative, hilarious, delightful adaptation of the classic Molière play running at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum through October 13th. Tartuffe: Born Again is an absolute gem, a sheer, show-stopping delight, and you do not want to miss it.

Review: WENDY'S PETER PAN at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
by Harker Jones - Jun 26, 2024

While WENDY’S PETER PAN would be better served by trimming the fat, focusing on more sharpened performances, and allowing its performers room to breathe, children, despite its evening start time, will likely appreciate the show more than adults who will take notice of its distracting bumps and peculiarities.

TARTUFFE: BORN AGAIN Comes to Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum Next Month
by Stephi Wild - Jun 12, 2024

Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum will present a hilarious satire about greed, corruption and hypocrisy. In Tartuffe:Born Again, translator and adaptor Freyda Thomas puts a contemporary spin on the original French play, recasting Molière’s Tartuffe as a deposed televangelist who takes advantage of his naïve and gullible host to rook him and his family of their money.

WENDY'S PETER PAN Comes to Theatricum in June
by Stephi Wild - May 22, 2024

Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum has transformed its uniquely beautiful outdoor amphitheater into the imaginary isle of Neverland for a magical production of Wendy’s Peter Pan. Theatricum artistic director Ellen Geer directs her “retelling” of the 1904 play by J.M. Barrie, with performances running June 22 through October 4. 

A CHRISTMAS CAROL Comes to Mimi Ohio Theatre, Playhouse Square This Month
by Stephi Wild - Nov 2, 2023

The stage of the Mimi Ohio Theatre, Playhouse Square, will glow with good spirits and time-honored tradition when Great Lakes Theater (GLT) presents its 35th production of Charles Dickens’ timeless tale, A Christmas Carol, running November 24 – December 23, 2023. 

Review: DRACULA: THE BLOODY TRUTH at Great Lakes Theater
by Roy Berko - Oct 23, 2023

What did our critic think of DRACULA: THE BLOODY TRUTH at Great Lakes Theater? The cast worked hard, the stagehands did their part with great enthusiasm, but all in all DRACULA: THE BLOODY TRUTH just didn’t live up to expectations. 

Photos: First Look at Great Lakes Theatre's DRACULA: THE BLOODY TRUTH
by Blair Ingenthron - Oct 22, 2023

Great Lakes Theater (GLT) continues its 62nd season with the bloody good romp, Dracula: The Bloody Truth, performing in the company’s intimate and audience-friendly home at the Hanna Theatre, Playhouse Square from October 20 – November 5, 2023. Check out the photo from the production here!

DRACULA: THE BLOODY TRUTH Comes to Great Lakes Theater in October
by Stephi Wild - Sep 26, 2023

Great Lakes Theater (GLT) continues its 62nd season with the bloody good romp, Dracula: The Bloody Truth, performing in the company’s intimate and audience-friendly home at the Hanna Theatre, Playhouse Square from October 20 – November 5, 2023.  Learn more about the production and how to get tickets here!

Great Lakes Theater And Ideastream Partner On Radio Adaptation Of A CHRISTMAS CAROL
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 9, 2020

Great Lakes Theater (GLT), in partnership with ideastream presents a radio adaptation of A Christmas Carol on December 22nd at 8:00 PM on WCLV 104.9 ideastream and December 23rd at 9:00 PM on 90.3 WCPN ideastream. 

BWW Review: SPRING AWAKENING at Baldwin Wallace Musical Theater Program
by Roy Berko - Nov 22, 2020

In 2012, when Baldwin Wallace's number one nationally ranked musical theater program, in conjunction with Beck Center for the Arts, produced SPRING AWAKENING, my capsule judgement read: 'SPRING AWAKENING is an emotionally stirring, relevant, and well-staged production.'

Cleveland's Classic Company Announces GHOST LIGHT �" A VIRTUAL CABARET FUNDRAISER
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 23, 2020

Great Lakes Theater (GLT) will present Ghost Light a?" A Virtual Cabaret Fundraiser on Saturday, October 24, 2020 at 7:30 PM.

BWW Review: SLEUTH - a Mystery With Lots of Twists, Turns and Humor, Intrigues at Great Lakes Theater
by Roy Berko - Feb 16, 2020

BWW Review: Women-Centric JULIUS CAESAR at GLT is Bloody-Good
by Roy Berko - Oct 8, 2019

Sara Bruner has proven once again that she is the queen of Shakespeare staging. As she did last season with her 'The Taming of the Shrew,' her women-centric version of 'Julius Caesar,' which is now on stage at Great Lakes Theater, is creative, well-formulated and long on clear message development.

BWW Review: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Is A Farcical, Thought-Provoking Delight At Great Lakes Theater
by Roy Berko - Apr 2, 2019

Photo Flash: Great Lake Theater's THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
by Rebecca Russo - Mar 31, 2019

The only thing that stands between Bianca and a bevy of eligible suitors is her quick-tempered, elder sister Katherina. That is until fortune-hunting Petruchio takes up the challenge to "tame" Kate and make her his wife. A madcap marriage and much mayhem ensues in a beguiling battle of wits and wills between the sexes which ultimately reveals an unlikely romance. Can love tame a shrewish heart and surprise an unbridled bachelor? 

Photo Flash: First Look at Great Lakes Theater's WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION
by Stephi Wild - Feb 17, 2019

Great Lakes Theater (GLT), Cleveland's Classic Company, commences the second half its 2018-19 season with Agatha Christie's gripping courtroom thriller, Witness for the Prosecution. The production will be performed in the company's intimate and audience-friendly home at the Hanna Theatre, Playhouse Square, February 15 - March 10, 2019.Great Lakes Theater's own Producing Artistic Director, Charles Fee, directs the production.

Photo Flash: First Look at Great Lakes Theater's A CHRISTMAS CAROL
by Stephi Wild - Dec 2, 2018

The stage of the Ohio Theatre, Playhouse Square glows with good spirits and time-honored tradition when Great Lakes Theater (GLT) presents its 30th anniversary production of Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol, running November 30 - December 23, 2018. The production has delighted more than 750,000 people in its history, making it one of northeast Ohio's most-loved and best-attended holiday events.

BWW Review: Compelling “The Scottish Play” (“Mac**th”) at Great Lakes Theater
by Roy Berko - Apr 1, 2018

Theater people are superstitious! The practices that relate to the fears have various origins. For example, 'the ghost of Thespis (the first known actor in ancient Greece) is said to wreak havoc upon theaters all over the world. The ghost light tradition-leaving a single lit bulb upstage center when the theater is empty-is meant to ward off these mischievous specters.'

BWW Reviews: Farcical THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR Doesn't Leave Well Enough Alone at Great Lakes Theatre
by Roy Berko - Oct 2, 2014

'The Merry Wives of Windsor,' a version of which is now on stage at Great Lakes Theatre, is considered by many literary critics to be one of Shakespeare's 'lesser' plays. Not bad, just not up to the dramatic level of the great writer, though its farcical nature is often praised.

Photo Flash: Interact Theatre Begins Run of BAT BOY at Great Lakes Theatre Festival
by Jeff Dennhardt - Apr 10, 2010

Great Lakes Theater Festival (GLTF) will conclude its 2009-10 season in the company's revolutionary home at the Hanna Theatre, PlayhouseSquare, with a Spring Repertory that features Keythe Farley, Brian Flemming and Laurence O'Keefe's outrageous Off-Broadway Musical of the Year, Bat Boy: The Musical and William Shakespeare's magical masterpiece, A Midsummer Night's Dream. The productions will be performed in rotating repertory April 8 - May 16, 2010. The Spring Repertory features GLTF's resident artistic company of actors performing two alternating plays on the same stage over six weeks. Veteran Festival artist Victoria Bussert will direct Bat Boy: The Musical.