BWW Review: STUPID FU***ING BIRD Takes Glorious Flight at Dobama
The lights dim. Joseph Lyle Dunn, who we later learn is portraying Conrad, the play's protagonist, comes stage center and says, 'The play will begin when someone says: 'Start the f**king play.'' As if on cue, a member of the audience yells, 'Start the f**king play,' and it does!
BWW Review: HARM'S WAY Examines the Underbelly of Humanity at Convergence Continuum
Cleveland is in the midst of 'The Mac Wellman Homecoming Festival,' presented by Playwrights Local, in partnership with Cleveland State University Department of English, the NEOMFA Creative Writing Program, and the Michael Schwartz Library, with performances by Playwrights Local, Theater Ninjas, convergence-continuum, CSU Department of Theatre & Dance, Baldwin Wallace University Department of Theatre and Dance, and The Manhattan Project-Cleveland Lab.
HARM'S WAY Opens This Week at convergence-continuum
convergence-continuum opens its 2017 season with the Ohio premiere of Harm's Way by Mac Wellman, directed by Clyde Simon. Harm's Way, the darkly humorous fable of an angry man on a rampage through a fantastical wilderness, chronicles the exploits of very angry Santouche as he tries to make sense of his understanding of law and order in a nation of other angry people.
BWW Reviews: BENGAL TIGER - A Mental and Emotional Challenge at Ensemble
In BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO, Cleveland Heights native Rajiv Joseph's, surreal dark play, ghosts roam the streets of Baghdad in 2003. Ghosts of soldiers, citizens, zoo animals, a son of the former ruler of the country. These ghosts are part of the vivid display of the madness of war, and what it means to be caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.
2014 NEOMFA Playwrights Festival Begins Today
Convergence-continuum presents four new plays by local graduate-student playwrights at the 2014 NEOMFA Playwrights Festival. The Festival features four world-premiere plays: two full-length plays by final-year MFA candidates, and two ten-minute plays by second-year grad students. These plays are part of a three-year intensive program of study under playwright and professor Mike Geither, and are co-produced by convergence-continuum, Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts (NEOMFA) in Creative Writing and Cleveland State University.
2014 NEOMFA Playwrights Festival Begins This February, 2/6-15
Convergence-continuum presents four new plays by local graduate-student playwrights at the 2014 NEOMFA Playwrights Festival. The Festival features four world-premiere plays: two full-length plays by final-year MFA candidates, and two ten-minute plays by second-year grad students. These plays are part of a three-year intensive program of study under playwright and professor Mike Geither, and are co-produced by convergence-continuum, Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts (NEOMFA) in Creative Writing and Cleveland State University.
convergence-continuum to Present LILIES, 10/11-11/2
convergence-continuum continues its 2013 Season, Ruled by Passion, with the love story no one ever told: the Ohio premiere of Lilies, or the Revival of a Romantic Drama by Michel Marc Bouchard (translation by Linda Gaboriau).
BWW Reviews: THE ICEMAN COMETH, a Four-Hour Marathon at Ensemble
Eugene O'Neill, along with such writers as Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, transformed western theatre. They transitioned the stage from a place for escapist ideas into a mecca for the examination of real life problems. The quartet laid the foundation for what is now known as 'the modern theatre' and laid the groundwork for such luminaries as Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and William Inge.
APORKALYPSE! World Premiere Closes 12/19 at Convergence-Continuum
convergence-continuum, concludes its 2010 Season at the Liminis theatre with the world premiere of APORKALYPSE! - our not-for-the- kiddies holiday show by Cleveland playwright and con-con company member Chris Johnston. Christmas, Marines AWOL from Iraq, a Persian love goddess and corporate American agri- business all collide down at Pawpaw's pig farm. And since it's the holiday season, there's some singing and accordion playing, too. For the three-week run, we've added 7 pm Sunday performances in addition to our usual Thu-Sat 8 pm shows.
Convergence-Continuum Presents the World Premiere of APORKALYPSE! 12/3-12/19
Convergence-continuum, concludes its 2010 Season at the Liminis theatre with the world premiere of APORKALYPSE! - our not-for-the-kiddies holiday show by Cleveland playwright and con-con company member Chris Johnston. Christmas, Marines AWOL from Iraq, a Persian love goddess and corporate American agri-business all collide down at Pawpaw's pig farm. And since it's the holiday season, there's some singing and accordion playing, too. For the three-week run, we've added 7 pm Sunday performances in addition to our usual Thu-Sat 8 pm shows.