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Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
SHREK has music by Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire. It is based on the 1990 book SHREK! by William Steig, as well as the 2001 DreamWorks film. The musical opened in New York in December of 2008, after much rewriting and many cast changes, and ran for 441 performances. The script was changed for the touring production, and …more…
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
A musical review, by the very nature of its structure, is usually not of great interest to those theatre-goers who want a story line or an over-riding theme. Someone attends a musical review because there is a tuneful style or type of music that you like or there are some singers performing who you want to hear.
SMOKEY JOE’S CAFÉ, now on stage …more…
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
“Hello, my name is Elder Price and I would like to share with you the most amazing book,” states the lead actor in THE BOOK OF MORMON, now on stage at the Palace Theatre.
“Hello, my name is Roy Berko and I would like to share with you my enthusiastic endorsement for a most amazing musical,” states the writer of this review!
Trey Parker …more…
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein, Jr. are considered the fathers of modern American musical theatre. Their OKLAHOMA opened the door to musicals with meaningful storylines, and the integration of lyrics, dancing and music to help move the plot along.
As with all of Rogers and Hammerstein’s musicals, there is a strong societal and moral base. This aspect of their scripts is usually highlighted …more…
Parade Productions presents a premiere reading of award-winning South Florida playwright/director Michael Leeds’ new work, The Gift on July 1st at 7:30 p.m., at the Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center’s Studio Theatre in Boca Raton.
The premise of The Gift is simple: A young man and woman are stuck in adjoining elevators. However their gradual realization they might actually be trapped in each other’s dreams leads the characters – and audiences …more…
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
Mamaí, Cleveland’s newest professional theatre, opened its summer season with a monumental undertaking, a staging of the U.S. premiere of Brendan Kennelly’s translation and script modification of Euripides’ classic tragedy, MEDEA.
The company’s mission is “to create intelligent, relevant classical theatre that offers an artistic home for Cleveland’s theatre artists, and equal opportunity for women in the professional theatre community.”
MEDEA, considered by many …more…
Empire Stage presents the South Florida premiere of the hit parody inspired by the popular 80s sitcom The Facts Of Life: The Lost Episode. From Jamie Morris, the writer who brought you Mommie Queerest, Silence Of The Clams, and Re-Designing Women, comes the raunchiest show in his repertoire. He’s tackled Joan and Christina Crawford, Hannibal Lechter and Clarice Starling, and the Sugarbaker gals of Atlanta. Now with The Facts of …more…
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
Have you looked at a painting and asked, “What does that mean?” What would the world be like without the arts? Does art have to have meaning? Does the learning of artistic technique thwart a painter’s discovery and creativity? What happens when a group of uneducated, unsophisticated men are encouraged to let their emotions create their world? These and many more questions …more…
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