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Roy Berko
Member, Cleveland Critics Circle, American Theatre Critics Association
The Shaw Festival is one of the two major Canadian theatre celebrations, the other being The Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario. Both are professional high quality venues.
The Shaw Festival is a tribute to George Bernard Shaw and his writing contemporaries.
Many Clevelanders take the four-hour drive up to The Shaw, as it is called by locals, to participate in theatre, tour the “most …more…
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association & Cleveland Critics Circle)
Sean Derry and Alanna Romansky, co-directors of none too fragile theater, have a knack for picking scripts that insight and excite. They reach for creating dissonance in the minds of the audience. In their short existence, the theatre has taken on the Israeli-Palestine conflict, racial hatred, and now unionism and big business. No wonder the venue bills itself as “Akron and …more…
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
Eric van Baars, the director of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, now on stage at Porthouse Theatre on the grounds of Blossom Music Center, states of the show, “This life-affirming musical will illuminate the powers of tradition, both in the theatrical sense of the rituals which draw us to musical theatre and the powers of communal values to support our tough decisions in …more…
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
Clyde Simon, the Artistic Director of convergence-continuum, never steers clear of in-your-face, lurid language-laced scripts. He has used this formula to consistently fill his theatre with cult patrons who are drawn to Simon’s tastes. SELF DEFENSE OR DEATH OF SOME SALESMEN is a typical con-con offering.
Males, not females, tend to gain the distinction of being serial killers. SELF DEFENSE OR DEATH OF …more…
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association and Cleveland Critics Circle)
On July 13, 1953, Sir Alec Guiness walked onto a stage located in a large tent in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, and spoke the first lines of what has become the internationally-recognized celebration of theatre known as The Stratford Festival. Now housed in five theatres, offering plays and other entertainment from late April to November, it is the largest repertoire theatre in North …more…
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
Leonard Bernstein is noted as the first conductor of a major orchestra who was born in America. His talent as a composer, author, music lecturer and pianist has made his name a household word. Besides his long tenure as the musical director of the New York Philharmonic, he is noted as the composer of such Broadway shows as WEST SIDE STORY, CANDIDE, …more…
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
Little did Artistic Director Pat Ciamacco realize when he elected to produce Reginald Rose’s 12 ANGRY MEN that his selection would be fortuitous. How could he have known that the Casey Anthony and George Zimmerman trials would be the major news stories, with the latter being decided the day Blank Canvas’s production opened.
With all the recent attention on the jury process, and …more…
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
You know you aren’t in for the typical Broadway musical, when, at the start of SPAMALOT, now on stage at Beck Center, a historian gives a brief overview of medieval England and a Finnish village appears with dancers slapping each other with dead fish as they perform the “Fisch Schlapping Song.” That opening, complete with women knocking down their male partners, is …more…
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