Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
It’s the responsibility of the director of a theatrical production to set the ideas, tone and movement …more…
Arts America Blogs
Slow Burn Theatre at Aventura Arts & Cultural Center
April 4, 2013 by
Aventura Mayor, Susan Gottlieb, today announced that Boca Raton’s critically acclaimed Slow Burn Theatre Company will transfer two productions in its 2013-14 season to the …more…
Afrobeat, political commentary FELA! rocks the Palace Theatre
April 3, 2013 by
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
At the conclusion of FELA!, the Afrobeat political awareness musical, now on stage at the Palace Theatre, …more…
STRUCK examines the brain and strokes at Cleveland Public Theatre
April 2, 2013 by
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association & Cleveland Critics Circle)
STRUCK, now on stage as Cleveland Public Theatre is an interesting piece, much in the vein …more…
An Iliad
April 1, 2013 by
The Outré Theatre Company proudly announces their production of Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson’s An Iliad, starring Avi Hoffman. This Obie Award-winning one-man show, at …more…
A wonderfully delightful MUCH ADO at Great Lakes Theater
April 1, 2013 by
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association and Cleveland Critics Circle)
Boy hates girl. Girl hates boy. Boy overhears that girl is secretly in love with boy; …more…
SORDID LIVES, laugh filled farce at convergence continuum
March 30, 2013 by
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
Its Winters, Texas, July 24 and 25, 1998. Yes, Texas, the place of the weird and the …more…
NICK & JEREMY, more devise theatre at Cleveland Public Theatre
March 30, 2013 by
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association & Cleveland Critics Circle)
What happens when two friends, Nick Riley, a drummer and performer, and Jeremy Paul, a director …more…
GOOD PEOPLE–funny and compelling at Cleveland Play House
March 28, 2013 by
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
What happens when you combine a well-crafted script with an interesting story, a focused director, an excellent …more…
Beck’s HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES asks whether the whole world is crazy
March 24, 2013 by
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
“A man’s home is his castle, unless it’s a zoo” is the banner used to describe author …more…
SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION challenge audience at Karamu
March 18, 2013 by
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
John Guare, author of SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION, which is now being staged at Karamu Theatre, is …more…
FREUD’S LAST SESSION a fascinating look at belief or lack of belief
March 9, 2013 by
Roy Berko
Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle
Sigmund Freud founded the discipline of psychoanalysis. His concepts centered on sexual drives, parental influences, transference, dream …more…
CWRU/CPH MFA students excel in IDentity THEFT, devised theatre
March 9, 2013 by
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
It is the purpose of the Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Play House MFA Acting Program to give …more…
SISTER ACT entertaining at State Theatre, but . . .
March 8, 2013 by
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
There have been lots of plays, movies and musicals about nuns. Nuns, who are traditionally known as …more…
Mark Morris Dance…a contrast of two acts
March 4, 2013 by
Roy Berko
(Member, Dance Critics Association)
An interesting audience reaction greeted the two acts of the recent Mark Morris Dance Company’s near sold-out performance at the Palace …more…
Well done NEXT TO NORMAL at Beck Center
March 2, 2013 by
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
There is a recent trend for Cleveland area professional theatres to couple with local university drama programs. …more…
Verb Ballets at Breen–a fusion of Asian and Western choreography
March 1, 2013 by
Roy Berko
(Member, Dance Critics Association)
Cleveland has no professional ballet company, but there is an abundance of local modern and contemporary dance troupes. One of these, …more…
Body Awareness
March 1, 2013 by
Island City Stage and Empire Stage announce their co-production of the play Body Awareness by Annie Baker March 9 – April 7, 2013. Its original …more…
EARTH, more devised theater at Cleveland Public Theatre
February 28, 2013 by
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association & Cleveland Critics Circle)
Cleveland Public Theatre is noted for championing works by local artists. The theatre’s newest offering, EARTH …more…
Bernadette Peters and the LPO is on for February 28
February 27, 2013 by
One of the greatest divas for the past three decades is winging her way to New Orleans to perform with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO). …more…
BLITHE SPIRIT….Noel Coward at his delightful best
February 26, 2013 by
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association and Cleveland Critics Circle)
Nöel Coward is noted as being one of the most creative dramatists, writers, composers, lyricist, painters …more…
SONS OF THE PROPHETS, thought provoking, funny, but flawed at Dobama
February 23, 2013 by
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
When it opened in New York last year, SONS OF THE PROPHET was called “the first important …more…
PSYCHO BEACH PARTY a campy challenge for Blank Canvas
February 23, 2013 by
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
Who wrote THEODORA, SHE BITCH OF BYZANTIUM, TIMES SQUARE ANGEL, or VAMPIRE LESBIANS OF SODOM? Don’t know? …more…
Southwest Florida, here is Sarah Peacock. You are welcome.
February 22, 2013 by
It is always fun to receive positive criticism from other writers but it is an especially unique experience to have another writer stop you mid-sentence …more…
Cleveland Play House’s THE DEVIL’S MUSIC entertaining, but…
February 21, 2013 by
Roy Berko
(Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle)
Bessie Smith, the subject of THE DEVIL’S MUSIC, the eighty-minute bio-concert now in production at the Cleveland …more…
