Derdriu Ring News

The Irish are a unique brand of people. Living in a land of rocks, hills, harsh weather, poverty and isolation, they have developed attitudes toward life that lend themselves to dark thoughts and bleak tales.

N ow in its fourth season, Mamai Theatre Company is pleased to announce its new Youth Educational Outreach Program: Mamai Matinees.

Mamai Theatre Company announces its 2016 Benefit: WOMEN ON FIRE, Monday, March 7, 2016 at 7:00 pm at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage.

Now in its fourth season, Mamai Theatre Company is pleased to announce exciting growth: additional public and private funding, new General Manager and Education Associate positions, new youth outreach programming, expanded adult outreach programming, and a streamlined summer season, June 2 - September 4, 2016.

Cleveland Public Theatre's Executive Artistic Director Raymond Bobgan announces the launch CPT's 2015-2016 season, featuring the regional premiere of WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT by Nassim Soleimanpour, produced in association with Aurora Nova Productions.

Cleveland Public Theatre's Executive Artistic Director Raymond Bobgan announces the launch CPT's 2015-2016 season, featuring the regional premiere of WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT by Nassim Soleimanpour, produced in association with Aurora Nova Productions.

Mamai Theatre Company closes its third season with new private and public funding grants, two new venues, and a production of Ariel Dorfman's chilling play, DEATH AND THE MAIDEN, directed by Artistic Associate, Katia P. Schwarz. This production is supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.

Mamai Theatre Company opens its third season with new private and public funding grants, two new venues, and a production of Anton Chekhov's beloved classic, THREE SISTERS, directed by Co-Producing Artistic Director, Bernadette Clemens.

Mamai Theatre Company opens its third season with new private and public funding grants, two new venues, and a production of Anton Chekhov's beloved classic, THREE SISTERS, directed by Co-Producing Artistic Director, Bernadette Clemens.

Mamai Theatre Company opens its third season with new private and public funding grants, two new venues, and a production of Anton Chekhov's beloved classic, THREE SISTERS, directed by Co-Producing Artistic Director, Bernadette Clemens.

Mamai Theatre Company announces its 2015 Season benefit: Dorothy Silver in Samuel Beckett's masterful ROCKABY and Special Guest 90.3 WCPN's Dee Perry on March 29, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. at Dobama Theatre, 2340 Lee Road, in Cleveland Heights.

Mamai Theatre Company closes its critically-acclaimed second season with the regional premiere of Irish playwright Marina Carr's WOMAN AND SCARECROW directed by Pandora Robertson.

Roy Berko (Member, American Theatre Critics Association, Cleveland Critics Circle) Eric Coble, a Cleveland Heights-based writer, is the author of the Alexandra Trilogy. Each play showcases Alex/Alexa/Alexandra at different ages and stages of her life.

The Cleveland area has a full schedule of summer theatre entertainment. Here are some of the upcoming stagings:

It is the purpose of THE CLEVELAND CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS to recognize outstanding Cleveland area productions, performers, directors and designers who contributed to the professional theatre scene during the 2013 season. For a listing of the theatres considered for 'Best of' and 'Superior Achievement' awards, go to: clevelandtheaterreviews.com

Greater Cleveland is blessed with a vital theatre scene. It is the purpose of the TIMES THEATRE TRIBUTES to recognize theatrical experiences that, in the view of this reviewer, were excellent and deserve recognition.

Dan LeFranc's THE BIG MEAL is a ninety-minute comedy-drama about life, death, meeting, dating, marriage, child-rearing, the importance of casual comments and interactions, and the quickness of existence.

If you went to college, and took a course in poetry, you'll find yourself morphing back and wishing that your professors had had a romp in the grass, and expressed themselves with such absurd hysterical language, as the duo in THERE IS A HAPPINESS THAT MORNING IS, which is getting a fine production at CPT.