Scott Spence News

Beck Center for the Arts has announced its 2024-2025 Professional Theater Season, the 91st season which includes Tony Award Winners, comedies, dramas, musicals, and another collaboration with Baldwin Wallace University Musical Theatre program.   Learn more about the lineup here!

Beck Center for the Arts presents Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Running December 1– December 30, 2023, in the Senney Theater, this musical is guaranteed to bring the whole family together to enjoy all genres of music and a brilliantly colorful production.

Beck Center for the Arts’ annual Spotlight Gala theme, “Celebrating Our Past, Creating Our Future” looks back at Beck Center’s 90-year history of creating arts experiences, providing an evening of fun and entertainment, as well as a celebration of three very special inductees into the Alumni Hall of Fame. 

Beck Center for the Arts has announced the Tony Award nominated Once On This Island. Running July 7 to August 6, 2023 in the Senney Theater, this musical offers patrons an escape to a refreshing vacation, perfect for all ages.

Beck Center for the Arts' annual Spotlight Gala theme, “Celebrating Our Past, Creating Our Future” looks back at Beck Center's 90-year history of creating arts experiences, providing an evening of fun and entertainment, as well as a celebration of the critical impact of the arts in our lives. Beck Center is posthumously honoring Richard Kay, the first director of the Lakewood Little Theatre, which later evolved into Beck Center for the Arts.

Beck Center for the Arts has announced its historic 90th Anniversary, and the 2023-2024 Professional Theater Season. Learn more about the full season lineup here!

Beck Center for the Arts has announced Noises Off, one of the absolute funniest “play within a play” plays ever written and performed in the modern era.

Beck Center for the Arts will reprise the smash hit from 2021, Elf The Musical, a soon to be holiday classic for the stage.  

Infamous the Musical is set to premiere as a Staged Concert this September at St. Edward High School in Lakewood, Ohio. Infamous is a musical recount of the events leading toward Abraham Lincoln's assassination and subsequent manhunt for his killer, John Wilkes Booth.

Beck Center for the Arts has announced the hilarious musical comedy that brings Shakespeare to vibrant life, Something Rotten!   

​​​​​​​Beck Center for the Arts' annual Spotlight Gala will have guests celebrating the venerable local fundraising giant, The George Gund Foundation at Gordon Green.

Beck Center for the Arts is pleased to announce its 2022-2023 Professional Theater Season, the 89th season which includes Tony Award® Winners, comedies, dramas, return of the blockbuster Elf the Musical, and the twelfth collaboration with Baldwin Wallace University Musical Theatre program.  

Beck Center for the Arts has announced the regional premiere of The Legend of Georgia McBride, written by Matthew López, the first Latine writer to win the Tony Award for Best Play.

METEOR SHOWER, an absurdist comedy by Steve Martin, is now on stage at Beck Center for the Arts.

Beck Center for the Arts has announced the regional premiere of Steve Martin's Meteor Shower.

Beck Center for the Arts has announced Elf The Musical, a soon to be holiday classic for the stage.  

Beck Center for the Arts has announced Broadway Bound, featuring Austin Pendleton in its first production of the 2021-2022 Professional Theater Season. Mr. Pendleton returns from New York City after having performed in a Beck Center prior production, Glen Garry, Glen Ross.    

Beck Center for the Arts has announced its first live and in-person play since the start of the worldwide pandemic, This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing. Produced by Scott Spence, This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing reminds us we are all born of flesh and made of dreams.

Beck Center for the Arts has announced its first live and in-person play since the start of the worldwide pandemic, This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing. Produced by Scott Spence, This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing reminds us we are all born of flesh and made of dreams.

Beck Center for the Arts' annual Spotlight Gala will have guests honoring major donors Wally and Joyce Senney, and Artistic Director Scott Spence, while celebrating 88 years of the professional theater program, in the event space Gordon Green in Gordon Square.