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Also On Stage This Week

Christine Howey — Wed, 15 May 2013 04:00:00 -0400

by Christine Howey There Is a Happiness That Morning Is Cleveland Public Theatre…

Fantasy Land

Christine Howey — Wed, 15 May 2013 04:00:00 -0400

Delve into the deeper (sexual) thoughts with Tender Napalm at Cleveland Public Theatre by Christine Howey If you like rough sex but without, um, the sex part, then you're sure to be entranced by this one-act exploration by Philip Ridley into the psychosexual byways of a relationship. However, if you don't come in with that attitude, it may be hard for you to catch up with this dense, florid, fantasy-drenched and relentlessly in-your-face piece.…

Textbook Illustration

Joseph Clark — Wed, 15 May 2013 04:00:00 -0400

Art meets science at Arts Collinwood by Joseph Clark Growing up, even those least enthralled by the wonders of nature surely found some thrills in the illustrations of science text books. As models stared forward with bovine-calm faces, impossible x-ray cross-sections lay bare the workings of their organs, which were at once repellant for their gore, and fascinating for their bio-mechanical elegance.…

Also On View This Week

Joseph Clark — Wed, 15 May 2013 04:00:00 -0400

by Joseph Clark The Cleveland Museum of Art Tantra in Buddhist Art.…

Sure Bet

Christine Howey — Wed, 08 May 2013 04:00:00 -0400

Even with a couple wrinkles, the gambler's paradise in Guys and Dolls comes up a natural winner by Christine Howey Those lovable cardsharks, bone-shakers, horserace touts and their dames are back again, filling the fictional streets of New York City with their tortured syntax and great songs, in Guys and Dolls. This co-production by Great Lakes Theater and Playhouse Square gets plenty of things right—including a couple juicy performances and some ensemble dance scenes that jolt the Hanna stage to life.…

Also On Stage This Week

Christine Howey — Wed, 08 May 2013 04:00:00 -0400

by Christine Howey Tender Napalm Cleveland Public Theatre…

New World

Joseph Clark — Wed, 08 May 2013 04:00:00 -0400

What we make of what's around us by Joseph Clark Matthew Kolodziej's painting "Paradis" sings with jazzy energy. A series of rectangular panels jut in every direction like billboards crowding out the storefronts of a street corner.…

Also On View

Joseph Clark — Wed, 08 May 2013 04:00:00 -0400

At local galleries and museums by Joseph Clark Canton Art Museum Unifying Art, Life, and Love.…

Also On View

Joseph Clark — Wed, 01 May 2013 04:00:00 -0400

This week at local galleries and museums by Joseph Clark 78th Street Studios Shedding Light.…

Love Puzzle

Christine Howey — Wed, 01 May 2013 04:00:00 -0400

A young woman looks for love in all the wrong places in Rich Girl by Christine Howey It's too bad Consumer Reports doesn't have a rating system for men, so women could compare features of prospective male romantic partners and see which models have been recommended. (No doubt men, gays and lesbians would appreciate a similar guide.)…

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Christine Howey — Wed, 01 May 2013 04:00:00 -0400

by Christine Howey West Side Story TrueNorth Theater…

Pocket Sized

Joseph Clark — Wed, 01 May 2013 04:00:00 -0400

Art that you could carry around, if you wanted to by Joseph Clark The Breakneck Gallery wants to put art in your wallet. Their Artist Trading Card show brings together some 280 works by 40 local artists that span ink, pencil, watercolor, and even metalwork.…

Print Isn't Dead

Joseph Clark — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0400

Solo exhibition of prints prove photorealistic by Joseph Clark The Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory is workshop and gallery for practitioners of print art and artisanal paper production, but also prides itself as teaching space for those same arts. Their current exhibition both showcases the work of a distinguished creator and educator in woodcut printing, Andrij Maday.…

Also On View

Joseph Clark — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0400

This week at local galleries and museums by Joseph Clark Akron Art Museum The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats.…

Breaking the Ice

Christine Howey — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0400

A large and skillful cast finds the key to The Iceman Cometh. by Christine Howey In Shakespeare plays, the clowns and noblemen are separate characters. But in Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, virtually each drunken character is foolish and wise, pitiable and exalted.…

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Christine Howey — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0400

by Christine Howey White People None Too Fragile Theater…

Beyond Their Years

Joseph Clark — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0400

CSU student exhibition displays talent and maturity by Joseph Clark Readers of criticism learn that an artist's "maturity" is something good, whatever this obscure quality may be. If it is anything, it is command of powers, and especially the ability to make newness.…

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Christine Howey — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0400

by Christine Howey White People None Too Fragile Theater…

Gift Horse

Christine Howey — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0400

The steeds in War Horse are a memorable theatrical offering by Christine Howey If one were to offer a concise comment on the script of War Horse, now at PlayhouseSquare, it might read: It's an after-school special about the love shared between a boy and his horse, with bullets. But this show is much more than that, thanks to three things: some invigorating scenic effects, a ripping good performance by former Cleveland actor Andrew May, and life-size horsey puppets that seem so real you can almost smell the pony biscuits from the lobby.…

BRAIN P

Christine Howey — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0400

Convoluted Perhaps Pericles defies easy understanding, yet is often funny by Christine Howey You'd think that a play would be absolutely riveting if it included two ship wrecks, incest, death, an innocent young woman sold into slavery in a brothel, and a final wondrous reuniting of a family. These are just some of the things that happen in Perhaps Pericles, the re-working of a play written by William Shakespeare and George Wilkins, who were contemporaries.…

Tyler Zeleny delves into the human experience in solo exhibition

Joseph Clark — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0400

Myth Buster by Joseph Clark The iconographies of living and dead mythologies are irresistible not only because of the association with things of "ultimate concern" that they have accumulated over their history. Often, they are affecting in themselves, bypassing cultural particularities to speak directly to the extremes of human experience, usually its various modes of suffering.…

Old World Charm

Joseph Clark — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0400

Photographs take on artsy, painterly qualities in Tregoning's exhibition by Joseph Clark It's an art world truism that the rise of photo-graphy "freed" painters from the task of mere mimicry on canvas and allowed them to devote themselves to explorations of pure forms, colors and concepts. However, as pictures became cleaner and sharper, photographers also wearied of trueness-to-life and drew on painterly experiments to make their own products artistic.…

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Joseph Clark — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0400

This week at local galleries and museums by Joseph Clark ARTS COLLINWOOD Das Wird Sich Alles Finden.…

LIES, DAMN LIES, AND SHAKESPEARE

Christine Howey — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0400

Old Will is deceiving again in the comical romp Much Ado About Nothing at Great Lakes Theater by Christine Howey Life is full of contradictions. Teachers tell their students not to lie, then, at some point, they hand them Shakespeare's plays, which are so filled with lies and counterfeits of various sorts that the mind boggles.…

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Christine Howey — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0400

by Christine Howey Struck Cleveland Public Theatre…