January 2009 Events
Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize, RENT is about being young, learning to survive, falling in love, finding your voice and living for today.
Due to popular demand, America's premier comedian is hitting the road in a return to his first love - stand-up comedy.
An evening of speech and song in honor of our kids and our great city. All proceeds will benefit Great Lakes Theater Festival's Re-Imagine a Classic campaign.
The Musical Box will now present worldwide, with the help of Genesis and artists involved in the original show, A Trick of the Tail.
The face-off of the century, live on stage. Direct from Broadway. Frost/Nixon tackles the question: How did David Frost, a famous British talk-show host with a playboy reputation, elicit the apology that the rest of the world was waiting to hear from former President Richard Nixon?
Goodnight Moon is a celebration of familiar nighttime rituals, while The Runaway Bunny’s pretend tale of leaving home evokes reassuring responses from his loving mum.
Our Project Discovery Workshops are a great way to expand your child's experience at Playhouse Square.
Back by popular demand, The Elvis Recreators are here to celebrate Elvis’ 74rd birthday.
Spare Parts Puppet Theatre's adaptation of Shaun Tan's internationally acclaimed book The Arrival is a truly warm and magical experience for all.
I Love You Because is a hilariously fresh, modern-day musical love story set in New York City. A young, uptight greeting card writer's life is changed when he meets a flighty photographer. Along with their eccentric friends and siblings, they learn to love each other not in spite of their faults, but because of them.
Rennie Harris Puremovement has emerged as the international hip-hop dance ambassador and surviving senior member in the world of organized hip-hop dance theater.
Performed by Nightswimming, Andy Massingham's Rough House is a roller coaster of dance, slapstick and beautiful images, a comic yet wordless duet for performer and lighting designer in which light is an active character, both friend and foe of Andy's persona.
Nick has not seen his father since he was small and can hardly remember him. Nevertheless, he still misses him a great deal and searches incessantly for answers to why his father chose to leave him.
Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience presents a dynamic multicultural performing arts music experience centered on the multiracial French-speaking Creoles of South Louisiana and their indigenous Zydeco that is known and celebrated worldwide.
History of the Word follows six high school students over a single day at Future High where they navigate a world filled with hope, fear and uncertainty.
Cheeseboy's home planet has been reduced to a bubbling fondue. He is marooned on earth.
Theater goes “green” with this captivating puppetry adaptation of Jean Giono's environmental cult classic by the Puppet State Theatre Company.
Cas Public performs The Ugly Ducklings’ Dancing Cabaret, inspired by the German cabarets of the 1920s and the fairy-tale world. In this series of short numbers, reality and artifice intersect in a sunny mix of song, music, dance, theater and video.
A vibrant and diverse musical performance of original songs for the whole family.
It Sounds Better in Amharic is a moving personal account of a 400 mile journey by foot from Ethiopia to a refugee camp in Sudan, and then finally flying to the Holy Land.
The audience follows Darwin from his origination as he stumbles over joy, creativity, fear, danger, victory and most importantly... love.
Inlet Dance Theatre is one of the Midwest’s most exciting professional contemporary dance companies, performing for sold out audiences, receiving standing ovations and garnering rave reviews.
2008-2009 Town Hall Series Lecture with Steven Nissen MD- "The FDA and Drug Safety: Buyer Beware"
The hilarious show that entertained thousands of Clevelanders is back. Menopause The Musical® has returned to entertain and inspire women for a limited one week engagement.
Successful beyond their wildest dreams, the iconic comedy duo Cheech & Chong defined an era with their hilariously irreverent, satirical, counter-culture, no-holds-barred comedy routines.
Called “the world’s greatest living choreographer,” American modern dance icon Merce Cunningham shows his remarkable genius with every performance of his company. Returning to Cleveland after a 23 year absence, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company will feature three works that showcase the historic range of this masterful dance maker.
