“Rent Live” showed potential despite production disaster
Michael Wu, Staff Reporter
February 1, 2019
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Fine Arts, Theater & Dance, Top Stories
Believe it or not, there was a time when “Rent” was radical. The musical, about a group of young New Yorkers fighting off gentrification in the shadow of the AIDS crisis, premiered off-Broadway, less than a decade after the country’s president would not even utter the word “AIDS” in public. ...
MaDaCol creates memorable experience for audience, dancers alike
Kyle Smith, Staff Reporter
December 7, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Fine Arts, Theater & Dance, Top Stories
Dance productions are not for everyone. The Mather Dance Collective (MaDaCol) wants to change that. MaDaCol is one of Case Western Reserve University's oldest student-run organizations, founded in 1984 with the goal of making dance productions accessible to students and members of the Cleveland ...
One-Act Festival provides bite-sized entertainment for CWRU
Yvonne Pan, Staff Reporter
December 7, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Fine Arts, Local Events, Theater & Dance
Do you have the attention span of a squirrel? Do you often find yourself losing interest in plays only minutes in? Players’ Theatre Group (PTG) provided a solution to both problems through their hour and thirty minute long One-Act Festival, held in the Eldred Black Box Theater on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1. ...
Footlighters’ “If/Then” offers emotional experience, displays young talent
Kyle Smith, Staff Reporter
November 9, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Fine Arts, Theater & Dance
“If/Then” is a musical that every college student should see. It asks many of the questions that keep young adults up at night: questions about fate and chance, choice and consequence. The show seeks to answer these questions and more, but occasionally the best the show can do is throw up its han...
Arts After Dark unites campus performers and arts supporters
Julia Knight, Staff Reporter
November 2, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Fine Arts, Theater & Dance, Top Stories
Arts enthusiasts were scattered around Harkness Chapel on Saturday evening, relaxed and ready to watch performances by a variety of their musical peers. Arts After Dark is a semesterly event organized by the Music Undergraduate Student Involvement Committee to showcase the outstanding talent on campu...
East Cleveland Theater opens season No. 50 with dramatic Jekyll and Hyde
Kyle Smith, Staff Reporter
October 12, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Fine Arts, Local Events, Theater & Dance, Top Stories
Fog poured through the darkly lit hall of a 100-year-old church Saturday night, as dark figures stalked through the gloom pursuing evil intentions. Where pews should have stood, rows of theater seating held a sparse audience, enthralled by the tale unfolding before them. It was the second night of the East Clevelan...
“Reckless” asks, “Can you ever really know a person?”
Sunayana Jampanaboyana, Staff Writer
October 12, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Fine Arts, Theater & Dance
To open the Eldred Theater 2018-19 season, the Case Western Reserve University Department of Theater presented six performances of “Reckless” by Craig Lucas. “Reckless” is a hallmark of postmodern theater with underlying themes of loss and identity. The bizarre chain of events in “Reckless...
MaDaCol showcases modern themes, old school flare
Kyle Smith, Contributing Reporter
April 27, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Theater & Dance
At the center of a pitch black room, a solitary orange spotlight illuminated a shapeless figure writhing and contorting to the sound of dripping water, scraping metal and distorted mumbling. The scene could have come straight from the script of a Ridley Scott film, but this event didn’t take place ...
“Lake Effect” hits Cleveland
Mary McPheeters, Staff Reporter
April 13, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Comedy, Theater & Dance, Top Stories
This past weekend, IMPROVment held their seventh annual “Lake Effect” improv comedy festival. The April 7 event was free and open to the public like all of IMPROVment’s shows, and featured visiting improv troupes. One of these troupes was Rare Form, a professional improv comedy troupe from ...
Satirical production knocks audiences “dead”
Yvonne Pan, Staff Reporter
March 30, 2018
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Comedy, Theater & Dance, Top Stories
If you had a million dollars and only one week to live, what would you do? In Players’ Theatre Group (PTG)’s production of “The Dead Guy,” Eldon Phelps (Will Erickson), a narrow-minded town loser, faces a tough decision. Phelps is on a reality show that will give him one million dollars to...
