Check out a show at one of the local theaters in town this weekend. Below is a brief list of just a few of the great productions playing in the Cleveland area!
Don’t see your production? Leave the details for your show in the comments section!
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Actors' Summit
Winter Wonderettes
Now - December 23, 2011
Winter Wonderettes is the story of four young women form a vocal group in high school. It’s now ten years later, it’s 1968 and they’re back together. The occasion is a Christmas party concert to try to save the hardware store. Winter Wonderettes is a sequal to the Marvelous Wonderettes which was produced earlier this season at Beck Center for The Arts.
Beck Center
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Now - December 31, 2011
Many original cast members return for this encore presentation of last season’s smash hit. Beck Center continues its holiday tradition of fine family entertainment with this humorous retelling of the biblical story of Joseph of Canaan.
Cassidy Theatre
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever!
Now - December 18, 2011
What happens when the “worst kids in the history of the world” are given roles in the church Christmas pageant? When good intentions and last nerves are pushed to maximum, is there any way this pageant will survive?
The Cleveland Play House
Ken Ludwig's The Game's Afoot
(or Holmes for the Holidays)
Now - December 24, 2011, Allen Theatre
Acclaimed actor of the 1930s, William Gillette, invites his Sherlock Holmes co-stars to his eccentric Connecticut mansion for a Christmas Eve celebration. A murder mystery comedy from the author of Lend Me A Tenor.
CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE
Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant
Now - December 18, 2011
"...tastiest and most depraved group dining experience since Caligula stopped serving piping hot virgins to his dinner guests. ...you have never experienced anything like it. You will laugh, except when your jaw is hanging agape in amazement. And you will not leave hungry" - Christine Howey on Rave and Pan
Convergence-Continuum
THE INTERNATIONALIST
Now - December 17, 2011
"an enigmatic comedy"
Chagrin Valley Little Theatre
Scrooge
Now - December 18, 2011
Sing a song of gladness and cheer, For the time of Christmas is here, Look around about you and see, What a world of wonder this world can be.
Chagrin Valley Little Theatre
A Tuna Christmas
Now - December 10, 2011
The second in the series of hilarious "Tuna, Texas" comedies by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard which features just two actors playing over twenty eccentric characters of all ages and sexes!
Dobama Theatre
THE SEAFARER
Now - December 18, 2011
THE SEAFARER takes place in the home of two aging bachelor brothers, one blind and on a bender, the other jobless and on the wagon. On Christmas Eve, they hold an all night liquor-soaked game of poker with their menagerie of friends.
Ensemble Theatre
St. Nicholas
Now - December 11, 2011
St. Nicholas finds an aging jaded theatre critic recounting his obsession with a young actress... and the world of vampires.
Geauga Lyric Theater Guild
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Now - December 18, 2011
Join the adventurous children as they inadvertently wander from an old wardrobe into the exciting, never-to-be-forgotten Narnia.
GREAT LAKES THEATRE FESTIVAL
A Christmas Carol
Now - December 23, 2011
Ohio Theatre, PlayhouseSquare
Huntington Playhouse
Miracle on 34th Street
Now - December 18, 2011
PLAYHOUSESQUARE
See details for dates and times for the following shows at PlayhouseSquare:
- The Santaland Diaries
- Trying
- Tinsel Town
- The Nutcracker - Royal Winnipeg Ballet
- Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
- Cleveland Jazz Orchestra Celebrates the Season, A Not So Silent Night
- Cleveland Jazz Orchestra Celebrates the Season, Family Jingle Bell Jazz Matinee
Salem Community Theatre
A Christmas Carol
Now - December 18, 2011
TrueNorth Cultural Arts
Miracle on 34th Street
Now - December 11, 2011
Weathervane Playhouse
It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
Now - December 22, 2011
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