theater

When Ohio’s stay-at-home order began on March 24, the artistic community had no choice but to close their studios and performance spaces to the public. Shanna Beth McGee, professor of theater at Case Western Reserve University and co-founder of the immersive theater company Shadow of the Run,…

When Case Western Reserve courses went remote in March, Mad Men and Glow actor Rich Sommer (GRS ’04, theater) immediately reached out to Donald Carrier, interim director of the Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Play House Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Acting Program, to see how he might help…

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to Caleb Beidelman’s MA thesis presentation, a production of The Chairs, Tuesday, Dec. 10, from 7:30 to 10 p.m. in the basement of Eldred Hall. The Chairs is a play written by Eugene Ionesco and this production will star Laurel…

The Department of Classics will host a lecture by Amy R. Cohen, professor of classics and theater at Randolph College, Thursday, Sept. 26, from 4 to 5 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. In her lecture, titled “Masks and Reality in Ancient Athenian Drama,” Cohen will look at both historical and…

As a junior in college, Jerrold Scott was immersed in British politics as a part of the English-Speaking Union’s exchange program. During that year, Scott was a Member of Parliament’s research assistant, writing some of his speeches that were given on the floor of the House of Commons. He even met…

Shanna Beth McGee, professor of theater, critiqued Ensemble Theatre’s production of Water by the Spoonful for a piece in The Plain Dealer. Ensemble Theatre is hosting the Northeast Ohio premiere of the play by Quiara Alegría Hudes that explores the lives of two families, one a virtual group of…

William Shakespeare’s Renaissance comedy As You Like It, directed by Donald Carrier, will open Friday in Eldred Theater at Case Western Reserve University. The forest, so different from the oppressiveness of court life, is a world where anything is possible. Join over 20 characters as…

The Case Western Reserve University Footlighters’ next production will be The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Based on Charles Dickens’ final unfinished novel, this hilarious whodunit invites the audience to solve its mystery by choosing the identity of the murderer. The tale is a show-within-a-show, as…

After Enyou Wang’s first acting class at Case Western Reserve University two years ago, the instructor, theater lecturer Anaya Farrell, pulled him aside. She immediately recognized his innate fashion sense and authentic presence—that inexplicable “it” factor—and asked if he was a model. He wasn’t,…

The next production at Eldred Theater will be The Drowsy Chaperone by Bob Martin, Don McKellar, Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison. Shows will be held Nov. 9, 10, 16 and 17 at 7:30 p.m., and Nov. 11 and 18 at 3 p.m. Keli Schimelpfenig will direct the show. Musical direction is by Mike Caraffi and…