theater

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 contempor...

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 t...

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 rec...

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 they undertak...

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 th...

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, b...

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 Heid...

The CWRU Footlighters' fall 2018 production of If/Then will run Nov. 1-3 in Carlton Commons. Shows will be held at 8 p.m. Nov. 1, 2 and 3, with an additional show at 11:59 p.m. Nov. 3. Tickets are $5 for students and $10 for the general public. Tickets can be purchased at the door and on CampusGro...

With a $10 million gift to Case Western Reserve University, philanthropist Roe Green will support the next phase of renovations at the Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center at The Temple – Tifereth Israel. Roe Green In honor of Green’s gift, the world-class performance space planned for M...

The Case Western Reserve University Footlighters will host auditions for its production of If/Then Thursday, Sept. 6, and Friday, Sept. 7, from 7 to 11 p.m. in Thwing Center, Room 201. Those planning to audition should prepare 16-32 bars of a song not from If/Then, but preferably in the style of th...