Upcoming Events
So much happened before Dorothy dropped in.
The downtown New York dance scene has always been defined as smart, witty and fresh. Doug Elkins takes it one step further with his creation of Fräulein Maria.
Three choruses, with a total of 300 children, provide a full length family friendly holiday show of singing and dancing to your favorite Holiday, Broadway, Pop, and Barbershop songs.
The Gospel Concert of the Year with Smokie Norful, L.J. Reynold and Vickie Winans.
Enjoy a night out with Cleveland's own singer/songwriter Chimera Patrice, formerly of The Unit.
"Holiday in Toyland" -Holiday Pops Concert. Featuring Music from the best of Hollywood’s most beloved holiday film classics – enhanced with the addition of clips from the movies on the big screen.
Exclusive Wicked Party for Young Professionals: Meet cast members from Wicked in an exclusive, limited access, "Defying Gravity" post-show party in the Wyndham Cleveland Hotel Presidential Suite at Wicked YP Night.
Northeast Ohio's Favorite Holiday Tradition: Open your heart to Charles Dickens’ classic tale of one man’s ultimate redemption. “A Christmas Carol” is a perfect gift of theater for children and adults of all ages.
Featuring the original cast of “friends” from Dave Koz's all-star Christmas show, the famed saxophonist jazzes up the holidays, playing his hits along with Christmas classics delivered with fresh jazz interpretations.
The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra kicks off its 25th anniversary season with a concert featuring the trumpet virtuosity and compositional skills of new Artistic Director Sean Jones.
Doc Opera is an entirely student directed, sung, danced and performed variety show featuring the students, faculty and professors of CWRU School of Medicine and Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine.
R.Kelly - "Ladies Make Some Noise Tour" with special guest Pleasure P. As the undisputed king of R&B, R. Kelly never seems to be far from the current soul scene.
A troupe of Congressional staffers-turned-comedians.
Wicked Rocks! is a ONE NIGHT ONLY benefit performance, performed by cast members of the First National Touring Company of "Wicked."
Based on E.T.A. Hoffmann’s classic tale, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Nutcracker tells the story of a young girl’s Christmas fantasy.
Christmas – Zaza style. Cleveland’s own guitar virtuoso Neil Zaza amplifies holiday cheer to a roaring fusion of rock and classical repertoire. One Silent Night… is an electrified, thundering achievement featuring Zaza, his band, and an orchestra. Favorite standards are transformed to moving, melodic events; audiences of all ages and musical tastes will blissfully cheer.
Get your family in the holiday spirit by making reservations today for the annual Tinsel Town Party hosted by PlayhouseSquare Partners from 3-5 p.m.
In his first-ever tour stop at PlayhouseSquare, American Idol favorite David Archuleta offers up his hits plus holiday cheer by way of his newly-released album Christmas From The Heart.
The 2009 Mixmas concert featuring BE Taylor - This is a FREE Christmas concert as a gift to the Mix 106.5 listeners!
Jim Brickman revolutionized the sound of Adult Contemporary music with his pop-style solo piano and the romantic popular song.
Described by London's Classic FM Magazine as a "sensationally gifted" musician of "stunning artistry".
Back by popular demand, The Elvis Recreators are here to celebrate Elvis’ 75th birthday.
There's never been a better time to experience Chicago, Broadway's razzle-dazzle smash.
Eric Carle’s Very Hungry Caterpillar, Little Cloud and Mixed-Up Chameleon spring to life on stage through the colorful black light puppetry of the Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia.
At this workshop your child will go for a caterpillar walk!
Jon Leiken & Friends Presents…The Untold Story of the Greatest City on EarthA Benefit For Great Lakes Theater Festival
Comedian Ron “Tater Salad” White returns to PlayhouseSquare with his new 2010 Behavioral Problems Tour.
Celebrate the Johnny Mercer centennial with us at this very special concert.
"Stem Cells: Harnessing the Next Medical Frontier"
From moments of extraordinary movement to profound insight, Bill T. Jones’s newest work, Fondly Do We Hope…Fervently Do We Pray, examines the legacy of Abraham Lincoln.
Since 1973 internationally renowned a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey In The Rock has been a vital and innovative presence in the music culture of Washington, D.C., and in communities of conscience around the world.
The quintessential music of The ‘70s Soul Jam returns with an era that included soul, pop and the legendary “Philly sound”.
Logan Skelton is a living representative of the time-honored tradition of pianist/composer.
In The Heights, winner of four 2008 Tony Awards including BEST MUSICAL is a sensational new show about chasing your dreams and finding your true home.
After international acclaim for their re-enactment of Genesis’ Foxtrot, Selling England by the Pound and The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, The Musical Box returns with an encore performance of A Trick of the Tail.
The Cleveland Jazz orchestra sets the mood for Valentine’s Day in a concert showcasing some of the greatest love songs ever written.
Three of the urban comedy scene’s most high-profile comedians entertain with routines as seen on Def Comedy Jam, Comic View, “Last Comic Standing,” BET and HBO specials.
Elmo has raised his sunflower, Sunny, from a seed, but his floral friend has outgrown the flower pot. Elmo and friends find Big Bird’s garden the ideal place for Sunny to flourish and grow but they are too excited to wait. Rather than let Sunny follow nature’s course, Abby Cadabby, Sesame Street’s fairy-in-training, casts a spell to make Sunny grow.
Prodigiously talented Chinese choreographer and dancer Yu Wei has been holding American audiences spellbound since her debut in 2000.
“Electrifying spontaneity … a once-in-a-lifetime experience.” –The Plain Dealer
BACK FOR A FOURTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR BY POPULAR DEMAND! The gravity-defying, juggling, gymnastic, cyclists of the ever popular Peking Acrobats are back to thrill and entertain.
"How to Build an Art Collection for Satisfaction and Gain"
Barely 25 years old, this fresh young upstart in the contemporary ballet world is known for their eclectic repertoire, musicality, athleticism and all-out dancing.
Put a bunch of smash hit songs, Tony Award nominee Douglas Carter Beane and the cutest couple in town into a Broadway musical comedy blender, and what do you get?
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, the first masterpiece from the legendary writing team of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, exploded onto the scene in 1971 changing the world of musical theater forever.
He's been dubbed "a theatrical institution" - and with good reason, because composer-lyricist Jerry Herman wrote the scores for three of the biggest successes in Broadway history: Hello, Dolly!, Mame and La Cage Aux Folles.
America’s premier name in comedy, Chicago’s legendary The Second City, celebrates “50 years of funny” with a return to PlayhouseSquare’s intimate Ohio Theatre.
'Til Death Do Us Part: Late Nite Catechism 3 is the latest class to be unveiled in the sinfully funny series.
Returning to Tri-C after performing in the 2006-2007 season, Joe Goode Performance Group’s latest work Wonderboy is a collaboration with acclaimed avant-garde puppet designer Basil Twist and eclectic composer/musicians Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi.
Direct from the sold-out, extended Off-Broadway run,"Italian + Jewish = Therapy" is one part lasagna, one part kreplach and two parts Prozac.
"Re-Calibrating U.S. Politics"
The "Golden Boys" are Frankie Avalon, Fabian and Bobby Rydell. They were three of the most popular Teen Idols of the late 50s and 60s.
Emanuela Friscioni and members of the Cleveland Orchestra will join forces in presenting a benefit chamber music concert with piano.
Gabriel Iglesias has been described as an unbelievably funny, electrifying, and a gifted performer who has the ability to consistently deliver a quality comedy experience in every venue he performs in.
The Outrageous Off-Broadway Musical With Bite: Ripped from the hilarious headlines of the supermarket tabloid “The Weekly World News”, “Bat Boy” is a delightfully delicious twist on the modern day musical comedy - that tells the amazing story of a strange boy with pointy ears and his struggle to find a place in a world that shuns him - while keeping both tongue and fang firmly in cheek.
Steppenwolf's August: Osage County is a grand, gripping new play which tells the story of the Westons, a large extended clan that comes together at their rural Oklahoma homestead when the alcoholic patriarch dissappears.
Poet Mary Oliver (born in Maple Heights, Ohio, in 1935) is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry and prose.
Back by popular demand after 2 sellouts at PlayhouseSquare in 2009! In his amazing sixth decade of stardom, FRANKIE VALLI remains as visible and authoritative within American pop culture as ever.
Junie B. Jones is finally graduating from kindergarten and is ready for first grade, at last!
Children will decorate their own Junie B. Jones journal for their Top Secret Personal Beeswax!
Shakespeare’s Magical Masterpiece: Boldly inspired by the marvelously mod influences of a rock ‘n’ roll infused 1960s London, this production of Shakespeare’s comic masterpiece ensnares two pairs of mismatched lovers and a rustic troupe of would-be actors in a magical-mystery tour de force.
RIVERDANCE, the thunderous celebration of Irish music, song and dance that has tapped its way onto the world stage thrilling millions of people around the globe, will play five Farewell Performances at PlayhouseSquare.
Become immersed in a world made of music, dance, digital images and butterflies.
Corbian Visual Arts and Dance introduces us to Darwin, a dinosaur brought to life by the great Professor Henslow, who encourages Darwin to go and explore.
Through a memorable blend of comedy and inspired storytelling, we follow a French shepherd and his very lively dog as they set out to plant a forest and transform a barren wasteland, restoring a ruined ecosystem.
As featured on PBS Sprout, the Dream Jam Band delivers a vibrant and diverse musical performance of original songs for the whole family.
Grammy award winning Terrance Simien and his eclectic Zydeco Experience band mates have toured the globe with their unique mix of the varied rich indigenous music forms of Louisiana.
Acclaimed for its startling mix of humor and invention, Pilobolus’ performances have long been characterized by a strong element of physical interaction between the bodies of the performers, and exaggerations or contortions of the human form often verging on gymnastics.
Jhumpa Lahiri is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies, and the critically acclaimed novel, The Namesake, an international bestseller.
Nominated for 2008 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical, the one that you want is back! Grease, Time Magazine's 2007 pick for "#1 Musical of the year," is rockin' across the country in this new production direct from Broadway starring American Idol winner Taylor Hicks as Teen Angel
Sit back and let us take you on a musical journey of life through classic American songs.
From those multi-talented gal pals that brought you Hormonal Imbalance...A Mood Swinging Musical Revue!™, comes their new entertainment destination...Diva Nation…Where Music, Laughter, and Girlfriends Reign!™
Our 25th anniversary season swings to an end with an exciting concert featuring two of Ohio’s premier jazz orchestras.
No other musical has so magically woven music, dance, poignancy and laughter into such an electrifying and unforgettable experience. Relive a glorious tradition of the musical theatre with Fiddler on the Roof.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's international award-winning phenomenon directed by Harold Prince has woven its magical spell over standing room audiences in more than 100 cities worldwide.
