Upcoming Events
In the Tony-Award® winning new musical comedy THE 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, learn that winning isn’t everything and that losing doesn’t necessarily make you a loser.
Back by popular demand, Defending the Caveman is a hilarious insightful play about the ways men and women relate and has both sexes roaring with laughter and recognition.
Mary Travers has undergone two back surgeries. While her doctors anticipate a full recovery, the healing process is taking longer than hoped. On her doctor's advice, regrettably, the Trio will have to cancel their upcoming concerts.
The Singing Angels, America's Premier Performing Youth Chorus will present their Annual Spring Benefit Concert at the Allen Theatre at Playhouse Square.
It's a reunion of epic proportions! Stone Temple Pilots are back this summer.
Nikolai Gogol's The Gamblers is a hilarious romp about a professional gambler traveling on a highly profitable con job. After stopping at a provincial inn where he believes that he is playing against local pinheads, he's poised to pull off his perfect scam.
Comedian and actor EDDIE IZZARD, adored by fans and critics alike for his lightening quick wit and surreal humor is back and starting the largest comedy tour of his career.
Young dancers from the pre-professional and professional divisions of Cleveland School of Dance and members of Cleveland Youth Ballet Company will showcase their accomplishments in all dance forms taught at the School.
The Cleveland Metropolitan School District's All -City Musical.
A Tony award-winning Broadway musical, Dreamgirls s a tale of dreams, stardom, and the high cost of success in the cutthroat recording industry.
It's Scott Thompson, Bruce McCulloch, Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald & Mark McKinney Live & in person for some of the greatest sketch comedy of all time!!
Speakers: Romeo Crennel, Dr. Joe Savage, Phil Savage, Jr., Steve Sanders, & others to be announced
The entertainer has enjoyed worldwide success in recent years with his unique blend of country music, 60’s pop, inspirational ballads & Irish standards.
The Fab Faux bring together the talent of five of New York’s most accomplished musicians: Will Lee of The Late Show with David Letterman, Jimmy Vivino of Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Rich Pagano, who has performed with Rosanne Cash and Ray Davies, Jack Petruzzelli, who regularly tours with Joan Osborne and Rufus Wainwright, and Frank Agnello, whose musical credits include Phoebe Snow and Marshall Crenshaw.
Trumpeter Chris Botti is a gifted instrumentalist, a talented composer, and a charismatic performer who--since the release of his first solo album in 1995--has created a series of recordings that have made him a virtual genre-of-one in the realm of contemporary jazz.
"TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE!" raves the New York Post for JERSEY BOYS, the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Fames The Four Seasons: Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi. This is the story of how four blue-collar kids became one of the greatest successes in pop music history.
The Ingenuity Festival returns with a weekend-long celebration of art and technology, July 25-27, 2008. Staged in the center of Downtown Cleveland, Ingenuity will launch unforgettable new works, live music, hi-tech exhibitions and performances, located throughout Playhouse Square- including theater venues, storefronts, the Halle Building and Idea Center, as well as outdoor staging along East 14th Street and at Star Plaza.
MAMMA MIA! is the ultimate feel-good show that has audiences coming back again and again to relive the thrill. Now it’s your turn to have the time of your life at this smash-hit musical that combines ABBA’s greatest hits.
The legendary singer/songwriter, Gordon Lightfoot, has achieved international success in folk, country, and popular music.
Comedy, romance and melancholy intertwine in one very eventful day at the palace of Count Almaviva. Preparing for their wedding, servants Figaro and Susanna become caught up in the follies of others' amorous pursuits.
From the Creators and Producers of the Irish phenomenon Celtic Woman comes the next generation in Irish ballad music, THE HIGH KINGS. Finbarr Clancy, Martin Furey, Brian Dunphy and Darren Holden - renowned vocalists and musicians - have come together to form the hottest Irish folk and ballad group to emerge since The Clancy Brothers and Toomy Maken electrified the worldwide folk revival of the 1960s.
With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers.
The Capitol Steps began as a group of Senate staffers who set out to satirize the very people and places that employed them.In the years that followed, many of the Steps ignored the conventional wisdom ("Don't quit your day job!"), and although not all of the current members of the Steps are former Capitol Hill staffers, taken together the performers have worked in a total of eighteen Congressional offices and represent 62 years of collective House and Senate staff experience.
Two charming children, a delectable gingerbread house, and a wicked witch--all the elements of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale--come magically to life.
Smooth as satin, soft as velvet, warm and cozy, the rich voice of Johnny Mathis has entranced generations.
One of today’s most lauded and provocative comics, superstar/stand-up comedian Carlos Mencia returns to Playhouse Square.
“Cirque de la Symphonie” Annual Holiday Pops Concert presented by the Cleveland POPS Orchestra.
Carl Topilow, conductor
Ronan Tynan, one of the beloved Irish Tenors returns to Cleveland to transport you to a "Celtic Christmas."
Jim Gaffigan has proven himself a major talent beloved to a wide range of audiences after achieving milestones in stand-up, acting and writing.