DanceWorks Week 5: CHRISTINA LINDHOUT & BLISSED OUT HUMAN COLLECTIVE (DOUBLE BILL)

An evening of powerful and virtuosic movement, weaving together themes of identity, resilience, and repair.

Test Flight Part 2 – Week 1: Unhinged: A Burlesque Play on Modern Dating Struggles

Impactful burlesque play that highlights the complexities of modern dating.

Test Flight Part 2 – Week 2: Grandeza

Play delving into the lives of two Latino families navigating the complexities of family, sexuality and tradition.

Test Flight Part 2 – Week 3: Future Never Land

Historical sci-fi rap opera paired with famous classical music compositions by Saint-Saens & Debussy.

DanceWorks Week 4: AJAYI DANCE

Ajayi Dance's first-ever full evening of work performed in a traditional stage setting.

DanceWorks Week 3: BLAKK JAKK DANCE COLLECTIVE

Experience the ancestral connections and similarities of Gumboot dance and Stepping.

DanceWorks Week 2: INLET DANCE THEATRE

Colorful magic realism collides with contemporary dance theatre as Inlet responds to art and societal division.

DanceWorks Week 1: OHIO CONTEMPORARY BALLET

Dance performances celebrating the iconic and unforgettable musical scores to "Carmen" and "Bolero."

Test Flight Part 1 – Week 3: Poems of An Angry Feminist / The Stars Made Me Gay

Test Flight Part 1 – Week 2: Experts in a Dying Field

Test Flight Part 1 – Week 1: Curtain Call: No Exit / Handlebar Brakes / The Ascension of Jordan L. Wells During the Total Lunar Eclipse of 2017

DanceWorks WEEK 4: BLAKK JAKK DANCE COLLECTIVE AND SHRI KALAA MANDIR

DanceWorks WEEK 3: Inlet Dance Theatre

DanceWorks WEEK 2: OHIO CONTEMPORARY BALLET (FORMERLY VERB BALLETS)

DanceWorks Week 1:AJAYI DANCE, ELIZABETH POLLERT, SARAH HOLMES VILLANUEVA DANCE

Test Flight Week 4: Tales of a Fat Man

Test Flight Week #3: How to Live in a House on Fire

Test Flight Week #2: Temptation of Adam

Test Flight Week #1: Eyes of the Bridge

DanceWorks part 2 – Week 4: SHRI KALAA MANDIR

DanceWorks Part 2 – Week 3: Mojuba! Dance Collective

DANCEWORKS PART 2 – WEEK 2: Verb, “Ohio Contemporary Ballet”

DanceWorks Part 2 – Week 1: MORRISONDANCE

DanceWorks Part 1 – Week 3: Reflections Dance Theater

DanceWorks Part 1 – Week 2: Inlet Dance Theatre

DanceWorks Part 1 – Week 1: MadJax Dance Company

Test Flight Week #5: Jacket of Blue

Test Flight Week #4: Anna of Mariupol & Gray Space

Test Flight Week #3: Alter

Test Flight Week #2: Showin’ Up Black

Test Flight Week #1: Our Lady of Common Sorrows

WEEK 3: SPEAK EASY

WEEK 2: BEDROOM CULTURE

WEEK 1: THE WITCHES

WEEK 2: Verb Ballets

WEEK 1: Inlet Dance Theatre

Station Hope

A virtual festival of performance honoring and exploring Cleveland's social justice heritage.

WEEK 4: Live Forever

WEEK 3: Our Lady of Common Sorrows

WEEK 2: Bedroom Culture, a virtual adaptation

WEEK 1: Van Sonata

An excerpt from …Or Does it Explode?

An exploration of what it means to be Black, male, and young in the 21st century.

Dragon Hypothesis

Story-telling through movement and song as a work-in-progress virtual sharing from Candlelight Hypothesis #1-12.

Savory Taṇhā (sixteen short plays performed by a rotating ensemble)

A virtual memory play of longing and loss, happiness and hopefulness, and navigating the pathways of human desire.

Tale of a Gemini (Jimini) Rising: Black Lives Matter Edition

A virtual, theatrical memoir combining poetry, hip hop, and digital storytelling.

Family Storytelling Workshops with Faye Hargate

This intergenerational workshop is geared for the whole family.

An Online Breath & Release Workshop with Holly Holsinger

A series of techniques and exercises to let go of tension, creating space for breath, release, and relief.

An Artist’s Evolution from Here to There, a conversation with India Nicole Burton* & Pandora Robertson

Behind the curtain with India Nicole Burton and Pandora Robertson as they discuss the creative process.

Theatre Creation Workshop (online!) with Raymond Bobgan

Kickstart your weekend with a creativity workshop led by Raymond Bobgan, CPT Executive Artistic Director.

Freeing the Spine—an online workshop with Molly Andrews-Hinders

Join Molly as she leads a workshop aiming to free the spine and encourage consciousness.

Excerpts from Panther Women: An Army for the Liberation

A work-in-progress virtual reading of new excerpts from Panther Women: An Army for the Liberation.

Hypothesis #3b: an open solo rehearsal with Faye Hargate

A work-in-progress virtual sharing from Candlelight Hypothesis #1-12.

Hypothesis #2b: an open solo rehearsal with Holly Holsinger

A work-in-progress virtual sharing from Candlelight Hypothesis #1-12.

Hypothesis #1c: an open solo rehearsal with creator Raymond Bobgan

A work-in-progress virtual sharing from Candlelight Hypothesis #1-12.

Hypothesis #3a: an open solo rehearsal with Faye Hargate

A work-in-progress virtual sharing from Candlelight Hypothesis #1-12.

Hypothesis #2a: an open solo rehearsal with Holly Holsinger

A work-in-progress virtual sharing from Candlelight Hypothesis #1-12.

[CANCELED] Week 4: Bedroom Culture

[CANCELED] Week 4: Verb Ballets

Hypothesis #1b: an open solo rehearsal with creator Raymond Bobgan

A work-in-progress virtual sharing from Candlelight Hypothesis #1-12.

[CANCELED] Week 3: Speak Easy

[CANCELED] Week 3: Mojuba! Dance Collective & ABREPASO Flamenco (Double Bill)

Hypothesis #1a: an open solo rehearsal with creator Raymond Bobgan

A work-in-progress virtual sharing from Candlelight Hypothesis #1-12.

[CANCELED] Week 2: Shri Kalaa Mandir & MorrisonDance (Double Bill)

[CANCELED] Week 2: The Witches

[CANCELED] Week 1: Inlet Dance Theatre

[CANCELED] Week 1: Panther Women: An Army for the Liberation

Entry Point

Entry Point is a platform for artists to develop their work in the early stages of creation.

Week #5: Shri Kalaa Mandir & Terre Dance Collective (Double Bill)

Week #4: Travesty Dance Group & Movements in Motion (Double Bill)

Week #3: MorrisonDance & madcap (Double Bill)

Week #2: Inlet Dance Theatre

Week #1: Verb Ballets

Week #5: to be healthy

Week #4: Zoodiac & Dividual

Week #3: Sorry Doesn’t Sweeten Her Tea & Cleopatra Boy

Week #2: Emergence

Week #1: How Blood Go

Entry Point

Entry Point is a platform for artists to develop their work in the early stages of creation.

Week #5: Double-Edge Dance

Week #4: Oberlin Dance Project & Marquez Dance Project (Double Bill)

Week #3: Inlet Dance Theatre

Week #2: MorrisonDance

Week #1: Verb Ballets

Week #5: Odysseus Unraveled

TEST FLIGHT

Test Flight offers artists the opportunity to self-produce original works-in-progress.

Week #4: Tale of a Jiminirising

Week #3: Configurations of a Divine Bitch & Milkdrunk

Week #2: Set Fire and Start Again & The Judge

Week #1: Everything is okay (and other helpful lies)

ENTRY POINT

Entry Point is a platform for artists to develop their work in the early stages of creation.

Week #5: MorrisonDance & Alpha (Double Bill)

Using their signature mash-up of movement styles, MorrisonDance explores a powerful part of the human experience -…

Week #4: Elu Dance Company & Across the Board (Double Bill)

Using visceral dance vocabulary and imagery, Elu Dance Company’s evening-length work seeks to break through barri…

Week #3: Inlet Dance Theatre

Inlet Dance Theatre features three new works and, for the first time, presents a company member’s autobiographica…

Week #2: Verb Ballets with BodyEDT (of Taiwan)

Following an international tour in Taiwan, Verb Ballets returns to feature a dynamic evening of bold artistry highl…

Week #1: Travesty Dance Group & Antaeus Dance (Double Bill)

Two companies join forces to present an evening of engaging and evocative dance, theatre, film and music. Choreogra…

Week #5: FAYETTENAM AND THE BLACK CARD PROJECT

“Fayettenam” = Water, Ghosts in the Mountain, Johnny Appleseed, Early Settlement, American Conscience/Transienc…

Week #4: THE TONGUE THAT TELLS ME SO

At a young age, ambitious Anne is willing to pay any price to get ahead. Her mysterious mentor Simone is there to…

Week #3: NOONDAY

On an otherwise unremarkable day, the furniture starts moving…and What’s Been Hiding Under the Table (or in a b…

Week #2: I WENT DOWN TO THE WATER AND FOUND MYSELFIE THERE AND NEITHER THERE, NOR HERE

A one-woman avant-musical tragicomedy about the internet – that’s also a self-help beauty pageant for the soul.…

Week #1: OMENA

Old friends, a writer's colony and a marriage on the edge. A recipe for art? Or the owner's manual for disaster? Wh…

ENTRY POINT

Entry Point is a new platform for artists to develop their work in the early stages of creation.

Road to Hope – Overview

A series of free performing arts events that celebrate hope and honor Cleveland's history.

Road to Hope: MetroHealth Medical Center

A series of free performing arts events that celebrate hope and honor Cleveland's history.

Station Hope 2016

A free multi-arts event that celebrates freedom, hope and Cleveland’s social justice heritage at Ohio City’s hi…

ROAD TO HOPE: COZAD-BATES HOUSE – UNIVERSITY CIRCLE

A series of free performing arts events that celebrate hope and honor Cleveland's history.

Week #4: Dorrance Dance (NYC) with DANCECleveland.

A showcase of Northeast Ohio's contemporary dance companies premiering new work and reviving celebrated performance…

Don Quixote: a pilgrimage

A remix of Cervantes' classic by Jennifer Schlueter and Available Light Theatre.

ROAD TO HOPE: CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH – SHAKER HEIGHTS

A series of free performing arts events that celebrate hope and honor Cleveland's history.

Week #3: Verb Ballets

Showcase of Northeast Ohio's contemporary dance companies premiering new work and reviving celebrated performances.

SeXcurity (a workshop production)

A workshop production featuring virtuosic physicality and wry humor to explore sex, identity and belonging.

Week #2: Inlet Dance Theatre

Showcase of Northeast Ohio's contemporary dance companies premiering new work and reviving celebrated performances.

Week #1: MorrisonDance and Elu Dance Company

Showcase of Northeast Ohio's contemporary dance companies premiering new work and reviving celebrated performances.

ROAD TO HOPE: LAKEVIEW TERRACE – OHIO CITY

A series of free performing arts events that celebrate hope and honor Cleveland's history.

Incendiaries

A fast-paced and muscular work that explores past conflicts between law enforcement and the communities they serve.

Friday and Sunday: Well Beings

"Well Beings" traces the journey of three heroin addicts at various stages of recovery as they try to break free fr…

Wednesday and Saturday: The Waters

New visitors to a lakeside retreat, where the lines between dream, imagination and reality blur, find their stay to…

Thursday and Saturday: Canon Fodder

"Canon Fodder" is a tale of literary arousal, depicting an emotionally driven, but socially awkward, bibliophile re…

The Neighbor’s Grief is Greener

In partnership with the Jewish Federation of Cleveland, CPT presents The Visual Theatre of Emanuella Amichai, on to…

Week #4: Inlet Dance Theatre

Inlet Dance Theatre premieres Four Elements in its entirety, a work the company has been building for the last thre…

Week #3: Verb Ballets

Back by popular demand, Carmen: The Story of Passion reinterprets the timeless tale through choreography by Associa…

Week #2: Ohio Dance Theatre and Cleveland Dance Exchange (CDX)

Ohio Dance Theatre will present the premiere of Blood Stripe, inspired by the story of an OIF/OEF Marine and his fa…

Week #1: MorrisonDance and The Movement Project

MorrisonDance's eclectic group of movers will share a variety of new dances using metaphor and humor to explore the…

Week #7: The Lives of a Poet

Through linked poems, songs and monologues, Ray McNiece presents a memoir on stage depicting the many facets of his…

Week #6: Rouge Étude or How Sherlock Holmes Became a Misogynist

A study in violent seduction crescendos between young Sherlock and a world-famous violinist, bringing Holmes’ Str…

Week #5: (Style is) The Answer to Everything—A (Subversive) Women’s Programme (Across the Century)

Which came first? The chicken or the egg? Host Penny Bingo considers this and other questions as she takes her audi…

Week #4: Orphan Kiss (Left) and Turning Toward the Other

Searching for connection in a world beyond feeling, five people—stuck with themselves, by themselves—await the…

Week #3: F*** Me, Love Me, Aphrodite and Black Virgins are Not for Hipsters

In "F*** Me, Love Me Aphrodite," a thwarted artist is compelled to stalk the dive bar she believes is blessed by th…

Week #2: Unintended Consequences and Into Pieces

A dance exploration of daily life, vulnerability and noticing. Driven by research of Chaos Theory and “The Law of…

Week #1: Cut It Out

Rebecca Helmer is a wife and mother becoming increasingly unsettled by her seemingly perfect life. Suffocated by th…

Week #2: Cut it Out, Orphan Kiss (Left) and INKY & PINKY: A Tale of Chitlins and Borscht

Rebecca Helmer is a wife and mother becoming increasingly unsettled by her seemingly perfect life. Suffocated by th…

Week #1: The End of Pantyhose

Which came first? The chicken or the egg? Penny Bingo, our game, advice-giving host, considers this and many other…

WEEK #4 (MAY 1 – 3): Verb Ballets- Spring Series

"Verb Ballets' Spring Series" will feature the work of Creative Fusion Artist-in-Residence, Ngo Thanh Phuong, fund…

WEEK #3 (Apr. 24 – 26): (DOUBLE BILL) Antaeus Dance and Shen & Bones Performance Group

Antaeus Dance plumbs the depths with two dramatic premieres. Director Joan Meggitt and company member Heather Koni…

WEEK #2 (Apr. 17 – 19): (DOUBLE BILL) Double-Edge Dance and Travesty Dance Group

With Double-Edge Dance, enjoy diverse works choreographed by Kora Radella, ranging from solos to sextets, accompani…

WEEK #1 (Apr. 10 – 12): Inlet Dance Theatre- In Concert

Inlet Dance Theatre returns to Cleveland Public Theatre with three new works by Bill Wade - "Angels Unaware, 10" (a…

Week #7 (Mar. 20 – 22) Armature

What does it mean to live in a "Post-Racial America"? In the fight for Equality, what gets lost as We become more v…

Week #6 (Mar. 13 – 15): Same Difference

Anthony and Jahmal are two young black men-thrust together as college roommates and struggling to define themselves…

Week #5 (Mar. 6 – 8) Illuminated Lizard and Sisters

"Illuminated Lizard" is the true story of one woman's quest for a way forward-the RIGHT way forward-when her world…

Week #4 (Feb. 27 – Mar. 1) La Femme

An exploration of women in society. Do social norms influence women's self-perception and what they believe they ar…

Week #3 (Feb. 20 – 22) The Importance of Waiting for the Eagle

The Eagle, agent of Zeus' wrath, comes daily to punish Prometheus for giving humankind the secret of making fire. D…

Week #2 (Feb. 13 – 15) Funnel Cakes Not Included and Two Kinds of Light

"Funnel Cakes Not Included" is a darkly humorous look at suicidal depression through the mixed up lens of an amusem…

Week #1 (Feb. 6 – 8) Nova

This wickedly satirical one-act opera stars NOVA-life-sized android and sexbot. An "adults only" production that wi…

Leap/Conceive

Leap/Conceive is a development series intended to support work that is at the midpoint in the creation process. Thi…

Week #2 (Oct. 3 – 6): Soiled, Dirt and Same Difference

Three whores, one dead one, and a strange boy negotiate the harsh realities of a "hogranch" in 1883 Wyoming. An Afr…

Week #1 (Sept. 26 – 29): Entanglement, Art and Entry Level Quantum Physics. Knyum and Armature

The romantic almost-story of the historical personages Gertrude Bing, a revolutionary art historian, and Erwin Schr…

Week #5 (Apr. 18 – 20): Verb Ballets

"The Rite of Spring" originally choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky shattered expectations and was a milestone in perf…

Week #4 (Apr. 11- 13): Inlet Dance Theatre

Inlet Dance Theatre returns to Cleveland Public Theatre with a performance that is not-to-be missed! Inlet's aesthe…

Week #3 (Apr. 4 – 6): Double-Edge Dance and Marquez Dance Project

Double-Edge Dance presents works of vigor and fragility in their split bill at DanceWorks 2013. "Cry-i-i-ing", a qu…

Week #2 (Mar. 28 – 30): Without Words Movement and Travesty Dance Group

Compelled to reclaim freedom for those silenced by the global sex trade through the powerful voice of dance, Words…

Week #1 (Mar. 21 – 23): Verb Ballets

Verb Ballets in collaboration with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony presents an evening fusing dance and electronic m…

Week #8 (Mar. 7 – Mar. 9): These are the Times

Fact and fiction overlap in this theatrical panorama of Cleveland's heyday. Bernard Schrader discovers a life in th…

Week #7 (Feb. 28 – Mar. 2): Love in a Time of Media

"Love in a Time of Media", a fusion of live theatre and film, is a piece about the complex nature of love in a worl…

Week #6 (Feb. 21 – 23): The Mechanical Monster: Misunderstood and A Canticle

The Movement Project, Cleveland's newest dance company, goes sci-fi and brings to life mechanical droids with human…

Week #5 (Feb. 14 – 15): Half Cut and An Unforgotten Memory: A Story Unfolded

In "Half Cut". Joel is ready to take the plunge and ask for his girlfriend's hand in marriage. While sprucing up an…

Week #4 (Feb. 7-9): Vigil

The tenants of a Cleveland inner-city apartment complex have their share of differences but are doing the best they…

Week #3 (Jan. 31- Feb. 2): The World Above Us

A story with songs, movies, paintings, poetry, dance and actors, The World Above Us is set mostly in Cleveland and…

Week #2 (Jan. 24 – 26): The Bird Behind the Curtain and When the Moon was Green Cheese

Trapped in an undefined room, Claire and Esther's fate seems to be sealed. They follow a daily routine to find a wa…

Week #1 (Jan. 17-19): Like a Doberman and the Late Night Sketchbook

In "Like a Doberman on a Quarter Pounder", Howey, one of Cleveland's most respected theatre critics, takes the stag…

Leap/Conceive

Audiences get a sneak peek into the creative process as CPT presents six showcases from performances that are being…

Sundays (Oct. 14 & 21): Broken Wings

A haunting tale of isolation, "Broken Wings" examines an elderly man with personal demons and a teenage girl with a…

Saturdays (Oct. 13 & 20): Rex and Angelic Voices in Ritardando

Oedipus Rex meets "Back to the Future"! In this dark comedy, a modern-day Oedipus invents a time machine and return…

Fridays (Oct. 12 & 19): Crying for Lions

Rae and Shane are a young couple expecting their first child. When a strange man from Shane's past shows up at thei…

Thursdays (Oct. 11 & 18): The World’s Largest Axe

Computer game programmer Norris joins beautiful toll collector Marigold, pet-cryonicist Angus, and singing widow Vi…

Week #4 (May 17 – 19): Antaeus Dance

Antaeus Dance celebrates 11 years of dance-making and performance with Vintage Visions, a concert of audience favor…

Week #3 (May 10 – 12): MorrisonDance and Travesty Dance Group

Exploring psychological themes, animal behavior and celestial concepts, Syzygy will include several new premieres i…

Week #2 (May 3 – 5): Inlet Dance Theatre

Inlet will premiere dynamic new works by Artistic Director/Founder Bill Wade in addition to inspiring selections fr…

Week #1 (Apr. 19-28): Verb Ballets

Possession. Passion. The sights, tastes and beauty of Spain. The story moves to Carmen in this timeless, contempora…

Week #7 (Feb. 12 – 18): Chaos Theory

The Sophists seem like a theatre company striving for brave, challenging works- but what happens when it all starts…

Week #6 (Feb. 9 – 11): Divorcing Batman, Dating All of Gotham City and Jesus is Dead, Jerry Garcia is God

Our heroic divorcee was married to a man who enjoyed dressing up like Batman...for Halloween. No hot nights in the…

Week #5 (Feb. 2 – 4): The Berlioz Project: A Multidisciplinary MultiMedia Multi-Venue Rock Opera

In 1827, Romantic Era composer Hector Berlioz was at his wits' end. Disowned by his mother and disdained by the cri…

Week #4 (Jan. 26 – 28): The Negro Perkins and the Art of Social Graces

"The Negro Perkins", set in 1898, this piece looks back on an often ignored time in African-American history during…

Week #3 (Jan. 19 – 21): 1,000 Hills and To the Sea…

Heads Up Productions, a new, movement based ensemble in Akron, began developing 1,000 Hills in 2010. The piece foll…

Week #2 (Jan. 12 – 14): October in the Chair

Deep in the forest, in a place that is not hidden but is very hard to find, the Months of the Year sit around a fir…

Week #1 (Jan. 5 – 7): The Dreamer and My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Ages

"The Dreamer" is a solo, multi-media performance examining how a dreamer resolves her unrealistic expectations of u…

Leap/Conceive

Leap/Conceive is a new development series meant to support work at the midpoint in the creation process. Leap/Conce…

Week #3 (Oct. 20 – 23): Andrew Jackson Ate My Homework: A Racial Farce, Art and Werewolves and Napoleon of the Nile

Race- it's all around us. It's in our families, in our history books, in our pop music, and even in overheard bus r…

Week #2 (Oct. 13 – 16): Standardized Child(TM) and Based on Actual Events

Meet Robert, nine years old and pre-programmed for lifelong success on state achievement tests. Just remember to re…

Week #1 (Oct. 6 – 9): Again Against, Horse Latitudes, Revenge is a Dish Best Served… With Friends

In consideration for the 12-13 Season, this edge-of-your-seat drama explores issues of suppression, assimilation, a…

Week #5 (June 2 – 5): Mikaela Clark and Mackenzie Clevenger

"Without Words...Moving Against the Sex Trade" is an evoking multimedia dance performance created to inspire audien…

Week #4 (May 26 – 29): Double Edge Dance and Greene- Madcalf Movement

Double-Edge Dance will showcase "Etched in Motion", choreographic intrigues teetering on the brink of emotional bre…

Week #3 (May 19 – 22): Antaeus Dance

Antaeus Dance premieres "Prospect & Refuge", a captivating performance that explores the confluence of the infinite…

Week #2 (May 12 – 15): Inlet Dance Theatre

Inlet will premiere dynamic new works by Artistic Director/Founder Bill Wade in addition to inspiring selections fr…

Week #1 (May 5 – 7): Verb Ballets

Cleveland's National Repertory Dance Company will premiere "Fresh Inventions", featuring Northeast Ohio choreograph…

Week #3 (Mar. 25 – 27): The Pole

"The Pole" is a play about a small community of holiday and corporate mascots who share a common bar, called The Po…

Week #2 (Mar. 18 – 20): Fire Dance

Nicky McManus is a New York firefighter. His brother Sean is a stock broker in Chicago who returns to the Big Apple…

Week #1 (Mar. 11 – 13): Patterns

What do you author and what authors you? One young woman's life is explored via the metatheatrical act of play crea…

Week #8 (Mar. 4 – 6): Voice Over and Side Effects May Include

"Voice Over" is a one-act theater piece, approximately 50 minutes in length, developed collaboratively by a diverse…

Week #7 (Feb. 25 – 27): Cowboy Poet, a C & W Musical

What happens when a Cowboy Poet, a WASP socialite, and an ex-gang member throw a gala to benefit Adult Literacy in…

Week #6 (Feb. 18 – 20): Sonic Cinema

Experimental Orchestra, FiveOne Music aims to deliver an unforgettable night of sights and sounds when local vision…

Week #5 (Feb. 11 – 13): Through Her Eyes and Fast Forward – Rewind – Stop

"Through Her Eyes" is about three women that find grace through being beautifully broken from fears and frustration…

Week #4 (Feb. 4 – 6): The Everything is Everything Project and Sick Fuck

What does it mean to truly be awake: how many of us sleep - walk through our lives? Through two contrasting monolog…

Week #3 (Jan. 28 – 30): Mother/Tongue

In "Mother/Tongue", a family's quiet dysfunction bubbles to the surface as workaholic mother Margot begins obsessiv…

Week #2 (Jan. 21 – 23): Soliciting for Change and Seppuku

"Soliciting For Change", a one-woman musical featuring Molly Andrews-Hinders, is the story of a young, progressive…

Week #1 (Jan. 14 – 16): Ya Mama! and She Cried at the Circus

"Ya Mama!" is a one woman show that explores how being an artist, a wife, a mother, a Christian, and a Black woman…

Nov. 20: Public Displays

A comedy that asks the question: why is it easier to confide to strangers what we really should be telling the peop…

Nov. 19: Dating Godfrey

A night spirals into mayhem and transgressions when three girlfriends wait for one's boyfriend to get them into an…

Nov. 18: Danger Road

"Danger Road" tells the story of Erica and Hunter, who were inseparable in high school, but as adults, lead complet…

Nov. 14: Mercy for the Devil (or the Nature of Forgiveness) and Captive Muses

"Mercy for the Devil (or the Nature of Forgiveness)" is a play about reconciliation. It takes place in Northern Uga…

Nov. 13: Out of One Glass

"Out of One Glass" follows the fortunes of three Irish immigrant brothers who become embroiled in a web of collusio…

Nov. 12: Even the Blind Can See

"Even The Blind Can See" is a story of a young African-American man wrongfully accused of raping and robbing a whit…

Nov. 11: Storm Cell

Based on true events that occurred in NE Ohio approximately 7 years ago, Sean, a young man with a troubled family l…

Week #3 (Apr. 15 – 18): MorrisonDance

MorrisonDance will take you through several worlds of ancient mystery: real, interpreted, and imagined. "Mysterious…

Week #3 (Apr. 15 – 18): Antaeus Dance and Travesty Dance Group

How do we reconcile the infinite - prospect - with the intimate - "refuge"? Antaeus Dance Director Joan Meggitt and…

Week #2 (Apr. 8 – 10): Inlet Dance Theatre

Don't miss Inlet Dance Theatre in another sure-to-sell-out DanceWorks engagement. Inlet will premiere dynamic new w…

Week #2 (Apr. 8 – 10): Verb Ballets

Cleveland's National Repertory Dance Company returns to DanceWorks with Fresh Inventions! Northeast Ohio artists ar…

Week #1 (Apr. 1 – 4): MegLouise Dance

"Outside the Lines" is a response to the seemingly harmless social systems that perpetuate a tendency toward discon…

Week #8 (Mar. 5 – 7): McInjun and HonkFest

"McInjun" is the story of a geeky 15-year-old half-Seminole, half-Irish boy, new to the city of Cleveland, but not…

Week #7 (Feb. 26 – 28): Hum

In "Hum", four characters gently weave their disparate narratives. A letter from a long-forgotten ex-girlfriend, a…

Week #6 (Feb. 19 – 21): Concentric Cycles and Dirt

As time passes, memories weave a fabric that connects with the present, shaping every moment of our lives. A myster…

Week #5 (Feb. 12 – 14): Extra! Extra!

Coming together again in an original collaboration, FiveOne, Carly Dorman, and Sara Lawrence-Sucato deliver the new…

Week #4 (Feb. 5 – 7): G.S.

In "G.S.," Gertrude and Alice and George and Alfred find themselves sharing the same atelier in Paris. When their p…

Week #3 (Jan. 29 – 31): Microscopes and Megaphones

"Microscopes & Megaphones" is a collaborative project that uses dance, theatre, audio and visual arts to explore "t…

Week #2 (Jan. 22 – 24): People4Change

Three Gen-Yers join forces to make a difference in the world after a random experience brings them together. Their…

Week #1 (Jan. 15 – 17): Cramped and Kill Will

"Cramped" is an exploration of two women's coming of age, set inside the confines of a life size board game. The ch…

Nov. 15: Girl and Au Bout de Son Latin

"girl" is the story of a girl forced to leave her home, and then forced to return three years later, only to discov…

Nov. 14: Mother/Tongue and Bon Voyage, mon Oie (Goodbye, My Goose)

Workaholic mother Margot obsessively prepares Julia Child's 1960's-era beef tongue recipe, vanishes for hours, and…

Nov. 13: The Musicalling

An exploration of the human spirit! A triumph! "The Musicalling" is the most ambitious extravaganza in the history…

Nov. 12th: Flock of Seagulls and Wave

Jake and Barry bicker over cleaning duties in their apartment before learning that they are characters trapped insi…

Nov. 8: Projecting and You Can see the World from Cleveland

Photographs are a way of telling stories, of tracking and keeping human histories on an intensely personal level. T…

Nov. 6: The Doppelgänger, a Play in Eighteen Paintings

What really happened between Edouard Manet and his muse, the artist Berthe Morisot? He made more than a dozen portr…

Nov. 5: History of Life

"History of Life" follows Sybil, an adopted Evolutionary Biologist and her quest into the American southwest to mee…

Week #6 (May 21 – 24): Open Window Dance Company

Open Window Dance Company makes its regional debut in the final weekend of DanceWorks with a premiere performance o…

Week #5 (May 14 – 17): Double-Edge Dance

"XspanD" is a series of solos and duets formed around the spans of time, memory and relationships. Expand as you wa…

Week #4 (May 7 – 10): Ohio Dance Theatre

Ohio Dance Theatre's diverse repertory and theatrical style reflects the best and confronts the worst of the human…

Week #3 (Apr. 30 – May 3): Antaeus Dance

Antaeus Dance unveils another compelling evening-length dancework by Director Joan Meggitt. MOLT explores the trans…

Week #2 (Apr. 23 – 26): Inlet Dance Theatre

Inlet Dance Theatre returns to CPT to add to its history of thrilling, sold-out DanceWorks performances. Acclaimed…

Week #1 (Apr. 16 – 19): Verb Ballets

Cleveland's National Repertory Dance Company opens up Danceworks by going into the lab like a group of mad scientis…

Week #7 (Feb. 20 – 22): Unethical

You can't live without this paycheck, so just keep your head down and get through the workday. But when The Company…

Week #6 (Feb. 13 – 15): InCogNegro

Black identity in America is complex. As poet Paul Laurence Dunbar suggested, we wear a mask to hide our true selve…

Week #5 (Feb. 6 – 8): BACKspace

Big [BOX] presents an evening of dance and music, featuring original choreography by Carly Dorman and Sara Lawrence…

Week #4 (Jan. 30 – Feb 1): MegLouise Dance Presents Nearly Nude: Deconstructing Beauty

MegLouise Dance ignites excitement and dialogue with "Nearly Nude: Deconstructing Beauty". Previews of the producti…

Week #3 (Jan. 23 – 25): And Then You Die and Claus for a Moment

What races through a man's mind as he runs for his life? Hit the road in this comic and revealing solo piece about…

Week #2 (Jan. 15 – 18): Summer Nights and Fireflies

Summer Nights and Fireflies takes us to a tiny sawmill town in eastern Texas, the home of Zandra Richards. She's a…

Week #1 (Jan. 9 – 11): The BeetleBug and the Bad Work and Kissmet

Big [BOX] 2009 opens with a double bill - puppetry and theatre combine in The Beetlebug and the Bad Worm from Theat…

Little Box 2008

CPT is proud to present the second year of Little Box. Running from October 23 - November 1 in the James Levin Thea…

Week #6 (Apr. 17 – 20): MorrisonDance

From waiting tables to eating pomegranates, the dancers will perform a delicious range of styles that are sure to d…

Week #5 (Apr. 10 – 13): Double-Edge Dance

Double-Edge Dance (DED) works with contradiction and juxtaposition, idiosyncratic movement invention, contemporary…

Week #4 (Apr. 3 – 6): Tikvah Company of Artists

Conceived from seven verbs common to the human condition, Tikvah Company of Artists, an ensemble of dancers, actors…

Week #3 (Mar. 27 – 30): Inlet Dance Theatre

Inlet Dance Theatre will perform a wide variety of works that are personal, regional, and global in content. Repert…

Week #3 (Mar. 27 – 30): GroundWorks DanceTheater

GroundWorks presents new work by Artistic Associate Amy Miller, the Cleveland Premier of "Sweet" by David Shimotaka…

Week #2 (Mar. 20 – 22): Not Exactly DanceWorks

"Not Exactly DanceWorks" presents the internationally acclaimed Juggling Show Spectacular Extravaganza of Object Ma…

Week #1 (Mar. 13 – 16): Lisa K. Lock

"Fear of Falling" is a multimedia dance project inspired by contemporary ballet, performance art, subcultures and d…

Week #1 (Mar. 13 – 15): Lingo

Join Lingo and CPT for a social art feast has "left critics and audiences beguiled" (Seattle Magazine) and allows g…

Big [Box]

Cleveland Public Theatre Executive Artistic Director Raymond Bobgan is proud to announce the participating artists…

Little Box

Modeled after our successful Big [Box] series but on a smaller scale, Little Box is designed to foster works at an…