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'Speech & Debate' at Dobama Theatre is a clumsy production of a dated play
By Tony Brown, The Plain Dealer
March 18, 2010, 12:54PM
How could a show about teen sex, the Internet and a drama teacher fondling underage boys possibly be boring? Such is the dubious distinction of Dobama Theatre's "Speech & Debate," which opened last weekend. The play, which drew raves in its 2006 regional premiere and off-Broadway a year later, is by bright young writer Stephen Karam. Full story »
The Maltz Family Foundation donates $12 million to Case Western Reserve University to turn Temple Tifereth Israel into a performing arts center
By Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer
March 19, 2010, 12:59PM
The Maltz Family Foundation announced today will donate $12 million to Case Western Reserve University to enable it to use the Temple's building for 99 years as a performing arts center. Full story »
Ashkenazy unveils hair-raising 'Pictures,' Prokofiev with Cleveland Orchestra
By Zachary Lewis, The Plain Dealer
March 19, 2010, 11:23AM
Impetuous but insightful, bracing but brilliant, Thursday's performance by Vladimiar Ashkenazy stood as a potent reminder of why the conductor-pianist has been a regular guest at the Cleveland Orchestra since 1968. French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, meanwhile, made a stunning debut. Full story »
Ellie Nielsen writes of 'Buying a Piece of Paris' in her fetching valentine to the City of Light: New in Paperback
By Plain Dealer guest writer
March 19, 2010, 10:46AM
Peter Mayle started it, Frances Mayes continued it, and countless others imitate it: buying-a-house-in-a-foreign-country memoir. The ingredients are: baffling rules and customs; bad wiring, plumbing and masonry; Bacchanalian enjoyment of local food and wine; bumbling workers; and lots of charming, if quirky, characters. Full story »
Takacs Quartet minus one serves up delectable meal at Oberlin concert
By Donald Rosenberg, The Plain Dealer
March 19, 2010, 8:12AM
Rather than cancel a performance Thursday at Oberlin College due to second violinist Karoly Schranz's need to undergo surgery, his colleagues in the Takacs Quartet devised a rich meal of duos and trios by composers who also excelled in the string-quartet genre. Full story »
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Oberlin's 'Candide' a burst of Bernstein bliss
By Donald Rosenberg, The Plain Dealer
March 18, 2010, 11:13AM
The Oberlin Opera Theater bends over backwards, forwards, sideways and myriad other ways to instill life into its pleasurable production of Bernstein's "Candide." Full story »
Chang-rae Lee returns to the Korean War with 'The Surrendered,' his fifth novel
By Plain Dealer guest writer
March 18, 2010, 10:08AM
I was never bored, never wanted to stop reading, even when I could feel the author struggling with his story. Yet in the end, Chang-rae Lee solves every critical conflict with a sweep of mayhem -- violence is his "deus ex machina." Full story »
Duane 'The Dog' Chapman, critic Mark Harris, novelist Jaimee Wriston Colbert and engineer Henry Petroski lead the Cleveland literary week
By Karen R. Long, The Plain Dealer
March 17, 2010, 5:28PM
In the week ahead, it's a safe bet that Mark Harris, speaking on Saturday, March 20, will be memorable; Duane "The Dog" Chapman will be popular in his Sunday appearance and novelist Jaimee Wriston Colbert will be fun next Monday. Full story »
Lionel Shriver brings a cold fury to 'So Much for That,' her latest novel
By Plain Dealer guest writer
March 17, 2010, 10:02AM
Shriver, author of the sparkling, what-if 2007 novel "The Post-Birthday World," opens with her protagonist on the brink of realizing his dream. A writer capable of exquisite nuance, here she puts her considerable talents at the service of cold fury. In "So Much for That," Shriver doesn't aim for subtley. Full story »
Rebecca Skloot speaks to the ethical and scientific fall-out to her new best-seller, 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks'
By Karen R. Long, The Plain Dealer
March 16, 2010, 5:49PM
Rebecca Skloot scrunched her shoulders and crossed her arms, imitating "a sea of white coats" at the Cleveland Clinic Monday, March 15, where the Department of Medicine invited her to speak about her new book. Full story »
Ian Buruma ponders 'Taming the Gods' in the public square of world democracies
By Karen R. Long, The Plain Dealer
March 16, 2010, 3:58PM
"What is needed, apart from freedom of speech and the right to vote, to hold democratic societies together?" Ian Buruma asks in an echo of Tocqueville. "Is the rule of law enough, or do we need common values, ethics, mores? And what is the role of religion in all this; is it a help or a hindrance to liberal democracy?" Full story »
In 'Ship of Fools,' Fintan O'Toole navigates the rise and fall of the Celtic Tiger
By Plain Dealer guest writer
March 16, 2010, 12:15PM
I moved to Ireland in 2003, toward the tail end of Ireland's last economic boom. At Brown Thomas, Dublin's premier luxury department store, I sold handbags for 650 euros (about $748) to teenagers making their confirmations and 300 euro ($345) jeans embroidered with Swarovski crystals. Full story »
Youth Orchestra and Chorus reach heavenly highs at Severance Hall
By Zachary Lewis, The Plain Dealer
March 15, 2010, 12:29PM
Three weighty choral works and a lengthy orchestral showpiece might seem like too much for a group young musicians to take on, but for the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra and Chorus, the only stretch Sunday was fitting so many musicians on stage at Severance Hall. Full story »
With 'Enlightened Sexism,' Susan J. Douglas takes a blunt look at the mixed messages women and girls get about power
By Evelyn Theiss, The Plain Dealer
March 15, 2010, 11:00AM
Take a shopping trip that Susan J. Douglas went on with her daughter at Abercrombie & Fitch, which the author compares to "being dragged into that electronica-thumping haberdashery from hell." It stocks T-shirts for girls that state: "Who Needs Brains When You Have These?" Lovely. Full story »
Project Trio does its eclectic thing in Chagrin Falls
By Donald Rosenberg, The Plain Dealer
March 15, 2010, 9:57AM
Project Trio, an ensemble of Cleveland Institute of Music graduates based in Brooklyn, N.Y., was in chipper form Sunday at Chagrin Falls High School, where the group appeared under the auspices of Chagrin Arts. Full story »
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