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[Eric Coble] has honed a tight two-act script from which not a word can be cut. Each line moves the story forward. His work is a knee-slapping, whoop and holler comedy.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:36PMWednesday, January 22, 2014
The stage version was written by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer. This is not the same script as the movie Yentl, which starred Barbra Streisand.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:41PMMonday, September 23, 2013
This music-filled autobiography hits the high points of his life and provides a frame work on which to hang thirty-three of his songs.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:35AMWednesday, December 19, 2012
A Carol for Cleveland celebrates the city, kind people and Cleveland's winter weather. Cleveland's Allen Theatre provides the perfect home for this new play by Eric Coble that is based on a …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:49PMThursday, August 16, 2012
Mary Bridget Davies plays Joplin. She has the Joplin sound-rough, ragged, energetic and emotional-and evokes Joplin with help from the costumes and wigs.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:48PMMonday, June 18, 2012
An autobiographical musical revue seems a misnomer or impossibility. However, Sondheim on Sondheim makes the impossible possible.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:29PMWednesday, May 9, 2012
In the Next Room is played in a set that works perfectly for the script and for The Cleveland Play House's Second Stage.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:16PMThursday, May 3, 2012
When two little boys get in a fight, it triggers an adult battle between their parents. For 90 minutes, the parents squabble about their sons.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:06PMWednesday, December 21, 2011
His new play, "The Game's Afoot (or Holmes for the Holidays)," was the backdrop for our conversation.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:58PMMonday, November 14, 2011
This is a "message" play and the message seems to have been delivered long ago. What is left is a charming musical comedy of the old-fashioned style�singers sing, actors say funny lines, the…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:23PMSaturday, November 5, 2011
Unfortunately, the 1912 novel doesn't leap forward and seem appropriate 100 years later. The script is thin and transparent by today's standards, without the surprises and unexpected twists …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:23PMTuesday, September 27, 2011
So much is special about the production of "The Life of Galileo," is now playing in the Allen Theatre, Cleveland Play House, PlayhouseSquare. First, the company has renovated and moved into …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:25PM 
