Cleveland is a city that proudly touts its rock ’n’ roll legacy. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum website paints a cozily nostalgic picture of post-World War II teens packing downtown record stores to shell out money for the latest tunes. It details the Beatlemania frenzy that led then-Mayor Ralph Locher to ban the mop-headed Brits from Cleveland in the mid-’60s. Even the term “rock ’n’ roll” was mainstreamed locally, thanks to Record Rendezvous owner Leo Mintz and deejay Alan Freed, or so the legend goes. Elvis Presley, the O’Jays, the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springst...
A critically acclaimed hit play that ran in New York City for over a year and a half will now make its way to Cleveland thanks to the fine folks at PlayhouseSquare. Broadway fans will get a chance to catch the smash hit, A Jew Grows in Brooklyn between April 27 and May 1 when it comes toCleveland this week. A Jew Grows in Brooklyn follows Ehrenreich, a young boy who is the first American-born child of Holocaust survivors. With a thick European accents he struggles to be a normal boy in a world constantly growing around him. Through stories, comedy and music, which is performed no...
