The Stage Theater Group

06/23/2020

A really great radio station for all your gospel music needs

05/10/2020

04/10/2020

Rewinding the clocks nearly 12 years when Caroline, or Change, a co-production with Dobama Theatre, came to the Karamu House stage with Sheffia Randall Dooley (pictured here) in the lead role of Caroline in this musical, written by Pulitzer Prize winner, Tony Kushner.

04/09/2020

Central State University Chorus with The Cleveland Orchestra 2013 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration at Severance Hall on Sunday, January 20,2013

04/08/2020

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04/07/2020

Did you know? Karamu House began in 1915 with Russell and Rowena Jelliffe (pictured here), newlyweds who graduated from Oberlin College, when they moved to Cleveland to plant the seeds of community change.

The Jelliffes opened a settlement house at a time when Black migration from the south was in full swing. They offered classes to help new arrivals adjust to life in the north. Class offerings soon expanded into the arts. The settlement house became the Playhouse Settlement and was renamed Karamu in 1941.

03/19/2020

Octavia Spencer discusses playing Madam C.J. Walker in Netflix's « Self-Made, » a four-hour miniseries about the hair-care mogul.

02/14/2020

http://www.maltzmuseum.org/event/panel-discussion-qa-legacy-and-impact-african-american-theatre-in-cleveland/

01/19/2020

The purpose of Auditions is working for the part, not going around the city stealing them from other productive directors and writers to interfere with their productions,,,smh.

Auditions

The only thing you can influence in auditions is your own readiness. So be prepared. Choose your pieces carefully and look for speeches that the casting director won't have heard ten thousand times already. You may think you can do "To be or not to be" more inspirationally than anyone in history, but you will be up against the stiffest possible competition. Learn them thoroughly enough that you won't be stopped dead in your tracks by distractions such as someone's mobile phone ringing mid-sentence. Make sure you know the names of the individuals who are interviewing you. Research the project you're being seen for so you can talk intelligently about it if asked. And don't be late. If much of this sounds obvious, you'd be surprised at how many auditionees don't bother with even the most basic preparation.