Beck Center for the Arts

In collaboration with <a href="https://www.oberlin.edu/conservatory/divisions/music-theater/faculty-list" data-feathr-click-track="true" data-feathr-link-aids="61f2d71dd5e80f29aec02722" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Oberlin College &amp; Conservatory Music Theater Program</a>, Books and lyrics by Steve Sater, music by Duncan Sheik, based on the play by Frank Wedekind. Directed by Victoria Bussert, musical direction by Matthew Webb, and choreography by Lauren Marousek. Senney Theater, February 13 to March 1, 2026 with added Wednesdays February 18, and February 25, 2026 and Thursdays on February 19 and 26, 2026. Presented in arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
The winner of eight Tony Awards®, including Best Musical. Young lovers must struggle against all odds to build a world together in this electrifying fusion of morality hitting up against passion in a pop rock score that exhilarates audiences like no other musical. How did you play your hand when adults held all the cards? 
"The most gorgeous Broadway score this decade," Entertainment Weekly 
Season Tickets and Flex Passes for the 2025-2026 Professional Theater Season range in price from $136 to $384 and are available for purchase now for renewing subscribers at 216-521-2540. Season tickets and flex passes go on sale to new subscribers on June 2, 2025. Tickets to individual shows will go on sale to the public on July 1, 2025, at 216-521-2540 and <a href="https://www.beckcenter.org/professional-theater" data-feathr-click-track="true" data-feathr-link-aids="61f2d71dd5e80f29aec02722" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Beckcenter.org</a>.

Curtain times are 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 2:30 p.m. Sundays. Preview performances are 7:30 p.m. the Thursday before opening night, with general admission seating for just $15. Smart Seats are available for each performance at just $15 per person. For more information on the 2025-2026 Professional Theater Season please visit <a href="https://www.beckcenter.org/professional-theater" data-feathr-click-track="true" data-feathr-link-aids="61f2d71dd5e80f29aec02722" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">beckcenter.org.</a>

Local Event: Spring Awakening

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Spring Awakening

In collaboration with Oberlin College & Conservatory Music Theater Program, Books and lyrics by Steve Sater, music by Duncan...

Directed by Jimmie Woody. Studio Theater, February 27, 2026 through March 29, 2026. Presented in arrangement with Concord Theatricals
Finalist! 1992 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Memphis Lee’s coffee shop lies in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, a neighborhood on the brink of economic development. Like most neighborhood hang outs, you’ll find the sage elder statesman, an ex-con, a numbers runner, a quiet waitress with a past, and a man with special needs who is looking for his ham. Compared to works by Chekhov, in this drama Wilson reveals the hopes and dreams of a community on the brink of change in the 1960s. 
“Wilson’s most delicate and mature work.” Time
Season Tickets and Flex Passes for the 2025-2026 Professional Theater Season range in price from $136 to $384 and are available for purchase now for renewing subscribers at 216-521-2540. Season tickets and flex passes go on sale to new subscribers on June 2, 2025. Tickets to individual shows will go on sale to the public on July 1, 2025, at 216-521-2540 and <a href="https://www.beckcenter.org/professional-theater" data-feathr-click-track="true" data-feathr-link-aids="61f2d71dd5e80f29aec02722" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Beckcenter.org</a>.

Curtain times are 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 2:30 p.m. Sundays. Preview performances are 7:30 p.m. the Thursday before opening night, with general admission seating for just $15. Smart Seats are available for each performance at just $15 per person. For more information on the 2025-2026 Professional Theater Season please visit <a href="https://www.beckcenter.org/professional-theater" data-feathr-click-track="true" data-feathr-link-aids="61f2d71dd5e80f29aec02722" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">beckcenter.org.</a>

Local Event: August Wilson's Two Trains Running

August Wilson's Two Trains Running

Directed by Jimmie Woody. Studio Theater, February 27, 2026 through March 29, 2026. Presented in arrangement with Concord...

by <a href="https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=99c99235e0cddbf1&amp;hl=en&amp;sxsrf=AHTn8zq_Hu1VH5gjnG-jvHXrV9QW6VxTJA:1744820131275&amp;q=inauthor:%22Stephen+Karam%22&amp;udm=36" data-feathr-click-track="true" data-feathr-link-aids="61f2d71dd5e80f29aec02722" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stephen Karam</a>. Directed by Don Carrier. Studio Theater, May 29 through June 28, 2026. Presented in arrangement with Dramatist Play Service&nbsp;
Three misfit high school students in Salem, Oregon form a unique debate club, complete with a musical version of The Crucible, an unusual podcast, and a plot to take down their corrupt drama teacher. With his signature wit, playwright Karam follows the trio's attempts to fend off the menace of encroaching adulthood with edgy humor and subversive antics. 



"Stephen Karam's savvy comedy is bristling with vitality, wicked humor, terrific dialogue, and adirect pipeline into the zeitgeist of contemporary youth" -- David Rooney, Variety

“Hilarious...Speech &amp; Debate’s real accomplishment is its picture of the borderland between late adolescence and adulthood, where grown-up ideas and ambition coexist with childish will and bravado...We never feel we’re being educated, just immensely entertained.” – Caryn James, New York Times
Season Tickets and Flex Passes for the 2025-2026 Professional Theater Season range in price from $136 to $384 and are available for purchase now for renewing subscribers at 216-521-2540. Season tickets and flex passes go on sale to new subscribers on June 2, 2025. Tickets to individual shows will go on sale to the public on July 1, 2025, at 216-521-2540 and <a href="https://www.beckcenter.org/professional-theater" data-feathr-click-track="true" data-feathr-link-aids="61f2d71dd5e80f29aec02722" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Beckcenter.org</a>. 

Curtain times are 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 2:30 p.m. Sundays. Preview performances are 7:30 p.m. the Thursday before opening night, with general admission seating for just $15. Smart Seats are available for each performance at just $15 per person. For more information on the 2025-2026 Professional Theater Season please visit <a href="https://www.beckcenter.org/professional-theater" data-feathr-click-track="true" data-feathr-link-aids="61f2d71dd5e80f29aec02722" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">beckcenter.org.</a>

Local Event: Speech and Debate

Speech and Debate

by Stephen Karam. Directed by Don Carrier. Studio Theater, May 29 through June 28, 2026. Presented in arrangement with...

Book by Tina Fey, lyricist Nell Benjamin (Legally Blonde) and composer Jeff Richmond (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt). Adapted from Fey's hit 2004 film, Mean Girls.
Directed by Scott Spence, Musical direction by Larry Goodpaster, and choreography by Lauren Marousek. Senney Theater. July 10 to August 9, 2026 with Thursdays July 23, 30, and August 6, 2026. Presented in arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). 

Mean Girls was nominated for a staggering 12 Tony Awards. We have all experienced some “Plastics” in our lives. Cady Heron grew up on an African savanna, but nothing could prepare her for the wild and malicious ways of her strange adventure in suburban Illinois. How will this naïve newbie rise to popularity? By taking on frenemies led by the charming but cutting Regina George. Cady learns the hard way that you can’t cross a queen bee without getting stung.

"...Mean Girls is a marvel." - Entertainment Weekly
Season Tickets and Flex Passes for the 2025-2026 Professional Theater Season range in price from $136 to $384 and are available for purchase now for renewing subscribers at 216-521-2540. Season tickets and flex passes go on sale to new subscribers on June 2, 2025. Tickets to individual shows will go on sale to the public on July 1, 2025, at 216-521-2540 and <a href="https://www.beckcenter.org/professional-theater" data-feathr-click-track="true" data-feathr-link-aids="61f2d71dd5e80f29aec02722" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Beckcenter.org</a>.

Curtain times are 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 2:30 p.m. Sundays. Preview performances are 7:30 p.m. the Thursday before opening night, with general admission seating for just $15. Smart Seats are available for each performance at just $15 per person. For more information on the 2025-2026 Professional Theater Season please visit <a href="https://www.beckcenter.org/professional-theater" data-feathr-click-track="true" data-feathr-link-aids="61f2d71dd5e80f29aec02722" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">beckcenter.org.</a>

Local Event: Mean Girls

Mean Girls

Book by Tina Fey, lyricist Nell Benjamin (Legally Blonde) and composer Jeff Richmond (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt). Adapted from...

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Spring Awakening

FEB

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7:30 PM

Beck Center for the Arts, 17801 Detroit Ave, Lakewood, OH

August Wilson's Two Trains Running

FEB

27

7:30 PM

Beck Center for the Arts, 17801 Detroit Ave, Lakewood, OH

Speech and Debate

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7:30 PM

Beck Center for the Arts, 17801 Detroit Ave, Lakewood, OH

Mean Girls

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Beck Center for the Arts, 17801 Detroit Ave, Lakewood, OH

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