[NEohioPAL] Review of "Baskerville" at Cleveland Play House

[Bob Abelman via NEohioPAL]

Cleveland Play House offers a marvelously madcap ‘Baskerville’ 



Bob Abelman

Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning Journal

Member, International Association of Theatre Critics





The Cleveland Play House has a long-term love affair with playwright Ken Ludwig.



After staging world premiere productions of his “Leading Ladies” in 2004, “The Game’s Afoot” in 2011 and “A Comedy of Tenors” to open its centennial season in 2015, “Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery” is currently on stage at the Allen Theatre. 



It is easy to see the attraction.  Ludwig has mastered the farce formula – the silly situations, the witty repartee delivered at lightning speed, and the hyper-dramatic and highly stylized funny-business – and now his plays are branded with his own name in their titles.  It is enough to turn an artistic director’s head.



But sometimes, in long-term affairs, love is simply taken for granted and less effort is made to keep it vibrant.  That seems to be the case with “Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery.”  Before the Cleveland Play House produces his next play, it may want to consider hiring Dr. Ruth Westheimer as the dramaturg.



For more of this review, go to www.clevelandjewishnews.com/columnists/.
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