Allen Theatre: Cleveland Performing Arts Theater Guide

Breathtaking, beautiful theater. They have their own will call which i found out after i went to the other end of the complex to the main will call and waited in line. We saw A Christmas Story. It was a nice play. I enjoyed it. My husband was disappointed. It was missing the grandeur of other plays we have seen. I would still recommend it.

There is no better place to see live theater than The Allen Theatre! It’s just lovely. You can feel the history in the surroundings. CPH produces incredible shows. I highly recommend!

Downtown Cleveland, Ohio is so beautiful during the holidays! My whole life I have lived in suburban Rocky River, but always come downtown for the holidays. Interesting, the 1983 movie Christmas story was filmed on Public Square. Also, the beginning scene of Major League has the Moses Cleveland statue on Public Square, I just noticed that. You can walk across the Lorain Carnegie Bridge (beginning scene in Major League) and see the Guardians of Transportation (art deco statues on the bridge) the Historic West Side Market is on the other side of the bridge (ten minute walk from downtown). The Alan Theater has a free public Christmas tree display during the holidays. You have to enter through the building that starts with a B (can’t recall the name in my old age) not the Allan lobby.

I enjoy the play Black Nativity our seats was in the second row and you can see everything I felt the stage was a bit small but they made good use of it as professionals I really enjoyed the live performance of the actors and the musicians the sound quality was great the only thing that I didn't like is where I was sitting because it felt like someone had a door open and it was very cold in there for some reason the staff there was very professional and attentive the only thing I felt was unusual was when we went back to the front door to get out they had the doors locked I felt like this could have been a fire safety issue we had to find someone to unlock the door I don't know why that was their policy during a performance I can see if they was trying to prevent people from getting in but we were already in and couldn't get out as our transportation arrived our drivers were not able to enter the building they need to change that it is really unsafe especially during an emergency

Pretty Christmas decorations! We stopped by just after Thanksgiving and it looked like some stuff was still being put up, but certainly still beautiful!