WordStage

Designation: Professional

Average Ticket Prices: $13 - $16

Phone: (216) 712-6926

Performance Space:
Lakewood Presbyterian Church
14502 Detroit Avenue
Lakewood, OH 44107

Mission Statement

Dedicated to the presentation of works with special literary, historical and musical merit, our aim is to employ professional local artists whose talents will illuminate the texts and music of some of the most fascinating and remarkable figures in the realms of history and the performing arts.  Using letters, diaries, recorded conversations and contemporary chronicles underscored with musical compositions of the era, a WordStage performance will entertain, inform and educate audiences who have a love of literature, the humanities and the performing arts in their purest form.

Current and Upcoming Shows

Previously Produced Shows

Gorey Stories
Friday, October 28, 2016

Poe and Fiends
Sunday, October 30, 2016

Richard Wagner's Visit to Rossini - Paris 1860
Friday, November 18, 2016

Stories and Poems from "The Auld Sod"
Friday, March 17, 2017

The Literary Legacy of the Beat Generation
Friday, April 21, 2017

The Creature from Jekyll Island
September 10, 2017

Poe and Fiends
October 26, 2017

Ambrose Bierce
October 27, 2017

d.a. levy - Cleveland's Counterculturalist
Sunday, April 15, 2018

Killer Verse
Monday, October 29, 2018

Give Me Your Tired: Expressions of Immigration
Sunday, April 28, 2019

Box and Cox or the Long Lost Brothers
Friday, September 24, 2021

Rappaccini's Daughter and Murder by Poe
Friday, October 29, 2021

Round the Fire Stories
Thursday, May 19, 2022

Wildeiana
Sunday, May 22, 2022

A Salon for Mr. Lincoln
Saturday, March 18, 2023

Diamonds: The Poetry of Baseball
Saturday, April 29, 2023

Oscar, Bram & Walt
Saturday, June 3, 2023

At Wit's End
Saturday, September 23, 2023

Bram Stoker's Bedtime Stories
Saturday, October 28, 2023

A Cavalcade of Thurber
Saturday, November 18, 2023

Call Me By My True Names
Sunday, March 10, 2024