What's the best seat in the house? Depends on how you look at it. It isn't always the most expensive one, and it's not always in the front. To help you spend your concert- and event-going money wisely, we asked our critics to share their views on what's the best seat for your bucks at area venues.

When Daniel Sovich, 12, auditioned last year for "A Christmas Story" at Cleveland Playhouse, he made it to callbacks but ultimately was not cast. The director told Daniel he needed more experience.

It has family. It has dysfunction. And it has genuine star power. Rosemary Prinz, a veteran of Broadway and the CBS daytime drama As the World Turns, leads the cast in the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's production of Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers, which runs Dec. 1-13.

New actors in the roles of young Ralphie and adult Ralph lead the cast in the fifth and final production of A Christmas Story at The Cleveland Play House.

Whether you've seen the current production at the Cleveland Playhouse, you probably remember "Inherit the Wind." After all, it depicts the legendary Trial of the Century, which, as many legends do, turns out to have been a bit of a sham. ...

More than half a century after Northeast Ohio natives Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee wrote “Inherit the Wind,” the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial-inspired drama remains a significant lightning rod of theater.