7-552: Near West Theatre is an independent, nonprofit theatre troupe housed in a 275-seat venue in the Gordon Square Arts District of the Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood of Cleveland , Ohio . Located along the major thoroughfare Detroit Avenue, two blocks from Cleveland Public Theatre , Near West specializes in musical productions with casts of all ages, with a special emphasis on serving at-risk youth in
14-763: A "city father", Gordon Square is currently the central focus of efforts to remake Detroit–Shoreway into a cultural and artistic hub for the west side, including the renovation and re-opening of the Capitol Theatre , a new building for the Near West Theatre , and renovations to the Cleveland Public Theater complex, as well as a complete rebuild of the Detroit Avenue streetscape from West 58th to West 73rd streets, including burying of utility lines. Reinberger Auditorium houses
21-544: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Detroit-Shoreway Detroit–Shoreway is a neighborhood on the West Side of Cleveland , in the U.S. state of Ohio . Detroit–Shoreway consists of the streets between Lake Erie and Interstate 90 , from West 85th to West 45th streets. The retail hub of Detroit–Shoreway is Gordon Square , a series of retail buildings on the four corners of Detroit Avenue and West 65th Street. Named for W.J. Gordon, considered
28-790: The Talespinner Children's Theatre , a professional theater made for child audiences. Additional plans include rebuilding the Lorain Avenue Streetscape within the Lorain Avenue Antiques District, from West 52nd to West 82nd. oWOW Radio is located at the 78th Street Studios in Gordon Square. Detroit–Shoreway is serviced by various bus routes, and includes its own rapid transit station, West 65th–Lorain . The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority , in conjunction with
35-593: The City of Cleveland and the Cleveland EcoVillage, is working on plans for transit-oriented development in the area around the station, and Detroit–Shoreway is additionally the site of a brownfield redevelopment of an old Eveready Battery Plant, known as Battery Park. The city is working with the Ohio Department of Transportation on plans to rebuild the limited access West Shoreway ( SR-2 ) as
42-654: The Cleveland area. It was founded in May 1978 by Stephanie Morrison, George Hrbek, and Robert Scullin as the Near West Side Shared Ministry Youth Theatre. Its first musical director was Robert Schenk, who directed a production of Godspell in the summer of 1978. The troupe built its new facility over the course of 2014 for $ 7.3 million, which it raised as part of a wider $ 30 million Gordon Square Arts District campaign. From 1978 to 2014,
49-450: The theatre performed in the third-floor ballroom of St. Patrick Church's Catholic Club Building at 3006 Bridge Ave. in Cleveland's Ohio City neighborhood. Prior to opening its state-of-the-art space in 2015, the company rented out various spaces to mount their sizable productions. 41°29′03″N 81°43′54″W / 41.484147°N 81.731617°W / 41.484147; -81.731617 This United States theatre–related article
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