Playhouse Square

That's a great one.

Playhouse Square.

Yeah.

Another great

I do really like Hamilton.

I actually saw Hamilton live when it came to Playhouse Square.

Took my wife to go see it.

As you should.

What going on there? We took our daughter to her first musical, The Sound of Music, this year.

I saw that this year.

Yeah, we went and saw that at Playhouse Square, and then we just took him to see The Lion King.

I'm not going to lie.

Caesar's Forum.

Kennedy's Down Under in Playhouse Square.

Yeah.

So it's, uh, it's-

They call it the Midway Bike Lane Construction Project.

And the... ever vigilant committee they're so dedicated they really worked hard working with the city to come up with an alternative so the cleveland twenty twenty seven saint patrick's day parade will start at playhouse square we always have it on saint patrick's day we are one of the few cities that deviates from that we always start at one oh four And it's just a beautiful tradition.

They're going to actually have the ceremony right under the chandelier at Playhouse Square.

And if any of you have been down to Playhouse Square recently, you know Parnell's Pub is right there and PBS IdeaStream as well.

So those are big supporters of a lot of things going on in Cleveland.

So the route will be heading down East 14th to Prospect.

Tyler pipes them into St. Coleman's, so they start at Mass as well, and then they head downtown.

It's just a really, really terrific tradition.

We'll have that for you Monday.

the saint patrick day parade will start on euclid avenue next year in front of the historic playhouse square theaters and happy day the idea center as well after nearly twenty years on superior avenue organizers announced a move this week uh... andrew it'll actually go uh...

in front of the theaters it'll come to just in front of the idea center where the chandelier is and hang a left go down fourteen street and really the bulk of the route is prospect now i remember as a kid that we marched on superior Then it was Euclid for a long time.

Why did Euclid get canceled?

So they moved it over to Superior, and that's where it was.

Coming back, coming home, if you will.

Playhouse Square, where we'll be stepping off at 1.04 on March 17th.

I think the question is, are we going to see snow again this year like we did last year? I was over by the parade route, and I was looking and thinking, wow, not a great day for a parade.

There will be no St. Patrick's Day Parade on Superior Avenue in Cleveland next year.

Now that you've caught your breath, I will let you know that's because the action is shifting to a new route, and it starts right here at Playhouse Square.

IdeaStream's senior arts and culture reporter Kabir Bhatia sat down with the organizers to learn about what's happening with the wearin' of the green for 2027.

Welcome, both of you.

Well, we've been on Superior Avenue for about 20 years now and started East 18th right through Public Square.

And we're really excited that we're going to a much more vibrant area.

We're going to be starting here in front of Playhouse Square, going up 14th Street, down Prospect Avenue, all by the Gateway District, and then back down to Public Square.

where we'll go around by Terminal Tower of Superior Avenue and then in front of the Hyatt Hotel and down Sixth Street to end the parade.

And I think just the biggest drawing point from a prospective student standpoint is is the fact that we do have that small, close-knit, down-to-earth feeling, but we're next to downtown Cleveland.

So you're able to, on the weekends, go out to a Guardians game or go to Playhouse Square.

But it's great for internships, too.

So I think that's a huge selling point.

Students have internships with literally all of the athletic teams, Playhouse Square, Rock Hall.

art museum, you know, you name it, like they've had those internships.

And I think the fact that because we're by a big city and the professors really do care about your wellbeing, they will help you find those internships.

There's a memorial stair climb at 6 at University of Akron's InfoCision Stadium.

There's a 9-11 5K at Edgewater Park today at 6.30. There's an event here at Playhouse Square called Behind the Lines, a 9-11 story.

There's an event in Westlake where the names of the people killed on 9-11 will be read outside of the public library.

Matt, let's talk a little bit about some news that's coming out of New York.