The bad boys will be acting up this season on the stage of NEW EDGECLIFF THEATRE, which just announced its 2007-08 season, under the theme of "men behaving badly." They'll open with Neil LaBut  

The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park this week put in place the final production of its 2007-08 season when it announced the Mickey Kaplan New Play Prize, A SLEEPING COUNTRY by MELANIE MARNICH,   

For 11 years, CityBeat has sponsored the CINCINNATI ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS. I'm occasionally asked how nominations are chosen, with some people wondering if I just pick my favorites. The answer is  

This week's issue of CityBeat discuss the 11th annual CINCINNATI ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS, the only local theater awards program that's driven by critics and gives theater audiences a chance for th  

If you've been kicking yourself for missing the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park's Tony Award-winning revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's COMPANY when it was here in town and if you  

I look forward to the third weekend in June when Cincinnati's many community theaters come together for their annual excerpt competition and awards banquet. It's a chance to see 30-minute offer  

KNOW THEATRE OF CINCINNATI keeps on rolling. Just after finishing up their hard work as presenters of the 2007 Fringe Festival -- the best attended Fringe in four years -- the energetic folks at   

The 2007 CINCINNATI FRINGE wrapped up its fourth festival on June 9 with a big party at Know Theatre. The late-evening series at Know's "Underground" bar capped off a run of big crowds with mo  

Don't lose sight of the fact that there's theater going on in places other than the Fringe Festival, even though that's where most of our focus has been for the past two weeks. If you like mor  

Cincinnati has extra reason to look forward to the American Theatre Wing's 61st annual Antoinette Perry Awards, otherwise known as the Tonys. This year's awards happen on Sunday evening, June 1  

It's easy to dismiss "jukebox musicals" (such as All Shook Up, which littered the Aronoff stage in March with tepid renditions of Elvis tunes), but the principal reason they've been popular a  

Tony Award nominations were announced on May 15, and the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's COMPANY, which originated at the Cincinnati Playhouse, picked up three -- best revival, best direc  

Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative (CPI) gives aspiring writers the chance to have their plays read in a public forum, usually once a month in the Aronoff Center's Fifth Third Bank Theater. They  

It's a busy week of openings -- NEW STAGE COLLECTIVE debuts in its new space on Main Street with Edward Albee's The Goat, ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI (ETC) offers the final production of its  

Every two years we get to see a set of new plays at Northern Kentucky University's Y.E.S. Festival. Check out the mini-reviews below and go to citybeat.com for the full commentaries by CityBeat