In 2009, after Cincinnati Magazine
ran a story about a virtually unknown but magnificent early Modernist
home in Woodlawn that was endangered, I drove over to see it. Or,
rather, I tried.
Silent Films with Live Music Make a Comeback
0 Comments · Wednesday, May 1, 2013
One national arts trend which Cincinnati
lags behind is the rediscovery of silent movies — especially the public
screening of them to live musical accompaniment.
'Falling' For Photos
Elena Dorfman exhibits her surreal photographs of quarries at Phyllis Weston Gallery
0 Comments · Tuesday, April 23, 2013
The huge stone quarries that hide in the
landscapes of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky are strange things, monsters of
ruggedly carved-out negative space that — when abandoned and filled
with water — attract illicit swimmers and divers.
New Edgecliff Adapts with Audiences in Mind
0 Comments · Tuesday, April 23, 2013
New Edgecliff Theatre completes its 15th season with David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Proof
(onstage through Sunday at the Aronoff Center’s Fifth Third Bank
Theater), a production providing ample evidence of NET’s strength...
Frampton and the Ballet: Dancing, Singing, Playing on the Edge
1 Comment · Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Few things good ever come easily, or
without stepping outside one’s comfort zone. But persistence paid off in
Cincinnati Ballet’s pursuit of Peter Frampton, the Grammy-winning
guitar hero with a career spanning decades.
Art Freaks Meet Geeks in Two Must-See Shows
0 Comments · Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Two grand experiments fusing art, science and technology will be revealed Friday night.
Holla!
Mandy Patinkin returns to the orchestral stage with the Cincinnati Pops
0 Comments · Wednesday, April 17, 2013
The human hurricane known as Mandy
Patinkin sets down this weekend for three concerts with the Cincinnati
Pops, his first appearance with the Pops since 1991.
Patti Smith's CAC Show: A Mapplethorpe Tribute
0 Comments · Wednesday, April 17, 2013
In advance of last year’s FotoFocus
festival, probably the largest photography-related event in Cincinnati’s
history, I asked James Crump — the festival’s co-chair and then chief
curator/curator-at-large at Cincinnati Art Museum — if there wasn’t an
unspoken spirit hovering over the proceedings: Robert Mapplethorpe.
Leather Repairman Tim Willig Keeps Stuff Awesome
5 Comments · Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Tim Willig is awesome and he has the
business cards to prove it. The shoe and leather repairman doesn’t have
“cobbler” written anywhere on his aforementioned business cards. Rather,
the official title listed for the owner/operator of Awesome Time Shoe
and Leather Repair simply reads: “Awesome Guy.”
Cock (Review)
Fighting for Love: 'Cock' at Know Theatre
0 Comments · Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Know Theatre has opted for quality rather than quantity in its productions this season. It’s following the highly regarded When the Rain Stops Falling with its second show, Cock by Mike Bartlett, maintaining a similar high level of material and performance
Parade (Review)
Carnegie, CCM co-production marches to a beat of injustice
0 Comments · Monday, April 15, 2013
The powerful true story of a terrible miscarriage of justice
in 1913 Atlanta is the subject of the musical Parade.
Legally Blonde (Review)
Covedale's 'Legally Blonde' has the necessary snap
0 Comments · Monday, April 15, 2013
Ohmigod, you guys: The Covedale Center’s production of Legally Blonde is like, totally fabulous. A bubbly, warm, laugh-out-loud evening of theater at its cutest, Blonde is well produced and wonderfully entertaining.
When Opportunity Knocks
At the helm of the local visual arts scene, Matt Distel explores new positions at Cincinnati Art Museum and The Carnegie
0 Comments · Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Matt Distel, an almost constant presence
in the Cincinnati art scene for the last couple of decades, suddenly
seems to be everywhere at once. But no, he’ll not be working three jobs
The Humana Festival Formula
0 Comments · Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Last weekend I traveled to Louisville,
Ky., for the 37th annual Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors
Theatre. I’ve attended regularly since 1998 and thoroughly enjoyed
these doses of new, ambitiously conceived and professionally presented
works.
Contemporary Dance Theater Turns 40
0 Comments · Wednesday, April 10, 2013
When someone falls in love with dance,
it’s often a lifetime experience. It’s been that way for Jefferson
James, founder, artistic director and CEO of Contemporary Dance Theater, today Cincinnati’s premiere presenter of a diversity of
contemporary dance.
