Sunset Boulevard (Review)
Tale of Hollywood desperation and dementia gets a big-time patina
Silent Films with Live Music Make a Comeback
Measure for Measure (Review)
Cincy Shakes presents strange brew of drama, comedy
Double Indemnity (Review)
Cincinnati Playhouse production is playful, thrilling
Sister Act (Review)
Talent of touring cast provides a night of fun
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Sunset Boulevard (Review)
Tale of Hollywood desperation and dementia gets a big-time patina
0 Comments · Monday, May 13, 2013
David Zlatic designed a production — scenery, lighting in
the style of film noir and a stream of well executed photographic and
video projections in moody black-and-white — that works very well, including Desmond’s mansion with a sweeping central staircase.
Measure for Measure (Review)
Cincy Shakes presents strange brew of drama, comedy
0 Comments · Monday, May 6, 2013
Director Brian Isaac Phillips has set his production in the U.S. in the 1920s.
It’s a good match to Jacobean London and we
are given visual insight into the characters — from puritanical tyrants
in three-piece business suits to loose men in fur coats and lowlife
women as flappers.
Double Indemnity (Review)
Cincinnati Playhouse production is playful, thrilling
0 Comments · Friday, May 3, 2013
Tough guys. Dames. Desperation. Shadows. Cynical narration. Sexual motivation. The Cincinnati Playhouse’s production of Double Indemnity
has all the requisite elements of film noir.
Sister Act (Review)
Talent of touring cast provides a night of fun
0 Comments · Friday, May 3, 2013
Sister Act
is full of stereotypes and predictable humor, but its all done with
energy and polish, which makes it worth seeing.
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.
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.
A City That Sings
The Cincinnati Men's Chorus boasts a fun concert, serious chops and a GLBT-supportive mission
0 Comments · Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Take a chance on the Cincinnati Men’s Chorus this week — they’re presenting ExtrABBAganza,
a show devoted to the campy ’70s and early ’80s classics of Swedish Pop
group ABBA.
The Book Club Play (Review)
Dynamic, fast-paced comedy flips tables on character studies
0 Comments · Friday, March 29, 2013
The Book Club Play a comedy about five people with some personal
history who come together for monthly conversations about books, progresses — perhaps more accurately,
regresses — through a series of novels reflecting tastes, aspirations and
differences.
War Horse (Review)
Hand-crafted life-size puppets spin emotional tale with heart and soul
0 Comments · Thursday, March 28, 2013
In addition to the imaginative stage work, War Horse
features stage-wide projections, evocative music and more than 30 actors who play numerous
roles and quickly assemble simple but suggestive props and bits of
scenery.
A Midsummer's Night Dream (Review)
A dream of a comedy at Cincy Shakes
0 Comments · Monday, March 25, 2013
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
is a hilarious frolic through one of Shakespeare’s most beloved
creations. A quirky, energetic reimagining, this production features all
the familiar faces.
Black Pearl Sings! (Review)
Two-person cast shines with heart and soul
0 Comments · Wednesday, March 20, 2013
In a broiling Texas summertime smack in
the middle of the Great Depression, Susannah Mullally, a song collector
from the Library of Congress, is just about to give up her day’s search
when she hears a rich, expressive voice coming from somewhere down a
prison hallway.
The Trip to Bountiful (Review)
Playhouse debut is a deeply heartfelt story about home
0 Comments · Monday, March 18, 2013
Playwright
Horton Foote, who died in 2009 at the age of 92, is making a long overdue debut
at the Cincinnati Playhouse with The Trip
to Bountiful.
Threepenny Opera (Review)
CCM shines with historical tale of corruption, greed
0 Comments · Friday, March 1, 2013
This
CCM production is an engaging if sordid recreation of the creators’
intentions, a bravura performance that serves as a reminder of how
theater can provide sharp social commentary. Bravo to Guarino and her
student cast for this memorable production.
