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
Mrs. Mannerly (Review)
Irrevent humor anchors ETC's Dale Hodges as straight-laced etiquette teacher
0 Comments · Friday, October 12, 2012
Silverware
— and napkin folding and thank-you-card writing — are
major topics of conversations in Jeffrey Hatcher’s semi-autobiographical
Mrs. Mannerly, but the play is
never dull or dry. Who knew place
settings could be so entertaining?
Bill Burr: Completely Satisfied
1 Comment · Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Bill Burr is undoubtedly a comedian’s
comedian, that rare comic who other stand-ups will go out of their way
to see. However, Burr also has a sizeable and loyal fanbase that
relishes in his observations on everything from Hitler to fast food.
Through the Night (Review)
Daniel Beaty stands inside six different men and brings them to life
0 Comments · Monday, October 1, 2012
Daniel Beaty’s one-man-show, Through the Night,
now on the Shelterhouse stage at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park,
is an electrifying theatrical examination of fatherhood, family and
faith.
The Music Man (Review)
Showboat production is a celebration of America
0 Comments · Saturday, September 15, 2012
My historic experience with The Music Man makes me a serious judge of whether a production of this iconic show succeeds. As a one-time mayor of River City, I pronounce this one a success.
To Kill a Mockingbird (Review)
Hope springs eternal in CSC staging of Harper Lee's evergreen tale
0 Comments · Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Mockingbird
is about the importance of tolerance and understanding, something not
achieved in these circumstances but that seems possible eventually.
Those sparks of hope have made this a meaningful tale for a
half-century, and CSC has brought the story to life.
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Review)
Covedale stages Tennessee Williams' challenging portrait of a family's corruption
0 Comments · Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Tennessee Williams was a brilliant American playwright, but his works are not easy going for people seeking pleasant
entertainment. Cat is not an
easy piece of theater: There’s not a likable character in this tale of a
greedy, selfish family.
From Senate Staffers to ‘Steps’ Satirists
0 Comments · Wednesday, September 12, 2012
The Capitol Steps are on their way to
Cincinnati, and they’ll stop at nothing to get audience members laughing
as this grueling election year surges forward. The Steps are a group of Capitol Hill
staffers turned political satirists, and no party is safe from ridicule
when these performers take the stage.
The Three Musketeers (Review)
Playhouse production has lots of laughs but could use more heart
0 Comments · Friday, September 7, 2012
Artistic
Director Blake Robison's first production is jam-packed with rousing non-stop action, hearty laughs and big
storytelling as well as beautiful scenic and costume elements.
Good People (Review)
Class polarities fuel ETC's meaningful character synergy
0 Comments · Thursday, September 6, 2012
The interplay between characters in Good People
is full of believable truth, and ETC director D. Lynn Meyers excels in
staging such material. It’s a total package that feels good
and real from start to finish.
Fall Fringe
Know Theatre brings back award winning shows from 2012 Fringe
1 Comment · Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Perhaps you overslept back in June and
missed the 2012 Cincinnati Fringe Festival. You now have a chance to make up for it or to satisfy a fall craving for
Fringe performances, thanks to the festival’s presenter, Know Theatre
of Cincinnati.
Rounding Third (Review)
Odd couple concept pleasant and predictable
0 Comments · Wednesday, August 22, 2012
The title of Richard Dresser’s 2002 play, Rounding Third, the current production on board the Showboat Majestic, is a pretty obvious clue that this is a show about baseball.
Xanadu (Review)
Old cult favorite's strange magic charms audiences at the Carnegie
0 Comments · Monday, August 13, 2012
Summers
in Cincinnati tend to have theater in short supply. Thanks to the
Carnegie Center in Covington, there’s a bounty of fizzy fun in the form
of the very tongue-in-cheek musical Xanadu, staged by Alan Patrick Kenny.
Never Been Mellow
Alan Kenny stops by to stage 'Xanadu' on his way to a promising theater career
0 Comments · Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Cincinnati native Alan Kenny, fresh
from graduate studies and a nearly completed master’s degree from UCLA,
is back in town to stage the campy musical Xanadu at Covington’s
Carnegie Center. It opens on Saturday for an eight-performance run,
through Aug. 26.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Review)
CSC's adept cast has a ball
0 Comments · Sunday, July 29, 2012
The process of translating clichés into high humor is a
delicate one. Luckily for Cincinnati
Shakespeare Company, the able three actors assembled for a very
tongue-in-cheek retelling of the Sherlock Holmes tale The Hound of the Baskervilles know their way around slapstick and shtick.
Cincinnati Opera's Embodiment of Tango
0 Comments · Wednesday, July 25, 2012
A hybrid of opera, music theater and
performance piece, the surreal storyline follows Maria from birth to her
arrival in Buenos Aires, where tango seduces her and leads to a life of
prostitution. She is murdered and resurrected, becoming the embodiment
of tango.
