It’s surprising that one of the most frequently produced and honored playwrights of the 20th century hasn’t previously had one of his works staged at our award-winning regional theater, but it’s almost worth the wait given the current staging of Neil Simon’s 1983 Tony Award winner, Brighton Beach Memoirs.   

The folks who run Cincinnati Landmark Productions know their audience: This is the kind of warm-hearted, old-fashioned show that appeals to their subscribers. But I Do! I Do! has really become a history lesson more than a romantic voyage.
  

My first and foremost recommendation for the weekend is  Blue Man Group. (Review here.)  It's a performance experience unlike much of anything else you've probably ever experienced in a theater — raucous music, zany humor, eye-popping technology and infectious...  

 Drawing comparisons is a futile way to describe Blue Man Group. It’s a unique form of entertainment that includes music, electronica, childish gross-outs and silliness that owes a lot to the physicality Three Stooges and the silent slapstick of Harpo Marx.   

 When most people get the blues, they end up feeling glum. I predict that everyone who gets the blues this week or next — in the form of the Blue Man Group — will leave the Aronoff Center in   

You have no excuse for complaining that there's not enough theater in the days ahead. In fact, you'll have a hard time fitting it all in.

Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati's regional premiere of Mrs. Mannerly opened a few days ago: It's a comedy about growing up in small-town Ohio under the watchful (perhaps oppressive) eye of a strict etiquette teacher. Jeffrey Hatcher's pla...  

More often than not, I try to introduce CityBeat readers to new plays and writers. We see quite a few such shows locally thanks to Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati (ETC), the Cincinnati Playhouse and Know Theatre. In fact, looking at American Theatre’s list of 2012-2013’s “Top 10” most-produced plays, six have already been presented locally.  

A stern teacher of etiquette knows the rules of proper behavior, and she keeps her students in line. But young Jeffrey (who seems to be closely related to playwright Jeffrey Hatcher) has a few ideas o  

Your best bet for theater this weekend, based on several enthusiastic recommendations, seems to be Daniel Beaty's one-man performance at the Cincinnati Playhouse in Through the Night. Harper Lee gave it a Critic's Pick in her CityBeat review this week, and the ...  

Daniel Beaty grew up in Dayton, Ohio, and he thinks of himself as a child of the Midwest. But his scope as a theater artist — trained at Yale University and the American Conservatory Theatre — is