Storms are brewing all over Cincinnati this weekend. No, this isn’t a weather report. It’s a heads-up that one Cincinnati Shakespeare Company will be staging The Tempest in parks in Ohio and Kentu  

If it weren't for the Carnegie's production of Xanadu, there wouldn't much to point you for theater choices in mid-August. I'm happy to report that the judges from the League of Cincinnati Theatres and I  are in agreement that this frothy piece of roller-disco and Greek mythology is a great piece of silly entertainment. (Review   

If you spent some of last spring watching the TV series Smash, you learned that Broadway producers look for talent whose names attract audiences. The commercial concerns of Broadway producers are surely a big factor in their decision-making, especially how much magnetism a star can bring. This led me to speculate whether we have bankable stars in Cincinnati.  

 Although there’s typically nothing to write about theatrically speaking this time of year, I’m writing to tell you that Nothing is something worth seeing. I’m talking about a multimedia pl  

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.  

The theater scene is still in vacation mode this weekend, so there are only a few choices. Your best sure bet is the final weekend of The Hound of the Baskervilles at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company through Sunday. [REVIEW LINK]I suspect if you're a Sherlock Holmes fan with a sense of humor, you'll love this production: It does follow the plot of Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle's ace dete...  

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.
  

 If you’re a Cincinnati Fringe aficionado, you probably don’t need to be reminded that The Bengsons, a husband-and-wife duo of Abigail and Shaun, are a wild-and-wooly pair of vaudevillian ind  

Light entertainment is what most of us are looking for onstage during August, and Cincinnati Shakespeare Company has just the answer: The Hound of the Baskervilles. The amusing script takes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's class Sherlock Holmes tale and turns it into a silly romp around the moor. CSC's cast of three veteran performers — Nick Rose, Jeremy Dubin and Brent Vimtrup — ha...  

Rather than focus on one venue, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company delivers its Shakespeare in the Park Tour to more than a dozen parks and outdoor venues throughout the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky area. The first of CSC’s touring performances will be on Saturday with the 7 p.m. opening of The Tempest at Seasongood Pavilion in Eden Park.