Well, that old spellbinder Ed Stern has worked his magic at the Cincinnati Playhouse again. On opening night more than 200 people watched the 80-minute second act of Othello in pin-drop silence, i  

Had Hayley Clark been the player in the Lord Chamberlain's company circa 1594, when Shakespeare was writing his first great romantic tragedy -- and had she first illuminated the play's leading f  

As directed by Cincinnati Opera first-timer Kevin Newbury and conducted by Kristjan Jarvi, also first-timing at Music Hall, John Adams' Nixon in China (1987) emerges almost as much a theater pie  

A great many theatrical miracles combine to make Cincinnati Opera’s Cosi Fan Tutte the exhilarating, near stunning success that it is. Any production so sure of itself that it makes a 91-min  

Back in 1991, when director Alan Bailey and writer Connie Ray's original Smoke on the Mountain (SOTM) was new, The Raleigh News-Observer in North Carolina remarked how it "celebrates a lost age of in  

Back in 1991 when director Alan Bailey and writer Connie Ray's original Smoke on the Mountain (SOTM) was new, The Raleigh News-Observer in North Carolina remarked how it "celebrates a lost age of in  

When screenwriter Colin Higgins's movie, Harold and Maude (Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon), opened in 1972, Vincent Canby panned it in The New York Times and the showbiz trade paper, Variety, said it had  

For perhaps half of its 90 intermission-less minutes Michelle Lowe's String of Pearls is as discerning and as lively as the sleek, chic regional premiere production it was given by director D. Lynn