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Sense & Sensibility (Review)

Reason and romance are the foundation of Cincy Shakes production

Comments 0 · Feb 20, 2012 09:00 am

The popularity of Jane Austen continues unabated. A sparkling adaptation of Pride & Prejudice was an audience favorite a year ago for Cincinnati Shakespeare, and another Jon Jory adaptation of the 19th-century author’s stylish novels of romance and domestic intrigue, Sense & Sensibility, is likely to repeat that box-office bonanza. ...

Collapse (Review)

Know Theatre production has heart and humor

Comments 1 · Feb 6, 2012 08:27 am

Allison Moore’s new play is quite literally a play for our anxious times. Its four characters are each driven by some form of anxiety unlikely in previous generations. Moore has tapped into the contemporary zeitgeist to write a story that, while full of zany, improbably humor, nevertheless hits a sensitive nerve that you’re likely to recognize and perhaps feel. ...

Speaking in Tongues (Review)

Cincinnati Playhouse production challenges viewers with complex narrative

Comments 0 · Feb 14, 2012 02:06 pm

Speaking in Tongues is a fascinating piece of theater. But it takes work to watch, follow and absorb. Casual theatergoers might be put off, but those who like challenging drama and multi-layered acting will leave the theater with their gears still spinning.
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Here's What Facebook Censors

Comments 0 · Feb 22, 2012 04:26 pm

Never piss off the proletariat.Upset about his low pay and dismal working conditions, a worker at one of Facebook’s Third World contractors has leaked the social media site’s ultra-secret document about what type of content it censors.Amine Derkaoui, a 21-year-old Moroccan man, worked for...

Your Wednesday To Do List

Arianna Huffington, Uta Barth in town

Comments 0 · Feb 22, 2012 02:20 pm

Arianna Huffington is speaking as a part of SmartTalk ConnectedConversations tonight at the Aronoff Center. The media queen will discuss how she became "fearless in love, work and life" (a phrase taken from the title of her 2007 bestseller). Huffington has made her mark as an author of 13 books,...

Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill Now Open

Banks restaurant/concert space offers live music, Whiskey Girls, touch of xenophobia

Comments 1 · Feb 22, 2012 01:32 pm

Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill this week became The Banks’ newest tenant, opening its red, white and blue doors and offering “family friendly” lunch and dinner, ongoing live performances and a guitar-shaped bar where patrons can drink beer out of Mason jars. The official...

 

Jim Williams’ Landscapes Suggest a State in Flux

Comments 0 · Feb 14, 2012 03:00 pm

Printmaker Jim Williams sets himself strict limitations of size and color range but proceeds to produce a diverse, intellectually stimulating group of mono-prints for his current Clay Street Press exhibition. His artist’s statement describes the new work in Hybrid Structures as his “search for a visual equivalent to the daily dynamic interplay that occurs between the man-made and the natural environment.” ...

Connections and Disruptions

Comments 0 · Feb 14, 2012 03:10 pm

When I read Andrew Bovell’s play Speaking in Tongues, the current Shelterhouse production at the Cincinnati Playhouse (through March 4), I have to admit I was mystified as to what it would become on the stage. ...

Daydream Nation

Comments 0 · Feb 14, 2012 03:33 pm

Dan Chaon grew up in rural Nebraska. Lonely and bored, he took refuge in his uncommonly active imagination. “It was one of those small elevator towns where there were like 15 people who lived there, and I was the only kid even close to my age,” Chaon says by phone from his current home in Cleveland. ...

Collage Degrees

The Taft’s current Romare Bearden exhibit is a multi-dimensional revelation

Comments 0 · Feb 21, 2012 03:07 pm

Having recently seen a retrospective of Romare Bearden’s artwork at Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, N.C., his hometown, I wasn’t expecting the Taft Museum’s current and smaller Impressions and Improvisations: The Prints of Romare Bearden to be as impressive as it is. ...

A Great American Sculptor’s Show Visits Columbus

Comments 0 · Feb 21, 2012 03:14 pm

Columbus’ Wexner Center for the Arts makes a bold statement in its current retrospective of David Smith’s work: He’s the greatest American sculptor of the 20th century. If Smith, who died in an auto accident in 1965 at age 59, is ahead of Alexander Calder, Isamu Noguchi or Richard Serra, I’m not sure the general public knows it. ...

Cincinnati Ballet Production Makes High Art More Human

Comments 0 · Feb 8, 2012 09:28 am

At heart, Carmen is a sensual story of passion. Putting a daring new spin on one of the best-known and beloved stories of opera repertoire sounds like a tall order. But internationally renowned choreographer Amedeo Amodio is perfectly suited to create a contemporary-infused dance version. ...

 
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