In a summer season that's pretty sparse on theater, Broadway in Cincinnati is offering a major shot of glam starting on June 8 when 'Dreamgirls' sashays into town. Maybe you saw the big-screen version in 2006 (Jennifer Hudson won an Academy Award as big-voiced Effie White), but the show actually got its start on Broadway in 1981.  

The landscape of Cincinnati theater has changed since a year ago. As the season starts this week, New Stage Collective is gone and the leaders of Know Theatre of Cincinnati have left, it's Playhouse in the Park's 50th anniversary, ETC has a fresh line-up and Cincinnati Shakespeare Company continues to stage excellent classic material.