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.
Billy Elliot The Musical (Review)
Coal-burning electricity fuels production at Aronoff
0 Comments · Thursday, January 19, 2012
You can’t go wrong
with this much expressive dancing, and the kids who perform it will
win your heart, from tiny Jeremy Zorer who gets the show started, to
Billy’s ebullient, cross-dressing friend Michael (Ben Cook). The
show evoked a rousing, and well-deserved response from the audience
on opening night.
Always ... Patsy Cline (Review)
Cincinnati Playhouse portrays a singer whose calling card was honesty
1 Comment · Monday, November 28, 2011
There’s a lot to like about the Cincinnati Playhouse’s non-holiday show for the holiday season.
It’s a revue that includes two dozen of Cline’s best-known songs, and
actress Carter Calvert perfectly captures the iconic Country singer’s
delivery and manner.
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White Christmas (Review)
Covedale holiday production is an entertaining eyeful
0 Comments · Friday, December 9, 2011
This backstage musical about good-hearted people
putting on a show to save a struggling Vermont ski lodge is perfect
for the Covedale’s mainstream audience, and the performance I
attended at the converted movie theater, a Sunday matinee, had every
one of its 400 seats filled with people loving what they were seeing.
Snow White (Review)
ETC production offers a different telling of a familiar story
0 Comments · Friday, December 2, 2011
Good and evil play tug-of-war throughout the story of Snow White,
Ensemble Theatre’s new holiday fairytale musical.
Abraham Lincoln’s Big, Gay Dance Party (Review)
Know production is passionately conceived but a little zany
0 Comments · Monday, November 28, 2011
Don’t go thinking this show has anything to do with the holidays, and
despite the fact that some fourth-graders light its political fuse when
their teacher replaces a holiday pageant with a script that references a
possible gay relationship involving the 16th president, this is not a
show for kids. Who is it for? I’m not really sure, although some at the
opening performance found it hilarious.
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In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play (Review)
CCM production at the Carnegie has a thrilling current
1 Comment · Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room, or the vibrator play,
now at Covington’s Carnegie Center in a production by the drama program
at UC’s College-Conservatory of Music, has a current running through
it. The production is warm, bright and slightly shocking.
Wicked (Review)
2 Comments · Friday, November 4, 2011
Stephen Schwartz’s Wizard of Oz-inspired
musical about the green witch has become a cultural icon for adolescent
girls who yearn for freedom and success. Thousands, with or without
their families, will flock downtown between now and Thanksgiving
weekend, and they won’t be disappointed.
National Conversation
Playhouse artistic director wants to be part of the dialogue
0 Comments · Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Last week the Cincinnati Playhouse in the
Park announced that Blake Robison, currently the producing artistic
director at the Round House Theatre in Bethesda, Md., will become its
next artistic director, succeeding Ed Stern, who retires after 20 years a
the end of the current season.
Trouble in Mind (Review)
NKU presents 1955 play that wrestled with racial stereotypes
0 Comments · Monday, October 31, 2011
Alice Childress
(1920-1994) didn’t get much recognition during her lifetime. She
won acclaim as an actress in the 1940s but was dissatisfied with
stereotyped roles, so she began writing plays. Trouble in Mind,
presented in 1955, made her the first woman to win an OBIE award, but
it never landed on to Broadway and was forgotten for years. Thanks to a prescient artistic decision, Northern Kentucky University
chose the show for this season.
