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In a program statement e.E. Charlton-Trujillo, the director of local poet Rhonda Pettit's 'The Global Lovers,' has written: "I wanted to create a visually compelling, sensory bombastic performance that didn't pull punches." My ever reliable Webster's Dic

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During most of the swift, sweet hour that 'Blue Collar Diaries' fills, playwright-performer Michelle Myers Berg beckons to us to step inside her memory and look around. She invites us to study and regard verbal snapshots of a dozen or so people who loome

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Artemis Exchange offers a perfectly wonderful evening of a totally different sort here. It's deeply philosophic and not nearly as scatterbrained as it would like you to think. It's more deep-delving than over-reaching. And it's seriously funny — with lau

Tags: News Feature, Chris Wesselman, Cincy Fringe Festival

Playwright Roger Collins takes a hard though hardly realistic look at Iraq war vets who come home to homelessness, social invisibility and civic neglect. At times it's realistically grounded, but more often it's fanciful and elliptical, sometimes even an

Tags: News Feature, Cincy Fringe Festival, Kevin Crowley

Media Bridges: June 2, 6, 9 and 11

Media Bridges: June 3, 5, 7, 9 and 12

Duveneck 3: June 4, 5, 9, 11 and 12

Know Theatre: June 2, 5, 6, 8 and 12

Playhouse 'misbehaves' with too much motion and too little music

Tags: Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse

Know Theatre offers a daylong immersion in 'Angels in America'

Tags: Theater, Know Theatre of Cincinnati, Eric Vosmeier, Angels in America, Jason Bruffy

Oscar Wilde’s 'An Ideal Husband' is the crowning pleasure of Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s 2009-10 season. Everything works. What, it ponders, makes for an ideal marriage partner? Is he or she some bepedastaled paragon of relentless virtue? Or is the

As you enter the Columbia Performance Center, you’re handed a program describing 'Reservoir Dogs: The Musical.' What? Actors swarm the stage, warming up, dancing, practicing swordplay, moving set pieces — all of it as boring as watching somebody paint a

Cincy Shakespeare's Wilde production is about something worth discussing

Tags: Theater, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Kelly Mengelkoch

Despite the poetry, New Edgecliff production wastes serious potential

Tags: Theater, New Edgecliff Theater

Anti-war drama at The Carnegie a little too pompous

Tags: Theater, College-Conservatory of Music

Under Professor Sandra Forman's zesty direction, the student actors turn the first hour of this 2002 script by Theresa Rebeck and Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros into rattling good spit-and-spirit theater. It's just post-9/11, and seven glitterati (some lam

NKU students offer mostly rattling good spit-and-spirit theater

Tags: Theater, Northern Kentucky University

Playhouse musical is expressive, impressive world premiere

Tags: Theater, Playhouse in the Park, Cincinnati Playhouse, Ed Stern

Cincinnati Shakespeare classic could use a bit Moor

Tags: Theater, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Kelly Mengelkoch

NKU production upstages itself with razzle-dazzle

Tags: Theater, Northern Kentucky University