Archives from 2010

You could point out to fans of 'A Christmas Story' that cherished holiday films almost never work onstage. You might also tell a kid who dreams of owning a Red Ryder carbine-action, 200-shot Range Model air rifle that he’ll shoot his eye out. Some warnin

Iconic TV holiday movie in good hands on Covedale's stage

ETC offers a smart holiday production

Tags: Theater, Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, Annie Fitzpatrick

This gleeful hour of stage calamities, conceived by Minneapolis-based partners Ryan Lear and Rachel Petrie, was the breakout hit of the 2010 Cincy Fringe Festival. Cleverly constructed, sharply written and hilariously performed, it's a simultaneous celeb

Brains trump beauty in 'Cinderella,' now playing at Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, where every December another familiar fairy tale gets a fun musical makeover. This year's installment features a philosophy-loving heroine (exceptional homegrown talent B

Cincinnati Music Theatre show has esprit de corps

Tags: Theater, Cincinnati Music Theatre

Team spirit — that's what Professor Harold Hill is really selling to the people of River City, Iowa. Not a Sousa march or a "think system" or moral uplift for the town's pool-hall-imperiled youth. And 'The Music Man,' now at the Aronoff's Jarson-Kaplan T

Abraham Van Helsing insists all men are madmen. This theory might help explain why, as hard as he works to kill Count Dracula — garlic, crucifixes, the nasty business of turning the Nosferatu torso into a Transylvanian shish kabob — theatre artists work

Cincy Shakespeare offers a production you can count on

Tags: Theater, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company

Somewhere in playwright Theresa Rebeck's past there must have been screwed-up theater colleagues, or maybe the professional disasters and personal heartbreaks captured so hilariously and affectingly in 'The Understudy' are simply the products of her rich

Comedy about theater world packs the Shelterhouse with love and hate

Tags: Theater, Theresa Rebeck, Cincinnati Playhouse, Michael Evan Haney

There are unlikely pairings in Cincinnati Shakespeare's 1960s-flavored 'Much Ado About Nothing.' Chief among them is the romance between Beatrice and Benedick, competing wits whose friends trick them into realizing they're perfect for each other. That ma

More than love is needed in Cincy Shakes' season-opener

Tags: Theater, Bruce Cromer

Hanging somewhere in the theatrical ether, ripe as a preteen suicide in a colonial barn loft, is a hysterical musical parody of the Salem witch trials. This be not it.

Tags: News Feature, Cincy Fringe Festival

This gleeful hour of stage calamities conceived by Minneapolis-based partners Ryan Lear and Rachel Petrie could become the breakout hit of the 2010 Cincy Fringe. Cleverly constructed, sharply written and hilariously performed, it's a simultaneous celebra

Tags: News Feature, Cincy Fringe Festival

A pack of gum, a can of grapefruit juice, a pair of baby booties hand-knitted by Granny — these are the modest spoils of Jimmy Hogg's one-man performance, one of four Cincy Fringe solo shows assigned to the small platform stage at Media Bridges. The unas

Tags: News Feature, Cincy Fringe Festival

Below Zero: June 5, 6 and 8

Media Bridges: June 2, 4, 5, 7 and 8

Know Theatre: June 3, 5, 7, 11 and 12

Media Bridges: June 4, 6, 8, 11 and 12