'Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End' opened Thursday at the Cincinnati Playhouse, and the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra is presenting 'The Battle of Broadway,' featuring songs by Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber, Saturday at Greaves Concert Hall.
Ken Ludwig's 2015 script 'Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery' translates 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' into something new and entertaining while faithfully rendering the story of Holmes and his devoted companion Dr. Watson.
The Playhouse's very impressionistic rendering of Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel is a riveting, heady production, but one you'll enjoy more if you're familiar with the narrative.
Artistic Director Blake Robison calls it a 'big season' that is committed to multicultural and multigenerational shows as well as new works, many of which are by female playwrights.
Shows this weekend include 'Summerland' at the Cincinnati Playhouse, a world-premiere mystery about 1860s photographer William H. Mumler and the images he captured of living people with ghostly spirits nearby.
'Disgraced' continues at the Cincinnati Playhouse; 'They Were You' gets its world premiere by CCM's musical theater program; 'Pulp' opens at Know Theatre; and trueTheatre kicks off its seventh season.
Based on John Irving's 1989 novel 'A Prayer for Owen Meany,' the play depicts a friendship between two boys that profoundly changed the story's narrator, making him a believer when he wasn't one before.
Husbands, wives and children are key elements in two provocative productions currently on Cincinnati stages, as are unexpected visits and the resulting confrontations.
A job at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the 1980s laid the foundation for an impressive theatrical career, directing plays and casting movies. In 1995, Ensemble Theatre turned to her at a dark moment when it seemed to be on the brink of closing.