The best theatrical entertainment onstage this weekend is The Foreigner, presented by the Commonwealth Theatre Company at Northern Kentucky University. I saw it a week ago (review here) and it’s a winner — a very funny play with a marvelously inventive performance by Roderick Justice in the title role. He plays a painfully shy man who tries to avoid social contact by posing as someone who doesn’t speak English, even though he’s quite literate. The concept doesn’t quite work out as planned when his “cover” means that people have all kinds of revealing conversations around him. The plot is hilarious, but it’s Justice’s performance that makes it run like clockwork. It’s part of a dinner theater package — dinner at 6:30 most nights, show at 8:00 p.m. Tickets:
859-572-5464.
There’s not a lot of theater right now, but if you’re looking for great onstage entertainment right now, the World Choir Games have plenty to offer. I’ve been blogging about it for the past week, and you can read more here. Events and performances through Saturday evening.
www.2012worldchoirgames.com.
This article appears in Jul 11-17, 2012.
