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THURSDAY 2/21
ONSTAGE: THE GOOD PERSON OF SETZUAN and THE TAMING OF THE SHREW It’s not hard to find good theater around Cincinnati these days, but don’t overlook productions on university campuses, where you’ll often find classic works that deserve your attention. This week you have several choices. At UC’s College-Conservatory of Music Thursday-Saturday, director and professor Michael Burnham (a 2003 inducte into the CEA Hall of Fame) is staging Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Person of Setzuan (1943), which explores the challenge of being a good person in a morally ambiguous world. It’s about a generous prostitute who finds she can’t be both charitable and successful as a capitalist; she adopts an alter ego of a ruthless man then can’t escape his bad behavior. Men and women face another set of challenges onstage at Northern Kentucky University, which Thursday opens its production of Shakespeare’s raucous The Taming of the Shrew, directed by professor Mark Hardy. This original battle of the sexes is about how men and women seek to manipulate and dominate one another, all in the name of love. Both plays have been tested by time — and entertained generations of audiences. CCM tickets are free but need to be reserved in advance; check out performance times and find nearby bars and restaurants here. NKU tickets are $10; check out performance times and find nearby bars and restaurants here. — Rick Pender
ONSTAGE: TAKE ME OUT, Richard Greenberg’s tale of a baseball player who reveals to his teammates that he’s gay, continues at New Stage collective.
See review here.
MUSIC: JASON RICCI AND NEW BLOOD drop some adventurous Blues at The Silverton Caf
This article appears in Feb 20-26, 2008.
