Where's the Subtext? The Mousetrap fails to entice (08-20-08)

Forecast: Clouded Transit Five time jumps with premiere by Jose Rivera (08-13-08)

All Attitude Cincinnati Shakespeare's Barefoot needs new shoes (07-30-08)

Vocal Pleasures NKU's Forever Plaid sounds great, but the story's lame (07-16-08)

No Lilt or Tilt Bedroom Farce isn't very farcical (06-18-08)

Trapped CSC gives Eugene O'Neill tragedy a luminous reading (05-07-08)

Even Paranoids Need Love New Stage's Bug is truly ugly and art at the same time (04-09-08)

Shattered Glass Classic American play has little lyricism, less tragedy (02-27-08)

Sweet Dream Near-lyrical Mary's Wedding propelled by an able cast (02-13-08)

Bhatt's Matt Vandit Bhatt's shines in Red Light Winter (02-13-08)

Into the Woods Cincy Shakes' Midsummer in midwinter is mad, merry fun (12-05-07)

Rime Over Reason NKU production lacks necessary urgency (12-05-07)

Spoofing Broadway Musical the Musical is a ton of fun (11-14-07)

Swimming with Satori Winners on Winning (10-24-07)

Stone Cold Stories Know Theatre's The Pillowman evokes strong reactions (10-24-07)

Bringing Back the Bard The Playhouse enthralls with a strong Othello (10-03-07)

Clark Is the Sun Actress offers an enthralling performance as one of Shakespeare's signature women (09-12-07)

Maximulist Adams Nixon In Cincinnati (07-11-07)

Smokin' The music is rich; the humor is silly (05-16-07)

Smokin' The music is rich; the humor is silly (05-09-07)

High Intellect, Low Fun CSC's 'Tempest' is as exuberant as it is focused (05-09-07)

Diverting Mysteries 'Sherlock Holmes' is like a musical minus the songs (05-02-07)

Likeable & Despicable Know Theatre's 'After Ashley' takes on the exploitation of pop media (04-25-07)

Murder by Numbers Humorous 'Murderers' a concept that never turns into an actual play (04-04-07)

Harold and Maude at Dayton's Human Race Theater Tom Jones' remake bares souls and celebrates life (03-14-07)

Peak Energy Know's multimedia 'Hamlet' is more than a gimmick (02-28-07)

Shakespeare Un-Spun Rarely staged Winter's Tale is offered as is -- and it works (02-14-07)

Ritual Drama Classical pieces are harrowing and exhilarating (01-17-07)

Inspector Inspected NKU's production of Gogol goes west (12-06-06)

Stringing Along ETC's Pearls offers 27 characters in 90 minutes (10-25-06)

Texas Chainsaw Macbeth Cincinnati Shakespeare's production is bloody ... and bloodless (10-25-06)

Stringing Along ETC's Pearls offers 27 characters in 90 minutes (10-18-06)

Parallel Pain In the Continuum is extraordinary theater (10-11-06)

Clear Stage, Cloudy Angst This Rebel could be more impactful (10-04-06)

Clear Stage, Cloudy Angst Clear Stage Cincinnati offers a Rebel without much impact (09-27-06)

Splendid Shakespeare As You Like It is downright likeable (09-13-06)

Splendid Shakespeare As You Like It is downright likeable (09-06-06)

Stuck in the Honey Ovation production smothers satirical Bees (07-26-06)

Live from New York Dinner Theater from (and for) a golden age at NKU (07-19-06)

Splendidly Sung A Masked Ball shines via its powerful singing performances (07-12-06)

Cold Rice Pudding NET's Blue Room is neither refreshing nor worrisome (07-12-06)

When Too Much Is Terrific Cincinnati Opera's Tosca travels familiar territory with enormous style (06-21-06)

Bearing Witness Playhouse presents an entertaining Agatha Christie mystery (05-10-06)

Bearing Witness Playhouse presents an entertaining Agatha Christie mystery (05-03-06)

Gone with Magnolias ETC presents a comedy about filmmaking that's funny from start to finish (03-15-06)

All Lit Up LARRY GROSS -- SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED (03-15-06)

Gone with the Magnolias ETC presents a comedy about filmmaking that's funny from start to finish (03-08-06)

Noble Romans Julius Caesar brings an accessible play to life (02-22-06)

Bad Guys Win Halcyon Days plot anticipates current events (02-15-06)

Bad Guys Win Halcyon Days plot anticipates current events (02-08-06)

Stamp Act Actresses play well together in Les Belles-Soeurs (02-08-06)

Stamp Act Actresses play well together in Les Belles-Soeurs (02-01-06)

Dive In Playhouse production cleans up on humor (02-01-06)

InterCityBeat: Indianapolis Three Clones, Four Sissies (01-25-06)

Dive In Playhouse production cleans up on humor The Messier, The Merrier (01-25-06)

A Trial in Purgatory Trying Judas proves to be merely trying (01-18-06)

A Trial in Purgatory Trying Judas proves to be merely trying (01-18-06)

Heat Lightning CSF's Private Lives is a soufflé that doesn't quite rise to the occasion (12-07-05)

Slapdash Travesty Great books, groaner comedy (11-30-05)

Slapdash Travesty Great books, groaner comedy (11-23-05)

Patented Pandemonium America sliced, diced and abridged at Playhouse (11-23-05)

Patented Pandemonium America is sliced, diced and abridged (11-16-05)

Astonishing & Valid Indy theater proves the power of I Am My Own Wife (11-09-05)

Scratching the Surface Playhouse's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof fails to dig in its claws (10-26-05)

Pissing Match ETC play examines the destructive force of racism (10-19-05)

IntercityBeat Splash at the Phoenix; Dreams at TOTS (09-21-05)

Cincinnati Opera's Rigoletto Creaky Costumed Concert (07-20-05)

Chestnut Well Roasted Cincinnati Opera's Bohème is fluid and lyrical (06-22-05)

Chestnut Well Roasted Cincinnati Opera's Bohème is fluid and lyrical (06-15-05)

Black and White ETC's Bowling is a comedy that takes topic seriously (04-27-05)

Black and White ETC's Bowling is a comedy that takes its topic seriously (04-20-05)

Manic-Expressive Know Theatre premieres a farce about love in today's complicated world (04-06-05)

Quintessential Survivor ETC gives prize-winning I Am My Own Wife an astonishing, exhilarating premiere (03-09-05)

Quintessential Survivor ETC gives prize-winning I Am My Own Wife an astonishing, exhilarating premiere (03-02-05)

Full-Tilt Wacko Ives' zany skits are hilariously staged by NET (02-23-05)

Finding Meaning Strong cast, fine script make ETC production a sight to behold (02-02-05)

Finding Meaning Strong cast, fine script make ETC production a sight to behold (01-26-05)

Shouts Without Echoes CSF's Henry V has plenty of intelligence but not enough complexity (01-12-05)

Cincinnati Ballet in top form with Carmen Danced version of opera classic offers fresh insights (11-10-04)

Deja Vu All Over Again Miller's Crucible is ferocious and relevant (10-27-04)

Deja Vu All Over Again Miller's Crucible is ferocious, relevant (10-20-04)

Spooky Stories ETC gives technical polish to a hodge-podge of tales (10-20-04)

If Ever a Wiz There Was Human Race's WAS wasn't much (10-20-04)

Spooky Stories ETC gives technical polish to a hodge-podge of tales (10-13-04)

InterCityBeat: Indy Fall Seasons Spring Open (10-06-04)

Politics and Art A Picasso offers great storytelling to explore expression and responsibility (10-06-04)

Demanding Oratorio Laramie Project production lacks precision and pacing (09-22-04)

Rocket Fuel CSF's Love's Labour's Lost is kick-ass funny (09-15-04)

Predatory Perversion New Edgecliff's Power Failure offers deep performances (09-15-04)

Rocket Fuel CSF's Love's Labour's Lost is kickass funny (09-08-04)

Predatory Perversion New Edgecliff's Power Failure offers deep performances (09-08-04)

No Spit, No Shine Malfitano's Carmen remains in thrall (07-21-04)

Muddy Atlantis, Manic Maids Cincinnati Opera presents double bill at Music Hall (06-23-04)

InterCityBeat: Indy Pulitzer Prize Gimmick (06-09-04)

Typing Lessons Know Theatre premieres new play by Kevin Barry (05-12-04)

'Roberts' Needs a Star Story ranges from tedium to apathy and back again (05-05-04)

Imagine That ETC successfully throws Stones into a frenzy (05-05-04)

Fussy & False The Yellow Boat founders (04-28-04)

InterCityBeat: Indianapolis Lively & Provocative (04-21-04)

Sound and Fury Playhouse debuts new play about violence and family ties (03-31-04)

Black Theatre Festival One-Womaning (03-31-04)

Political Deception Know Theatre's Lips won't get elected (03-24-04)

Sweet and Neat Byrd returns to Woodard's touching childhood stories (02-18-04)

Tangled Complexity Fugard play shows evils of apartheid and the dangers of impatience with change (02-04-04)

Fresh, Galvanizing Hamlet erupts at CSF (01-21-04)

Magnetic Grace Playhouse's re-creation of Patsy Cline is satisfying entertainment (11-19-03)

Tapestry of Life CMT's ambitious Ragtime gets mixed results (11-12-03)

New Faces in Dayton Likeable La Bohème (11-05-03)

Transition Is Life Mythic-themed play is an astonishing success (10-29-03)

Hot Off the Grill Dayton Spitfire (10-29-03)

Women's Writes Ovation Company starts new season (10-08-03)

InterCityBeat Theatre: Indianapolis Arcadian Devil Goat (10-08-03)

Confidentially ... ETC's Nite Club is naughty but nice (09-10-03)

Breakfast at Big Lots Know Goes Back To Its Roots (07-09-03)

The Play's a Protest, Too Protesters can't mar Know Theatre's exhilarating production of Corpus Christi (06-18-03)

Cats and Dogs Searing Lanford Wilson drama portrays an interracial couple coming apart at the seams (05-28-03)

Know Knows Youth Appreciating the charms of structured formlessness with This Is Our Youth (05-14-03)

Too Bad to Merit a Hello Play suffers from unlikely characters and questionable plots (04-30-03)

Tartuffe in Two Parts Low-end interpretation of pious zealot trips on shtick at CSF (04-30-03)

Manipulated Toward Tragedy ETC's world premiere of James and Annie is earnest and angst-ridden (03-19-03)

IntercityBeat: Surveying Theater in Indy Moby The Musical? Maybe. (03-12-03)

Taking Stock Three sisters reconnect in New Edgecliff production (03-12-03)

Pacific Fumblings Sondheim musical not up to usual Playhouse standards (03-12-03)

Bombers Once Removed Philosophy, politics at the center of Copenhagen (01-29-03)

Big Bad Beowulf Both the audience and the just are doomed (01-29-03)

Where There's Smoke, There's Fire One-woman show launches Know's 2003 season (01-22-03)

Ghosts of Christmas' Past It's all about nostalgia at shows in Middletown and Dayton (12-12-02)

Santa Clawed Holiday drollery from New Edgecliff Theatre (12-12-02)

Cooled-Up IF Theatre Collective's Lebensraum delivers what playwright Horovitz intended (11-21-02)

InterCityBeat Columbus theater offers sound, fury & heroics (10-31-02)

Dreams Die, Dreams Kill ETC paints a credible Credeaux (10-31-02)

Feverish and Fierce Shakespeare Festival hops a winner (10-31-02)

IntercityBeat: Surveying Theater in Indy Proof Positive (10-10-02)

Sinning Is Winning Dayton's Blonde captures showbiz surreality (09-26-02)

R&J in B&W CSF launches its new season with a smell of success (09-19-02)

New Tour Kicks Off In Dayton Saigon Butterfly (09-12-02)

Cathartic Theatre ETC's The Guys remembers 9/11 onstage (09-12-02)

Magical Recipe Crimes of the Heart celebrates eruptions of anger and merriment (07-18-02)

Bat Boy Sings In Indy Prepare To Be Bitten (06-27-02)

Closed Doors & Things Unsaid Chagrin Falls shines as curtain falls on CSF season (06-20-02)

Cheeky Dayton's Human Race Theatre offers the stuff musicals usually omit (06-20-02)

Bold Character Epic Alexander is an engaging evening of theater (05-30-02)

Near Miss Playhouse Blonde plumbs the impact and persona of a star (05-23-02)

Send Up The Clowns An Aaron Sorkin one-act highlights Ovation's night of satire (05-16-02)

Hogtied Despite a few weaknesses, Cowgirls will please audiences at ETC (05-09-02)

Naked & Flamboyant Ten women invented by Joyce Carol Oates inhabit The Artery (05-09-02)

Mixed Medea Stage First's female rendition of tragedy needs more strength (03-28-02)

Twisted Christie Ten Little Indians at the Playhouse never comes to life (03-14-02)

Violent and Bleak NET's Slave Shack sees slavery issues in corporate America (02-28-02)

Heal, Forgive, Deny, Blame Playhouse's Men take sustenance (02-21-02)

Bloody-Minded Mixture Know Theatre goes gothic with a trio of one-acts (02-14-02)

Broken Dreams The Playhouse offers some sweet, sad Blues (01-24-02)

Same Events, Altered Perspective Rose leaps forward in Marley's Carol at CSF (12-06-01)

Being Earnest Shakespeare Festival and Children's Theatre drag classic play to the Taft (11-08-01)

Cherry Blossoms Stage First prunes a play worthy of Chekhov's liking (11-08-01)

Stage Mother Pamela Myers brings fabled, ambitious character to memorable life (10-25-01)

Stage Mother Pamela Myers brings fabled, ambitious character to memorable life (10-18-01)

Rock Steady Strong performances make God's Man in Texas a blessing (10-04-01)

Deceivers Deceived Stage First makes a soufflé of Imaginary Invalid (09-20-01)

Ingratitude Too Huge A "terror of a script," Lear is too much for the Playhouse (09-13-01)

Heavenly Entertainment Sanders Family Singers are back for more (07-12-01)

Hearty and Hardy CSF offers a lean, clean, jolly production of Henry IV (05-10-01)

Story, Sermon, Song Plot, commitment and Gospel numbers conflict in Dayton production (04-26-01)

There Is Some Joy In Middletown Mighty Casey hits a double at Sorg Opera (04-26-01)

Literary & Low Playhouse's Irma Vep takes loving swipes in many directions (04-19-01)

The Executioner's Song CSF's premiere of Lovers well-executed (04-05-01)

White Out Art is all about the intimate warfare called friendship. (03-29-01)

Over-thought, Under-lit Long, mangled Merchant has too few good moments (03-01-01)

Going Back, Going Forward Lost happiness is at the core of Dayton production (02-15-01)

Web Feature: Going Back, Going Forward Lost happiness is at the core of Dayton production (02-08-01)

Three Days of Delight And it really, really rains at ETC (01-25-01)

More Manipulated Than Maniacal A Macbeth with contemporary touches needs to be seen (01-11-01)

Duplicity and Deceptions Pinter's trademarked silences intensified at CSF (11-30-00)

More Surface than Substance Middletown's Private Lives needs more snap to live up to its comic heritage (11-22-00)

Stronglady CMT's tango-haunted Evita sizzles (11-16-00)

Birds Do It Ducks fit the bill in musical filled with wise quacks (10-26-00)

Wife-Styles ETC re-creates a Victorian scandal in The Countess (10-26-00)

A Little Weary Collection of Irish ghost stories a departure for CSF (10-19-00)

Whining and Pining Simon Death do us part not soon enough for Proposals (10-12-00)

Fresh-Eyed Shakespeare's R&J is Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (10-05-00)

Body and Soul Leight's new play at ETC explores art and self-absorption (09-21-00)

Body and Soul Leight's new play at ETC explores art and self-absorption (09-21-00)

Sound and Fury, Signifying Something CSF stages a bold, bloody, ritualized 'Coriolanus' (06-01-00)

For Your Ears Only ETC's 'Private Eyes' twists perspectives and reminds us that theater is about emotions and ideas (05-11-00)

A Hard Choice Stage First's 'Lysistrata' piles on the cheerful vulgarities (05-04-00)

Milk Spilt, Lives Spoilt Searing 'Dead Eye Boy' a confrontational and provocative new work at the Playhouse (03-30-00)

Mother McMaggot Irish tale of dysfunctionality ensnares and genuinely enthralls (03-09-00)

The Sound of Silence Dale Hodges is stunning in Playhouse's regional premiere of award-winning 'Wit' (02-17-00)

Missed Boats 'Ballyhoo' is sweetly comedic and genuinely dramatic, but something isn't working (01-27-00)

'Wicked Songs' Worthy of Note (09-23-99)

'Ado' Delivers Much Delight Playhouse 'shakes' it up with a fresh approach to a classic (09-16-99)

Where's The Scar? 'Violet,' ETC's musical drama, needs more wallop (05-13-99)

A Long, Long Sit CSF's 'Richard III' has inventive ideas, but not quite enough of them (04-22-99)

To Be Young, Catholic and Curious 'Over the Tavern' provokes laughter and uncomfortable questions (03-18-99)

A Disturbing, Riveting 'Drive' Playhouse offers utterly flawless journey between right and wrong (02-25-99)

A Midwinter Delight Shakespeare festival tells a very funny story (02-18-99)

'Thunder' Knocks, Playhouse Rocks Show is a hand-clapping, knee-slapping, finger-snapping delight (01-28-99)

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