Onstage: Two Helpings of Shakespeare
What a great way to kick off the theater season: It's only September, and we already have not one but two Shakespearean comedies for your viewing pleasure. Cincinnati Outdoor Classics offers 'Love's Labour's Lost' at Seasongood Pavilion in Eden Park, while Cincinnati Shakespeare Company opens its 2010-11 season with 'Much Ado About Nothing.'
Comedy: Tom Rhodes
If you're a familiar with Dutch television, you might know American comedian Tom Rhodes as the host of his own late night talk show. For five years he hosted a chat show in the Netherlands and is still widely recognized there. He's back touring the U.S., and he performs Thursday-Sunday at Go Bananas in Montgomery.
Art: Creatures Great & Small at Miami Art Museum
Miami University Art Museum has a new curator and a new show. The show, which has an opening reception 5-7 p.m. Thursday and is up through Dec. 10, is called 'Creatures Great & Small' and comprises three exhibitions: 'Animal Tales: Storybooks for Children;' 'Great Creatures' and 'Small Creatures.' All are about the role of animals in art. Storybooks features animals in such children's books as 'Winnie-the-Pooh' and 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.'
Art: Lost and Found: The Art of Collage
It's that time of year when art schools are entering their fall terms, and I can only hope that crisp autumnal weather is to follow. Kicking off Northern Kentucky University's season of exhibitions is 'Lost and Found: The Art of Collage,' curated by NKU alumn Randel Plowman. An artist in his own right, Plowman is no stranger to collage as a creative means.
Art: Touch at Kennedy Heights Arts Center
Reversing the usual order of things, Kennedy Heights Arts Center encourages visitors to get the feel of Brenda Tarbell's ceramics in the exhibition 'Touch,' on view through Sept. 25. "There's a Braille to my sculpture," she says. "It is meant to be explored tactilly. It is meant to be touched." Other works in the show, not necessarily touchable but influenced by organic forms and textures, are presented by Claire Darley, Rebecca Nebert, Lisa Wilson and Rebecca Nava.

























