The 2007 CINCINNATI FRINGE wrapped up its fourth festival on June 9 with a big party at Know Theatre. The late-evening series at Know's "Underground" bar capped off a run of big crowds with mo  

Don't lose sight of the fact that there's theater going on in places other than the Fringe Festival, even though that's where most of our focus has been for the past two weeks. If you like mor  

Cincinnati has extra reason to look forward to the American Theatre Wing's 61st annual Antoinette Perry Awards, otherwise known as the Tonys. This year's awards happen on Sunday evening, June 1  

It's easy to dismiss "jukebox musicals" (such as All Shook Up, which littered the Aronoff stage in March with tepid renditions of Elvis tunes), but the principal reason they've been popular a  

Tony Award nominations were announced on May 15, and the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's COMPANY, which originated at the Cincinnati Playhouse, picked up three -- best revival, best direc  

Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative (CPI) gives aspiring writers the chance to have their plays read in a public forum, usually once a month in the Aronoff Center's Fifth Third Bank Theater. They  

It's a busy week of openings -- NEW STAGE COLLECTIVE debuts in its new space on Main Street with Edward Albee's The Goat, ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI (ETC) offers the final production of its  

Every two years we get to see a set of new plays at Northern Kentucky University's Y.E.S. Festival. Check out the mini-reviews below and go to citybeat.com for the full commentaries by CityBeat  

Shuffling and reorganizing staff is on the agenda at NEW EDGECLIFF THEATRE (NET), where DEVON CAMPAILLA has become associate producer. She's appeared onstage in several NET productions (and with  

In the good news/bad news department: Once again Lynn Meyers' good judgment in picking plays with a future for her audiences at Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati has been affirmed. Michael Hollinge  

If you like Cincinnati Shakespeare Company's production of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard (I did; check out my review on page 44), you might be interested to know that its director, BRIAN I  

When I moved to Cincinnati in March 1980, the very first theatrical production I saw the week I arrived was Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. The great   

Best-selling novels aren't necessarily the most predictable sources for good stage plays. But Mitch Albom's TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE, which spent four years on The New York Times' list and became   

New Edgecliff Theatre (NET) stages its own version of March Madness this week with its first-time CINCINNATI DIRECTORS COMPETITION. Three different plays will be staged at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday,   

Check the CityBeat blog on Saturday for a first glance at the list of 30 productions that will have 150 performances onstage during the 2007 CINCINNATI FRINGE FESTIVAL (May 30-June 9). The Fringe