Sometimes the political scene offers the best in human drama, so it's only appropriate that an organization with theater at its core should be offering political commentary. The new CINCINNATI EXPERI  

The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park this week announced that LEAP, a new play by John Yearley, has been chosen as the theater's world premiere production, opening in mid-February 2005. The Playh  

Trading something good for something better isn't a bad deal. That's what's happened with Broadway in Cincinnati, which just announced that Wonderful Town, scheduled for the Aronoff Center in M  

Actress MARNI PENNING, a co-founder of the Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival (CSF), now lives in New York City, but she's begun finding professional work at theaters all over the Eastern U.S. Penning r  

On Thursday the WOMEN'S THEATRE INITIATIVE (WTI) opens its 2004 production, Ironmistress by April DeAngelis. MARY TENSING plays a widow in 1840s England trying to run her husband's iron mill; he  

Because some newspapers in Cincinnati get all wound up when theaters make their season announcements (in fact, they even fight and make threats over them), I've bypassed such competition. I figur  

Cincinnati's ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY THEATRES (ACT) held its annual excerpt competition on June 24-26 (expanded to three days to encompass 17 groups each presenting 30-minute cuttings from shows  

Don't be confused by the listings: There are two productions of THE MAIDS happening this week, and it's on purpose. At the invitation of the Cincinnati Opera (which is staging Peter Bengston's   

If Cincinnati's recent Fringe Festival gave you an appetite for theater with an edge, you'll want to check out the world premiere of CHASING THE WOLF at the Columbia Performance Center (3900 E  

Sunday evening is the night that most of us who love live theater make time to watch TV to see the annual broadcast of the TONY AWARDS from New York City. I love to see scenes from nominated mus  

I always look forward to this time of year, when new seasons are being announced and journalistic elbows start flying over who has the information first: The actual productions are months away,   

When I talked with ED STERN about the CINCINNATI PLAYHOUSE discovering that they'd been named the recipient of the 2004 Regional Theatre Tony Award, he was still amused. An actor who attended the Tony news conference in New York phoned to congratulate Stern, who didn't quite believe it. In fact, he went online to see who'd really won -- and was surprised to see that it was the Playhouse.  

Now he's a Broadway star, but 20 years ago RON BOHMER was mostly known as a talented kid at Cincinnati's SCHOOL FOR CREATIVE AND PERFORMING ARTS (SCPA). On Monday evening, he'll be back in to  

Breaking news: Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival founder, former artistic director (2002-03) and popular actor NICK ROSE won't return to CSF next season, as previously announced. His leading role  

Playwright DAVID SAAR is surprised when I tell him CLEAR STAGE CINCINNATI, which is staging his play THE YELLOW BOAT (Friday through May 1, at the Aronoff Center's Fifth Third Bank Theater), is