The world of Sam Shepard's 1983 play Fool for Love is a surreal one where love and relationships are twisted and incomplete, and time circles back on itself. The deeper we dig, the more incohere  

Back in 1991 when director Alan Bailey and writer Connie Ray's original Smoke on the Mountain (SOTM) was new, The Raleigh News-Observer in North Carolina remarked how it "celebrates a lost age of in  

If you're looking for an evening of light-hearted entertainment, don't choose The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, Edward Albee's Tony Award winning play getting its regional premiere by New Stage Col  

Florence Foster Jenkins was fond of saying, "People may say I can't sing, but they can't say I didn't sing." If you attend Souvenir, the final production by Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, yo  

Historical Satire: In the Wake of King Death REVIEW BY MARK STERNER More than 75 years ago, Robert Frost penned these lines as a metaphor of the theater: "The play seems out for an almost indef  

The 2007 edition of Humana Festival of New American Plays (back for year 31) ran between Feb. 25 and April 7. The festival is recognized as a major event in the theater world, the place where   

The 2007 edition of Humana Festival of New American Plays (back for year 31) ran between Feb. 25 and April 7. The festival is recognized as a major event in the theater world, the place where   

When screenwriter Colin Higgins's movie, Harold and Maude (Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon), opened in 1972, Vincent Canby panned it in The New York Times and the showbiz trade paper, Variety, said it had  

You would imagine, I suspect, that a string quartet must be a set of people who finish each other's sentences, who might "be like four instruments played with one bow." That's the illusion, at leas  

Several people have asked me what 1:23 is about. Carson Kreitzer's new play, premiering this month at the Cincinnati Playhouse, could be seen as one of those yanked-from-the-headlines pieces, since  

Admired novelist Linda Waterman (Amy Warner) tells a class of writing students that her most respected teacher once said, "The lies begin when we lift the pen." The distance between lies and fi  

Some theater snobs disdain television and actors who work in the medium. Of course, there's a lot of dreck on TV, but the tube employs many good actors and occasionally generates material that t  

Cincinnati Shakespeare Company (CSC) is offering an amusing send-up of holiday shows, Every Christmas Story Ever Told, on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday evenings through Dec. 19. If you've laughed y  

Artist Michael Scott thinks Henry Farny was one fine painter but suggests in the subtext to his own exuberant narrative works in Michael Scott: Farny Fables, now at the Taft Museum, that the Europe  

Cincinnati Shakespeare Company (CSC) is offering an amusing send-up of holiday shows, Every Christmas Story Ever Told, on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday evenings through Dec. 19. If you've laughed y