An avalanche of theater heads our way next week — including the touring Broadway musical Memphis (not Million Dollar Quartet, as mistakenly published in last Sunday's Enquirer), the regional premiere of Freud's Last Session at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati (not "Freud's Last Stand" as the same Enquirer piece labeled it — doesn't our daily paper employ copy ed...  

Playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa was in Chicago early in 2008, rehearsing the world premiere of a new play he had just written for Steppenwolf Theatre. The company was staging Arthur Miller’s legendary 1953 Tony Award winner, The Crucible, on its mainstage.
  

Playwright Adam Rapp has a pretty bleak outlook on life, and that plays out in his tale of two buddies who end up in an Amsterdam apartment and contest over a mysterious young woman who shows up  

Audiences seeing Richard II will wonder why it’s not presented more often because this production works so well. The common wisdom is that Richard II is more about head than heart. Shakespeare’s other histories are full of glory and combat, whereas this play focuses on a king whose weakness leads to his downfall.     

Cincinnati Shakespeare Company is the first out of the chute with a new production in 2013. Of course, it's a 400-year-old play about a king from two centuries before that. But Shakespeare proved with his script for Richard II that there are universal traits that make us all human, even if we're a king who's supposedly given his powers directly from God.
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 England’s first King Richard, “the Lionhearted,” spent much of his 12th-century reign away from home on Crusades. The third of that name is famous as the murderous, 15th-century hunchb  

There's not much onstage locally yet as our theater companies prepare their first productions of 2013, so here's a tip for this weekend. WVXU's airing of Deborah Zoe Laufer's End Days on L.A. Theatre Works on Saturday evening at 8 p.m. (That's FM 91.7 if you're still using a radio or wvxu.org if you prefer to listen online.)
  

For a great way to meet your need for some onstage entertainment in the first week of 2013, I suggest you put a big red circle around Monday, Jan. 7, for True Theatre’s next presentation at Kn  

You might know that Shakespeare’s Richard III focuses on one of his great villains. But among his 38 plays, there’s also Richard II. You probably know almost nothing about this guy — a weak king, deposed in 1399 — who died in captivity in 1400.   

 Yes, Christmas happened on Tuesday. But I bet you haven’t put away your decorations yet. At the Cincinnati Playhouse, Scrooge has a few more Christmas Eve encounters with ghosts who cure h