Cincinnati Shakespeare Company (CSC) is promoting its current production of "Hamlet" as "the greatest ghost story ever told." But if you gravitate toward such tales, you need to return during the run of the great tragedy for CSC’s staging of "The Turn of the Screw," offered on Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.
The Turn of the Screw (Review)
A perfect treat for the Halloween season
0 Comments · Thursday, October 30, 2008
Love Song (Review)
Playhouse offers quirky, contemporary romantic comedy
0 Comments · Wednesday, October 29, 2008
If you need to be uplifted, you couldn’t find a better tonic for your mental state than the Cincinnati Playhouse’s regional premiere of John Kolvenbach’s Love Song, a quirky, contemporary romantic comedy with characters and situations that would fit perfectly in a Seinfeld episode.
The History Boys (Review)
New Stage continues run of excellent plays
0 Comments · Wednesday, October 29, 2008
This is an intellectual vaudeville that uses some songs, lots of supporting music, even a casual dance or two to augment its witty examination of serious ideas. So "The History Boys" is right up director Alan Patrick Kenny’s alley. And what a scampering pleasure he makes of it, raucous scene after raucous scene, right up to a powerful closing moment when the boys turn “Bye, Bye Blackbird” into a singularly appropriate dirge.
Get an Education
0 Comments · Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Those pedagogical purposes, however, don't mean there's not solid entertainment on area campuses. Of course, you might have to suspend your disbelief when a 20-year-old plays Willy Loman, but by and large scripts are chosen as learning experiences...
Hamlet (Review)
Cincinnati Shakespeare offers a streamlined classic for Halloween
0 Comments · Wednesday, October 22, 2008
For his handsome, new, close-focused production of Hamlet at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company (CSC), Artistic Director Brian Isaac Phillips has distilled and intensified the drama’s stark internals, stripping away affairs of state, concentrating on family conflict and reducing the running time to about three hours (four is the norm).
The Seafarer (Review)
ETC's latest production offers raucous, linguistic music
0 Comments · Monday, October 20, 2008
One Irishman might entertain you for an evening with yarns. When playwright Conor McPherson brings five of them together in "The Seafarer" and fuels their conversation with pints of Harp and shots of Irish moonshine, the opportunities expand exponentially.
Death of a Salesman (Review)
Michael Shooner's Willy Loman hammers and bullies
0 Comments · Wednesday, October 15, 2008
The estimably able Michael Shooner assays the role in New Edgecliff Theatre's production. His Willy is a hard-edged, hammering bully blinded by his own shoeshine. He ignores an adoring wife. He pumps his sons full of delusions while neglecting to ground them with a moral compass.
The Boys Next Door (Review)
Falcon Theatre offers humor and insight
0 Comments · Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Michael C. Potter makes obsessive-compulsive Arnold a stream of fast-talking twitches and non-sequiturs, while David A. Levy's Norman is a sweetly innocent guy who obsesses about donuts.
Militant Language (Review)
In a senseless conflict, soldiers descend into personal versions
0 Comments · Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Know Theatre of Cincinnati makes a habit of pushing boundaries. The company often stages unfamiliar plays, scripts about topics sometimes tough to discuss. Such productions might not be best-sellers in a particular theater season, but they are important catalysts for essential conversations.
Barefoot in the Park (Review)
Cincinnati Shakespeare production needs new shoes
0 Comments · Wednesday, July 30, 2008
For its annual summer fling into lighter fare, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company (CSC) has elected to reinterpret a Broadway classic: Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park.
