Swimming with Satori
Winners on Winning
(10/24/07)
Review By Tom McElfresh
Tragedy Within
NET's Fool for Love could be a bit less foolish
(05/09/07)
Review By Rick Pender
Smokin'
The music is rich; the humor is silly
(05/09/07)
Review By Tom McElfresh
Defining Tragedy
New Stage sets a high standard with Albee's The Goat
(04/25/07)
Review By Rick Pender
Eccentric
ETC's Souvenir portrays a singer who couldn't sing
(04/25/07)
Review By Rick Pender
NKU says Y.E.S. to new theater
Northern Kentucky University's answer to the Humana Festival in Louisville is the biennial YEAR END SERIES FESTIVAL OF NEW PLAYS. The first Y.E.S. Festival was launched in 1983, and below you can read commentary by CityBeat's theater reviewers to the show
(04/11/07)
Edited By Rick Pender
31ST HUMANA FESTIVAL OF NEW AMERICAN PLAYS (2007)
ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE
(04/04/07)
REVIEWS BY RICK PENDER
31ST HUMANA FESTIVAL OF NEW AMERICAN PLAYS (2007)
ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE
(03/28/07)
Review By Rick Pender
Disharmony
A string quartet struggles to make beautiful music in ETC's Opus
(03/14/07)
Review By Rick Pender
Harold and Maude at Dayton's Human Race Theater
Tom Jones' remake bares souls and celebrates life
(03/14/07)
Review By Tom McElfresh
Still Ticking
Carson Kreitzer's 1:23 tries to understand unfathomable acts
(02/07/07)
Review By Rick Pender
Twist and Shout
ETC's Fiction keeps audiences guessing what's real and what's dreamed up
(01/31/07)
Review By Rick Pender
Screen to stage
12 Angry Men offers a tight ensemble of character actors
(01/17/07)
Review By Rick Pender
A New View
Taft shows off A Western View: Five Paintings by Henry Farny
(12/06/06)
Review By Jane Durrell
Holiday Send-Up
Cincinnati Shakespeare shows off its comic side at Arnold's
(12/06/06)
Review By Rick Pender
Holiday Send-Up
Cincinnati Shakespeare shows off its comic side at Arnold's
(11/29/06)
Review By Rick Pender
Letter-perfect
Spelling Bee's adolescent humor is fresh and funny
(11/15/06)
Review By Rick Pender
Back to Bedford Falls
Playhouse offers a "wonderful" story, well told
(11/15/06)
Review By Rick Pender
Stringing Along
ETC's Pearls offers 27 characters in 90 minutes
(10/18/06)
Review By Tom McElfresh
Airborne
Playhouse's Ace is an old-fashioned musical
(10/18/06)
Review By Rick Pender
Laugh a Lot
Classic Monty Python routines plus Broadway parodies
(10/18/06)
Review By Rick Pender
Madness and Beauty
Ovation's Valhalla has a split personality
(10/18/06)
Review By Rick Pender
He Says/She Says
You'll "wanna see" Know Theatre's current production
(10/11/06)
Review By Rick Pender
Madness and Beauty
Ovation's Valhalla has a split personality
(10/11/06)
Review By Rick Pender
One Fine Day
NKU's On the Town is mostly on the money
(09/27/06)
Review By Alan Scheidt
Clear Stage, Cloudy Angst
Clear Stage Cincinnati offers a Rebel without much impact
(09/27/06)
Review By Tom McElfresh
Not Enough
ETC's concert version of Mack and Mabel has some missing parts
(09/13/06)
Review By Rick Pender
New Old World
Piazza's light shines bright but could use a tighter focus
(09/06/06)
Review By Rick Pender
California Dreamin'
Of Mice and Men retains its power to move audiences
(09/06/06)
Review By Alan Scheidt
Splendid Shakespeare
As You Like It is downright likeable
(09/06/06)
Review By Tom McElfresh
A Dream of a Show
Cirque's Quidam blends aesthetic circus acts with acrobatics, music and theatricality
(08/23/06)
Review By Rick Pender
Temperature Rising
Know Theatre is ready for a full season in its new home in Over-the-Rhine
(08/02/06)
Splendidly Sung
A Masked Ball shines via its powerful singing performances
(07/12/06)
Review By Tom McElfresh
Plain Vanilla
Godspell kicks off Jersey Productions' first season in Covington
(07/05/06)
Review By Rick Pender
Stripped Down
The Full Monty has amusing moments in a contrived story
(06/28/06)
Review By Rick Pender
Creative Forces
Little Women is a musical with blood and guts
(06/21/06)
Review By Rick Pender
IntercityBeat
Flat City Plusses & Minuses
(06/21/06)
REVIEWS BY TOM MCELFRESH
A Shining Star
Cincinnati Opera's L'Étoile an absolute delight
(06/21/06)
Review By Anne Arenstein
Social Drama
Waiting for Lefty is a lively piece of theater history
(05/17/06)
Review By Rick Pender
Checkmate
CMT's Chess has some razzle, but not enough dazzle
(05/10/06)
Review By MARK STERNER
Cynicism Personified
Giles Davies brings the villainous Richard III to life
(05/03/06)
Review By Rick Pender
Bearing Witness
Playhouse presents an entertaining Agatha Christie mystery
(05/03/06)
Review By Tom McElfresh
A Walk in the Woods
Wayfarer's Rest is a meditation on entropy
(04/19/06)
Review By Rick Pender
An Imprisoned Soul
NKU presents a memorable production of The Elephant Man
(04/19/06)
Review By Paul Kreft
An Imprisoned Soul
NKU presents a memorable production of The Elephant Man
(04/12/06)
Review By Paul Kreft
The Wave of the Future
Louisville's Humana Festival shows what to expect onstage
(04/05/06)
By Rick Pender
Stone-Cold
Set in a morgue, McDonough's new play is about love and treachery
(04/05/06)
Review By Rick Pender
Wonder of Wonders
Covedale's Fiddler is funny and well-paced
(03/29/06)
Review By MARK STERNER
Where It's At
Playhouse's Company is about as alive as theater can get
(03/15/06)
Review By Rick Pender
Gone with the Magnolias
ETC presents a comedy about filmmaking that's funny from start to finish
(03/08/06)
Review By Tom McElfresh
Total Experience
Wicked gives audiences what they want
(03/08/06)
Review By Rick Pender
Measure of Evil
CCM presents a seldom-seen work by Shakespeare
(02/15/06)
Review By Rick Pender
Painting Clear Pictures
Getting to know three men talking in a bar
(02/08/06)
Review By Rick Pender
Pop Culture Spoof
Falcon's Mystery of Irma Vep is a bit too frenetic
(02/08/06)
Review By MARK STERNER
Bad Guys Win
Halcyon Days plot anticipates current events
(02/08/06)
Review By Tom McElfresh
Stamp Act
Actresses play well together in Les Belles-Soeurs
(02/01/06)
Review By Tom McElfresh
InterCityBeat: Indianapolis
Three Clones, Four Sissies
(01/25/06)
Review By Tom McElfresh
Whole Lotta Nothing
ETC's Thom Pain will infuriate and inspire audiences
(01/25/06)
Review By Rick Pender
Dive In
Playhouse production cleans up on humor The Messier, The Merrier
(01/25/06)
Review By Tom McElfresh
A Trial in Purgatory
Trying Judas proves to be merely trying
(01/18/06)
Review By Tom McElfresh
Bloody Crime, Bloodless Play
Long-winded second act sinks Mariemont Players' Never the Sinner
(01/18/06)
Review By MARK STERNER
Antony & Cleopatra
Chris Reeder brings swift changes
(01/18/06)
Review By Rick Pender
One Smart Girl
CCM's Ashley Brown was born to play Belle in Broadway's Beauty and the Beast
(11/23/05)
By Rick Pender
Slapdash Travesty
Great books, groaner comedy
(11/23/05)
Review By Tom McElfresh
Patented Pandemonium
America is sliced, diced and abridged
(11/16/05)
Review By Tom McElfresh
Expanding Horizons
Shangri-La offers music never heard, sights never seen
(11/16/05)
Review By Rick Pender
Astonishing & Valid
Indy theater proves the power of I Am My Own Wife
(11/09/05)
Review By Tom McElfresh
Squirm in Your Seat
Atlanta's Bug has strong links to Cincinnati
(10/26/05)
Review By Sue Cohen
Broadway Reviews
Rick Pender recently spent a few days in New York City. Here are is reviews of two Broadway productions he saw during his visit.
(10/26/05)
By Rick Pender
Double Retro
Covedale's Grease has enough energy to fuel another generation
(10/26/05)
Review By MARK STERNER
Tango Flamenco
Music Hall program delivered more musical and visual style than dance substance
(10/26/05)
Review By Julie Mullins
Wilderness of Tigers
CSF's Titus Andronicus is a classical gore-fest
(10/26/05)
Review By Rick Pender
Explosive
Tick, Tick tells a tale of turning 30
(10/19/05)
Review By Julia Ward
Explosive
Tick, Tick tells a tale of turning 30
(10/12/05)
Review By Julia Ward
Golden Ages
Footlighters' South Pacific
(10/05/05)
Review By MARK STERNER
IntercityBeat
Splash at the Phoenix; Dreams at TOTS
(09/21/05)
Review By Tom McElfresh
Indianapolis stages its first Fringe Festival
Good results for the inaugural venture into performance art and more
(08/24/05)
REVIEWS BY TOM MCELFRESH
Meeting of the minds
Toni Morrison and Richard Danielpour collaborated to create Margaret Garner, a world-premiere opera
(07/20/05)
By Nichelle M. Bolden
Cincinnati Opera's Rigoletto
Creaky Costumed Concert
(07/20/05)
Review By Tom McElfresh
Breaking Through the Night
Margaret Garner premiere grips opera audiences
(07/13/05)
Review By Rick Pender
Barber of Seville: Funny Night at the Opera
Barber of Seville
(06/22/05)
By Anne Arenstein
Chestnut Well Roasted
Cincinnati Opera's Bohème is fluid and lyrical
(06/15/05)
Review By Tom McElfresh
Playing in Words
Playwright Matt Johnson hits the mark with Drinking Alone
(06/08/05)
Review By MARK STERNER
Playing in Words
Playwright Matt Johnson hits the mark with Drinking Alone
(06/01/05)
Review By MARK STERNER
Wow Moment
Solid leads and production value rescue Showbiz's Pimpernel
(06/01/05)
Review By Rodger Pille
Moving in Opposite Directions
Playhouse's Last Five Years a worthy addition to modern musical canon
(05/25/05)
Review By Rodger Pille
Green Gables is charming
Cincinnati team's sweet musical tale of adolescence gets a professional production in Dayton
(05/04/05)
Review By Rick Pender
Truth and Illusion
CSF's Virginia Woolf exudes a powerful humanity thanks to Cromer and Warner
(05/04/05)
Review By Rick Pender
Black and White
ETC's Bowling is a comedy that takes its topic seriously
(04/20/05)
Review By Tom McElfresh
Seven plays (or more) in three days
Actors Theatre of Louisville presents the 29th Humana Festival
(04/06/05)
Review By Rick Pender
Good-Time Concert
Little Shop is pretty dumb, but it's got the tunes
(04/06/05)
Review By Rick Pender
What's the Buzz?
West-side Superstar suffers from too much glitz
(03/16/05)
Review By MARK STERNER
The Wrong Train
Playhouse production of Retreat from Moscow explores the disintegration of a marriage
(03/16/05)
Review By Rick Pender
Big Message
Big River is about tolerance and communication
(03/16/05)
Review By Rick Pender
Quintessential Survivor
ETC gives prize-winning I Am My Own Wife an astonishing, exhilarating premiere
(03/02/05)
Review By Tom McElfresh
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