Ever heard of the Hilton twins? Of course you haven’t. But more than a century ago, singing and dancing Daisy and Violet were quite the thing and the highest paid performers of their time on the vaudeville circuit. Daisy and Violet were conjoined twins. Their story became the Broadway musical Side Show, a hidden gem […]
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Classic “Glass Menagerie” Returns to Cincinnati with NKU Actors Front and Center
In Tennessee Williams’s great “memory play” The Glass Menagerie, the Wingfield family is caught up in Williams’s favorite theme of illusion versus reality. At New Edgecliff Theater, in Cincinnati’s Northside neighborhood where the classic play runs Feb. 9 – 27, director Daryl Harris adds an extra layer to the drama, casting African-American actors, the younger performers all students at […]
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Broadway In Cincinnati: “Hamilton” is Coming, But First…
The smash Broadway musical Hamilton will play in Cincinnati! But fans of the musicalized story of early American Alexander Hamilton will have to be patient. Broadway in Cincinnati announced that the show is coming to town, but not until the 2018-19 season. In the announcement for the new 2017-18 season, released Monday, Broadway in Cincinnati said that season […]
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“Dragon Play” at Know Theatre Features NKU Sophomore
“In rural Texas, a teenage boy and a dragon fall in love. A thousand miles north, a woman’s fragile marriage is tested when her fire-breathing ex-lover arrives on her doorstep…” Northern Kentucky University sophomore Kearston Hawkins-Johnson makes her Know Theatre debut playing a girl dragon in the appropriately titled The Dragon Play, an intimate and intense regional […]
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Local Students Win Awards at National Theatre Conference
Students from Moss Dance and Performing Arts Academy in Ft. Wright and CCM Preparatory Department at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory Preparatory Department Junior Musical Theater Intensive Program in Cincinnati won national awards and earned other recognition at the 2017 iTheatrics Junior Theater Festival Atlanta, which happened January 13, 14 and 15 at the Cobb […]
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Theatre Review: The Music Man at the Carnegie
Be prepared to be completely charmed by The Music Man, playing through Jan. 29 at The Carnegie – and to be swept up by the singing and to be crazy about the supporting cast, along with leads Dave Wilson as con man Harold Hill and Sarah Viola as Marian the Librarian, the woman who catches […]
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9 Stories, 18 Actors Explore the Heart in “Love/Sick” at Village Players
As a prelude to Valentine’s Day, The Village Players of Fort Thomas present the comedy Love/Sick, a collection of nine very short plays that invites audiences to laugh (and weep) about the joy and pain of love. It opens Jan. 27 for a two-weekend run. Set on a Friday night in an alternate suburban reality, […]
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“Full Monty”, “Rosemary Clooney” Part of Carnegie’s 10th Anniversary Season
Guys bare all in The Full Monty, Rosemary Clooney musical bio Tenderly reacquaints us with a local legend, kids will get in line with their golden tickets for a stage adaptation of film musical Willy Wonka, and Motherhood Out Loud salutes the women (and men) who take on parenthood. It’s the 10th anniversary theater season […]
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Ensemble Theatre’s “First Date”: Review & Actor Profile
Ensemble Theatre begins 2017 with a sweetheart of a show, the thoroughly engaging, thoroughly current First Date, a small but plenty entertaining musical about nice-but-not-exciting Aaron (Michael Carr) and prickly serial dater Casey (Sarah Hoch) who meet for a blind date at a sophisticated Manhattan watering hole. A savvy and wryly affectionate look at the […]
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With Big Dreams, NKY Theatre Kids Head to Atlanta for Festival
Picture downtown Atlanta filled with 6,000 theater kids singin’ and dancin’ in the streets. OK, that’s a little extreme, but there will be 6,000 musical theater students and educators from across the U.S. (plus some international folks, too) gathering Jan. 13-15 for the iTheatrics Junior Theater Festival Atlanta, the world’s largest fest for student-driven musical […]
