LOUISVILLE – Dead and dying parents are the engines powering two plays by the best-known playwrights featured in this year’s Humana Festival of New Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville (ATL) through April 10. The schedule of this 40th Humana kicks into high gear March 25-April 10 with five full-length plays playing in rep. There’s […]
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We Talk to the NKY Actors Starring in Playhouse’s “To Kill A Mockingbird”
Beloved American classic To Kill a Mockingbird is a box office hit at Playhouse in the Park, now extended through April 10. What we love best about it are the many local actors on stage, including four from Northern Kentucky. Harper Lee’s heartfelt drama is about a life-changing summer for a young girl in Depression-era, […]
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Theatre Review: “Beertown” at Know Theatre
I really like what Beertown, on stage at Know Theatre through March 19, wants to be – and often succeeds at being. The conceit is that we aren’t an audience, we’re the townsfolk of Beertown, U.S.A, and we’re at the 20th Quinquennial (that’s every five years) Time Capsule Celebration, in which we get to pick […]
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Spring Rolls In with Nice Offerings on NKY/Cincinnati Stages
Spring is about – new, and there are some musts on local stages. Don’t miss interactive Beertown (I’m excited!), led by Washington D.C.’s dog & pony. It invites audiences to attend a ‘community meeting’ (a.k.a. interactive theater) to create a time capsule filled with items to define our town. (Needless to say, the show changes […]
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Reviews: NKU Shines With “One in a Lifetime”; Shaw’s Joan of Arc Tale Solid Downtown
Northern Kentucky University’s acting ensemble is looking good and so is the entire revival of Kaufman and Hart’s Broadway satire about going Hollywood, Once in a Lifetime, continuing through February 28. The 1930 comedy, with 12 speaking roles and a supporting cast of 18 is the kind of play that only universities can afford to produce […]
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Trio from NKU Pen New Musical Take on Classic “Snow White” Tale
A brand new musical look at classic fairytale Snow White by Northern Kentucky University’s Ken Jones, Jamey Strawn, and Christine Jones has taken the stage at The Children’s Theatre at the Taft Theater in downtown Cincinnati (with three more performances this weekend). Snow White and the Dancing Dwarfs features seven little guys with fancy feet, […]
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These Local Playwrights Want 15 Minutes of Your Time — & Then Maybe 15 More
If you give Know Theatre’s “episodic theatre party” Serials! 4, Thunderdome 2: Beyond Thunder a try on Feb. 22, you’ll see a five-part program of 15-minute scenes by local playwrights. What makes Serials! a Thunderdome is that the audience gets to vote two shows off the stage at the end of every evening, with three […]
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NKU Revives 1930 Comedy About Early Hollywood Film Biz
In Once in a Lifetime, a trio of affable, on-the-skids vaudeville troupers (not above a scam) go to Hollywood and pass themselves off as “voice experts” as silent movies transition to talkies. In a big screen-sized show (70 characters, five locations), the threesome encounter all the crazies you would expect to inhabit the movie industry […]
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It Took a Village to Build Village Players, Now Celebrating 50 Years in Ft. Thomas
Village Players of Fort Thomas begins its 50th anniversary year this week with a production of popular community theater comedy Dearly Departed, playing Feb. 12-20. While the official celebration isn’t until June 4, this is a good time to remember that it took a village of enthusiasts to found Village Players, and it takes a […]
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Q&A: Being “Grounded” at Ensemble Theatre
An unexpected pregnancy ends an ace fighter pilot’s career in the sky. She’s Grounded, and in Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati’s regional premiere of the unsettling solo play, the cocky (unnamed) pilot is reassigned to operate remote-controlled military drones in the Middle East from a windowless trailer outside Las Vegas. Cincinnati native Kathleen Wise makes […]
