1926. Radium is a miracle cure and glow-in-the-dark watches are the rage. Until the girls who paint the watch dials begin to die. Few things make better drama than everyday people fighting the good fight against wrongdoing by giant corporations. Erin Brockovich fighting Pacific Gas and Electric Company or whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand versus Big Tobacco’s suppression of […]
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6-Year Old Newport Boy Takes Center Stage as Tiny Tim at Playhouse
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article identified Weghorst as being from Ft. Thomas, but he is from and lives in Newport while attending school in Ft. Thomas. RCN regrets the error. Henry Charles Weghorst makes his debut as Tiny Tim in Playhouse in the Park’s holiday favorite A Christmas Carol continuing through December. […]
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Theatre Reviews: “Seussical” at NKU, “Relatively Speaking” at Diogenes
Seussical at Northern Kentucky University School kids in playful and crayon-colored costumes romp in a schoolyard setting that somehow whooshes us to Horton the Elephant’s jungle home, the world of the Whos and sundry other stops in Seussical at Northern Kentucky University. This affectionate musical celebration of Dr. Seuss was big, bigger, biggest when it debuted […]
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Dr. Seuss Takes Center Stage at NKU in Unique Interpretation of “Seussical”
What’s that noise that Horton the Elephant hears? Could it be coming from a speck of dust on a clover? Yes! It’s the Whos, and they need help. If you grew up in the U.S in the last 60-plus years, you know we’re talking Dr. Seuss. More specifically, we’re talking a singing and dancing Dr. […]
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Preview & Review: “Sleuth” at The Carnegie
Wildly successful mystery writer Andrew Wyke invites his wife’s lover – a travel agent, horrors! – to his secluded country house one evening and suggests a plot: how about they stage a robbery of her jewelry? What a good idea! Of course things are never quite as they seem and Wyke’s passion for games brings surprise after surprise […]
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Covington-based Co-Writer of “Andy’s House of [blank]” Talks About His Craft
Fans of Cincinnati Fringe LOVE storyteller Paul Strickland and his invented landscape of Big Fib Cul-de-Sac Trailer Park. (He likes Cincinnati so much he re-located here, to Covington, last November.) And they like playwright (Slut-Shaming) and video guy Trey Tatum. Strickland and Tatum, who met at the 2014 Fringe, have come together to create a magical realism […]
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Halloween’s Over but the Macabre Lives on at Falcon Theater’s “Mystery Plays”
Halloween has passed, but there’s an undertone of the macabre to The Mystery Plays at Falcon Theatre, playing weekends through Nov. 21 in Newport. Macabre is suited to its pop-meister playwright/TV writer (Glee, Big Love) and comic book (Marvel, Archie) writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, who counts the books of musicals Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and American Psycho […]
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Here’s What’s On Stage in NKY & Cincinnati in November!
The holidays start early with the national tour of White Christmas and Playhouse in the Park’s ever-green A Christmas Carol. There are musical nights, aplenty, too: Megan Hilty singing Rosemary Clooney with Cincinnati Pops, Low Down, Dirty Blues at Playhouse, “A Stairway to Heaven” with the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra — and make sure you let […]
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Newport Production of “How to Succeed…” is Family Affair
How to advance from window washer to the executive penthouse in two buoyant acts is the plot of How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, a Frank Loesser gem from the Golden Age of Musicals. It’s on stage at Footlighters in Newport through Nov. 7. H2$ is a satire of Big Business that never […]
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10-Year Old Actor from Northern Kentucky Moves On to New Role at Cincinnati Playhouse
After two years as Playhouse in the Park’s Tiny Tim in the annual A Christmas Carol production, young Crestview Hills actor Ty Joseph Shelton, 10, joins an adult drama. Through November 14, Playhouse audiences will see him in a pair of roles in Mad River Rising, about generations of a family and their land and the threat of […]
