This week there’s big fun, good fun and not enough fun on area stages: Buyer & Cellar, Ensemble Theatre Audiences are going to make Ensemble’s Buyer & Cellar the buzzy, must-see show of the month. Nick Cearley is our delightful guide through this high-concept, “What If?,” one-man comedy inspired by page 180 of Barbra Streisand’s 2010 book My Passion […]
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Jackie Demaline: A Fall Feast of Entertainment for NKY & Cincinnati in October
Top picks: Buyer and Cellar at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati, a New York comedy hit about a guy hired to run Streisand’s personal shopping mall; the dazzling Broadway revival of Pippin, touring here for just a week with Broadway Cincinnati; Bruce Cromer in Death of a Salesman at Cincinnati Shakespeare; and Kentucky Symphony Orchestra snagging rights to […]
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Theatre Reviews: “Moon Over Buffalo” at NKU, “SILENCE! The Musical” at Falcon
Northern Kentucky season openers are giving audiences a good time with a pair of very, very, very, very – we’re talking really different comedies. Moon Over Buffalo at Northern Kentucky University is a contemporary, backstage farce that looks back to the Fifties for its setting and even further back, say the Thirties, for its plot. Silence! The […]
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Musical Spoofs “Silence of the Lambs” at Newport’s Falcon Theatre
FBI trainee Clarice Starling has to track down notorious serial killer Buffalo Bill before he claims another innocent victim – but can she sing and dance while she’s doing it? That’s kind of the question in Silence! The Musical, a raunchy musical spoof (warning: vulgarity!) of the 1991 Oscar-winning Silence of the Lambs, that opens Falcon […]
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Theatre Review: A “Kick-Ass” Production About Young Drug-Addicted Parents at Ensemble Theatre
Rebecca Gilman has been writing ripped-from-the-headlines plays for more than 15 years and Ensemble Theatre opens its season with a kick-ass production of her engrossing Luna Gale. Middle-aged and over-worked case worker Caroline (Annie Fitzpatrick) is our guide through Luna Gale. Her latest case involves a pair of tragically young meth addicts (and their neglected baby, named […]
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Local Broadway Veterans to Battle It Out in Devou Park
Kentucky Symphony ends its free Devou Park concert series on Sept. 5 with a Battle of Broadway, and the contenders are the songs of Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber. In the center ring: local Broadway veterans Jessica Hendy and Pam Myers (Tony nominee for Company)! The leading ladies will tell Great White Way anecdotes […]
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Theatre Review: “Company” at The Carnegie
The Carnegie opens its 2015-2016 theater season with Stephen Sondheim’s Company, with elusive Robert at the center of a circle of married friends (with occasional appearances by a trio of girlfriends). On the occasion of his 35th birthday, he starts asking Big Questions: Love can hurt, so is it worth it? Does he want a […]
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Review: “Spelling Bee” at Commonwealth is Feel Good Show of the Summer!
The feel-good show of the summer is on stage through July 26 at Northern Kentucky University. How good a time is The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee? You’ll be tempted to buy another ticket on your way out of the theater. It’s a laugh-out-loud funny musical with contemporary smarts and wiseacre wisdom. The concept is simple […]
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Back at NKU, Local Actor Joins Talented Cast of “Spelling Bee”
Crepuscule. C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E. Meaning: twilight. So why not just say ‘twilight’? Because it’s a spelling bee – jolly musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, an affectionate spoof about the single-minded kids who compete (and their teachers and parentsand of course an ex-con “Comfort Counselor.”) Spelling Bee opens Wednesday at Commonwealth Summer Dinner Theatre at NorthernKentucky […]
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C.A.S.T. students will present “Ragtime”
This program and performance is part of the Fort Thomas Independent Schools. Fort Thomas Independent Schools’ Summer Production Returns WHAT: The Commonwealth Artists Summer Theatre (C.A.S.T.) group, under the direction of Fort Thomas Independent Schools’ theatre instructor Jason Burgess, will produce Ragtime. The cast includes students from Anderson, Cincinnati Country Day, Highlands, Newport Central Catholic, […]
