Stephen Sondheim’s Company, The Wizard of Oz in collaboration with Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, contemporary musical romance The Last Five Years and classic mystery Sleuth promise a popular new season for The Carnegie. Maggie Perrino, who joined Covington’s community arts center as theater director in January began planning the 2015-2016 season immediately, looking to the future with a […]
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Jackie Demaline: Don’t Miss These Shows in April
It looks like a buoyant start to spring on area stages this month – crime-fighting gals at Know Theatre, three new plays at Northern Kentucky University in the biennial Y.E.S. Fest, a Christopher Durang comedy at Playhouse in the Park, a Steve Martin comedy at The Carnegie and a Shakespeare comedy at Cincy Shakes. And the quarterly return […]
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Theatre Review: “Detroit ’67” at Ensemble is an Audience Pleaser
Ensemble Theatre’s D. Lynn Meyers has rounded up a solid cast for the regional premiere of Detroit ’67, a family drama that plays out to the Motown sound and against the backdrop of one of America’s historic race riots. Playwright Dominique Morisseau’s script is a bit too neat, but it’s an audience-pleaser. And she’s looking at an important […]
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Racial Tension in Motown Revisited in “Detroit ’67” at Ensemble
It’s the Motown sound – and it’s urgent drama, too, set in 1967 Detroit, where racial tension between African-Americans and the police are running high and brother and sister Lank and Chelle bitterly disagree about grooving on the edge of the law as they run “basement parties” to keep the family house. ‘Basement parties’ were also known as […]
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Popular Local Actress to Make Final Appearance on Area Stage
For the last 18 years, top area actress Sherman Fracher has commuted from Highland Heights across the Ohio River to Ensemble Theatre, Cincinnati Shakespeare, Human Race in Dayton – and headed south, too, to Actor’s Theatre of Louisville and Georgia Shakespeare. And east and west. This month she’s making her final appearance on an area stage, in […]
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Great Season Ahead at NKU Theatre
Fantasy by Shakespeare, Dr. Seuss and Stephen Sondheim, comedy by George Bernard Shaw, Kaufman & Hart and a swing through Buffalo for a showbiz send-up – it’s all part of the 2015-2016 main stage theater season at Northern Kentucky University. NKU 2015-2016 stage schedule: Moon over Buffalo, Sept. 24-Oct. 4. Corbett Theatre. George and Charlotte […]
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Scholarships Awarded to NKU Theatre Students
Talented young performers from Northern Kentucky University made a strong showing at the annual ACT-Cincinnati (The ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY THEATERS OF GREATER CINCINNATI, Inc.) scholarship auditions held last month. Open to university students throughout the region, NKU received four of the six scholarships: Freshman Madison Pullins was awarded the $1,500 ACT of Greater Cincinnati, Inc. scholarship. In her […]
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Jackie Demaline: See These Shows in March
This month – different views of literary classics. Little Women takes different forms at Cincinnati Shakespeare and Footlighters; Peter Pan will fly high at the College-Conservatory of Music in the musical version America knows by heart (all together: “I’m flying!”) while Playhouse in the Park offers a Peter Pan prequel with Peter and the Starcatcher. Ensemble continues its stand-out season […]
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Theatre Review: “Les Mis” at NKU is ‘Muscular, Emotionally Satisfying’
Les Miserables is getting a lean, muscular, and emotionally satisfying revival at Northern Kentucky University, with director Ken Jones clearing the stage of everything but human drama and soaring song. Within the strict structure of beloved Les Mis, Victor Hugo’s classic that tells of the hell on Earth suffered by the poor of France in the first […]
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Theatre Review: “In the Heat of the Night” at Falcon Theater in Newport
There’s more than one mystery on stage at Falcon Theatre, where a solid community theatre revival of detective drama continues weekends through Feb. 28 in Newport. Of course the first mystery is the big ‘Whodunit?’ In this tiny, racist Alabama town in the early Sixties, where the Klan rules and Civil Rights is an unwelcome rumor, […]
