Hello, 2015 – starting strong with a winter season showing plenty of promise. January highlights should be the regional premiere of The Other Place at Ensemble, which earned lots of thumbs-up in New York; the much anticipated one-woman show of Margaret Atwood’s bestseller The Handmaid’s Tale, with Cincinnati Shakespeare’s Corinne Mohlenhoff and Brian Isaac Phillips commuting north about a […]
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Theatre Review: “Soldier’s Christmas” is Engrossing History Lesson
Soldier’s Christmas, a world premiere about the Christmas Truce of 1914, lines up beautifully with this year’s centennial celebration of the first year of WWI. The show closes Sunday after a run at Northern Kentucky University. In a handsome production, Fort Thomas playwright Phil Paradis creates a sturdy fiction within the framework of heart-wrenching fact — […]
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Theatre Review: “Soldier’s Christmas” is Engrossing History Lesson
Soldier’s Christmas, a world premiere about the Christmas Truce of 1914, lines up beautifully with this year’s centennial celebration of the first year of WWI. The show closes Sunday after a run at Northern Kentucky University. In a handsome production, Fort Thomas playwright Phil Paradis creates a sturdy fiction within the framework of heart-wrenching fact — […]
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Ft. Thomas Playwright is Semifinalist for State Award, Performances Added for Current Show
An extra performances of the world premiere of Soldier’s Christmas will take place at 8 p.m. Thursday at Northern Kentucky University’s Corbett Theatre. The play, by Fort Thomas playwright Phil Paradis, commemorates the 100th anniversary of the 1914 Christmas Truce, in which British and German troops stopped fighting along the Western Front, and celebrated the holiday, together. Newly […]
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Ft. Thomas Playwright is Semifinalist for State Award, Performances Added for Current Show
An extra performances of the world premiere of Soldier’s Christmas will take place at 8 p.m. Thursday at Northern Kentucky University’s Corbett Theatre. The play, by Fort Thomas playwright Phil Paradis, commemorates the 100th anniversary of the 1914 Christmas Truce, in which British and German troops stopped fighting along the Western Front, and celebrated the holiday, together. Newly […]
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Ft. Thomas Playwright is Semifinalist for State Award, Performances Added for Current Show
An extra performances of the world premiere of Soldier’s Christmas will take place at 8 p.m. Thursday at Northern Kentucky University’s Corbett Theatre. The play, by Fort Thomas playwright Phil Paradis, commemorates the 100th anniversary of the 1914 Christmas Truce, in which British and German troops stopped fighting along the Western Front, and celebrated the holiday, together. Newly […]
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These Northern Kentucky Kids are Starring in Playhouse in the Park’s “Christmas Carol”
Two of the youngest stars of Playhouse in the Park’s holiday favorite A Christmas Carol are Ty Joseph Shelton of Crestview Hills, reprising his role as Tiny Tim, and Jordan Shaw of Crescent Springs, who plays a variety of small roles. Carol, which continues through Dec. 28, is, of course, Charles Dickens’ ageless holiday ghost story which takes […]
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These Northern Kentucky Kids are Starring in Playhouse in the Park’s “Christmas Carol”
Two of the youngest stars of Playhouse in the Park’s holiday favorite A Christmas Carol are Ty Joseph Shelton of Crestview Hills, reprising his role as Tiny Tim, and Jordan Shaw of Crescent Springs, who plays a variety of small roles. Carol, which continues through Dec. 28, is, of course, Charles Dickens’ ageless holiday ghost story which takes […]
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These Northern Kentucky Kids are Starring in Playhouse in the Park’s “Christmas Carol”
Two of the youngest stars of Playhouse in the Park’s holiday favorite A Christmas Carol are Ty Joseph Shelton of Crestview Hills, reprising his role as Tiny Tim, and Jordan Shaw of Crescent Springs, who plays a variety of small roles. Carol, which continues through Dec. 28, is, of course, Charles Dickens’ ageless holiday ghost story which takes […]
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Something Remarkable Happened at Christmas 100 Years Ago & Local Playwright Tells the Story
At Christmas 1914, in the trenches along Belgium’s Western Front of WWI, something remarkable happened – remarkable enough that 100 years later it’s still being written about. Just five months into what would become a long, blood-drenched war, when armies still had hope of going home, a spontaneous Christmas Truce took place in several spots in […]
