Why don’t we see Sherman Fracher front and center on Cincinnati stages more often? She’s given so many sublime performances over the 20 years I’ve been here, and lately she’s been relegated mostly to supporting roles – which she has always inhabited deeply, often making so much more of them than what’s been written. The […]
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Theatre Review: “An Iliad” at Ensemble “Will Stay With You”
Master theatrical storytellers Bruce Cromer and Michael Haney join with a smart, deeply resonating script and An Iliad at Ensemble Theatre is the “must-see” of the fall stage season. This is a performance, a production and a play that will stay with you. Cromer is dazzling in a solo show as an unnamed ‘poet’ who […]
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Theatre Review: “An Iliad” at Ensemble “Will Stay With You”
Master theatrical storytellers Bruce Cromer and Michael Haney join with a smart, deeply resonating script and An Iliad at Ensemble Theatre is the “must-see” of the fall stage season. This is a performance, a production and a play that will stay with you. Cromer is dazzling in a solo show as an unnamed ‘poet’ who […]
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Theatre Review: Moby Dick at Know Theatre is “Invigorating, Captivating”
Moby Dick is Know Theatre’s latest adventure and it’s a good time, especially if you like university theater and don’t like Moby Dick. (A lot of people don’t.) If you’re a Herman Melville fan, you may be disappointed with the way the tight, swift stage adaptation tosses overboard just about everything but obsessed Captain Ahab (Rico Reid) […]
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Theatre Review: Moby Dick at Know Theatre is “Invigorating, Captivating”
Moby Dick is Know Theatre’s latest adventure and it’s a good time, especially if you like university theater and don’t like Moby Dick. (A lot of people don’t.) If you’re a Herman Melville fan, you may be disappointed with the way the tight, swift stage adaptation tosses overboard just about everything but obsessed Captain Ahab (Rico Reid) […]
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Terrifying Theatre: “Woman In Black” to Play in Newport
They believe in ghosts. The Woman in Black is a chiller of a ghost story, opening Friday at Falcon Theater in Newport and playing weekends through Nov. 1. (including a Halloween performance). The two featured players are popular community theater actors Jay Benson and Matt Dentino. Set in an empty theater, elderly Arthur Kipps and […]
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Terrifying Theatre: “Woman In Black” to Play in Newport
They believe in ghosts. The Woman in Black is a chiller of a ghost story, opening Friday at Falcon Theater in Newport and playing weekends through Nov. 1. (including a Halloween performance). The two featured players are popular community theater actors Jay Benson and Matt Dentino. Set in an empty theater, elderly Arthur Kipps and […]
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Actor Returns Home, Becomes Prosecutor, Opens as Lead in Newport Production of “Little Shop”
The last time Nick Horton appeared on an area stage, he was a student at Purcell Marian High School in Cincinnati, playing hard-luck, Skid Row floral assistant Seymour, who somehow manages to nurture a blood-gulping plant from outer space to world domination in gleeful musical comedy Little Shop of Horrors. More than a decade later, Horton returns […]
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Actor Returns Home, Becomes Prosecutor, Opens as Lead in Newport Production of “Little Shop”
The last time Nick Horton appeared on an area stage, he was a student at Purcell Marian High School in Cincinnati, playing hard-luck, Skid Row floral assistant Seymour, who somehow manages to nurture a blood-gulping plant from outer space to world domination in gleeful musical comedy Little Shop of Horrors. More than a decade later, Horton returns […]
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Actor Returns Home, Becomes Prosecutor, Opens as Lead in Newport Production of “Little Shop”
The last time Nick Horton appeared on an area stage, he was a student at Purcell Marian High School in Cincinnati, playing hard-luck, Skid Row floral assistant Seymour, who somehow manages to nurture a blood-gulping plant from outer space to world domination in gleeful musical comedy Little Shop of Horrors. More than a decade later, Horton returns […]
