A colorful public art installation will be on view at the Carnegie in Covington during the company’s run of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The Carnegie announced that ART HAGS won the plaza design contest and will create the art installation. The group’s winning proposal was “Holding Space: The Jeanne-Claude Project.” The plaza design creates […]
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Footlighters to Open “Of Mice and Men” with Veteran Local Actor
Newport’s Footlighters, Inc. continues its 2019-20 season with John Steinbeck’s classic tale, Of Mice and Men. The theatre company’s third production of the season features the return to Newport of veteran local actor Bill Hartnett, who was least seen at the Stained Glass Theatre in 2013’s Tuesdays with Morrie. Hartnett’s local theatre career spans more than four […]
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Newport’s Falcon Theatre to Open “Blues for an Alabama Sky”
Falcon Theatre continues its 30th anniversary season with Blues for an Alabama Sky, a play by Pearl Cleage. The story offers an honest and candid examination of an array of issues, including race, gender, sexuality, and cultural intolerance amid the backdrop of the Harlem Renaissance and the early years of the Great Depression. The show, directed […]
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Theater Review: Puffs Mischievously Manages the Know Theatre
Puffs, the current production at Cincinnati’s Know Theatre absolutely brought down the house for a sell-out opening night crowd. The show is tightly scripted, remarkably staged and brilliantly performed. This fast-paced, hilarious comedy subtitled “seven increasingly eventful years at a certain school of magic and magic,” might – on some non-copyright violation level – […]
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Footlighters’ “Spitfire Grill” Runs Through Nov. 23
Footlighters’ second show of the 2019-20 season is now playing at the Stained Glass Theater in Newport. The Spitfire Grill is based on the 1996 film, and is the story of Percy, a feisty parolee who follows her dreams to small-town Wisconsin where she up working at an old diner. The owner wants to sell, so […]
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Falcon Theatre Opens 30th Anniversary Season with Hitchcock Spoof
Falcon Theatre celebrates its thirtieth anniversary this season. The Newport-based outlet will open the landmark season at its theater on Monmouth Street with The 39 Steps, a revival of its 2012 audience favorite. It’s a spoof of the Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name from 1935. Cut from the same creative cloth as last season’s Baskerville and The […]
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Green Day Musical “American Idiot” Opens Carnegie’s 2019-20 Season
American idiot, the musical by rock band Green Day, opens at the Carnegie in Covington on August 10 and runs through the 25th. The show opens the Carnegie’s 2019-20 theatrical season. The Broadway production of American Idiot won two Tony Awards, while its the 2004 album of the same name went multi-platinum and won a Grammy. The […]
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Six Short Plays by Local Playwrights to Premier at Village Players
Village Players of Fort Thomas will stage its annual New Works production June 28 through 30 at its theater at 8 North Fort Thomas Blvd. Life Story: Six New Plays About Birth, Death, and the Stuff in Between features six original short plays by local playwrights. New Works is a collaborative overseen by Village Players Treasurer […]
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Vampire Story Coming to Covington – with a Preview in Ludlow First
Count Smackula and His Three Scares will play at Covington’s Leapin’ Lizard event space in Mainstrasse Village later this month. A theatrical troupe led by “Count Christian Drago Smackula” is offering what they call a revival of their 1919 production. The full original cast is expected to participate. They are, of course, vampires. And immortal. Shows […]
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Alexandria Native Looks to Amuse in “Party Bus”
We ARE Productions, in cooperation with The Clifton Players, presents the sketch comedy show, Party Bus. To be clear, the performance does not actually take place on a bus, but instead at the Liberty Exhibition Hall in Northside. The title, says We ARE Productions co-founder Ricky W. Glore, “is more about the state of mind than […]