Commonwealth Theatre Company at Northern Kentucky University announced its 2019 summer season and NKU’s School of the Arts announced its 2019-20 academic year theatre season this week. Commonwealth will perform Noel Coward’s Fallen Angels from June 7-23 and Church Girls from July 5-21. Fallen Angels: Before Julia and Jane married their husbands Fred and Willy – there was Maurice, […]
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Village Players Now Owns Its Theatre, Continues with “How to Eat Like a Child”
The Village Players of Fort Thomas now own their 102-seat building at 8 North Fort Thomas Avenue. The company began in 1967 as a department of the Fort Thomas Women’s Club. After celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2015, the Women’s Club disbanded. True to their credo, “To help others is to elevate ourselves, and to […]
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How to Buy Tickets for “Hamilton” When Show Comes to Cincinnati
Tickets for the Broadway sensation Hamilton go on sale at the Cincinnati Arts Association on Friday morning. Fans of the Lin-Manuel Miranda-penned musical about Founding Father Alexander Hamilton will need to be prepared to get their hands on the coveted tickets. The show runs in February and March. The Cincinnati Arts Association said Monday that the fastest […]
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World of Warcraft Takes Center Stage in this Romantic Comedy
In the romantic comedy IN LOVE AND WARCRAFT, college senior and hard-core World of Warcraft (WoW) player Evie Malone is at the top of her game – literally. Her strategies and game play have allowed her to become commander of the game’s top-ranked guild. But are her in-game skills up to task when love comes calling IRL? […]
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Dark Fantasia “Marisol” Opens for 1-Week Run at NKU
Marisol is having a bad day. Still shaken from having narrowly survived a vicious attack on the subway, the Manhattan copy editor is equally shocked by a visit from her guardian angel. Her heavenly protector informs Marisol that she is abandoning her earth-bound charge to answer the call to lead an angelic campaign – a […]
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The Carnegie Opens this Year’s Theatre Season with DREAMGIRLS
The Carnegie’s 2018-19 theatrical season begins with Dreamgirls, the Motown-inspired musical inspired by the real lives of The Supremes, James Brown, and others. The show opens Saturday, August 11, and runs weekends through August 26. The story: Starting out as a trio of singers and friends, Effie, Deena, and Lorrell are determined to make it big […]
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“Urinetown” to Open at Footlighters with Timely Commentary
It’s a privilege to pee / Water’s worth its weight / In gold these daysNo more bathrooms / Like in olden daysYou come here and pay a fee / For the privilege to pee… In a Gotham-like city, a terrible water shortage caused by a 20-year drought has led to a government-enforced ban on private […]
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In “A Great Wildnerness”, Falcon Explores Gay Conversion Therapy, Personal Journeys
A Great Wilderness, opening May 4 at Falcon Theatre, is about many things. But at its heart it’s about being lost and being found, about forgiveness and acceptance. Its setting is unexpected – a gay conversion camp for teens, sparking the kind of challenging contemporary drama theatergoers love. Curtain Up describes it as “a group […]
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“Motherhood Out Loud” Explores Aspects of Being Mom
Some of America’s best women playwrights – Beth Henley, Lisa Loomer, Michele Lowe, Theresa Rebeck, Cheryl L. West, and many more (and even a man) – take on a subject they know very well: motherhood. Motherhood Out Loud, a compilation of monologues and playlets on the many aspects of mom, is now open at The […]
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Falcon Theatre Offers Wide-Ranging 2018-19 Season
Falcon Theatre’s wide-ranging 2018-2019 season in Newport has classics, an area premiere by Steven Dietz, one of Greater Cincinnati’s favorite playwrights, and very welcome returns of wonderful plays not produced here in years. Falcon has set the titles but not the schedule so the line-up is listed in alphabetical order. The theater is located at […]
