Old favorites and new discoveries fill Northern Kentucky University’s 2018-2019 theatre and dance season. Here’s the line-up: Big Fish, Sept. 27-Oct. 7. Based on the celebrated novel by Daniel Wallace and the acclaimed film directed by Tim Burton, the musical tells the larger-than-life tale of Edward Bloom, a man who leads a full and fantastical life […]
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Commonwealth Theatre Announced 2-Show Summer Season
Commonwealth Theatre’s two-show summer dinner theater season at Northern Kentucky University is musical and comedy, and the comedy classic is The Odd Couple starring Ken Jones (a.k.a. director of NKU’s School of Fine Arts) as Felix Unger, and George Alexander as Oscar Madison. Summer begins with Life Could Be a Dream, packed with hits from […]
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“Streetcar” is No Period Piece at Falcon Theatre
Delusion is shattered by harsh reality when a pair of iconic characters face-off. Fading southern belle Blanche DuBois is confronted by her merciless brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski in post-WWII New Orleans in Tennessee Williams’s classic A Streetcar Named Desire. It’s on stage at Falcon Theatre in Newport March 16-31. Nate Netzley directs and the Northern Kentucky […]
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Meet Some of the Spellers in Footlighters’ “Spelling Bee”
E-f-f-e-r-v-e-s-c-e-n-t. Also e-n-g-a-g-i-n-g as all get out. That’s musical charmer The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, all about a delightfully eccentric group of sixth graders gathered in their small town to spell their way to victory. As hopes, and struggles are revealed through William Finn’s catchy score, Spelling Bee is one of those jolly […]
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After Six Summer Seasons, NKY Youth Theatre Group is Now Year-Round
After six years presenting summer musicals under the Ft. Thomas Independent Schools umbrella, Commonwealth Artists Student Theatre (CAST) is now a year-round nonprofit youth theatre organization and is starting its first season with a big summer season including Shrek: The Musical. CAST’s summer season opens June 29 with Broadway veteran and Cincinnati native’s Theresa Rebeck’s […]
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In Time for Valentine’s Day, a Cabaret About Love
Here’s what I’ve been missing for years – honest-to-goodness cabaret. So fans of good singers and great songs in an easy atmosphere of tables for two with a drink or two – mark Feb. 9 as the day cabaret returns to the region with LOVE IS LOVE: A Cabaret of Broadway Songs About Love, a […]
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Gruesome, Violent “The Pillowman” to Open at Falcon Theatre
In an interrogation room in an unnamed totalitarian state, a writer is being questioned by two detectives. Why do his stories feature gruesome plots about child murder and torture, they want to know, and why do they seem to mirror a string of recent child murders in the area? And if you think you know […]
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“Willy Wonka” Brings Pure Imagination to Carnegie Stage
Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka has been first made the acquaintance of audiences almost 50 years ago. Yup, it first lit up screens in 1971 as Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with Gene Wilder in the title role. The story of poor (and eminently worthy) Charlie Bucket (Cade C. Harvey), a Golden Ticket, and a […]
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Theatre: Five Shows to Check Out for the Holidays
Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky stages are filled with holiday cheer and we invite you to partake with these five suggestions, some for families, some for grown-ups, some traditional, and some outside-the-box, listed in alphabetical order. Make theater part of your holidays! A Christmas Carol, through Dec. 30. Playhouse in the Park, Eden Park. 7 p.m. […]
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Actors Learn to Play Dead in Black Farce “Unvarnished Truth” in Ft. Thomas
Well, oops. Playwright Tom and wife Annabel are a reasonably happy married couple until one evening they have an argument as to who loves the other most. Things escalate and uh-oh, Annabel is done in by a beanbag chair. It’s the beginning of farcical black comedy The Unvarnished Truth, on stage at Village Players Dec. 1-9. […]
