REVIEW: ‘Once on This Island’ Brings Dazzling Storm to CCM
With stellar casting, star-making performances, and a keen technical design, CCM’s colorful
production of ‘Once on This Island’ is among the best musicals staged
March 30, 2024
With stellar casting, star-making performances, and a keen technical design, CCM’s colorful
production of ‘Once on This Island’ is among the best musicals staged
Cincy Shakes is known for creative reinventions of Shakespeare’s works and this is certainly a creative gamble. I am happy to say that it pays off.
Director Matthew Lewis Johnson transports Shakespeare’s story about 400 years from the 1590’s to the neon-soaked pulse of the 1980’s.
In “trying times” theatre reminds us that endurance is not passive, it is creative. Through every story, we find our way forward, together.