CSC’s “As You Like It” has Something for Everyone
Review by Liz Eichler of As You Like It: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company You’ll hit the “Like†button for Cincinnati Shakespeare’s As You Like It, playing now through December 12, 2015. A gift for the early holiday season, director Jeremy Dubin sets this classical comedy in Victorian England, perhaps to...
Diogenes “Relatively Speaking” is Objectively Fun
Review by Prabir Das of Relatively Speaking: Diogenes Theatre Company Relatively Speaking, presented by Diogenes Theatre Company at the Fifth Third Bank Theater of Aronoff Center, is indeed a story that can be a reality. Although set in the 1960s, Alan Ayckbourn’s play still resonates with many households even today....
NKU’s “Seussical” Excites the Imagination
Review by Grace Eichler of Seussical: Northern Kentucky University NKU’s School of the Arts’s first musical of the season, the ever-exuberant Seussical, takes an ingenious and downright funky approach to what can often be a sickly saccharine story. The Flaherty and Ahrens work, based on the famous works of...
Carnegie’s “Sleuth” Keeps the Audience Guessing
Review by Doug Iden of “Sleuth”: I love a mystery – especially one with a labyrinthine plot featuring a titanic verbal battle between two master gamesters. This is the premise in the play Sleuth showing at the Carnegie Theater. In the Anthony Shaffer masterpiece, an older man, Andrew Wyke,...
NKU’s “Seussical” Brings Out its Audiences’ Inner Child
Review by Lisa Gapultos of Seussical: Northern Kentucky University Through his popular collections of illustrated children’s, Theodore Seuss Geisel – better known as Dr. Seuss– created a colorful world, populated by characters like Sam I Am, The Grinch, Things One and Two, and Red Fish and Blue Fish. Seussical,...
“Mystery Plays” at Falcon will Haunt You
Review by Alan Jozwiak of The Mystery Plays: Falcon Theatre Our story lies between the House of Secrets and House of Mystery. So says the interlocutor (Leah Strasser) at the beginning of Robert Aguirre-Sacasa’s The Mystery Plays, now showing at Falcon Theatre. This dark brooding play on the mysteries...
Diogenes’ Freshens up Farce with “Relatively Speaking”
Review by Erica Minton of “Relatively Speaking”: Diogenes Theatre Company Relatively Speaking, a frothy comedy of errors by Alan Ayckbourn, opened this week at Diogenes Theatre Company. The play’s foursome is well cast. Married couple Philip and Sheila are hysterical in the hands of Robert Pavlovich and Abby Rowold....
Diogene’s “Relatively Speaking” is Fun and Frothy
Review by Doug Iden of Relatively Speaking: Diogenes Theatre Relatively Speaking opened at the Diogenes Theater and (relatively speaking) is a funny although somewhat dated show. Penned by Alan Ayckbourn, the British Neil Simon, this is a very British bedroom farce filled with confusion, mistaken identity and countless misunderstandings....