Spend an Intimate Evening with NET’s “Frankie and Johnny”
Review by Abby Rowald of Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune: New Edgecliff Theatre Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune, by Terrence McNally, is a great play. A two-hander with sparkling dialogue and characters that are complex in their simplicity, it is a joy to...
Falcon’s “Silence!” is Shear Madness
Review by Doug Iden of Silence: The Musical: Falcon Theatre Silence! The Musical, the outrageous parody of the movie Silence of the Lambs, exploded at the Falcon Theatre in a regional premier. This play continues the Falcon tradition of producing quirky, offbeat musicals. Amidst a quintet of agitated lambs...
NET’s “Frankie and Johnny” is a Rhapsody in Reverse
Review by Prabir Das of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune: New Edgecliff Theatre New Edgecliff Theatre launched its 17th season with Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune at the Essex Studios on September 24, 2015. Frankie & Johnny are literally the two people that...
Expect a Country Flare from CCM’s “Big River”
Preview by Gregory Bossler of Big River : CCM Big River, the musical the adaptation of Mark Twain’s classic 1884 novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, opens the Studio Series at University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music on October 8. The original Broadway production won seven Tony Awards in...
NKU’s “Moon Over Buffalo” Takes Wing with Non-Stop Humor
Review by Grace Eichler of Moon Over Buffalo: Northern Kentucky University Northern Kentucky University is starting off their season with an energetic production of Moon Over Buffalo. Director and Cincinnati “name to know” Charlie Roetting certainly makes his mark on the Corbett Theatre stage with this 1950’s green room...
Human Race Struts its Stuff with “The Full Monty”
Review by Liz Eichler of The Full Monty: Human race Theatre I fully recommend THE FULL MONTY, playing now through October 4 at the HUMAN RACE THEATRE in Dayton. In addition to the titillating strip tease acts, there is also a story, about how a steel town faces unemployment,...
Incline Theatre Gets Serious with “Extremities”
Preview by Laurel Humes of Extremities: Incline Theater “You will be on the edge of your seat.†That’s a promise from director Tim Perrino as he prepares to stage Extremities, opening Sept. 30 at the still very new Warsaw Federal Incline Theater in the Incline District, East Price Hill....
CSC’s “Cyrano de Bergerac” is a Welcoming Classic
Review by Greg Bossler of Cyrano de Bergerac: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company Cincinnati Shakespeare Company has opened their current season with a solid production of Edmond Rostand’s classic melodrama Cyrano de Bergerac, based on the translation by Anthony Burgess, who infuses the original text with a 20th-century directness that...