The Melting Pot that Melded: “Street Scene’s” Creative Collaborators

Contributor Kenneth Stern discusses the history and contributors to Kurt Weill’s Street Scene, to be performed by Miami University’s theatre and voice department April 7th-9th. For more on the production itself and an interview with producer Benjamin Smolder, see the following post.  First, Street Scene was an original and a...

Carnegie’s “Last Five Years” Its Next Big Thing

Sneak Peek by Charles Roetting of The Last Five Years: Carnegie Theatre In its simplest form it’s about a man and a woman who fall in love, get married and then get divorced. The woman tells her side of the story from the end of the marriage backwards, the...

The Real Life Family of Lorraine Hansberry

Miami University is presenting Lorraine Hansberry’s landmark play Raisin in the Sun, the story of a black family’s experiences in the Washington Park subdivision of Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood as they attempt to “better” themselves with an insurance payout from the death of the father. Raisin in the Sun opens Wednesday March 9th...

CSC’s “Emma” a Costumer’s Paradise

Sneak Peek by Liz Eichler of Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s Emma. Check out this exclusive backstage interview of Stormie Mac, costume designer for CSC’s wonderful presentation of Jane Austin’s Emma: Emma is running now  through March 26th–tickets at www.cincyshakes.com  ...