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...
Miami Opera Performs “Street Scene”: An American Classic Current Today
Sneak Peek by Kenneth Stern of Street Scene: Miami University It is not every day, or theatrical season, that Street Scene, an American opera (as composer Kurt Weill termed it) is produced, either professionally or on campus. Make your reservations and go to Oxford, where it is being performed...
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...
Human Race Theatre’s Next Production Won’t Go Off Without a “Hitch”
Check out this Sneak Peek of Human Race Theatre’s One Slight Hitch, by Liz Eichler: One Slight Hitch runs April 7th-24th. Tickets are available on their website http://humanracetheatre.org...
CSC’s “Julius Caesar” Politically Relevant Today
Check out this Sneak Peek of Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s Julius Caesar, an interview with director Sara Clarke: Julius Caesar runs April 8th through May 7th, tickets are available on their website, www.cincyshakes.com...
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...
Falcon Theatre Presents Another Psychological Thriller in “Beauty Queen of Leenane”
Sneak Peek by Doug Iden of The Beauty Queen of Leenane A dark comedy/horror story with the ironic title of The Beauty Queen of Leenane opens Friday, March 18 at the Falcon Theater in Newport. Based in the mountainous county of Galway in western Ireland, the story concerns a...
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 ...