REVIEW: CSC’s 80’s inspired ‘Love’s Labour’s’ Wins
Director Matthew Lewis Johnson transports Shakespeare’s story about 400 years from the 1590’s to the neon-soaked pulse of the 1980’s.
November 15, 2025
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.
The music captures the push and pull between devotion and identity, between a code that demands obedience and a soul that longs for freedom.
It’s silly and satisfyingly spooky, all at once.
This is theatre at its most powerful: unsettling, cathartic, and deeply human.
Take your sweetheart or the kids, wear your jean jacket, and prepare for a wild ride—because Back to the Future: The Musical is a blast
See this play. Like the fox that messes up the hen house, People in the Woods may disturb your comfortable ideas—and that’s exactly what makes
Cincinnati theatres “punch above their weight,” delivering world-class productions and daring new works.
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.