Until October 25, the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park is presenting the world premiere of Talk, a new play by renowned playwright Theresa Rebeck. (She grew up right here in the Queen City.) Here’s how the Playhouse describes her show: “This world premiere delivers biting satire of the current media environment and will no doubt
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The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park has kicked off its 2026-2027 season with a thrilling crime story, one written for the stage, not adapted from a movie or a novel. Playwright Arun Lakra created Heist for staging by theaters — admittedly, theaters with a lot of capability to handle high-tech stage images for a fast-paced
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is an acknowledged classic from 1925, offering a harsh criticism of the American dream. Its message is that wealth, materialism and status lead to moral decay and tragedy. That makes it an unlikely subject for musical theater. Of course, it’s also a story of a misguided love affair during
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Cincinnati’s fall theater season is in full swing. Here are excerpts from my reviews of three productions at Know Theatre, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company and Falcon Theatre. MAKE BELIEVE Know Theatre of Cincinnati’s artistic director, Bridget Leak, landed a plum offering with Bess Wohl’s Make Believe, and she has personally staged a bravado production to kickstart the
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It’s a busy week for Cincinnati theaters, with no less than four openings immediately following Labor Day. On Wednesday evening, Sept. 9, the first official performance — and the world premiere — of Corner of the Sky: The Songs of Stephen Schwartz as at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati. A full house at ETC was treated to
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Since 2021 I’ve been a member of the Literary Club of Cincinnati, an association of 100 or so people who love to write and share their writing with one another. Founded in 1849, the Club is the oldest continuously operating such organization in the United States. From September through early June we gather weekly for
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I love movies and movie scores. It’s been ten years since La La Land captivated moviegoers with a modern movie musical, an art form all too rare in today’s world. It was nostalgic then, in a charming way, and that feeling hasn’t faded. Now coming soon to Cincinnati Music Hall — Sept. 5 and 6,
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The Carnegie in Covington continues to be the go-to venue for excellent productions of musicals with its August 2026 staging of Jerry Herman’s La Cage aux Folles (onstage through Aug. 23). The tuneful 1984 Tony Award winner has been staged by CCM musical theater professor Rachel Stevens, and features Broadway veteran Josh Walden as Albin,
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While many of Cincinnati’s professional theaters take a summer break, the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company has been working almost nonstop. In July it was a show derived from the Bard’s Much Ado About Nothing: Dogberry and Verges Are Scared. The central characters are a pair of bumbling clowns, minor characters now elevated to the foolish stars.
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There’s just five more days of the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, which wraps up with several “Encore” performances on Saturday, June 13. If you have yet to see any of these well received and highly recommended productions, don’t delay. All three of them will be presented at Know Theatre (1120 Jackson Street in Over-the-Rhine) Champagne Dreams
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