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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Two all-time prolific English writers have showed up simultaneously — although very differently — in the Queen City through March 29. At the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park you can see Mrs. Christie (above, photo by Mikki Schaffner), a fanciful speculation behind the actual 1926 disappearance of the then-young mystery writer Agatha Christie. Heidi Armbruster’s
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On Sept. 18, 2025, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company (CSC) announced a $1 million bequest from Virginia “Jinny” Browning, a longtime friend, patron and supporter. It is the largest bequest ever made to the company, which plans to use it to strengthen programming, operations and endowment. Browning’s relationship with CSC began in 2012, when she saw Artistic
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How many times can a play go wrong? It’s so hard to count that Cincinnati Shakespeare Company has resurrected its production of the popular farce, The Play That Goes Wrong by Henry Lewis, Henry Shields and Jonathan Sayer. The show that ends up with the scenery collapsing and everything else in a hopeless mess proved
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