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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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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Throughout April 2026 on Wednesdays I’m sharing the 2026-2027 seasons announced by each of Cincinnati’s professional theater companies. This week I’ll offer information about offerings by Cincinnati Shakespeare Company “This season is about bold storytelling and theatrical exhilaration,” said Cincy Shakes Producing Artistic Director Brian Isaac Phillips in the company’s season announcement. “From Shakespeare’s fiercest
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Every one of Cincinnati’s professional theaters produced memorable shows in 2025. My fellow critic Julie Carpenter and I picked a half-dozen for CityBeat‘s “year-in-review” issue — Primary Trust and English at the Cincinnati Playhouse, A Room in the Castle (photo below by Mikki Schaffner) and Mrs. Dalloway at Cincy Shakes, King James at Know Theatre
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For nearly 20 years Cincinnati Shakespeare Company has been producing the hilarious holiday show Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!) Director Jeremy Dubin refreshes it annually with timely humor and new bits. Acted by four Cincy Shakes veterans, it evokes nonstop laughter by poking fun at countless “BHCs” (Beloved Holiday Classics) in a
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I recently previewed two current productions on local stages — Enemy of the People at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company and Where the Mountain Meets the Sea by Jeff Augustin. Here’s a link my CityBeat advance feature. These productions opened last week, and I’ve reviewed both for Talkin’ Broadway. Cincy Shakes is presenting Amy Herzog’s recent adaptation
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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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