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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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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Informed theatergoers probably know A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 Broadway debut at age 29. She was the first Black woman to have a show produced there there. Lesser known is her second show, produced five years later: The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window. Suffering from cancer before and during the run of
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The 22nd iteration of the Cincy Fringe kicked off on Friday, May 30; it will run until Saturday, June 14. Over the course of the next two weeks there will be 194 performances of 42 different productions in 34 time slots. This is an annual production of Know Theatre (1120 Jackson Street in Over-the-Rhine), the
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