Put on Your Sunday Clothes and Go See The Carnegie ’s ‘Love, Loss, and What I Wore’
Review by Jack Crumley of Love, Loss, and What I Wore: The Carnegie November brings a run of Love, Loss, and What I Wore to The Carnegie Theatre, and if you’ve been missing the writing of Nora Ephron in your life since 2009’s Julie & Julia, grab your sister,...
‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ at NKU Strikes a Dissonant Chord
Review by Spenser Smith of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom: NKU Set in a recording studio in the 1920’s over the course of an afternoon, a group of musicians and the legendary blues singer Ma Rainey record several songs. Much of the play takes the form of discussions and arguments...
CCM Shines With  ‘A Chorus Line’
Review by Teddy Gumbleton of A Chorus Line: CCM Musical Theatre For their first mainstage show, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music’s Department of Musical Theatre is presenting A Chorus Line, the iconic musical featuring music and lyrics by Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban, book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas...
People are born, People die: A Review of CCM Acting’s production of ‘Middletown’
Review by Alan Jozwiak of Middletown: CCM The title of this article is taken from lines from Will Eno’s play Middletown and echo the main theme of the play, which director Richard Hess describes as being about “life and death—and everything in between.â€Â Loosely based on Thorton Wilder’s Our...
Dance, 10; Looks, 10: CCM‘s Chorus Line Gets a Perfect Score
A Chorus Line and CCM Musical Theatre Program are a perfect match. These students LIVE these stories. They bring a passion and a pathos that is visceral, making this musical about an audition as true today as it was in 1975, when the show first hit Broadway. Director Diane...
Covedale‘s ‘The Foreigner’ Breaks Down Walls with Good Natured Humor
Review by Doug Iden of The Foreigner: Covedale Theater Don’t be a stranger to The Foreigner which is now running at the Covedale Theater. This very funny play is a combination of an American and British farce with a labyrinthine plot, mistaken identities, misunderstandings, hidden agendas, slamming doors, secret...
Charm and Big Laughs in Covedale’s ‘The Foreigner’ Aren’t Lost in Translation
Review by Jack Crumley of The Foreigner: Covedale Center for the Performing Arts The Covedale Center for Performing Arts’ fall production of The Foreigner has begun, and the opening night performance ended with an audience that was thoroughly laughed-out and giving a standing ovation. The Foreigner premiered at about...
‘A Chorus Line’ Raises the Barre at CCM
Review by Spenser Smith of A Chorus Line: CCM A Chorus Line, originally conceived by Michael Bennett and his closest dancer friends, centers on seventeen Broadway performers auditioning for spots in the chorus of a new show. The musical is set on the bare stage of a Broadway theatre,...