
NKU YES Fest: “New Year’s Eve at the Stop-N-Go”
The setting is December 31, 1999, when Y2K was on everyone’s mind and conspiracy theories about the end of the world abounded.

The setting is December 31, 1999, when Y2K was on everyone’s mind and conspiracy theories about the end of the world abounded.

…the play is thought provoking, often funny, sometimes sad and at the end quite frightening. Definitely it is engrossing.

Director Matthew Lewis Johnson transports Shakespeare’s story about 400 years from the 1590’s to the neon-soaked pulse of the 1980’s.

In “trying times” theatre reminds us that endurance is not passive, it is creative. Through every story, we find our way forward, together.

Stories and storytelling take center stage this weekend as the fifth annual Cincinnati Storytelling Festival will happen Thursday, November 13 through Saturday, November 15, 2025 in their new home at Know Theatre in the heart of OTR.