The Wexner Center for the Arts (on the Ohio State campus in Columbus) is the closest presenting series that’s all about cutting edge. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Tuesday.
Here are some highlights, but visit the web site for everything you ever wanted to know. I highly recommend making a day of it, [...]
Playhouse in the Park’s free high school criticism class for the 2010-2011 academic year is now accepting applications. The Enquirer’s Jackie Demaline leads the seminar on creative writing and critical analysis.
If you love to see theater in Cincinnati, from Playhouse and Broadway touring to Know this is a great opportunity. That said, IDEAL students [...]
There’s nothing like good free theater. The first place I like every season is the CCM Cohen Studio series.
Here’s what most of this academic year is looking like, for drama and musical theater (opera still to come). It includes continuations of three successful original concepts:
Thurs. Oct. 21, 8 p.m.Fri., Oct. 22, 8 p.m.Sat., Oct. 23, 2:30 [...]
Cincinnati Outdoor Classics will have a night of free entertainment including music, a silent auction, and of course, Shakespeare beginning at 6 p.m. Aug. 14 at Rohs Street Café in Clifton Heights (245 West McMillan St.) The “Coffee and Shakes”fundraiser is in support of its 2010 season (Sept. 1-12) of free Shakespeare at Seasongood Pavilion in Eden [...]
The Wall Street Journal reports (and thanks, Arts Watch) that “at least 13 major productions of American or British musicals are running in Japan. Next to Normal will hit Oslo in September. In Manila, an English-speaking Filipina in a honey wig sings ‘Omigod You Guys’ at Legally Blonde: The Musical every night.
Foreign productions of [...]
New York, New York –Pamela Myers sings at the Metropolitan Room in Jamie deRoy & friends on Wednesday and makes a guest appearance in SONDHEIM UNPLUGGED at the Laurie Beechman Theatre on July 19. Yup, Myers says, “Something tells me to get on that train with yet another 100 people….”
Do you have an opinion on the state of the arts in Ohio?
Don’t be shy. The Ohio Arts Council(OAC) is conducting a statewide arts, culture and entertainment opinion survey in an effort to identify and meet citizens’ cultural needs. The results will be used as part of the OAC’s strategic planning process.
What do you think the state of [...]
The Human Race and Dayton Balletseasons were on the books a couple of months ago, but things have been hopping in the Queen City and it just kept getting pushed back, and back, and back…
Human Race, which can be counted on to bring some surprises, brings the region its first production of Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer [...]
The Second City, Chicago’s famed comedy/improv company,will spend the holidays in Cincy with a brand new revue for Playhouse in the Park — “The Second City Does Cincinnati: Pride and Porkopolis.” (Playing Nov. 6 – Dec. 23.) The thing is — they know zippity about out town. All that’s going to change next month, when the Second City crew [...]
Cincinnati native daughter Theresa Rebeck reads from her new novel “Twelve Rooms with a View” tonight — wish I could be there but, Fringe commences. (Watch for first reviews tomorrow.) Check the preview of the reading at Cincinnati.com and CinStages.com.
The new Playhouse commission is in the hands of Ed Stern; Rebeck is also at work on [...]
