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Review: “Krisit,” Clifton Players
What do you get when a bunch of folks from the neighborhood decide to put on a show – and coincidentally they happen to be some of the best theater professionals in town? You get “Krisit,” which has the charm of being by a group of Clifton residents in...
Posted: 5/18/2013 2:31 PM
Smale Park Carousel input invited this weekend
Want your opinion heard on the design of a new carousel planned for Smale Riverfront Park? Offer input at weekend community engagement sessions May 18-19 at Krohn Conservatory and the Main Library, hosted by ArtWorks. On May 18, a carousel project representative...
Posted: 5/16/2013 4:22 PM
Review: “Forever Plaid,” Showboat Majestic
Somewhere late in the second act of revue “Forever Plaid,” one of the characters talks about the pleasures of “a cloud of warm sound.” That’s exactly what envelops the audience in semi-pro Showboat Majestic’s 91st season opener. The onstage talent is...
Posted: 5/16/2013 12:26 PM
Video: May Festival: “Not your church anthems”
The May Festival continues Friday and Saturday in Music Hall.
Posted: 5/15/2013 6:55 PM
1/2-price “Mark Twain” tix on sale for students/seniors/educators/military
Half-price tickets are on sale to students, educators, seniors, and military for Mark Twain Tonight! at 8 p.m. May 17. Hal Holbrook is in his 59th year (and more than 2,200 performances) starring in the one-man show celebrating the timely and timeless...
Posted: 5/15/2013 2:16 PM
Ed Stern adds theatrical flourish to May Festival “Oedipus Rex”
Ed Stern, long-time Playhouse in the Park chief before his retirement last year, is keeping busy with out-of-town projects but he’s doing a quick, “semi-staging” of Stravinsky’s opera-oratorio “Oedipus Rex,” as part of the May Festival program Friday...
Posted: 5/15/2013 10:21 AM
Cincy Fringe single tickets now on sale
More than 150 performances by 30+ shows from all over the place — today is a great day to check the line-up for the 10th annual Cincinnati Fringe Festival, running May 29-June 9. Fringe gives an opening night bow to Performance Gallery, the local company...
Posted: 5/14/2013 3:20 PM
Review: May Festival Cathedral concert
For more than three decades, the Cincinnati May Festival has presented an intimate evening of choral music sung by smaller forces in the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption in Covington. Sunday’s sold-out concert with the May Festival Chamber Choir and...
Posted: 5/13/2013 4:06 PM
Tickets available for Opera goes to Church
Reservations for Cincinnati Opera’s popular “Opera Goes to Church/Temple” are available starting today. Because of demand, there will be two performances this year at Allen Temple A.M.E. Church in Bond Hill. And for the first time, the opera will perform...
Posted: 5/13/2013 3:54 PM
Get to know your Wonderette, continuing through June 2 at Ensemble
“The Marvelous Wonderettes: Caps and Gowns” is the third in a series of ’50s and ’60s Hit Parade revues at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati that center on four small town high school girlfriends. Cindy Lou (Denise Devlin), Betty Jean (Sara Mackie), Missy (Leslie...
Posted: 5/13/2013 12:01 PM
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I’ve been writing about classical music and other arts for the Enquirer since 1991. I’m a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, but I almost feel like a Cincinnatian because I’ve lived here since college. I’ve been on five international tours covering the Cincinnati Symphony and Pops orchestras, and I’ve blogged from Europe, Japan and China.
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I’ve been writing about classical music and other arts for the Enquirer since 1991. I’m a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, but I almost feel like a Cincinnatian because I’ve lived here since college. I’ve been on five international tours covering the Cincinnati Symphony and Pops orchestras, and I’ve blogged from Europe, Japan and China.
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