CINCINNATI THEATER REVIEWS

The smash hit 'Dear Evan Hansen' has finally arrived at the Aronoff Center as the second to last show of the 2018-19 Broadway in Cincinnati season. The 2017 Tony Award-winning best musical features a Tony Award-winning book by Steven Levenson and a Tony Award-winning score by Benj Pasek and Justin P...

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The heat is certainly on in Cincinnati as the national tour of 'Miss Saigon' plays at the Aronoff Center now through April 21. The tour is bringing the 2017 Tony-nominated revival to cities across the country with an electric cast and some of the most stunning technical elements audiences will see....

Can you guess what is running now through May 4 at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company? It's one of the most enduring curses in the theatre realm, but it also happens to be one of Shakespeare's most famous plays: 'Macbeth.'...

Hnath systematically sets out to prove that humans are selfish as each character tries to manipulate the others with long speeches. A meek and wounded Torvald (no match for the fiery and powerful feminist), risks everything to give Nora what she wants (only after being pushed to the brink), and it's...

Hamilton is a show that feels as if it's of the moment. It's a cultural phenomenon and certainly one worth checking out, not least so you can experience the frenzy firsthand....

The chemistry of the leads, along with the support of the terrific cast, makes Ripcord a delight to watch from beginning to end. As Meyers fittingly mentions in her director's notes, 'If you have the right people in the room and a great script…the rest of a director's job is simply guidance...I a...

Lights up on Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park as 'Hamilton' creator Lin Manuel Miranda's 'In the Heights' plays now through Feb. 17....

With a terrific cast, led by the humorous Israeli TV and film star, Yehezkel Lazarov, this production made me think, made me ask newer and more interesting questions, and, oh, those gloriously memorable songs, the humor, the love stories. For me, Fiddler on the Roof remains perched firmly at the top...

While it's been over 20 years since the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical debuted on the great white way, this production feels as important and fresh as ever....

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The Play That Goes Wrong, playing at the Aronoff through December 2nd, features very good actors acting like very bad actors: an amateur drama club putting on a dismal failure of a murder mystery - and it is the most brilliant dismal failure we've seen on stage since Noises Off....

Audiences are taking a trip to a world of 'Pure Imagination' with Cincinnati's 2018-2019 Broadway Series opener, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, running now through Nov. 4! Based on the beloved children's novel by Roald Dahl, Charlie tells the story of a young boy who dreams of one day becoming a...

WFIT's Next to Normal takes audience members on a cathartic, emotional rollercoaster, that lets them walk out of the theater having experienced something larger than themselves. Feeling like you wish you were there? You still have time to catch Next to Normal through October 21. ...

Have you lived with someone who is your polar opposite, yet they have brought something out in you that you didn't know was there? Jen Silverman's play The Roommate, running at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park now through October 21 tells a similar story....

FLY BY NIGHT at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati (ETC) is not a traditional musical. It is not strictly a love story. Nor is it strictly a New York City story, nor a pop/rock musical, nor a folk musical. Leave expectations at the door, let the story unfold in its unique and circuitous way, and you may d...

Whisper House, directed by Dan R. Winters, was written in 2010 by Kyle Jarrow with music by Duncan Sheik....

Hello! The Book of Mormon is back in town to make you laugh and make you think. The irreverent musical by the creators of South Park moves at a frantic pace, beginning by introducing the audience to a bevy of elders, or Mormon young men who go door-to-door to spread the word about their religion....

The Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty musical follows the story of a young peasant girl named Ti Moune who falls in love with a wealthy young man from across the island. Throughout the show, Ti Moune, with the help of the Island gods goes on a journey that tests her love in the midst of hate. Once On...

What could leave Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati's artistic director of 22 years, D. Lynn Meyers, beaming in the lobby as if she had produced her very first show? Perhaps it was the sound of HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH'S enthusiastic opening night audience, positively bubbling as they exited the theatre....

Disney's Broadway production of Aladdin is just one of many animated films adapted for live performance since Disney began its uber-successful march on Broadway with Beauty and the Beast in 1993....

"Noises Off" makes for a fun night out of sidesplitting laughter and loads of slapstick comedy performed by one of the most talented companies in Cincinnati! Don't miss it running now through June 9!...

Murder for Two won its creators, Joe Kinosian (book and music) and Kellan Blair (book and lyrics), a Joseph Jefferson Award, which is Chicago's local version of the Tony's, for Best New Musical in 2011. Come see this comically murderous rollercoaster ride before it goes off the rails....

There's "a lot of livin' to do" at CLP's Bye Bye Birdie, so don't miss it as it runs at the Warsaw Federal Incline Theatre through May 27! ...

Run to find Treasure Island at Cincinnati's Playhouse in the Park now through May 19! If you don't, you may be receiving a 'black dot' or be asked to walk the plank!...