The Laramie Project Continues at Sinclair By Emma Jarman Theater is one of America’s oldest and most effective escapist pastimes. We watch movies and attend plays to put our own troubles behind and become absorbed in the fantastical yet fictional dilemmas and perfectly timed resolutions of the characters onscreen or stage. But what if there [...]
Theatre In The Miami Valley By Brian P. Sharp Bus Stop is at Dayton Playhouse A lot can happen in a single night — especially at a street corner restaurant in a small Midwestern town where a busload of stranded passengers waits out a snowstorm. Take yourself back to a diner about 30 miles west [...]
And Other Theater Events By Brian P. Sharp The Singing Nuns The Dayton Playhouse is rounding out the season with three great shows. The first is Nunsense, the hilarious musical comedy that opens Friday, February 3 at the Dayton Playhouse and runs through February 19. The play is published by Samuel French with book, music [...]
A Glimpse into Des McAnuff, The Director By Brian P. Sharp The man behind the Jersey Boys …? That would be Des McAnuff, the Director of the show. I had the opportunity to chat with this amazing man. Born in Illinois and raised in Canada by his Mother, after the loss of his Father, [...]
Insight into the Mind of an American Abstract Expressionist By Brian P. Sharp As stated in the production: “everything is not fine in this world”… but this production is more than fine. The art and evolution of Mark Rothko is the subject of Red, a play by John Logan now playing at The Loft Theatre [...]
The Show Within The Show By Brian P. Sharp So, who are these three women — these three women behind the men we know as the Jersey Boys? We’ve heard it before … it’s the woman behind the man. Well in this case, it’s three women behind the men, and those three women play over [...]
The Broadway Hit Comes to Dayton As the world we live in seems more interested in the Jersey shore…or the “real” housewives of New Jersey…Dayton gets to see the JERSEY BOYS roll into town. There is more reality in this musical, which won a Tony Award, than in either of the aforementioned shows. This musical [...]
Muse Machine presents The Wizard of Oz By Natasha Habib We all know the story of Dorothy’s adventures in Oz, and have probably seen the 1939 film classic or read the stories by L. Frank Baum. Some of us have seen Dorothy whisked away by a tornado or heard “there’s no place like home” more [...]
Theatre news and reviews By Brian P. Sharp The Human Race sees “Red” The Tony Award-winning play Red that is, John Logan’s two-man drama which is a thrilling look at the artistic process and a biographical sketch of a methodical painter that defied the stereotype of the reckless artist. Artist Mark Rothko the Abstract Expressionist [...]
Highlights of collegiate and professional theatre in 2011 By Brian P. Sharp One of the highlights this year happens to have been a loss (resignation), when a vital part of theatre in Dayton – Tina McPhearson previously the VP of Programming at the Victoria Theatre Association – known for bringing the big shows to the [...]
High Fructose Corn Syrup By Megan Garrison The FDA recently rejected a bid to officially change the name of high [...]
Walker was Victorious in Wisconsin Because His Reforms Worked By David H. Landon The folks at MSNBC had a bad [...]
It Takes More than a Tweet By Rana Odeh The victory of Republican Governor Scott Walker over Milwaukee Democrat Mayor [...]
What are the Consequences of Recall Election in Wisconsin? Last Tuesday, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) prevailed in an unusual [...]
Obama’s Support of Same Sex Marriage Will Cost Him Swing States By David H. Landon By Election Day, the President’s [...]
President Obama Announces Support of Same-Sex Marriage Most pundits believe that this Presidential election will be decided on the issue [...]
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