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Poison Tongues

Old maids poisoning lonely old men with homemade wine, a brother convinced he’s Teddy Roosevelt and alcohol-fueled plastic surgery: these are just a few of the overarching quirks in the darkly-comedic play “Arsenic and Old Lace,” presented by the Toledo Repertoire Theater this month.

Gotta EAT

Eating disorders, often written off as solely a problem of young women, terrorize many Americans of all ages, genders and races each day. Linda Daugherty’s play EAT (It’s Not About Food) will bring light to these so-called invisible illnesses through a mix of comedy and drama.

Damefight

Jeffrey Albright, the director and a member of the board for The Village Players, saw Lettice and Lovage on Broadway starring its original vehicle, Dame Maggie Smith in the early 1990s.

The devil is in the details

The production, titled “For the Devil Tells Me So,” is the brainchild of Glacity Theater Collective’s Assistant Artistic Director Megan Aherne, who wrote the script with colleague Sean Koogan.

Shock jock therapy

For the theater connoisseur the tastiest morsel on The Toledo Reps’ plate is probably the Edgy Rep Reading, a staged reading intended for mature audiences.

Stripping? Foxy

Alright, so the films aren’t nearly as sexy as the tagline suggests, but you’re reading aren’t you?

Bad Puppets

Do you remember when Sesame Street taught you that you were special?

Is that a handprint on your buttock?

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past two years

Unearthing an emtombed classic

Little known: Giuseppe Verdi's Aida was the first opera produced in Toledo in 1959

Life is a cabaret, my friends

Glacity Theatre Collective is hosting its first variety show

Trap them

This fall, The Valentine Theatre is presenting a classic murder mystery

Cracking the classics

The Toledo Repertoire Theatre turns 81 this year and kicks off this season with a musical that roasts the hits of Broadway.

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NOCI: HIV is a DRAG Prevention Tour

Bretz Nightclub hosts the best drag shows in Toledo, but this one is for a good cause: HIV prevention.

Too hot to hangle

Being a casanova is harder than it sounds—or so The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, the first play in the Village Players' 2013-14 season...

The future in his hands

2013 has proven to be an eventful year for the Toledo Repertoire Theater...