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Speak the spell

Joseph Schafer
Broadway revival of Godspell brings melodic zeal to Toledo

Bring the noise

Joseph Schafer
Percussion, the oldest form of music, gets a streetwise update in Stomp, the avant-garde sensation that blends drumming with body movement. The result...

Brunch, served bloody

Joseph Schafer
The park presents an annual Manor House Murder Mystery.

Revolving door

Michael Pierce
A peek at the complex production of Noises Off

Chuckles and charity

Brandon Doriot
Local comic Joey Barone is back for the holidays

Theater Notes

Jan Thomas
Trampled under hoof Normally, theater-going audiences associate puppets with children's fare, or comedy. Not so for War Horse. "Joey," the titular equestrian machine,...

The Three Interviews of Christmas

TCP Contributor
Up close and personal with the stars of A Christmas Carol

Depression, midwestern style

Joseph Schafer
young woman, growing up during the Great Depression, must make a choice between the love of her life and the freedom to do what she likes.

Laugh riot, act two

Joseph Schafer
The Valentine Theater is also hosting a performance of the long-running musical parody—this time with a touring troupe from NYC.

Tip your waiter

Joseph Schafer
Edmund Lingan's been a busy boy.

America's favorite family

Joseph Schafer
“The Addams Family,” with their whimsically-spooky theme song and ghoulish skewering of middle American values, has delighted audiences for decades as a comic strip, numerous films, television adaptations and now as a 2010 musical coming to the Valentine Theatre for one night only.

Poison Tongues

TCP Contributor
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

Joseph Schafer
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

Megan Aherne
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

TCP Contributor
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

Joseph Schafer
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.
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