Theatre

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

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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.

“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

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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

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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.

Stripping? Foxy

Joseph Schafer

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

Bad Puppets

Joseph Schafer

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

Is that a handprint on your buttock?

Joseph Schafer

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

Unearthing an emtombed classic

Joseph Schafer

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

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