Kate and Petruchio are so madly mated in Ohio Shakespeare Festival’s The Taming of the Shrew, it makes for a ridiculously fine night of comedy at Stan Hywet’s lagoon.
‘Twain by Three’ at Largely Literary Theater Company
The Players Guild of Canton will host its inaugural play development series
Putnam County comes to Akron
Porthouse Theatre comedy not lost in translation
The Porthouse Theatre comedy is set at Betty Meeks’ fishing lodge in Georgia, where the painfully shy Charlie (van Baars) pretends he speaks no English rather than have to talk to others.
Deliciously funny ‘Romance’ skewers politics, legal system
Ever bold and outrageous, playwright David Mamet is an expert at mockery, lampooning all things ”sacred” everywhere he turns. His 2005 courtroom farce Romance makes a mockery of the justice system, forcing audiences to think about just how capricious the powerful can be. It’s playing at the new None Too Fragile Theatre in Cuyahoga Falls through Aug. 7
‘Wedding Singer’ hits sour notes at the start
The problem with The Wedding Singer is it’s like two different musicals, with a poorly written first act whose story and characters seem entirely superficial.
