On-stage magic for the little ones

Children's Theatre of Cincinnati announces its 2012-2013 season at the Taft Theatre. The four-show season features two new hour-long musicals: "Santa's Toy Factory" by Ken Jones; and "The Magical Adventures Of Merlin" by Janet Yates Vogt and Mark Friedman

Look at Lady Gaga's Stage Sketch: What Do You See?

So what exactly is Lady Gaga trying to tell us with the extremely elaborate sketch of her proposed Born This Way Ball stage design (which she conveniently tweeted the day, cough, Madonna, cough, released details of a super-size world tour)? Is this the Magic Kingdom? Downton Abbey? The Atlantis hotel in the Bahamas? A gladiator's arena? Maybe it isn't a stage sketch at all, but an elaborate ...

Magic in mundane

There's a little bit of Raoul in everybody. The Everyman of indeterminate age and average aspirations, his banal daily struggles are elevated by art into the epic heroism of Joyce's Leopold Bloom, Chaplin's Little Tramp, Miller's Willy Loman and Pixar's Wall-E.

Stage chiller hits the big screen

Harry Potter star is spooked in the Woman in Black

Review: The Elephant Room: In ''The Elephant Room,'' the humor is outlandish, cool irreverent and nerdy plus there's ...

Stage: Part magic show, part witty performance piece, part hilarious guy-silliness,  The Elephant Room  is the theatrical equivalent of 3 a.m. in the basement ''rec room'' with your older brother and his friends at their funniest. Of course, this would be the brother and friends who are accomplished magicians, actors and comics – but you get the idea -- the humor is outlandish, cool irreverent ...