Cincinnati Piano Legend Ricky Nye Revives the Blues & Boogie Piano Summit
Ricky Nye has more juggling expertise than a train car full of Ringling Bros. clowns. While he’s prepping for a pair of Raisins reunion shows, he’s simultaneously managing the details of staging the first Blues & Boogie Piano Summit since 2017, taking place at the venerable Memorial Hall on Nov. 8. Nye organized the first…
‘Sincerely Yours, Pauli Murray’ Honors a Civil Rights Pioneer’s Life Through Music
“Sincerely Yours, Pauli Murray” is a ten-movement dramatic cantata celebrating the life of Reverend Dr. Anna Pauline “Pauli” Murray, a Black woman of astounding achievements you’ve likely never heard of. The Ohio premieres of the cantata are Nov. 7-9, with two performances in Yellow Springs at Antioch’s Foundry Theater and one in Cincinnati at the…
Cincinnati Playhouse’s ‘The Heart Sellers’ Explores Immigrant Life, Loneliness and Friendship in America
Coming up next at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park is Lloyd Suh’s The Heart Sellers. Suh is one of the most produced playwrights in America today. In 2023, the Playhouse staged Suh’s The Chinese Lady, about Afong May, the first Chinese woman who entered America and was toured around as an attraction across the…
The Election Guide: Republican Cory Bowman Mounts Long-Shot Challenge to Mayor Aftab Pureval
Cory Bowman’s campaign to unseat Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval in the Nov. 4 election will take a miracle of the kind Bowman claims are performed at his faith healing church in the West End. “I think this is a nice sort of publicity stunt, but this is not a campaign for mayor,” said David Niven,…
