'The Foreigner' at the Commonwealth Theatre Company

By Rick Pender for CityBeat

Larry Shue’s 1984 comedy "The Foreigner" is one of the funniest plays you’re likely to find on any stage. When painfully shy “Froggy” LeSeuer accompanies a friend on a fishing trip in rural Georgia, he tries to avoid social interaction by letting everyone think he’s a foreigner who doesn’t speak English.

As a result, he overhears all kinds of things he shouldn’t from people who think he can’t understand them. The Commonwealth Theatre Company at Northern Kentucky University is offering this laugh-filled show as its second production of its summer dinner theater season. You can enjoy dinner Tuesday through Saturday at 6:30 p.m., followed by the show at 8 p.m. (Sunday evening is earlier.) With veteran local director Ed Cohen staging The Foreigner, it’s sure to be an evening overflowing with entertainment.

INFO : Thursday-Sunday. Through July 22. Dinner and show: $30. NKU Corbett Auditorium, 205 Nunn Drive. Highland Heights. 859-572-5464.

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