DAYTON THEATRE GUILD 2015/2016 SEASON
We are please to announce our forthcoming, 2015/2016 season.
OUTSIDE MULLINGAR by John Patrick Shanley
Production Dates: Aug 21-Sep 6, 2015
From the author of DOUBT and MOONSTRUCK comes a romantic comedy set in rural Ireland. Anthony and Rosemary are 40-somethings who haven’t got a clue when it comes to love. These hopeless singletons will need to overcome a bitter land feud, familial rivalries, and their own romantic fears to find happiness. Full of dark humor and poetic prose, Pulitzer-Prize winning writer John Patrick Shanley’s tenderhearted portrait reminds us it’s never too late to take a chance on love. (Tony Award Nominee for Best Play)
Directed by David Shough
Produced by K.L.Storer
Audition dates: July 6 & 7, 2015
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THE COLUMNIST by David Auburn
Production dates: Oct 2-18, 2015
In mid-century America, newspaper columnists are kings — and Joseph Alsop wears the biggest crown. Joe sits at the nexus of Washington life: beloved, feared, and courted in equal measure by the very people whose careers he determines. But as the sixties dawn and America undergoes dizzying change, the intense political dramas Joe has been throwing his weight around in — supporting the war in Vietnam and Soviet containment, criticizing student activism — come to bear a profound personal cost. A play from the Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning author of PROOF.
Directed by Doug Lloyd
Produced by TBA
Audition dates: Aug 24 & 25, 2015, 7:00 pm*
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**** HOLIDAY EXTRA ****
ALL IS CALM, THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE OF 1914
by Peter Rothstein with Musical arrangements by Erick Lichte and Timothy C. Takach
Production dates: Nov 20-Dec 6, 2015
The Western Front, Christmas, 1914. Out of the violence a silence, then a song. A German soldier steps into No Man’s Land, singing “Stille Nacht.” Thus begins an extraordinary night of camaraderie, music, peace. A remarkable true story, told in the words and songs of the men who lived it.
Directed by Kathy Mola
Produced by Barbara Jorgensen
Audition dates: Oct 5 & 6, 2015, 7:00 pm*
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NIGHT WATCH by Lucille Fletcher
Production dates: Jan 8-24, 2016
Elaine Wheeler, troubled by unsettling memories and vague fears, suffers from insomnia and appears to be close to becoming unhinged as one suspicious event after another takes place. From their Manhattan townhouse, her husband tries to comfort her, but when he steps away for a moment, Elaine screams as she sees (or believes she sees) the body of a dead man in the window across the way. The police are called, but find nothing except an empty chair. Elaine’s terror grows as shortly thereafter she sees still another body — this time a woman’s — but by now the police are skeptical and pay no heed to her frantic pleas.
Directed by Saul Caplan
Produced by Debra Kent
audition dates: Nov 23 & 24, 2015, 7:00 pm*
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SLOWGIRL by Greg Pierce
Production dates: Feb 26-Mar 13, 2016
Sterling, a former lawyer turned recluse in the Costa Rican jungle, is surprised by the arrival of his 17-year-old niece, Becky, whom he barely knows. She is a talkative high-schooler whose parents sent her out of town for a week of obscurity in the wilderness. Unaccustomed to having constant company, Sterling slowly acquires a sense of Becky’s situation, which is disconcertingly similar to his own retreat from the opinions of others, and both realize their own remorse over moral negligences.
Directed by Rick Flynn
Produced by Kathy Mola
Audition dates: Jan 11 & 12, 2016, 7:00 pm*
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TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL by Horton Foote
Production dates: Apr 15-May 1, 2016
Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940’s Houston, Texas, with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish — just once before she dies — is to revisit Bountiful, the small Texas town of her youth which she still refers to as “home.” But her son, Ludies, is too concerned for her health to allow her travel alone, and her petty daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae, insists they don’t have money to squander on bus tickets. This prompts “escape” attempts each month, which coincide with the arrival of Mrs. Watts’ Social Security check. Then, Mrs. Watts makes a successful escape, and one last trip home.
Directed by Craig Smith
Produced by Debra Kent
Audition dates: Feb 29 & Mar 1, 2016, 7:00 pm*
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LAST GAS by John Cariani
Production dates: May 27-June 12, 2016
Nat Paradis is a Red Sox-loving, part-time single dad who manages Paradis’ Last Convenient Store, the last convenient place to get gas — or anything — before the Canadian border to the north and the North Maine Woods to the west. When an old flame returns to town, Nat gets a chance to rekindle a romance he gave up on years ago. But sparks fly as he’s forced to choose between new love and old. LAST GAS takes a hilarious and heartbreakingly hard look at love lost and found, and what it means to “get back to happy.”
Directed by Debra Kent
Produced by K.L.Storer
Audition dates: Apr 18 & 19, 2016, 7:00 pm*
*audition dates may be subject to change.
Information about the 2015/2016 Season Tickets will be forthcoming
Hamilton, Ohio – This presentation, based on Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book,” tells the story of the young boy Mowgli, who was raised by wolves in the jungle. Join us on Friday, March 13, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. as The Frisch Marionettes present Jungle Book: The Story of Mowgli’s Fire. This event is part of the Fitton Family Fridays series.
Behind the Curtain Cincinnati 