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August 10, 2015 · 8:16 am

Cast Announced for OF MICE AND MEN at Greater Hamilton Civic Theatre

GHCT_logoGreater Hamilton Civic Theatre has announced the cast OF MICE AND MEN

George …………………………………………………………… Ryan Heinrich
Lennie ……………………………………………………………… Jeff Christian
Boss Man ……………………………………………………………… Bill Peace
Candy ……………………………………………………………….. John Ginter
Slim ………………………………………………………………… Tom Dierling
Carlson ……………………………………………………………. Doug Tumeo
Whit ……………………………………………………………….. Tom Redman
Crooks …………………………………………………………. Brandon Burton
Curley ……………………………………………………………….. Brian Smith
Curley’s Wife …………………………………………………… Hannah Brown

Directed by Rhonda Lucas, performances fun Oct. 8-11. For more information visit http://www.ghctplay.com.

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August 9, 2015 · 1:15 pm

2016 ‘Summer Classics Season’ Announced for Warsaw Federal Incline Theater

Second Year Features More Great Titles and More Show Nights

WFIT_Sign at nightIn every measurable way, the first Summer Classics Season at the Warsaw Federal Incline Theater was a rousing success – including 45 straight sell-outs to open the venue.

Cincinnati Landmark Productions announced today its follow-up Summer Classics Season at the region’s newest performing arts venue.

The 2016 Summer Classics Season, presented by TriHealth, includes:

  • ANYTHING GOES, June 1-26
  • BABY, July 6-31
  • CHICAGO, August 10 – September 4

Based on the strong demand to the inaugural season, the 2016 Summer Classics Season will expand each production run to four weeks (Wednesday to Sunday). This will accommodate the sizeable subscriber base and still allow for single-show ticket availability – something this summer had very little
of.

“”For local, professional-grade performers, this season will be the opportunity to do summer stock theater without having to leave town,” said Tim Perrino, executive artistic director of Cincinnati Landmark Productions. “For the audiences, it will mean more seats available, more great summer nights out with friends and more fun shows onstage in our cool new theater.”

The Warsaw Federal Incline Theater is a brand new, purpose-built, 229-seat performing arts center and parking garage in the Incline District in East Price Hill. Located at the corner of Matson Place and West 8th Street, the $6 million project opened on June 3, 2015.

Subscriptions for the 2016 Summer Classics Season – only $72 – are now on sale. Subscribers to the 2015 Summer Classics Season have their seats held for renewal until March 11, 2016. All seats not renewed by that time will be released. Tickets to individual shows go on sale on April 18, 2016.

The Warsaw Federal Incline Theater is programmed year-round by Cincinnati Landmark Productions,culminating in over 120 show nights. In addition to the Summer Classics Season, the venue will host the four-show District Series season (September to May) designed to complement the Marquee season at the Covedale Center.

Cincinnati Landmark Productions has been serving the West Side for over 30 years – first through its Cincinnati Young People’s Theatre program and then through its ownership and management of the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts in West Price Hill. Since opening in 2002, the arts center quadrupled its subscribership. Attendance ballooned from 13,990 in the 2002-03 season to over 35,000 (representing over 300 zip codes) in the 2014-15 season.

For more information about the Warsaw Federal Incline Theater, visit www.warsawfederalinclinetheater.com or call (513) 241-6550 or (513) 241-6551.

More about the 2016 Summer Classics Season at the Warsaw Federal Incline Theater:

ANYTHING GOES
June 1 – June 26, 2016
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter; Book by Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse;
Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse

Boys-Meet-Girls and the complications get hysterically funny as a boat load of crazy characters, including a bungling gangster, an English gentleman and a bevy of dazzling American showgirls cross the Atlantic in an ocean liner that makes the Love Boat look like a leaky canoe in Cole Porter’s Anything Goes. Terrific songs like “It’s De-Lovely,” “Friendship,” “I Get A Kick Out Of You,” “All Through The Night,” “Anything Goes,” “You’re The Top” and “Blow, Gabriel, Blow” keep this ship steaming full speed ahead!

BABY
July 6 – July 31, 2016
Book by Sybille Pearson, music by David Shire, lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr. Based upon a story developed with Susan Yankowitz

Is there anything more exciting, frightening and utterly transformational than impending parenthood? BABY musically examines how parents-to-be weather the stresses and triumphs, as well as the desperate lows and the comic highs that accompany the anticipation and arrival of their bundle of joy. The show features beautiful songs like “I Want It All,” “Two People in Love” and “The Story Goes On.”

CHICAGO
August 10 – September 4, 2016

By Fred Ebb, Bob Fosse, John Kander, Maurine Dallas Watkins

It’s the roaring twenties Chicago when chorine Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband Amos to take the rap…until he finds out he’s been duped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another “Merry Murderess” Velma Kelly, vie for the spotlight and the headlines, ultimately joining forces in search of the “American Dream”: fame, fortune and acquittal. This sharp edged, dizzyingly funny satire features a glittering score including hits “Razzle Dazzle,” “Cell Block Tango” and the iconic “All That Jazz.” Chicago is the winner of 6 Tony® Awards.

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August 7, 2015 · 8:07 pm

CLP Seeks Actor for Bobby Mills in A CHORUS LINE at Covedale Center

CCPA_Chorus Line promoCincinnati Landmark Productions is seeking a male singer/dancer for the role of BOBBY MILLS in A CHORUS LINE

Rehearsals are in process. Paid gig.

A CHORUS LINE is a stunning musical-vérité about a chorus audition for a Broadway musical. It tells of the achingly poignant ambitions of professional Broadway gypsies to land a job in the show, and is a powerful metaphor for all human aspiration. Memorable musical numbers include I Can Do That, At the Ballet, Dance: Ten; Looks: Three, The Music and the Mirror, What I Did for Love, One (Singular Sensation) and I Hope I Get It. It is a brilliantly complex fusion of dance, song and compellingly authentic drama. The show was instantly recognized as a classic.

Angela Kahle, Choreographer; Matthew Wilson, Director; Michael Kennedy, Music Director; Melanie D. Hall, Production Stage Manager

A CHORUS LINE performance dates
Thurs. Sept. 3 – Fri. Sept. 4 – Sat. Sept. 5 – Sun. Sept. 6
Thurs. Sept. 10 – Fri. Sept. 11 – Sat. Sept. 12 – Sun. Sept. 13
Thurs. Sept. 17 – Fri. Sept. 18 – Sat. Sept. 19 – Sun. Sept. 20
Thurs. Sept. 24 – Fri. Sept. 25 – Sat. Sept. 26 – Sun. Sept. 27
Show times: Thurs at 7:30pm, Friday and Sat at 8:00pm, Sunday at 2pm

If available, please contact Jennifer Perrino at jenniferperrino@covedalecenter.com.

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August 7, 2015 · 8:01 pm

Upcoming Slate of Fringe Encores Announced by Know Theatre of Cincinnati

CFF_logoIn this week’s newsletter, the Know Theatre of Cincinnati announced a slate or upcoming Fringe Encores.

Full details will be released soon, but you can plan on being able to catch the following productions one more time:

  • OCCUPATIONAL PLEASURES from Homegrown Theatre
  • CINDERBLOCK from Homegrown Theatre (technically part of SERIALS 2!: THUNDERDOME but as Chris Wesselman says, “whatevs.”)
  • dungeon from Hit the Lights, Dad! Theatre Company (2015 Audience Pick of the Fringe!)
  • HUNGRY MOTHER from Vodianoi
  • CODY CLARK: A DIFFERENT WAY OF THINKING from Cody Clark
  • CHEMISTRY from The Cake Shop Theatre Company (2015 Producer’s Pick of the Fringe!)
  • Paul’s Strickland’s Trailer Park Triology (AIN’T TRUE AND UNCLE FALSE, PAPA SQUAT’S STORE OF SORTS and TALES TOO TALE FOR TRAILERS)

Details have been announced for SHE’S CRAZY (AND OTHER MENTAL HEALTH MYTHS), running Sunday through Tuesday and A LITTLE BUSINESS AT THE BIG TOP coming Sept. 3-5.

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August 7, 2015 · 1:02 pm

POV: A Dance Exploration of Poverty, Homelessness, and Over-the-Rhine

Embark on a journey with Pones Inc. as we explore our city with a new perspective.

Pones logoOn the heels of its sold-out Fringe production, Shelter, Pones Inc. brings a new piece to Cincinnati audiences which investigates the dynamics of poverty in the Queen City. POV (previously titled ConverseNation) was presented at the CrisisArt Festival held in Arezzo, Italy in 2014, and premiered in Cincinnati in October 2014 as a demonstration of the powerful effect art can have on social change. The work was incredibly well-received on both international and local platforms, with audience members sharing how they “now question their own ideas of privilege,” and calling the work “A beautiful crescendo that invited me to play” and “Powerful, meaningful, sensual, poetic. Very good use of space, the best show I have seen in a long time.”

Through technology and careful listening, Pones company members interviewed a range of people, recording as many interviews as possible and creating POV as a dance piece with a documentary video component. The work is site-specific, taking the audience on a tour of Over-the-Rhine’s lesser-seen corners, using both natural and constructed spaces. “[The show] is visually striking and wonderfully innovative – taking the audience on an evening walk through the neighborhood that is the focus of the show, historic and diverse Over-the-Rhine.” Audiences begin at Washington Park and journey throughout OTR, seeing multiple dance vignettes and stopping off in various indoor spaces, such as NAST Community UMC, to view documentary video. The production involves collaborators such as the Young Professionals Choral Collective, local musician Preston Charles Bell III, Chicago’s hottest spoken word artist J. Evelyn, and local flash mob theatre collective Queen City Flash. Embark with us on this conversation about the economic inequality of our city, as we explore its manifestations with a new perspective.

Performances will take place September 11, 12, and 13 from 8:00-10:00 p.m.

Reservations can be made online, https://ponesinc.wordpress.com/productions/pov/ and tickets will be $15 per person, payable at the beginning of the performance via cash, check, or credit card.

Pones Inc. provides artistic opportunities for community growth by creating engaging new ways for audiences to experience dance.

Founded in 2008, Pones Inc. has collaborated with over 200 artists and 100 art and service organizations. The company creates site-specific performances through a fusion of movement and dance with other art forms. Pones Inc. performers use their bodies to speak their minds and uses its signature pedestrian-inspired movement to spark collaboration, connection, and community. Pones Inc. believes that art creates powerful change.

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