Monthly Archives: February 2015

February 10, 2015 · 10:04 am

VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE Runs March 10-22

Sherman Fracher as Sonia, Jennifer Johansen as Masha, Ben Palacios as Spike & Matthew Boston as Vanya. Photo by Scott J. Kimmins

Sherman Fracher as Sonia, Jennifer Johansen as Masha, Ben Palacios as Spike & Matthew Boston as Vanya. Photo by Scott J. Kimmins

VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE
Presented by Human Race Theatre Company as part of the Victoria Theatre Association Broadway Series
March 10-22
Dayton

Directed by Margarett Perry

Cast: Matthew Boston as Vanya, Sherman Fracher as Sonia, Jennifer Johansen as Marsha, Ben Palacious as Spike, Alex Sunderhaus as Nina & Torie Wiggins as Cassandra

Award-winning playwright Christopher Durang has created a witty and incisive new farce for our modern hyperconnected world. In bucolic Bucks County, PA, Vanya and Sonia have frittered their lives away in their family’s farmhouse full of regret, angst and the alarmingly ambiguous prophecies of their addled housecleaner Cassandra. Enter their sister, self-absorbed movie star Masha, with her prized 20-something boy toy Spike, and the stage is set for an absurd weekend of general hilarity and global warming.

  • Tue-Fri, March 10-13 at 8pm
  • Sat, March 14 at 2pm & 8pm
  • Sun, March 15 at 2pm & 7:30pm
  • Tue-Fri, March 17-20 at 8pm
  • Sat, March 21 at 2pm & 8pm
  • Sun, March 22 at 2pm & 7:30pm

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February 10, 2015 · 9:42 am

HOUR FARTHER on March 10

CPI_Hour Father logoHOUR FARTHER
Presented by Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative
March 10
Downtown

Written by David Horace Greer

Directed by Camilla Ross

Cast: Elijah Manning, Piper Davis, Derek Snow, Joaquin Casanova, Aaron Davis & Patrick J Mitchell

HOUR FARTHER is a play about an adopted son’s cosmic journey to find his “real father” who discovers how dangerously beautiful truth can be. Set in a fictitious Kentucky town and told through rural, gospel, and hip hop rhythms, HOUR FARTHER explores universal themes of family love, reconciliation, and redemption.

  • Tue, March 10 at 7:30pm

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February 10, 2015 · 8:59 am

STOP KISS on March 9

QCQTC_Stop Kiss logoSTOP KISS
Presented by Queen City Queer Theatre Collective
March 9
Over-the-Rhine

Cast: Mia Vera as Callie, Linnea Bond as Sara, Billy Chase as Peter/Detective Cole, and Jared Earland as George, Abby Rowold as Mrs. Winsley/Nurse & Erin McCamley as Actions Artist

Sara and Callie are walking through New York City’s West Village very late at night, when they share their first kiss. This leads to a vicious attack by an angry bystander, in which Sara is horribly injured. She falls into a coma, which becomes one of the major subjects of the play. George, Callie’s good friend, tries to help with the situation, but there is little he can do. Peter, Sara’s ex-boyfriend from St. Louis, comes to help nurse her back to health. Throughout Stop Kiss, relationships are explored, formed, and even ended.

  • Mon, March 9 at 7:30pm

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February 10, 2015 · 8:10 am

THE RED VELVET CAKE WAR Runs Feb. 26-March 8

BVCT_The Red Velvet Cake War logoTHE RED VELVET CAKE WAR
Presented by Brookville Community Theatre
Feb. 26-March 8
Brookville

Directed by Debbi Robbins

Cast: Tanya Bundenthal, Pam Haislip, Tom Caldwell, Kathy DeVorak, Don Cordes, Mike Robinson, Teri Davis, Cathy Marquis, Lori Alejandro, Andrew Shamblin, Jodi Decker & Sharon Beck

In this riotously funny Southern-fried comedy, the three Verdeen cousins—Gaynelle, Peaches and Jimmie Wyvette—could not have picked a worse time to throw their family reunion. Their outrageous antics have delighted local gossips in the small town of Sweetgum (just down the road from Fayro) and the eyes of Texas are upon them, as their self-righteous Aunt LaMerle is quick to point out. Having “accidentally” crashed her minivan through the bedroom wall of her husband’s girlfriend’s doublewide, Gaynelle is one frazzled nerve away from a spectacular meltdown. Peaches, a saucy firebrand and the number one mortuarial cosmetologist in the tri-county area, is struggling to decide if it’s time to have her long-absent trucker husband declared dead. And Jimmie Wyvette, the rough-around-the-edges store manager of Whatley’s Western Wear, is resorting to extreme measures to outmaneuver a priss-pot neighbor for the affections of Sweetgum’s newest widower. But the cousins can’t back out of the reunion now. It’s on and Gaynelle’s hosting it; Peaches and Jimmie Wyvette have decided its success is the perfect way to prove Gaynelle’s sanity to a skeptical court-appointed psychologist. Unfortunately, they face an uphill battle as a parade of wildly eccentric Verdeens gathers on the hottest day of July, smack-dab in the middle of Texas tornado season. Things spin hilariously out of control when a neighbor’s pet devours everything edible, a one-eyed suitor shows up to declare his love and a jaw-dropping high-stakes wager is made on who bakes the best red velvet cake. As this fast-paced romp barrels toward its uproarious climax, you’ll wish your own family reunions were this much fun!

  • Thu-Sat, Feb. 26-28 at 8pm
  • Sun, March 1 at 3pm
  • Thu-Sat, March 5-7 at 8pm
  • Sun, March 8 at 3pm

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February 9, 2015 · 4:08 pm

Stage Notes For Feb. 9

Sarah Davenport as Heidi Holland. Photography by Mark Lyons.

Sarah Davenport as Heidi Holland in CCM’s THE HEIDI CHRONICLES. Photography by Mark Lyons.

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