Thu, May 25 from 6-8pm
Sat, May 27 from 10am-noon
Hamline Chapel United Methodist Church
102 W High Street, Lawrenceburg, Indiana 47025
Rivertown Players will be holding auditions for their Summer Musical.
Plan to bring music to sing that showcases your vocal range and read from the script.
Actors 14+ are welcome to audition. Auditions on Thursday, May 25 from 7-9, as well as Saturday, May 27, 10-noon.
Show dates are July 20-22.
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Adam Zeph as The Cat in the Hat. Photo by Mikki Schaffner Photography.
Extra fun before and after DR. SEUSS’S THE CAT IN THE HAT
Cincinnati – This summer, The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati, the country’s oldest professional theater for young audiences, invites families to be a part of its first summertime show, and its first full-scale production on the Ralph and Patricia Corbett Showtime Stage: DR. SEUSS’S THE CAT IN THE HAT!
Running June 2 – July 9, 2017, DR. SEUSS’S THE CAT IN THE HAT will treat audiences to 36 up-close-and-personal performances in the small 152-seat performance space housed in the company’s facility on Red Bank Road in Hyde Park.
Show times include:
Each ticket purchased opens the door to a special experience before and after EVERY performance – including:
The fun begins 45 minutes before show time!
The entire experience is just $20 per person! For tickets, visit www.ticketmaster.com or call 800-745-3000.
DR. SEUSS’S THE CAT IN THE HAT is based on the book by Dr. Seuss. Play originally produced by the National Theatre of Great Britain. Adapted and originally directed by Katie Mitchell. Dr. Seuss text, characters and images TM and © 2009 Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati’s production is being directed by Deondra Kamau Means.
This summertime adventure features silliness for all ages when everyone’s favorite cat comes to mischievous life in this theatrical adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic. From the moment his tall, red-and-white-striped hat appears around the door, Sally and her brother know that The Cat in the Hat is the funniest, most mischievous cat that they have ever met. With the trickiest of tricks and the craziest of ideas, he is certainly loads of fun. He turns a rainy afternoon into an amazing adventure… but what will mum find when she gets home…?
The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati’s Ralph and Patricia Corbett’s Showtime Stage is conveniently located in The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati’s building at 4015 Red Bank Road, Cincinnati, OH 45227. Just off I-71, close to US-50/Columbia Parkway, as well as the Norwood Lateral.
The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati’s production of DR. SEUSS’S THE CAT IN THE HAT is made possible by PNC Grow Up Great. The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati is supported by the generosity of community contributions to the ArtsWave Campaign. The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this program with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.
The 6-person cast includes:
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A radio show revenge dramedy inspired by infidelity
E Cubed Productions makes their Cincinnati Fringe Festival debut with ZELDA AND HADLEY: TOGETHER AT LAST performing at the Arts Academy Commons, 1212 Jackson St.
The entirely fictional absolutely true story of what happens when F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway’s wives have had enough of their husbands’ philandering ways and get even with a radio drama. To begin, the audience decides which literary masterpiece to tackle. The ladies then improve that story by playing all the characters, creating all the sound effects, and reminding the audience that “hell hath no fury…” Also, there’s gin.
Rated: PG 13.
E Cubed Productions is the brainchild of Eileen Elizabeth Earnest. This is, of course, how she ended up with a production company called E Cubed. She is an Executive Member of OTRimprov, Co-Manager of ComedySportz Cincinnati, and 50% of the Sketchy Dames Comedy Troupe. She has performed with Know Theatre, Falcon Theater, Hugo West Theatricals, Carnegie, Human Race Theatre Co, and Landmark Productions.
The inspiration for ZELDA AND HADLEY: TOGETHER AT LAST came from the desire to see strong, women-led shows. Realizing that she didn’t need to wait for someone else to write a show for talented, funny, brassy women-because she freaking is one-she wrote it her own damn self. While this is Eileen’s first Fringe production as writer and director, she has performed with OTRimprov and was featured in last year’s Fringe offering, Furlesque. Eileen thanks her talented cast for their time and dedication and you for supporting live theatre. This much and more.
CAST
Elizabeth Chinn Molloy as Hadley Richardson
Elizabeth is making her Fringe debut! A native of Cincinnati, Elizabeth has performed with various theatres throughout the Greater Cincinnati area, including Concert: Nova, New Edgecliff Theatre, and Falcon Theater. Most recently, Elizabeth had the opportunity to travel the country as a touring actor with MadCap Puppets. Elizabeth is a graduate of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. As always, she would like to thank her friends and family for their continued support and encouragement, especially Eileen, in all her Upper Echelon glory!
Why I signed on for this particular Fringe Show: Eileen said she was writing a Fringe show, and she asked if I would be interested in being in it. I said yes.
Alison Rampa as Zelda Fitzgerald
Alison is delighted to be making her scripted Fringe debut in this new and original work. Alison is a cast member of OTRimprov and ComedySportz Cincinnati where she gets to regularly flex her improv chops at the Know Theater, Below Zero Lounge, Memorial Hall and beyond. She is also part of Sketchy Dames a two woman sketch and improv group whose mission is to change the world through pretty dresses and funny make em ups. Her day job is teaching 8th grade Reading and English at Wilson Middle School in Hamilton. She’d like to thank Eileen for this opportunity, her husband Justyn for letting
her out of the house several nights in a row and her three year old Ozzy for being the best little monster a mom could ask for. Rawr.
Why I signed on for this particular Fringe Show: This show allows me the great honor of playing a strong vibrant woman, while working with equally strong vibrant women in an interesting genre.
CREW
Scott Miller- Stage Manager
This is Scott’s first foray in stage management for Fringe and he is doing an amazing job. Ask anyone and they’ll tell you that he is the best stage manager ever. This stage is so well managed that it has conformed to his every whim, has always been on time, and has never talked back even once. Scott hopes to participate in future Fringe shows and is available for parties. He accepts payment in donuts—sweet, delicious, cuddly donuts. He’d like to thank the little people, but he doesn’t know who any of them are. Most especially, Scott looks forward to continuing to speak about himself in the third person, much to the dismay of his doting wife.
Why I signed on for this particular Fringe show: My wife made me do it, that, and the donuts.
PERFORMANCES:
Art Academy Commons-1212 Jackson St. 45202
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CINCINNATI (May 11, 2017) — Transgender storyteller Penny Sterling brings her one-woman show SPY IN THE HOUSE OF MEN: A One-Woman Show with Balls to the Cincinnati Fringe Festival for five performances, beginning June 1, at the Coffee Emporium, 110 E. Central Parkway, in Cincinnati.
In SPY IN THE HOUSE OF MEN, Penny tells the story of how she lived the first 54 years of her life as Brian; growing up with her parents and brother, navigating relationships with women, raising kids, and attempting to be as much of a “man’s man” as she could figure out how to be– mostly by watching how guys behaved and looked. Hers is a story of pain and shame, but also of discovery and ultimately, joy.
Told with lots of humor by an actor, writer, and standup comedian who was voted the Funniest Man in Rochester (NY) in 1992 (and no, we’re not making that up), SPY IN THE HOUSE OF MEN premiered to rave reviews and sold-out performances at the 2016 Rochester Fringe Festival, and was voted Audience Favorite this year at Ithaca Fringe, where reviewers called it “a hilarious, suspenseful, heart-stopping story” and “a compact evening’s entertainment that’s as funny as it is enlightening.”
“This show started out as a series of Facebook posts where I tried to explain to my friends who I was, what I had been through, and what it means—and maybe more importantly, what it doesn’t mean—to be transgender,” says Penny. “People responded positively, asked me questions, and told me stories of friends and relatives who were also struggling with issues of gender identity.
They told me what I wrote helped them better understand the issue. ‘You should write a book,’ they’d say,” recalls Penny. “‘I don’t wanna write a book,’ I’d reply. But I could make a show about it.”
Penny received her BA in Theatre from Ithaca College, but made her living behind the camera as an Emmy Award-nominated photographer, editor, producer and director. In the 1990’s, she tried her hand at standup comedy, but gave it up in order to raise a family. Coming out as transgender when her youngest child was a senior in high school, Penny thought about going back into standup. “I made it to the semifinals of the 2016 ‘Funniest Person’ competition, but my heart wasn’t in it,” she says. “I realized I was sacrificing truth for jokes, and that’s not what I wanted.”
Penny makes her home in Rochester, NY, and is available for pre-festival interviews via phone, email, Facetime, or Skype, and during the festival by appointment. Stills and Video are available upon request. For more information on Penny and her upcoming performance schedule, visit penny-sterling.com.
Tickets and showtimes are available through the Cincy Fringe website: cincyfringe.com.
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A SYRIAN CHILD REFUGEE IS ADOPTED
BY WHITE A-LIST CELEBRITY COUPLE
WRITTEN BY JENNIFER HOYT-TIDWELL
DIRECTED BY CARA E. HINH
Play to Premiere at Cincinnati Fringe Festival in June 2017
Cincinnati, OH – The Brink Theatre Company presents the world premiere of SA’IDAH, an observation of America’s celebrity obsessed culture, the paparazzi uprising and the growing distorted approach to modern philanthropy at the 14th annual Cincinnati Fringe Festival. Directed by The Brink Theatre’s Artistic Associate CARA E. HINH and written by JENNIFER HOYT-TIDWELL, the play will feature Maya Farhat as Sa’idah, Mary O’Connell as Kirsten, Richard Buchanan as Taylor, Greg Mallios as David and Ashley Dunn as Nina.
SA’IDAH – in Arabic meaning happy, lucky or fortunate – is named after an orphaned Syrian civil war refugee who is adopted by a well-meaning Hollywood A-List couple. The characters teeter along the intersectional space between racial injustice and the inequity of privilege. SA’IDAH is an introspective and visceral exploration into the self-disfigurement that often follows war, fame and now through the topography of social media.
Hinh – a queer, plus sized, biracial Asian American theatre director and a daughter of a Vietnamese refugee considers SA’IDAH, “not a commentary on the refugee experience, but a mirror to our apathy and our privilege as Americans,” noting, “our philanthropy is as fleeting as the posts we share and scroll past on social media.”
“Children are paying the price of war with their innocence, the conflict continues, but the news cycle has moved on,” says playwright Jennifer Hoyt-Tidwell, “as news sources become increasingly sensationalized and less reliable, it is impossible to develop a social conscience as we are being whiplashed from one tragedy and disaster to the next.”
SA’IDAH will run for five performances at OTR Community Church (1310 Race Street, Cincinnati).
PERFORMANCE DATES AND TIMES
Tickets are available now at Cincyfringe.com.
For more information about SA’IDAH visit:
JENNIFER HOYT-TIDWELL (Playwright)
Jennifer Hoyt Tidwell is a theatre and performance artist with a home base in Charlottesville, Virginia. Most recently she was commissioned by Victory Hall Opera to write and direct her new play Drugsong for their 2017 season. Her new play SA’IDAH is also receiving its premiere production by The Brink Theatre Co. in 2017.
Jennifer was the 2016 Public Artist at the Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative where she adapted and produced her play NO WAKE into an open-air silent multimedia performance. She is an active member of devised theater company PEP (Performers Exchange Project) which she co-founded in 2005 with four other women artists. With PEP she performed in original plays Zelda & Lucia’s Loony Bin Tragedy, Dido Versus the Squid Monster, and Our American Ann Sisters, a touring production that premiered at Live Arts in 2009. She was Artistic Director and emcee of the collaborative arts carnival Shentai, for which she wrote the play Dido vs. The Squid Monster. She also wrote the text of Our American Ann Sisters and contributed texts for PEP’s latest play The Convolution of Pip & Twig.
Jennifer recently received her MFA in Playwriting at Hollins University. As an undergraduate she studied theatre and English at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL), the Neighborhood Playhouse (NYC), and the University of Virginia. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild.
CARA E. HINH (Director) is a Cincinnati-based director, actor and theatre artist. A founding member and Artistic Associate of the Brink Theatre Company, her mission as a queer, plus sized, and biracial Asian American is to steward and safeguard the stories of women, people of color, LGBTQ and the marginalized whose voices are perpetually misrepresented and dismissed. Directing credits include: N at the Dayton Playhouse FutureFest, Oedipus at Miami University and If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet with The Brink. Her assistant directing includes: Disgraced at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, A Raisin in the Sun at Miami University and This is Our Youth with The Brink Theatre Company. Cara is a graduate of Miami University of Ohio with a BA in Theatre and Classical Humanities and currently serves as the Education Coordinator at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.
THE BRINK THEATRE COMPANY established in November 2015 is the creative child of Miami University Professor Saffron Henke and University of Pittsburgh PhD student Emma Squire. Dedicated to producing new works by women and underrepresented playwrights with a focus on empowering diverse voices and perspectives using visionary creative staging and locations. Facebook.com/TheBrinkTheatre.
SA’IDAH at CincyFringe
Written by Jennifer Hoyt-Tidwell | Directed by Cara E. Hinh
A Brink Theatre Co. Production
OTR Community Church
Tickets available at CincyFringe.com.
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