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April 6, 2017 · 4:01 pm

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park to Audition 10 to 13 Year Boys on May 6 for SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE

PIP_logo(CINCINNATI) – The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park will hold auditions on Saturday, May 6, to cast a male, juvenile actor between 10 and 13 years old with strong language skills to play John Webster in the upcoming production of SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE. The character is described as a street urchin who aspires to be an actor, loves blood and gore and will grow up to be an accomplished and gruesome Jacobean playwright.

Interested children should email a resume of any experience and a photograph to Cait Robinson, assistant director, at cait.robinson@cincyplay.com. The deadline for consideration is May 3.

The young actor must be available for all rehearsals of this production, most of which are scheduled around school hours. Rehearsals begin August 4. He must also be available for all performances of the show, which are scheduled Tuesdays through Sundays and include some weekday student and public matinees. SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE will be performed in the Playhouse’s Marx Theatre September 2 – 30, 2017. For further information, visit the Playhouse website at www.cincyplay.com.

The resume and photo must be emailed again even if they have been sent in the past. A good quality school or family photograph is acceptable. The resume must include exact birth date and height, as well as an email address and telephone number. Those selected to audition will be contacted by telephone or email to schedule specific times and will receive scenes to prepare for the audition. Audition location and other details will be provided when appointments are made.

The Playhouse is supported by the generosity of more than 40,000 contributors to the ArtsWave Community Campaign. The Ohio Arts Council helps fund the Playhouse with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans. The Playhouse also receives funding from the Shubert Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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April 6, 2017 · 8:32 am

2017-2018 Season Announced by Middletown Lyric Theatre

MLT_logo2017 – 2018 SEASON

SEPTEMBER 15, 16, 22 & 23
LOST IN YONKERS – Comedy: By: Neil Simon
By America’s great comic playwright, this memory play is set in Yonkers in 1942. Bella is thirty-five years old, mentally challenged, and living at home with her mother, stern Grandma Kurnitz. As the play opens, ne’er-do-well son Eddie deposits his two young sons on the old lady’s doorstep. He is financially strapped and taking to the road as a salesman. The boys are left to contend with Grandma, with Bella and her secret romance, and with Louie, her brother, a small-time hoodlum in a strange new world called Yonkers

NOVEMBER 10, 11, 17 & 18
THE GAME’S AFOOT: Farce by: Ken Ludwig
It is December 1936 and Broadway star William Gillette, admired the world over for his leading role in the play Sherlock Holmes, has invited his fellow cast-members to his Connecticut castle for a weekend of revelry. But when one of the guests is stabbed to death, the festivities in this isolated house of tricks and mirrors quickly turn dangerous. Then it’s up to Gillette himself, as he assumes the persona of his beloved Holmes, to track down the killer before the next victim appears. The danger and hilarity are non-stop in this glittering whodunit set during the Christmas holidays.

FEBRAURY 16, 17 23 & 24
GRAND CONCOURSE: Comedy/Drama by: Heidi Schreck
Having dedicated her life to religious service, Shelley runs a Bronx soup kitchen with unsentimental efficiency, but lately her heart’s not quite in it. Her brisk nature masks an unsettling fear that her efforts are meaningless. When Emma — an idealistic but confused college dropout — arrives to volunteer, her reckless mix of generosity and self-involvement pushes Shelley to the breaking point. With keen humor and startling compassion, Heidi Schreck’s play navigates the mystery of faith, the limits of forgiveness, and the pursuit of something resembling joy

APRIL 13, 14, 20 & 21
MY NAME IS ASHER LEV – Drama Adapted by: Aaron Posner
Asher Lev tells his story in a series of flashbacks. He is a Ladover Hasidic Jew born with a great artistic talent. His sect of Judaism, however, does not believe that art is a worthwhile pursuit. When he begins to draw nudes and pictures of the Cruxifixion, Through the years, he has continued to argue with his parents about the nature and value of his work. They attend one of his shows in New York, but are horrified by the centerpiece of the exhibit:a painting of Jesus Christ

MAY 11, 12, 18 & 19
CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION: Comedy/Drama By: Annie Baker
When four lost New Englanders who enroll in Marty’s six-week-long community-center drama class begin to experiment with harmless games, hearts are quietly torn apart, and tiny wars of epic proportions are waged and won. A beautifully crafted diorama, a petri dish in which we see, with hilarious detail and clarity, the antic sadness of a motley quintet.

JUNE 8,9,15 & 16
PRESENT LAUGHTER: Farce/Comedy By: Noel Coward
At the center of his own universe sits matinee idol Garry Essendine: suave, hedonistic and too old, says his wife, to be having numerous affairs. His line in harmless, infatuated debutantes is largely tolerated but playing closer to home is not. Just before he escapes on tour to Africa the full extent of his misdemeanors is discovered. And all hell breaks loose. Noel Coward’s Present Laughter premiered in the early years of the Second World War just as such privileged lives were threatened with fundamental social change.

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April 6, 2017 · 6:37 am

Auditions Announced for INSPECTING CAROL at The Drama Workshop

TDW_VERTAUDITIONS The Drama Workshop’s production of INSPECTING CAROL. Written by Daniel Sullivan. Directed & Produced by Ray Persing

Auditions will be May 21-22, 2017, at The Glenmore Playhouse, 3716 Glenmore Ave, Cheviot, OH 45211. Doors will open at 6:30pm, and auditions will begin promptly at 7pm.

Actors are asked to bring a resume and headshot, and will audition in groups. Auditions will run no later than 9 pm, and may end earlier. Callbacks, if necessary, will be on May 24, 2017. Updates will be posted on the TDW Facebook page.

Show dates are December 1, 2017 through December 17, 2017. Performances are Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 pm, Sunday afternoon at 2 pm. Call time is 1 ½ hours before curtain, unless other arrangements are made with the stage manager. Rehearsals will begin in mid-August.

The director is seeking 7-8 men (12-60s) and 4-5 women (40s-60s). Performers of all ethnic and racial backgrounds are encouraged to audition.

ABOUT THE SHOW: A Christmas Carol meets The Government Inspector meets Noises Off in this hilarious hit from Seattle. A man who asks to audition at a small theater is mistaken for an informer for the National Endowment for the Arts. Everyone caters to the bewildered wannabe actor, and he is given a role in the current production, A Christmas Carol. Everything goes wrong and hilarity is piled upon hilarity.

  • Zorah Bloch: Female, 40s; The founding director of The Soapbox Playhouse. An self-involved woman in her 40’s.
  • Sidney Carlton: Male, 50s/60s; A founding member of The Soapbox Playhouse. A kind but somewhat addled man.
  • Dorothy Tree Hapgood: Female, 50s/60s; Sidney’s wife, an Englishwoman who is unable to lose her accent. Also a founding member of the theatre company.
  • Larry Vauxhall: Male, 40s/50s; A tough and intellectually vain man. A child of the 60s who is still looking for a turn-on. Also a founding member of the theatre company.
  • Phil Hewitt: Male, 30s/40s; An obsessive man who usually plays the ineffectual character in any Soapbox production. Also a founding member of the theatre company.
  • Walter E. Parsons: Male, 20s/30s; An African-American man who has recently taken up acting again after a stint in the armed forces. A good-natured yet excitable person.
  • Luther Beatty: Male, 12-17; A tall, big-boned 11-12-year-old boy who is really too big to be playing the character of ‘Tiny Tim’ – a role he has been performing two years too long. A youthful actor under 18 could pull it off.
  • Kevin Emory: Male/Female, 30s/40s; Timid, nervous managing director of the theatre company who is afraid of Zorah.
  • M.J. (Mary Jane) McMann: Female, 40s; The company Stage manager. A realist who long ago realized the Playhouse had hit bottom. Also a founding member, she looks on now only as a bemused observer. She has an ironic sense of humor.
  • Betty Andrews: Female, 30s/40s; An inspector for the National Endowment for the Arts who has a forbidding appearance.
  • Bart Frances: Male, 20s; A pleasant youth who dresses in a black leather motorcycle jacket and torn jeans.
  • Wayne Wallacre: Male, 20s/30s; An affable, eager to please young man who is in search of a new career in acting, but has no training and even less talent.

Actors who are selected will be contacted by the director. The practice of The Drama Workshop is to notify all auditioners via email of results once the show is cast, after which a cast list will be posted on the TDW website and Facebook page. Those without email who are not cast will not be contacted individually.

AUDITION REQUIREMENTS:
Please bring a current headshot & resume. No prepared monologue is required. Auditions will consist of readings from the script. Callbacks, if needed, will be at the director’s discretion. Bring your calendar and be prepared to list all conflicts. Conflicts not listed at time of audition may not be honored. Those who are cast will be expected to assist with the staging, advertising, or some other aspect of the production. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Ray Persing at 937.877.6116 or at trpersing@gmail.com

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April 6, 2017 · 6:27 am

Auditions Announced for THE INCONVENIENT TRUTH at Tgriff Productions

MISC_Auditions2Ages 16 and up, all ethnicities and theater levels are welcome to audition.

June 3rd 10am-2pm

Corryville Library
2802 Vine St Cincinnati OH 45219

For more information email tgriffproductions@gmail.com or visit www.tgriffproductions.com.

Bring head shot and be prepared to do a cold reading from the script.

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April 6, 2017 · 6:08 am

ERMA BOMBECK: AT WIT’S END Runs May 6-June 24

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ERMA BOMBECK: AT WIT’S END
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
May 6-June 24
Eden Park

Directed by David Esbjornson

From her home outside Dayton, Ohio, bestselling author Erma Bombeck gave a hilarious voice to ordinary suburban housewives everywhere, using humor to tell the reality of her life and theirs. At Wit’s End chronicles Bombeck’s fascinating story, beginning in 1964 with the launch of her groundbreaking newspaper column through her emergence as America’s favorite mother, with top billing on kitchen refrigerators from coast to coast. Filled with Bombeck’s own wit and wisdom, this new play paints a warm and funny portrait of the woman who dared to ask, “If life is a bowl of cherries, what am I doing in the pits?”

  • In preview Sat, May 6 at 8pm & Sun, May 7 at 7pm
  • In preview, Tue-Wed, May 9-10 at 7:30pm
  • Thu, May 11 at 7:30pm
  • Fri, May 12 at 8pm
  • Sat, May 13 at 4pm & 8pm
  • Sun, May 14 at 2pm & 7pm
  • Tue-Thu, May 16-18 at 7:30pm
  • Fri, May 19 at 8pm
  • Sat, May 20 at 4pm & 8pm
  • Sun, May 21 at 2pm & 7pm
  • Tue-Thu, May 23-25 at 7:30pm
  • Fri, May 26 at 8pm
  • Sat, May 27 at 4pm & 8pm
  • Sun, May 28 at 2pm & 7pm
  • Tue, May 30 at 7:30pm
  • Wed, May 31 at 1pm & 7:30pm
  • Thu, June 1 at 7:30pm
  • Fri, June 2 at 8pm
  • Sat, June 3 at 4pm & 8pm
  • Sun, June 4 at 2pm
  • Tue, June 6 at 7:30pm
  • Wed, June 7 at 1pm & 7:30pm
  • Thu, June 8 at 7:30pm
  • Fri, June 9 at 8pm
  • Sat, June 10 at 4pm & 8pm
  • Sun, June  11 at 2pm
  • Tue-Thu, June 13-15 at 7:30pm
  • Fri, June 16 at 8pm
  • Sat, June 17 at 4pm & 8pm
  • Sun, June 18 at 2pm
  • Tue-Thu, June 20-22 at 7:30pm
  • Fri, June 23 at 8pm
  • Sat, June 24 at 4pm

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