NEW YEAR’S EVE AT THE STOP-N-GO
NKU School of the Arts
Part of NKU SOTA’s YES Festival of New Plays
April 7-17
Stauss Theatre [Highland Heights]
By Samantha Oty
Directed by Mike King
A group of friends confront their changing lives and each other at a convenience store on Dec. 31, 1999.
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FALSTAFF AND THE ENDLESS MACHINE
NKU School of the Arts
Part of NKU SOTA’s YES Festival of New Plays
April 7-17
Corbett Theatre [Highland Heights]
By Jared Michael Delaney
Directed by Daryl Harris
Young Jack Falstaff is eager to join the army and prove himself worthy of becoming a knight, both to himself and to his friends at the Boar’s Head Tavern. After he signs up, however, he is given duties that he didn’t expect and don’t exactly sit right with him. How can he decide between friendship and duty? Love and honor? Justice and the law? Falstaff explores how the most famous drunken coward in literary history became who he became.
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SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
UC College-Conservatory of Music
April 7-10
Cohen Family Studio Theater [University Heights]
Directed & choreographed by Vincent DeGeorge
Music directed by Julie Spangler
Inspired by the painting, “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” by Georges Seurat, Sunday in the Park with George merges past and present into beautiful, poignant truths about life, love and the creation of art. One of the most acclaimed musicals of our time, this moving study of enigmatic painter Seurat won a Pulitzer Prize and was nominated for an astounding 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.
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Introducing the cast of SOMETHING ROTTEN!!
May 20 & 21 at the Victoria Theatre
Directed by Gina Kleesattel and Angie Thacker
Music Director – John Benjamin
Choreographer – Gage Wayne
Stage Manager – Jonathan Yokiel
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For additional information visit www.theatrelabdayton.org.
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Believed to be first high school to adapt professional scripts to podcasting
Madison Township OH: The students of the Madison High School Drama Club have released the first episode of a new audio podcast titled the Madison Thespians Podcast Project. Season one is a
three-part thriller, “In the Forests of the Night” by Del Martin. The staff at Madison High School has not been able to find any other podcasts created by high school students that adapt professionally written stage scripts to the audio format, making their students the first to produce this form of drama.
The podcast is available now through May 31 on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and other major podcasting platforms, or can be listened to with any web browser at madisonarts.click/podcast. The story focuses on a group of high school students who awake from the same dream, compelled to meet at night at a particular tree to play a mysterious game. As the drama unfolds, we learn that most of the students have played the game before, but they know that not all of them will return to their school.
The entire production was rehearsed and recorded in front of a live audience in only three days over the Presidents’ Day weekend. By using this fast-paced approach, Thespian advisor Teresa Crim and director Joel Brown wanted to involve students who are already busy with school, work and rehearsals for the spring musical, while also giving them a new and different learning opportunity by focusing only on the vocal acting without the additional burdens of blocking, movement, line memorization, costumes and tech. Unlike many high school drama productions that have been streamed online over the past two years, this concept did not arise from a need to cope with pandemic restrictions, but instead was developed as a unique performing experience that could benefit both new and experienced student actors.
Students who participated in the production said they liked “the opportunity to focus more on the vocal part of acting.” Others said “I learned that you can truly make something awesome in just a few days,” and “Doing audio theater is a good way to give yourself the experience you would need to do voice acting.”
The directors have approached several script publishers to try to get the rights to adapt other plays for their podcast, and students have said they would like to try a comedy next. Unlike their normal theater productions, podcasts do not generate ticket revenue to fund the next show. The students hope to get donations from podcast listeners to help finance licensing future seasons. Donations can be made at madisonarts.click/podcast.
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Behind the Curtain Cincinnati 