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2023-2024 Season Announced by Mariemont Players

MPI_logo 2020Mariemont Players, Inc. is excited to announce our 2023-2024 season!:

STEEL MAGNOLIAS
by Robert Harling
Directed by Megan Horton
Performance dates: September 7 – 24, 2023
(Comedy/Drama)

THE BOOK OF WILL
by Lauren Gunderson
Directed by jef brown
Performance dates: November 2 – 19, 2023
(Comedy)

RUMORS
by Neil Simon
Directed by Ed Cohen
Performance dates: January 11 – 28, 2024
(Comedy)

“Rumors” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com

DEATHTRAP
by Ira Levin
Directed by Jerry Wiesenhahn
Performance dates: March 7 – 24, 2024
(Comedy-Thriller)

BOEING BOEING
by Marc Camoletti
Translated by Beverley Cross & Francis Evans
Directed by Mark Femia
Performance dates: May 2 – 19, 2024
(Comedy)

“Boeing Boeing” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com

To Be Announced
Directed by Angelo Cerniglia
Performance dates: July 11 – 28, 2024

Although we are not able to announce the name of the show quite yet, we are very excited to have Angelo on board. We’ll be back with a special announcement to release the complete season soon!

We are excited to open our season in September 2023 with a familiar favorite: “Steel Magnolias” by Robert Harling, directed by Megan Horton. Megan is excited to give new life to “Steel Magnolias” and dazzle audiences with a lot of humor and a lot of heart.

In November 2023, jef brown will direct “The Book of Will” by Lauren Gunderson. “Amidst the noise and color of Elizabethan London, ‘The Book of Will’ finds an unforgettable true story of love, loss, and laughter, and sheds new light on a man you may think you know.”

Next, in January 2024, we will warm audiences up with some laughter as we present the farcical “Rumors” by Neil Simon, directed by Ed Cohen. “When they gather to celebrate a tenth wedding anniversary, four New York power couples experience a severe attack of Farce.”

March 2024 will be a *thrill* you won’t forget, as we present “Deathtrap” by Ira Levin, directed by Jerry Wiesenhahn. We are excited to bring to our audiences the “twists and turns of devilish cleverness” that make up “Deathtrap”, with “hilariously sudden shocks in such abundance that audiences will be spellbound until the very last moment.”

After the thriller, we are cranking up the laughs in May 2024 with door slamming comedy of “Boeing Boeing” by Marc Camoletti, translated by Beverley Cross & Francis Evans. Mark Femia will direct this 1960’s French farce adapted for the English-speaking stage, which features self-styled Parisian lothario Bernard, who has Italian, German, and American fiancées, each a beautiful airline hostess with frequent “layovers.” He keeps “one up, one down, and one pending” until unexpected schedule changes bring all three to Paris, and Bernard’s apartment, at the same time.

Finally, we will close out the 2023-24 season with a show we cannot yet announce, to be directed by Angelo Cerniglia in July 2024. We look forward to announcing it just as soon as we are able!

Look out for updates about the 2023-24 season on Mariemont Players’ Facebook page and website (www.mariemontplayers.com

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2023-2024 Season Announced by Xenia Area Community Theatre

XACT_logoNIGHTFALL WITH EDGAR ALLEN POE
Directed by Dee Berdine
Oct. 20-29

SVETLANA’S FIRST CHRISTMAS and A HOLIDAY SURPRISE
Directed by Melodee Bass
Dec. 1-10

NO EXIT
Directed by Mike Taint
March 1-10

LYSISTRATA
Directed by T.C. Kimmet
April 5-14

WORLD BUILDERS
Directed by Julie Hauwiller
May 10-19

For more information visit www.xeniaact1.org.

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Casts Announced for GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES and MEASURE FOR MEASURE at Xavier University

XUT_logoGRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES
Directed by Tessa D’Errico

The cast includes:

  • Molly Franzen as Kayleen
  • Sean Moss as Doug

MEASURE FOR MEASURE
Directed by Isabelle Trapp

  • Michelle Mitchell as Isabella
  • Dylan Waters as Angelo
  • Abby Sherr as Escalus
  • Mia Helbig as Juliet/Marianna
  • Andrew Normington as Claudio
  • Sarah Malarney as Duke

Performances run April 14-23.

For more information visit www.xavier.edu/theatre-program/season-lineup/index

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THE COST OF LIVING On Jan. 10

CPI_The Cost of Living logoTHE COST OF LIVING 
Cincinnati Playwrights Initiatve
Jan. 10
Aronoff Center Fifth-Third Bank Theater [Downtown]

An exotic dancer and a drug dealer try to forge a “normal” relationship as the city where they live collapses with protests and looting after a police officer shoots an unarmed man. Based on the true story of Timothy Thomas’s death in Cincinnati in 2001.

Playwright Bio:
David Hughes has had a life in the theatre for 45 years. David’s full-length play, Acapulco was one of two plays in Ohio selected by OCTA for the Regional American Association of Community Theatre Festival 2017. David’s ten-minute play, I Am Not A Shoe, was selected for a staged reading at CPI’s recent Foolsfest playwriting competition this past April. He has a B.A. in Theatre Arts, U.C.  He is chairperson of CPI’s Writer’s Workshop.

  • Tue, Jan. 10 at 7:30pm

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Auditions Announced for MOONLIGHT AND MAGNOLIAS at SSCC Theatre

SSCC_logoAuditions for MOONLIGHT AND MAGNOLIAS by Ron Hutchinson, open to community members and students, will be held at 6:00 p.m. Friday, January 13, and at 10:00 a.m., Saturday, January 14, in the Edward K. Daniels Auditorium on Southern State Community College’s Central Campus, 100 Hobart Drive, Hillsboro.

MOONLIGHT AND MAGNOLIAS takes place in 1939 when Hollywood is abuzz. Legendary producer David O. Selznick has shut down production of his new epic, “Gone with the Wind,” a film adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s novel. The screenplay just doesn’t work. So what’s an all-powerful movie mogul to do? While fending off the film’s stars, gossip columnists, and his own father-in-law, Selznick sends a car for famed screenwriter Ben Hecht and pulls formidable director Victor Fleming from the set of “The Wizard of Oz.” Summoning both to his office, he locks the doors, closes the shades, and on a diet of bananas and peanuts, the three men labor over five days to fashion a screenplay that will become the blueprint for one of the most successful and beloved films of all time.

Those interested in auditioning should prepare a comedic one- to two-minute monologue and schedule an audition slot at SSCCTheatre.com/auditions.

Memorization of the monologue is recommended but not required. Those interested in working on available crew positions will be asked to complete an interview during the day of auditions, no scheduling appointment is needed.

If interested in auditioning, but unavailable to attend either audition date, please contact Director Rainee Angles (rangles@sscc.edu) to schedule an alternate audition date prior to January 13.

MOONLIGHT AND MAGNOLIAS will be performed April 14 – 16.

For more information about available roles and rehearsal schedule, please visit SSCCTheatre.com.

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