Photo by Mikki Schaffner.
GASLIGHT
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
Sept. 8-24
[Over-the-Rhine]
Directed by Courtney Sale
Cast: Jack Bausch as Police Officer, Tom Coiner as Jack, Chrisian Hall as Second Police Officer, Candice Handy as Nancy, Jim Hopkins as Sergeant Rough, Karen MacDonald as Elizabeth & Kristin Yancy as Bella
The sanctity of marriage is threatened when sanity is at stake. Strange things start to happen to the newlyweds Bella and Jack in this turn of the century Victorian thriller as their seemingly perfect marriage devolves into something sinister. Why is the attic door locked? Whose footsteps wander the halls at night? And is that gaslight flickering… or not? Bella’s reality is twisted, forcing her to question both the truth and her husband’s intentions in this haunting thriller based on the acclaimed play and classic film and the story that gave rise to 2022’s word of the year: Gaslight.
- in preview Wed-Thu, Sept. 6-7 at 7:30pm
- Fri-Sat, Sept. 8-9 at 7:30pm
- Thu-Fri, Sept. 14-15 at 7:30pm
- Sat, Sept. 16 at 2pm & 7:30pm
- Sun, Sept. 17 at 2pm
- Thu-Fri, Sept. 21-22 at 7:30pm
- Sat, Sept. 23 at 2pm & 7:30pm
- Sun, Sept. 24 at 2pm
MSJ Theatre Arts is proud to announce the 2023-2024 season. Our season is a tale of identity, coming-of-age, and self-realization. In today’s society there are swaths of our world asking us to ignore our past mistakes and histories that make up so much of our country’s patchwork. These missteps if not taught and examined are destined to be repeated, but let’s challenge ourselves to look at them through a different lens. This season we look backwards…quite a bit. We hope that you will join us as we explore the trials that we go through personally, professionally, physically, emotionally, and mentally.
Shirley Lauro’s authentic look at the women who served in the Vietnam war is a heartfelt exploration of feminism in action with her courageous play, A PIECE OF MY HEART. This is a true tale of six women sent to Vietnam and their struggle to make sense of a war that irrevocable changed them and a nation that shunned them, a work with the music and soul of a tumultuous era in our history. Overall, more than 265,000 women served in the military during Vietnam — and approximately 10,000 military women served in-country during the conflict. Only 8 are memorialized on the Vietnam War Memorial. Six different points of view from six different routes that all happen to parallel and intersect at a variety of points and interludes.
In the spring, we will explore what it means to be female amidst the backdrop of medieval Nottingham with Adam Symkowicz’s MARIAN, OR THE TRUE TALE OF ROBIN HOOD. A gender-bending, patriarchy-smashing, hilarious new take of the classic tale. Robin Hood is (and has always been) Maid Marian in disguise, and leads of motley group of Merry Men (few of whom are actually me) against greedy Prince John. As the poor get poorer and the rich get richer, who will stand for the vulnerable if not Robin? What is the cost of revealing your true self in a time of trouble? Modern concerns and romantic entanglements clash on the battlefield and on the ramparts of Nottingham Castle in this play about selfishness, selflessness, love deferred and the fight. Always the fight. The fight must go on.
Join The Ghostlight Stage Company for our upcoming FREE workshop event: Sustainable Singing Workshop with Anna Mosoriak.
CONGRATULATIONS to the cast of NIGHTFALL WITH EDGAR ALLEN POE
SILENCE! the Musical
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