SERIALS! 14: ENDGAME
Know Theatre of Cincinnati
Jan. 29-March 25
[Over-the-Rhine]
Follow 5 shows (4 scripted and 1 improvised!) each week as they try to find an ending!
15 minute episodes of new plays, every two weeks, for a total of 5 installments.
After each show the audience votes on a choice that will impact each story’s ENDGAME!
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trueTHEATRE
Jan. 25
Memorial Hall [Over-the-Rhine | Online]
Stories from and about neighborhoods of the Queen City, CINCINNATI! Inspired by a recent documentary created by local documentarian and violinist Preston Bell Charles III, this show is designed to make Cincinnatians interested in other areas of our city with which we may not be as familiar, to encourage exploration and the development of a greater appreciation of where we call “home”.
True Theatre is Cincinnati’s longest-running storytelling event, now in its 14th season. Over the years, we’ve featured hundreds of stories from hundreds of people just like you, making connections and building Community through the sharing of true, personal stories. We are so grateful to our audiences for supporting us and giving us a reason to continue in our mission for so long!
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MAGIC SHADOWS
Presented by Catapult Shadow Dance Company
FAIRFIELD, OH – Enter the amazing world of Magic Shadows at the Fairfield Community Arts Center (FCAC) Friday, Feb. 9 at 8 p.m. Presented by Catapult Entertainment, an America’s Got Talent finalist, you won’t believe your eyes as you watch these incredible dancers transform their bodies into seemingly impossible shapes.
Tickets are $36. Call the FCAC Box Office at 513-867-5348 or purchase online at www.fairfieldoh.gov.tickets. This show is funded in part by the Ohio Arts Council.
In one instant they are a mouse and then a full-size elephant, a camel, a car with headlights, a house and not just a house but a house with a window and people inside the window. You will never figure out how they do it and you won’t know what they will make next – you will be surprised again and again.
Audiences are delighted by the apparently effortless transformations and applaud over and over as more and more unbelievable images appear on the stage. Not only is the show packed with hundreds of shape transformations but it is full of humor, emotion, and engaging stories.
Magic Shadows is comprised of eight fully realized stories that are told using only music and shadows. There is no language barrier – adults and children from any place on earth will follow and love these stories. The show also includes one very special shadow dance using cutting edge technology to create Color Shadows! No other shadow company has this technology.
Audiences leave this show dazed and happy and they will never look at their own shadow the same way again!
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(Cincinnati, OH — January 22, 2023) One-Off Productions, an independent theatre initiative from Rupert Spraul, is set to premiere its inaugural production of Romeo and Juliet: A Fool’s Paradise at Gabriel’s Corner in OTR from February 8-17, 2024. One-Off aims to offer accessible, experimental theatre to the Cincinnati community and calls this production “a clown show–like Dean Martin chugged a beer, hit you upside the head with a salami, fell in love, then died!” Rupert Spraul, as lead producer, takes on direction; Hannah Gregory joins as production manager/co-producer; and Josh Reiter supports as co-producer. The cast boasts local favorites, as well as actors from Chicago, Virgina, and beyond, with CCM graduates Cameron Nalley and Olivia Buss taking on the titular characters, respectively.
Spraul says:
“Our production’s unique exploration of this story and its timeless humanity highlights the uproarious comedy of this story (that is often neglected) which resists giving way to tragedy…Until it does. I don’t think this is a play that needs, or wants, deep academic examination. It’s something that every adult understands: Youth is, or should be, a joyous-inconsequential-fantastical-clowshow, then you grow up and lose things you can’t get back, and the clown show ends.”
Romeo and Juliet: A Fool’s Paradise is a self-produced project; and with fair pay being a cornerstone of One-Off’s mission, crowdfunding is in full-swing to bring this show to life. Eighty percent of the budget is committed to actor payment, with the remaining twenty percent covering venue rental; set, props, and costumes; and technical elements.
The GoFundMe is live at https://gofund.me/52715367.
Romeo and Juliet: A Fool’s Paradise runs at Gabriel’s Corner (1425 Sycamore, Cincinnati, OH, 45202) on:
Suggested parking includes Ziegler Park Garage, surrounding metered street parking, or free parking on select streets north of Liberty St in OTR.
About One-Off Productions:
One-Off Productions (OOPs) is a grassroots independent theatre initiative in Cincinnati Ohio, making impactful, accessible, professional, experimental theatre.
Find us on Instagram at @one.off.productions
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The Performing Arts Academy presents THE SOUND OF MUSIC, directed by Nina Markle, in the Ben Bender Theatre at The Performing Arts Academy, 4400 Lewis St., Middletown.
Show playing January 26, 27, 28 and February 2, 3, 4, 2024.
Tickets are $20 for adults and $15 for seniors (65+) and children (12 and under)
Visit www.theperformingartsacademy.com or call 513-594-7242 for more information.
The final collaboration between Rodgers & Hammerstein, “The Sound of Music” was destined to become the world’s most-beloved musical. Featuring a trove of cherished songs, including “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” “My Favorite Things,” “Do Re Mi,” “Sixteen Going on Seventeen,” and the title number, “The Sound of Music” won the hearts of audiences worldwide, earning five Tony Awards and five Oscars for the feature film version. The inspirational story, based on the memoir of Maria Augusta Trapp, follows a young nun in-training who serves as governess to the seven children of the imperious Captain von Trapp, bringing music and joy to the household. But as the forces of Nazism take hold of Austria, Maria and the entire Von Trapp family must make a moral decision.
“The Sound of Music” stars Evan Rawlins, (Trenton) as Captain Gorg von Trapp, Leah Busick, (Lebanon) as Mother Abbess, Brock Noble, (Middletown) as Max Detweiler, Lily Whitt, (Franklin) as Elsa Schraeder, and Rachael Kindred, (Franklin) as Maria Rainer.
Featuring Johanna Keller, (Middletown) as Liesl von Trapp, Owen Lyons, (Monroe) as Rolf Gruber, John Hatcher, (Franklin) as Friedrich von Trapp, Zoey Collins, (Middletown) as Louisa von Trapp, Levi Jarrett, (Middletown) as Kurt von Trapp, Sophia Blanton, (Monroe) as Brigitta von Trapp, Dylan Hudson, (Lebanon) Marta von Trapp and Violet Busick, (Lebanon) as Gretl von Trapp.
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