Elijah Malcomb, Joseph Morales, Kyle Scatliffe, Fergie L. Philippe and Company – HAMILTON National Tour – (c) Joan Marcus 2018.
Important schedule update:
HAMILTON, originally scheduled for March 2 – 28, 2021, has been postponed.
New dates will be announced at a later time.
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Be a permanent part of the Aronoff Center!
(Cincinnati, OH) – As part of the Aronoff Center’s 25th Anniversary, the Cincinnati Arts Association invites friends and fans to support the popular arts destination with a Name-A-Seat donation, which allows them to add a name to a beautiful brass plaque on the arm of a select Procter & Gamble Hall seat. Or they may choose to celebrate a family member, honor an arts lover, or give a unique gift to the person who has everything with a seat donation that leaves a legacy. This is a rare opportunity to take a seat in history!
A seat can be named for:
DONATION AMOUNT PER SEAT PLAQUE
The Name-A-Seat opportunity will run through the Aronoff Center’s 25th Anniversary season. The deadline for making a donation and choosing seats is August 31, 2021. The campaign is a naming opportunity only and does not imply ownership of the seat or reserve the use of the seat for any performances. However, donors may inquire about the availability of their named seat location when purchasing a ticket to any event at the Procter & Gamble Hall.
Name-A-Seat donations will not only support the Cincinnati Arts Association’s ongoing stewardship of the Aronoff Center, but also will help us raise the curtain on another 25 years (and more) of world-class events. It addition, gifts will help us sustain our transformative arts education programs, impactful Arts-in-Healing Initiative, and compelling exhibitions by local and regional artists at the Aronoff’s Weston Art Gallery.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant financial impact on Cincinnati Arts Association as a not-for-profit arts organization, with more than 300 events cancelled or rescheduled at the Aronoff Center and Music Hall,” said Steve Loftin, President, Cincinnati Arts Association. “The Name-A-Seat opportunity is a wonderful way to give a gift to the Aronoff during its 25th Anniversary. The generosity of our audiences, donors, and sponsors has never been more important than now, and we are extremely grateful for their ongoing interest and support.”
For more information and to make a Name-A-Seat donation, CLICK HERE.
CAA SEASON SPONSORS
AMERITAS (Founding Season Sponsor), FIFTH THIRD BANK (Lifetime Endowment Partner), CINCINNATI-NORTHERN KENTUCKY HONDA DEALERS, LOCAL12 WKRC-TV, THE P&G FUND of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, TRIHEALTH
Founded in 1992, the Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA) is a not-for-profit organization that oversees the programming and management of the Tri-state’s finest performing arts venues – the Aronoff Center for the Arts and Music Hall – and is dedicated to supporting performing and visual arts. Each year, CAA presents a diverse schedule of events; serves upwards of 600,000 people in its venues; features the work of talented local, regional, and national artists in the Weston Art Gallery (located in the Aronoff Center); and supports the work of more than one dozen resident companies. Since the inception of its acclaimed arts education programs in 1995, CAA has reached more than 1.7 million students. For more information, visit www.CincinnatiArts.org.
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Because of suspected exposure to COVID at our home venue, we must cancel our production of Ken Ludwig’s BASKERVILLE.
Rather than postpone, we have made the hard decision to cancel the entire 2020-2021 season. We need your support more than ever. #StaySafe #SaveOurStages #Donate
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HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, KY – Northern Kentucky University’s School of the Arts virtually produces the Emerging Choreographer’s Showcase (ECS) for its sixth season. The Dance Film Festival will premiere November 23 on the NKU ECS website and SOTA YouTube channel. This showcase is student produced and student led where dance students learn about choreography, stage design, and stage management and can grow in their artistic expression. ECS was founded in 2014 by dance alum, Kat Wolf, who graduated in 2016 and is the owner of NKY Dancewear.
Event Details:
This year, the panel of area industry professionals have selected twelve student choreographers’ pieces to be presented in the showcase. Due to the high volume of exceptional work submitted by the students, the executive team decided to categorize the pieces as formal and informal works, which is language appropriate to the discipline and used by the American College Dance Association. Formal works received a panelist mentor, while informal works are peer mentored.
Rhea Speights, choreographer and video artist, is the resident guest artist for the showcase. Much of her work intersects equal parts dance and video, either as multimedia performance or as video dance. Speights’ work has been presented in a dozen of the 50 states and internationally in Colombia and New Zealand. In making her work, Rhea uses ballet and contemporary dance forms, video, film theory, and her desire to fully integrate the imagination with the body.
The executive team includes Sylvia Chervus and DJ Bruegge as the Co-Artistic Directors, Olivia Martel and Carli Robinette as the Assistant Artistic Directors, Grace Vetter as the Head of Marketing, Molly Payne as the Stage Manager, and Payton Pearson and Jessica Shepherd as Production Assistants.
Student Choreographers Include:
Formal Pieces
Informal Pieces
Panelists Include:
About NKU School of the Arts: SOTA is the Creative Engine of NKU. The School of the Arts combines Dance, Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts to bring unparalleled artistic opportunities to current and future students. In a changing world, SOTA prepares students to be creative trailblazers in the Arts and their careers. Whether we are creating motion graphics, producing on the stage, or utilizing our dance classes to collaborate with therapeutic exercise in health sciences, we are on the cutting edge of transdisciplinary studies. SOTA offers 11 degrees with 30 specializations in addition to 7 minors to develop graduates that are personally engaged, innovative, and curious with advanced skill sets in collaboration and creative risk-taking. For more information, visit nku.edu/sota or follow on social media @NKUSOTA.
About NKU: Founded in 1968, we are a growing metropolitan university of more than 15,000 students served by more than 2,000 faculty and staff on a thriving suburban campus near Cincinnati. Located in the quiet suburb of Highland Heights, Kentucky—just seven miles southeast of Cincinnati—we have become a leader in Greater Cincinnati and Kentucky by providing a private school education for a fraction of the cost. While we are one of the fastest growing universities in Kentucky, our professors still know our students’ names. For more information, visit nku.edu.
Filed under Dance, Online Performance
Scott Unes & Susie Unes in A BETTER PLACE.
The Fourth Video in TDW’s Home View Theatre Series
[Cheviot, OH, November 9] — A Better Place, the latest installment of The Drama Workshop’s Home View Theatre video series is now available! The short film is based on an award-winning play by Eric Thomas and is directed by Scott Unes. Scott also stars in the video, playing a man who’s having trouble getting over a breakup. He asks for a ride from a rideshare driver, played by Susie Unes. She agrees to take him on a voyage of the heart to get him to a better place, emotionally.
Of her character, Ms. Unes says, “There is a spiritual aspect to the Driver, in that she ultimately understands where she needs to take the Rider, but she first needs to feel the different emotions that he needs to experience.” Actor/director Scott Unes says of the film, “I chose the work because I like the dynamics between the two characters. I wanted to show the character of the Rider turning inward and being led by the Driver on an inner journey.”
The theatrical staging of A Better Place was produced at The Drama Workshop as part of Home Brew Theatre in 2019. Tickets to stream the video of A Better Place can be purchased at www.thedramaworkshop.org/homeview.
A Better Place is the fourth installment of The Drama Workshop’s Home View Theatre series. Other offerings, all still available online, include Stranded Traveler, written and directed by Eric Thomas, a play about someone asking for money at a bus stop who is challenged to be honest about the request. It features Chris Bishop and Stephanie Klein. Local Legends was directed by Alexa Justice and features seven local storytellers relaying their favorite ghostly tales. Some of the stories are related to Cincinnati history. The storytellers are Adrianna Marie Boris, Jeb Brack, Greg Hand, Kat Jones, Kat Klockow, Carolmarie Stock and Bill Stringer. A Paranormal Investigation into The Raven, written and directed by Dennis Murphy, features Besty Bossart and CJ Bossart. Ms. Bossart plays the host of a paranormal investigation show, who is trying to get to the bottom of why a lovelorn man is being tortured by a phantom raven.
Two offerings remain in the six-video series. Amanda Emmons-Shumate will direct Denise’s Do-Over which will be released in early December. This comedy about video dating was written by Susan Decatur and features Peggy Allen, Chris Bishop, Rob Bucher, Kristy Rucker, Jim Swartwout and Jim Waldfogle. It is an online adaptation of the play that appeared on The Drama Workshop’s stage as part of Home Brew Theatre in 2019. The final video in this series will be The Gift of the Magi adapted for the screen and directed by Dennis Murphy and starring Ray Lebowski, Anna Hazzard and D’Waughn Hazzard.
Tickets for any of the Home View productions can be purchased at www.thedramaworkshop.org/homeview or by calling the box office at (513)598-8303. Single videos are $5 or you can subscribe to the whole series for only $25.
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Behind the Curtain Cincinnati 