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ANGELS on Feb. 25

CPI_Angels logoANGELS
Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative
Feb. 25
Aronoff Center Fifth Third Bank Theatre [Downtown]

The ‘angels’ who are the title characters in Michael Oppenheim’s play are hospital personnel desperately trying to keep focus on patients and their healing in the face of budget-slashing administrators who look upon the bodies of the sick as commodities, matters of profit and loss.  The health heroes come across as kind of latter-day M*A*S*H medics, battling overwork, fatigue and budgetary assault with humor and compassion.

  • Feb. 25 at 7:30pm

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AND THEN THERE WERE NONE Runs Feb. 7-9

TMU_And Then There Were None logo2AND THEN THERE WERE NONE
Thomas More University Villa Players
Feb. 7-9
Main Building [Crestview Hills]

Directed by Kieran Casey

Ten strangers, each with a dark secret, are invited to Soldier Island by a mysterious unknown host. Things take a turn for the worst when characters begin to die leading to the rest trying to find the killer before everyone is dead.

  • Fri-Sat, Feb. 7-8 at 7:30pm
  • Sun, Feb. 9 at 2pm

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THE HEIRESS Runs Jan. 30-Feb. 9

CU_The Heiress logoTHE HEIRESS
Cedarville University Theatre
Jan. 30-Feb. 9
DeVries Theatre [Cedarville]

Shy and plain young girl Catherine Sloper falls desperately in love with the charming and handsome Morris Townsend. Catherine’s father, a successful doctor forbids their marriage, fearing that the attraction Morris feels for Catherine may be more for her fortune than for her character. Catherine’s love for Morris is genuine but haunted by doubts regarding her appearance and lack of worldy experience. Her fears are realized when her proposed plan of an elopement fails to succeed, and she retreats into a world of loneliness. But when Morris returns and proposes to her once again, she responds in a shockingly unexpected way. His reaction leaves us to wonder whether Morris is sincere in his love for Catherine, or is rather the fulfillment of Catherine’s fears.

  • Thu, Jan. 30 at 8pm
  • Fri-Sat, Jan. 31-Feb. 1 at 2pm & 8pm
  • Thu, Feb. 6 at 10am
  • Fri, Feb. 7 at 8pm
  • Sat, Feb. 8 at 2pm & 8pm
  • Sun, Feb. 9 at 3pm

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Cast Announced for THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER at Dayton Playhouse

DPH_logoCongratulations to the cast of the Dayton Playhouse’s next play: George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER.

The cast includes:

  • SHERIDAN WHITESIDE – Saul Caplan
  • MAGGIE CUTLER – Shana Fishbein
  • BERT JEFFERSON – George Merusi
  • MRS. PREEN – Sydney Edington
  • DR. BRADLEY – Matt Lindsay
  • MR. STANLEY – Jeff Christmas
  • MRS. STANLEY – Susan Robert
  • HARRIET STANLEY – Tina McPhearson
  • JUNE STANLEY – Elisa Pacheco
  • SANDY – Vaughn Foreit
  • RICHARD STANLEY – Jonathon North
  • LORRAINE SHELDON – Carly Laurette Risenhoover-Peterson
  • BEVERLY CARLTON – Michael Hatcher
  • BANJO – Mark Diffenderfer
  • JOHN – Sean Mayo
  • SARAH – Tamar Fishbein
  • MRS. McCUTCHEON – Janet Wasson
  • PROF. METZ – Jim Spencer
  • CONVICTS, RADIO MEN, OFFICERS, ETC. – Todd Bryant, Brent Eresmon, John Wysong

THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER opens on Friday, March 6, 2020 and tickets are on sale now.

For more information visit http://wordpress.thedaytonplayhouse.com/

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Auditions Announced for AND THEN THERE WERE NONE at Lumos Players

LP_logoOpen auditions for Agatha Christie’s AND THEN THERE WERE NONE.

Sun, Feb. 9 from 1-5pm
Lakeview United Church of Christ
8639 Columbia Road, Maineville, Ohio 45039

Auditions will consist of a monologue and cold-readings. Sides and more detailed audition information will be provided once an audition time is reserved.

To reserve an audition time email LumosPlayers@gmail.com.

Performance dates: April 24 & 25 at 7:30pm, April 26 at 2pm.
Rehearsals: Sundays (1-5pm), Tuesdays & Thursdays (7-9pm) beginning Feb. 23rd.

Ten strangers are summoned to remote Soldier Island. All that the guests have in common are past deeds they’re unwilling to reveal and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. As the weather turns and the group is cut off from the mainland, the tension mounts as one by one they are brutally murdered in accordance with the lines of a sinister nursery rhyme.
*Special Note: We will be performing the play with the “1939 ending.”

CHARACTER BREAKDOWN:

  • ROGERS – A competent, middle-aged manservant. Quick and deft. Some may describe him as shifty.
  • MRS. ROGERS – Married to Rogers. A housemaid. Nervous and easily frightened.
  • FRED NARACOTT – A boatman who ferries the guests onto the island, as well as supplies.
  • VERA CLAYTHORNE – Attractive young woman in her first job as a secretary (a former governess), outwardly charming but hiding significant anxiety.
  • PHILIP LOMBARD – Charming, cunning, a bit of a rogue, former military and mercenary.
  • ANTHONY MARSTON – A rich, reckless, and remorseless young man. Lives hard and fast.
  • WILLIAM BLORE – A former police detective. Authoritative, but often misguided.
  • GEN. MCKENZIE – An elderly General who is gentle and worn. Grieved and pained by the loss of his wife. He is wrestling with his own demons – and losing.
  • EMILY BRENT – A middle-aged woman. Disagreeable, self-righteous, devotedly religious.
  • SIR LAWRENCE WARGRAVE – A retired judge. Commanding and sharp-witted, used to being in charge, he quickly becomes the leader of the guests.
  • Dr. Armstrong – A medical doctor who is a recovering alcoholic. Easily shaken.

To reserve an audition time email LumosPlayers@gmail.com.

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