ALL CHILDISH THINGS
Sinclair Community College Theatre
April 5-13
Building 2 Black Box Theatre [Dayton]
Directed by Nelson Sheeley
A band of Star Wars enthusiasts creates a “can’t-fail,” get-rich-quick scheme to raid Kenner Toys’ secret warehouseand steal all the collectibles they can.
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Zohn Collective.
HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, KY – Northern Kentucky University’s School of the Arts welcomes new music ensemble Zohn Collective on March 20, who will be performing an evening of modern piano trios in collaboration with videographer José Camacho and famed, Mexican cartoonist, José Ignacio Solórzano (a.k.a. “Jis”).
All works on the program relate to the idea of music as a powerful gateway to memory. Audience members may recognize the Ives Trio, which is flecked with numerous quotations of American folk and popular music. Ives evokes memories from his own personal life as well as memories from the collective American consciousness. Other works on the program were written by Daniel Pesca and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, both members of Zohn Collective, and also deal with the idea of music and memory.
“The performance will stimulate audiences to respond more creatively to contemporary and 20th-century chamber music while creating an experience to reflect on the relationship between music, imagery, and memory,” said Hanna Hurwitz, co-director of Zohn Collective and lecturer of violin at NKU SOTA. “The information about the works will be integrated as an artistic, rather than descriptive, component of the event. The intention is to refract that information through a combination of visual and auditory means that gives space for individualized reflection and fluid interpretation.”
Founded in 2017, Zohn Collective is a contemporary music collective, which seeks to produce and perform artist-driven projects generated by its members. For this reason, the diversity of backgrounds, interests, and expertise of each member is an essential and vibrant element of the group’s model. The ensemble core is comprised of nine members, which includes instrumental performers, composers, and a conductor, however, the group may expand or contract as dictated by the repertory of each project. The group recently performed with internationally recognized puppet company, La Coperacha, at the Festival de Mayo in Guadalajara, Mexico, and has given performances and workshops at the University of Kentucky, Belmont University, Oberlin Conservatory, Notre Dame, and University of Chicago.
“Jis” José Ignacio Solórzano is a renowned cartoonist, conceptual artist, and radio personality born in 1963 in Guadalajara, México. He has been a longstanding contributor to many of the preeminent newspapers and magazines in Mexico (La Jornada, Milenio, Galimatías, among others) and is co-author of the fabled comic strip “El Santos”. He has presented numerous exhibits of his work at noted galleries in Mexico and abroad and published several books with his drawings, comic strips, and cartoons, for including one in English, titled Cats don’t exist for Fantagraphics.
Zohn Collective will perform Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 7 p.m. in Greaves Concert Hall at NKU. Admission is free and open to the public. Parking is available for patrons in Lots D & I on campus. For more information about NKU’s School of the Arts, please visit nku.edu/sota or follow on social media @NKUSOTA.
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BY THE BOG OF CATS
SSCC Theatre
April 5-7
Edward K Daniels Auditorium [Hillsboro]
Directed by Rainee Angles
Cast: Juliane Cartaino as Hester Swayne, Billy Henry as Carthage Kilbride, Riley Griffin as Josie Kilbride, Bronwyn Jones as Mrs. Kilbride, Leslie Holmes as Monica Murray, Paula Campagna as The Catwoman, Jeff Horick as Xavier Cassidy, Emma Horick as Caroline Cassidy, Shawn Thomsen as The Ghost Fancier, Matthew Waits as The Ghost of Joseph Swayne, Ian Holmes as Young Dunne, Bob Brown as Father Willow & Jackson King as Other Waiter
Extras/Greek Chorus: Faith Fetters, Madison Hafield & Sarah Wuellner
Loosely based on Euripides’ tragedy Medea, this is the prophetic tale of Hester Swane, an Irish Traveller, who attempts to come to terms with a lifetime of abandonment in a world where all whom she has loved have discarded her. Set on the bleak, ghostly landscape of the Bog of Cats, this provocative drama discloses one woman’s courageous attempts to lay claim to that which is hers, as her world is torn in two.
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42ND STREET
Cincinnati Landmark Productions
April 4-28
Covedale Center [West Price Hill]
Directed & choreographed by Maggie Perrino
Music direction by Stephen Variames
Cast: Hope Pauly as Peggy Sawyer, Matthew Nassida as Billy Lawlor, Marissa Poole as Dorothy Brock, Justin Glaser as Julian Marsh, Josh Heard as Andy Lee, Kate Mock Elliott as Maggie Jones, Christopher Carter as Bert Berry & Chris Bishop as Abner Dillon.
Ensemble: Anna Hazard, Sarah Condon, Allison Dilbone, Amy Lacey, Faustina Gorham, Jules Shumate, Fiona Blanchet, Kate Stark, Elliot Handkins, Jeremy Cox, Logan Weinfurtner, Zac Holman, Kyle Taylor, Nick Godfrey & Royce Louden
The ultimate show-biz musical, 42ND STREET celebrates Broadway, Times Square, and the people who make the magic of musical theatre. Aspiring chorus girl Peggy Sawyer comes to the big city from Allentown PA, and soon lands her first big job in the ensemble of a glitzy new Broadway show. But just before opening night, the leading lady breaks her ankle. Will Peggy be able to step in and become a star? The score is chock-full of Broadway standards, including “Dames,” “We’re In the Money,” “Lullaby of Broadway,” “Shuffle Off to Buffalo” and “Forty-Second Street.”
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THE BLACK BOY IN PINK
Northern Kentucky University
Part of the Y.E.S. Festival
April 5-14
Konstantinow Studio Theatre [Highland Heights]
Written by Isaiah Reaves
Directed by Brian Robertson
Cast: Je’Shaun Jackson as Wyatt, Thomas Smith as Rudolph, Nathaniel Clifford as Douglas, Sally Modzelewski as Iris, Cameron Myers as Vincent, Haley Gillman as Blair & Gabriela Barbosa Gonzalez as Wyatt’s Mother
THE BLACK BOY IN PINK is a bold new work by a young provocative playwright set in his hometown of Cincinnati. The year is 1959. Wyatt Frost is a young black man who has been forced to make hard choices to survive. Flickering across his fuzzy RCA Victor television set comes the possibility of a different existence. As his life becomes entangled with the legacy of a picturesque local wealthy family, will Wyatt be able to choose the life he has always wanted? Will he be able to color pink his otherwise black and white existence?
THE BOY IN PINK has free admission, but reservations are required due to limited seating. Please visit the YES Festival website at nku.edu/yesfestival for more information or call the Box Office at 859.572.5464.
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