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Auditions Announced for A CHRISTMAS CAROL – Live Radio Broadcast at Lamplight Theater Company

Audition Times

Audition Form  https://forms.gle/bsQZyBtDK8nyDHZ28

Full Info here  https://www.lamplighttheater.org/auditions  

BACKGROUND:
Audiences raved about our sold out November, 2024, live radio broadcast of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ – so much so that the radio station, WBFR, will once again come to life with another beloved holiday classic – ‘A Christmas Carol’. We are an immersive theatre and look forward to building our next cast family.​

ABOUT THE PLAY:  This is a story within a story that takes place in a run-down 1940s New York radio station. The radio station staff play the various parts of the characters in the story, ‘The Christmas Carol’.  ​

ABOUT THE CAST:

Overview:  A minimum of 5 – 8 radio station staff actors will play the up to 32 character parts.  Since this is a radio show, actors with vocal quality, timbre, and flexibility to play multiple characters are a must.  British and Cockney’d accents will have coaching as needed.

The special roles of Ebeneezer Scrooge, Jacob Marley and Tiny Tim may be selected at the discretion of the Director to be played by one actor each as their sole acting part.

Musical abilities and/or ability to play an instrument are a plus.

Please join us.

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GUYS AND DOLLS Runs July 17-20

GUYS AND DOLLS
Wilmington College Community Summer Theatre
July 17-20
Wilmington College Hugh G. Heiland Theatre

GUYS AND DOLLS is musical theatre at its show-stopping best! Hailed by many as the perfect musical comedy, this colorful classic follows a rowdy bunch of gamblers and showgirls in a wild game of chance and love. Set in bustling 1950s Manhattan, GUYS AND DOLLS features some of the most memorable showtunes of all time, including “Luck Be a Lady,” “I’ve Never Been in Love Before,” and the irrepressible anthem “Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat.”

  • Thu-Sat, July 17-19 at 7:30pm
  • Sun, July 20 at 2:30pm

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BYE, BYE BIRDIE Runs July 17-19

BYE, BYE BIRDIE
Encore Community Theatre
July 17-19
Miami University Hamilton Parrish Auditorium

When 1950’s heartthrob Conrad Birdie gets drafted, his publicity team has him sing one last song and dedicate it with a kiss for one lucky girl. When the kiss get sabotaged, the plot thickens. Join us to follow all of the loveable characters through this Tony-award winning classic musical!

  • Thu-Fri, July 17-18 at 7:30pm
  • Sat, July 19 at 2pm

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CPI Announces 30th Anniversary Season

Local Playwriting Group Selects Scripts for Staged Readings

Cincinnati, Ohio—July 10, 2025—At its June board meeting, Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative
(CPI) Board of Directors announced the selected scripts for its New Voices 30th Anniversary 2025/2026 season which will showcase both new and emerging local playwrights.

The following CPI members will have their Full-length, One-Act and Short plays performed as
staged readings at the Fifth Third Theater in downtown Cincinnati on the following six Tuesday evenings at 7:30 p.m.

  • September 16, 2025
    HOLLYWOOD MASALA
    A full-length play by Sanjay Puligadda
  • October 28, 2025
    FRIGHTFEST
    CPI’s annual ten-minute play festival fundraiser returns with a Halloween theme to
    support the Cincinnati Care Center Animal Blood Bank. 8 short plays will be selected and
    announced in July.
  • November 18, 2025
    THANKS FOR CALLING a One-Act play by Dave Doster
    STILLWATER DEPOT, CENTER STREET, AND SGT. SKINNER GOES FOR COFFEE
    Three ten-minute plays by Clint Bramkamp
  • February 10, 2026
    WELCOMING ECHOES
    A one-Act play by Paul Bergman
    MUST BE THE MUSIC, OFF THE BEATEN PARTH CAFE, NEXT TRAIN AT PLAYFORM 22, and THE HOLY TERRORS
    A Playwright’s Potpourri: Four Ten-Minute Plays by Roger Collins
  • March 10, 2026
    THE ANGELS OF MERCY
    A one-act play by Charles Stephan
    WHAT ARE THE ODDS
    A ten-minute play by Charles Stephan
  • April 14, 2026
    MARTHA’S WILL
    A full-length historical fiction play by Susan and Doug Decatur

Twenty-minute audience talkback sessions are conducted for staged readings at the end of each performance. Written feedback will be obtained from the audience for FRIGHTFEST.

Season tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, July 11 through Tuesday, September 16, 2025 for $55 which includes all 6 dates for the price of 5 and can be purchased online at
www.cincinnatiarts.org/events/detail/cpi-new-voices-2025-2026-series or by calling the Aronoff box office at 513-621-2787. Single event tickets also go on sale July 11, 2025 for $11 per person. FRIGHTFEST tickets will be $16.50 each with a portion of the proceeds benefitting the Cincinnati Care Center Animal Blood Bank. All ticket prices are inclusive of service fees.

CPI is a non-profit theater arts organization whose mission is to support playwrights in the
Cincinnati Metropolitan Area by offering free playwriting workshops, cold and staged readings to provide valuable feedback so that scripts can be further developed to potentially become fully produced or published.

To join CPI, visit the website at https://cincyplaywrights.org or follow on social media both on
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/cincyplaywrights and X https://x.com/cincyplaywright.

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MSJ Theatre Arts Proudly Announces 2025-2026 Season

BLITHE SPIRIT by Noel Coward
Nov. 6-15th, 2025

Novelist Charles Condomine invites a medium, Madame Arcati, to his home for a séance as research for his new book. The séance goes awry when Elvira, Charles’s deceased first wife, is summoned. Only Charles can see and hear her, leading to comedic chaos with his current wife, Ruth, who believes Charles is either mad or playing a cruel joke.

LITTLE WOMEN book by Allan Knee, lyrics by Mindi Dickstein, and music by Jason Howland
March 19-28, 2026

Based on Louisa May Alcott’s 1868–69 semi-autobiographical two-volume novel, it focuses on the four March sisters— traditional Meg, wild, aspiring writer Jo, timid Beth and romantic Amy,— and their beloved Marmee, at home in Concord, Massachusetts, while their father is away serving as a Union Army chaplain during the Civil War. Intercut with the vignettes in which their lives unfold are several recreations of the melodramatic short stories Jo writes in her attic studio.

ONE-ACTS
April 24-25, 2026
A weekend of one-act plays, student-directed, titles to be announced Spring 2026

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