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MEALS FOR MONOLOGUES at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati on Dec. 8-9 & 11

Casting Society of America Member D. Lynn Meyers to audition Actors
to encourage support of local foodstore

(Cincinnati, OH) Dim the lights, raise the curtain! Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati hosts its 14th annual Meals 4 Monologues auditions. Actors from throughout the nation are invited to a general audition call to perform for ND. Lynn Meyers, a member of the Casting Society of America (CSA), and are encouraged to make a donation to Cincinnati’s Freestore Foodbank.

The event, in an effort to support local food banks while auditioning local talent, will be held in-person on Monday, December 8 from 11 am – 6 pm, Tuesday, December 9 from 9 am – 3 pm, and virtually via Zoom on Thursday, December 11 from 10 am – 2 pm. This is an open casting call to all Equity union and non-union actors for future theatre, film, TV, and/or commercial projects cast by D. Lynn Meyers, CSA. This call is for all interested without regard to previous experience and with a strong emphasis on diversity and inclusion.

Sign-ups are now available and are and on a first-come, first-serve basis. Audition time slots are 3 minutes each and must be scheduled ONLINE at www.ensemblecincinnati.org/about/auditions.

To audition:

  • ·Upload a current HEADSHOT and RÉSUMÉ (DO NOT email them) during sign-up
  • ·Prepare a short monologue and song (must be performed a cappella), or two prepared monologues
  • ·Make a suggested donation to the Cincinnati Freestore Foodbank: https://bit.ly/M4M_25

The Freestore Foodbank is the largest emergency food and services provider to children and families in Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky, and Southeast Indiana, distributing 33 million meals annually to low-income individuals and families. The Freestore Foodbank supports 511 community partner agencies serving 20 counties in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. This includes food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, community centers, program sites, senior centers, and daycare facilities. The Freestore Foodbank is a member of Feeding America.

The Casting Society of America (CSA) is the premier organization of theatrical Casting Directors in film, television, and theatre. Although it is not a union, the CSA is a united professional society that consistently sets the level of professionalism in casting upon which the entertainment industry relies. CSA’s more than 490 members are represented not only in the United States, but also in Europe, Canada, Australia, and South Africa. “I am very proud to be a member of the Casting Society of America,” says CSA member D. Lynn Meyers. “The idea of Meals 4 Monologues came from a desire to always see new talent and to aid the community. I am delighted at the opportunity to see new faces and to spread outreach beyond the Greater Cincinnati area through this event.”

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Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati is supported, in part, by the generosity of community contributions to the ArtsWave Campaign.

The Ohio Arts Council helps fund Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans. Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati also receives funding from the Shubert Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati is a professional theatre dedicated to producing world and regional premieres of works that often explore compelling social issues. We fulfill our mission through our stage productions and educational outreach programs that enlighten, enliven, enrich, and inspire our audiences.

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Mutual Dance Theatre’s Immersive and Beloved UP-CLOSE Series to Return This December

Ana Hart, Celeste Kennington, Hannah Williamson, and Kaleigh Hampton. Courtesy Mutual Dance Theatre.

Cincinnati, OH – Immersive. Immediate. Unforgettable.

Returning as a season favorite, Up-Close ’25 brings audiences into the dance. Up-Close is Mutual Dance Theatre’s small-studio performance series. In this unique show, the resident company performs in the round, just inches from the audience. Every seat is front-row, every breath and step within reach.

“Breaking the fourth wall is an understatement,” marketing and communications manager Micky Sikorski told Cincinnati Magazine earlier this year, “there is no fourth wall in the Up-Close series.”

This year’s program features Crystal Michelle (Associate Artistic Director, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company), and Mutual Dance Theatre’s own Hannah Williamson, premiering her second Up-Close creation. Crystal Michelle’s work, Breath, Flesh, and Bone / A Manual for Lovers at the end of the world, asks how we endure the grief and joy of daily life. Hannah Williamson’s Look Thrice will explore the patterns and cycles we see in history and our own lives. Full descriptions for both of these works can be found below. 

This is a fundamentally different experience than Mutual Dance Theatre’s Aronoff shows, and it has become a fan favorite. This show sells out year after year, and quickly: Last year’s sold out during the early bird pricing period. Mutual Dance Theatre is proud to bring this unique experience to life yet again for Embrace 25-26: A Season of Connection. 

Show Blurbs 

Breath, Flesh, and Bone / A Manual for Lovers at the end of the world (2025) – Crystal Michelle 

What is love at the end of the world? How do we endure the daily demands to love and grieve, witness and testify, prosper and depart? Is survival possible? Breath, Flesh, and Bone / A Manual for Lovers at the end of the world explores these questions to create a field guide for those considering love. 

This work uses original sound design and projection to immerse audiences in a world defined by tenderness, resistance, arrival, and care. Inspired by Black feminist poetry, the work harkens to bell hooks, Toni Morrison, and Audre Lorde. 

Choreographer Crystal Michelle describes the work as “an urgent excavation” that uncovers and considers the potential futures laid before us. It offers a blueprint for choosing love while living within the raw realities of breath, flesh, and bone. 

Look Thrice (2025) – Hannah Williamson

Life moves in rhythmic cycles. Beginnings echo endings, and every step forward carries the imprint of what came before. History turns and returns, spiral-like, reminding us that the past has never truly passed. The patterns that emerge — of longing, of anger, of grief — are quietly governed by forces we cannot fully understand. Still, life continues: a sacred symmetry woven into the fabric of time itself. Think Thrice reminds us that, even in the turning, we are held by something eternal. 

This new work will be Willamson’s fourth commission from MDT, and promises to continue a theme of psychological journeys with thrilling, mysterious, and time-period elements.

Details, Tickets and More Information

Event: Mutual Dance Theatre in Up-Close ‘25
Location: Mutual Arts Hartwell, 8222 Monon Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45216
Dates: December 4, 5, & 6, and December 12 & 13
Time: 7:30pm
Website: mutualdance.org/upclose25

Tickets for this performance are available now at: mutualdance.org/upclose25 or at the Aronoff Center box office at (513) 621-ARTS or 650 Walnut Street

For the full season schedule and more details, visit: mutualdance.org/performances.

Mutual Dance Theatre and Arts Centers’ work is made possible by: the generosity of tens of thousands of contributors to the annual ArtsWave Campaign, the region’s primary source for arts funding; an investment of public funds from the Ohio Arts Council, a state agency that funds and supports quality arts experiences to strengthen Ohio communities culturally, educationally, and economically; and individual donors.

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About Mutual Dance Theatre and Arts Centers
Mutual Dance Theatre is the city’s longest-running and most consistent Modern Dance organization, both as a presenter and a resident company. MDT was formerly known as Contemporary Dance Theater (est. 1972 by Jefferson James) and MamLuft&Co. Dance (est. 2007 by Jeanne Mam-Luft) until their merger in 2021. Both organizations began as performing troupes, but in the early ‘90s, CDT dissolved its company and subsequently focused on presenting guest artists. The two organizations joined to create the aptly-named Mutual Dance Theatre and Arts Centers, taking enumeration from its elder half and thus celebrating its 54th season in 25-26. Mutual has honored and combined the priorities of both founding organizations: investing in a virtuosic local company with the aim of becoming a significant presence both locally and nationally, as well as the continued presentation of Modern and Contemporary Dance from across the States (and sometimes, beyond). Mutual also reaches thousands of children each year through education and its academy, as well as charity-supported outreach. Learn more at mutualdance.org.

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Selections Announced for HOME BREW THEATRE 9 at The Drama Workshop

Home Brew Theatre, The Drama Workshop’s weekend-long celebration of short plays by local playwrights, has completed the selection process for this season’s event. Home Brew Theatre will be staged at The Glenmore Playhouse, the home of The Drama Workshop, on January 9-11, 2026. Each performance will be followed by a “Meet the Artists” reception featuring beer from a local craft brewer. This is the ninth installment of the festival, which began in 2016.

The final selections for Home Brew Theatre 9 are as follows:

A Ferry Tale by Rose Vanden Eynden
Directed by David Roth
Featuring Mark Culp, Cookie Hartman and Nathan Turner

Animals Switching into Servants… Collective Bargaining 101 by Matt Hanf
Directed by Dane Rogers and Sarah Louise Rogers
Featuring Jessie Faye, Ray Lebowski and Grant Zentmeyer

Brood XIV by Holly Sauerbrunn
Directed by Clint Bramkamp
Featuring Katherine Anderson, Parker Culp and Nathan Turner

Love Bites by Lisa White
Directed by Judy Berrens
Featuring Nick Dunker, Jessie Faye, Kate Nicole Hoffman and Devin Knott

Millard Fillmore was the 13th President by Dallas Rae-Macke
Directed by Benny Mitchell
Featuring Kate Nicole Hoffman and Virginia Venegas

On the Record by Fred Tacon
Directed by Judy Berrens
Featuring Rusty Lacy, Eric Thomas and Virginia Venegas

Overtime by Wendy Vogel
Directed by Donald George Huenning II
Featuring Jessie Faye, Kathryn Muck and Emily Tilling

Sibling Procedure by Katherine Anderson
Directed by Lisa White
Featuring Rusty Lacy, Emily Tilling and Grant Zentmeyer

The Interrogation by Brad White
Directed by Jamie Ball
Featuring Chris Dettone, Ray Lebowski, Jeff Nieman and Tim Rogers

The Translator by Keith Vanden Eynden
Directed by Joshua Marcus
Featuring Katherine Anderson, Marianne Bradshaw, Ray Lebowski, Colleen McElroy and Nathan Turner

Ten very different plays from ten authors means there will be something for every taste, including silly comedies, compelling dramas and even plays that might make you think!

Tickets to Home Brew Theatre are $20. 

Show dates and times are 

  • January 9th, 730pm
  • January 10th, 2pm and 730pm
  • January 11th, 2pm 

The Glenmore Playhouse is located at 3716 Glenmore Ave in Cheviot. Tickets can be ordered through The Drama Workshop’s ticket line at 513-598-8303, or ordered online via the TDW website at www.thedramaworkshop.org.

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2026 Summer Season Announced by Warsaw Federal Incline Theatre

FOUR Shows. ONE Hot Summer. Only $128!
The 2026 Summer Classics Season is bringing the heat with four incredible musicals:

  • DISASTER!
    April 15-May 10
  • 1776
    May 27-June 21
  • ALWAYS…PATSY CLINE
    July 8-Aug. 2
  • CRAZY FOR YOU (change announced 1.7.26)
    Aug. 19-Sept. 13

Secure your seats now for a lineup packed with laughter, music, history, and a whole lot of heart.

When you subscribe, you get premium seating and serious savings.

Subscription Price: Just $128 for all four shows!
Subscribe today at CLPShows.org and step into the spotlight of Summer 2026!

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Casting Call for Fever’s THE JURY EXPERIENCE (Non-Union)

Currently in 120+ cities worldwide, The Jury Experience is an immersive theatrical courtroom drama where the audience plays the role of the Jury.

Votes throughout the experience will determine the events of the trial and ultimately decide the fate of the defendant.

Cases are being tested, developed, and scaled based on success. Touring opportunities are possible in select markets.

Learn more here: https://thejuryexperience.com/

You have been asked to audition for the role of the Defense Attorney.

You will be reading sides of the Auto Taxi Case. Should the role be awarded to you, you will be our DA for another case as well.

Auto Taxi moral dilemma:

The CEO of a leading Robotaxi company faces manslaughter charges after one of his Robo taxis swerved to avoid an oncoming vehicle and killed cyclist Alex Rivers in the process – a husband and father of two.

Was the AI technology brought to market by Anthony Hulmer prepared to make life and death decisions at the time of its release, or were critical procedures neglected in order to grab market shares? Does he deserve 10 years in prison? Did the vehicle cause a homicide or prevent a higher number of deaths?

The Jury will decide.

SHOW DATES

Fever is casting for show dates in Cincinnati starting on the weekend of November 23rd and perform for two weekends. Additional dates will be added depending on local interest and will be communicated to actors well in advance.

The show will rehearse starting on Nov 3rd locally until opening and a schedule will be made according to Actor’s availability

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