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DEAD MAN’S CELL PHONE runs Oct. 19-23

DEAD MAN’S CELL PHONE
Presented by Mad Anthony Theatre Company
Oct. 19-23
Hamilton

An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man—with a lot of loose ends. So begins this wildly imaginative comedy about how we memorialize the dead—and how that remembering changes us. It is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.

Directed by Henry Cepluch

Cast: Hannah Goodman, Blake Bowden, Cathy Lutts, Wendy Vogel, Leah Strasser, and Carter Bratton

  • Wed-Sat, Oct. 19-22 at 8pm
  • Sun, Oct. 23 at 2pm

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PLAZA SUITE runs Sept. 23-Oct. 2

PLAZA SUITE
Presented by Fairfield Footlighters
Sept. 23-Oct. 2
Fairfield

In the first act of PLAZA SUITE, Sam Nash and his wife Karen are celebrating their anniversary by returning to the suite where they honeymooned 24 years ago. Trying to get her inattentive husband’s attention and spruce up their failing marriage, Karen attempts to rekindle the romance that the couple once had while Sam has some secretly seductive plans of his own. In the second act, movie producer, Jesse Kiplinger, tries to put the moves on his old flame Muriel Tate in true Hollywood fashion. And finally, the third act finds Roy Hubley, an anxious father who with his wife Norma tries desperately to persuade their nervous daughter to leave the bathroom in which she has locked herself on her much-anticipated wedding day.

Directed by Dana Bruce Berry

Cast lists:
– “Visitors from Mamaroneck” – Bob Kelley as Sam Nash, Terri Howard as Karen Nash, Zachary Hornberger as the Bellhop, Heidi Schiller as Ms McCormack & John Vanderplough as the waiter.
– “Visitor from Hollywood” – Dan Schindler as Jesse Kiplinger, Lyndall Murray as Muriel Tate and John Vanderplough as the waiter.
– “Visitors from Forest Hills” – Tom Redman as Roy Hubley, Lyndall Murray as Norma Hubley, Zachary Hornberger as Borden Eisler.

  • Fri-Sat, Sept. 23-24 at 8pm
  • Sun, Sept. 25 at 2pm
  • Fri-Sat, Sept. 30-Oct. 1 at 8pm
  • Sun, Oct. 2 at 2pm

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RED runs Oct. 15-Nov. 12

RED
Presented by Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
Oct. 15-Nov. 12
Eden Park 

Reviews: CityBeat | Enquirer | BTC | Cincinnati Examiner |

Winner of the 2010 Tony Award for Best Play, RED took Broadway by storm with its provocative and searing portrait of an artist’s ambition and vulnerability. Having just landed the biggest commission in modern art history, abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko works feverishly in his studio with his brash, young assistant, Ken. As Rothko nears completion of what he hopes will be his crowning achievement, he faces the possibility that it could also become his undoing.

RED is suitable for adults and older teenagers. It contains adult language and mature themes. For more information, please see the Content Advisory.

  • Sat, Oct. 15 at 8pm (preview)
  • Sun, Oct. 16 at 2pm (preview)
  • Tue-Wed, Oct. 18-19 at 7:30pm (previews)
  • Thu-Fri, Oct. 20-21 at 8pm
  • Sat, Oct. 22 at 4pm & 8pm
  • Sun, Oct. 23 at 2pm & 7pm
  • Tue-Wed, Oct. 25-26 at 7:30pm
  • Thu-Fri, Oct. 27-28 at 8pm
  • Sat, Oct. 29 at 4pm & 8pm
  • Sun, Oct. 30 at 2pm & 7pm
  • Tue-Wed, Nov. 1-2 at 7:30pm
  • Thu-Fri, Nov. 3-4 at 8pm
  • Sat, Nov. 5 at 4pm & 8pm
  • Sun, Nov. 6 at 2pm & 7pm
  • Tue, Nov. 8 at 7:30pm
  • Wed, Nov. 9 at 1pm
  • Thu-Fri, Nov. 10-11 at 8pm
  • Sat, Nov. 12 at 4pm & 8pm

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MACBETH runs Oct. 14-Nov. 20

MACBETH
Presented by Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
Oct. 14-Nov. 20
Downtown

Reviews: Enquirer | CityBeat |

Prophecies. Madness. Ambition. Blood. The King has been murdered, but how long will the new King live? In Shakespeare’s supernatural tragedy Macbeth, the titular Lord is led by the prophecies of witches to conspire with his wife on an ambitious plot to rule Scotland—at any cost. But when their delusions of power result in bloodshed, Macbeth is sent into a downward spiral of madness. Tormented by visions and guilt while the price of his crimes takes its toll, what fate awaits Macbeth? Join us for a chilling account of the destructively cyclical nature of dreams and nightmares come true.

  • Wed-Thu, Oct. 12-13 at 7:30pm (previews)
  • Fri-Sat, Oct. 14-15 at 7:30pm
  • Thu-Sat, Oct. 20-22 at 7:30pm
  • Sun, Oct. 23 at 2pm
  • Thu-Sat, Oct. 27-29 at 7:30pm
  • Sun, Oct. 30 at 2pm
  • Thu-Sat, Nov. 3-5 at 7:30pm
  • Sun, Nov 6 at 2pm
  • Thu-Sat, Nov. 10-12 at 7:30pm
  • Sun, Nov. 13 at 2pm
  • Thu-Sat, Nov 17-19 at 7:30pm
  • Sun, Nov. 20 at 2pm

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THE WIZARD OF OZ runs Oct. 14-22

THE WIZARD OF OZ
Presented by The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati
Oct. 14-22
Downtown 

Heading down the Yellow Brick Road to find the Wizard and their way back home to Kansas, Dorothy, and Toto meet some new friends: a scrawny Scarecrow needing a brain, a rusty Tin Man needing a heart, and a Cowardly Lion needing courage. The Wicked Witch of the West tries to get rid of these intruders and claim Dorothy’s ruby slippers. With the help of Glinda the Good Witch and the awareness that they already possess the qualities they were looking for, success soon comes to them all. There really is no place like home.

  • Fri, Oct. 14 at 7:30pm
  • Sat-Sun, Oct. 15-16 at 2pm
  • Sat, Oct. 22 at 2pm & 5pm

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