Category Archives: On Stage

GOD OF CARNAGE runs Sept. 3-Oct. 1

GOD OF CARNAGE
Presented by Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
Sept. 3-Oct. 1
Eden Park

BTC review | Enquirer review | CityBeat review |

When two sets of parents meet for a civilized discussion about their sons’ playground fight, the evening quickly deteriorates into a laugh-out-loud train wreck of finger-pointing, name-calling, tantrums and tears. And that’s before they break out the rum! Winner of the 2009 Tony Award for Best Play, this hysterical tale of parents behaving badly was described by The New York Post as “gleefully nasty fun,” and The New York Times hailed it as “first class!”

GOD OF CARNAGE is suitable for adult and older teenagers. It contains strong adult language and mature themes.

  • Sat, Sept. 3 at 8pm (preview)
  • Sun, Sept. 4 at 2pm (preview)
  • Tue-Wed, Sept. 6-7 at 7:30pm (previews)
  • Thu-Fri, Sept. 8-9 at 8pm
  • Sat, Sept. 10 at 4pm & 8pm
  • Sun, Sept. 11 at 2pm & 7pm
  • Tue-Wed, Sept. 13-14 at 7:30pm
  • Thu-Fri, Sept. 15-16 at 8pm
  • Sat, Sept. 17 at 4pm & 8pm
  • Sun, Sept. 18 at 2pm & 7pm
  • Tue-Wed, Sept. 20-21 at 7:30pm
  • Thu-Fri, Sept. 22-23 at 8pm
  • Sat, Sept. 24 at 4pm & 8pm
  • Sun, Sept. 25 at 2pm & 7pm
  • Tue, Sept. 27 at 7:30pm
  • Wed, Sept. 28 at 1pm
  • Thu-Fri, Sept. 29-30 at 8pm
  • Sat, Oct. 1 at 4pm & 8pm

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A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS runs Sept. 9-Oct. 2

A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
Presented by Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
Sept. 9-Oct. 2
Downtown

Enquirer review | CityBeat review |

Would you defy a king? In A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt shares an often-overlooked point of view on the divorce of King Henry VIII: that of the average person. When the King realizes that his Queen, Katherine of Aragon, cannot produce an heir to his throne, he sets out to procure a divorce. But as a man of his word and Lord Chancellor of England, Sir Thomas More greatly opposes the proposal. Will he defend his moral values? Or will he give in to the unholy actions of the king? Find out in this historical tale of ambition, integrity, and principles—told from the Common Man’s perspective.

  • Wed-Thu, Sept. 7-8 at 7:30pm (previews)
  • Fri-Sat, Sept. 9-10 at 7:30pm
  • Thu-Sat, Sept. 15-17 at 7:30pm
  • Sun, Sept. 18 at 2pm
  • Thu-Sat, Sept. 22-24 at 7:30pm
  • Sun, Sept. 25 at 2pm
  • Thu-Sat, Sept. 29-Oct. 1 at 7:30pm
  • Sun, Oct. 2 at 2pm

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THE FOREIGNER runs Sept. 9-25

THE FOREIGNER
Presented by Mariemont Players
Sept. 9-25
Mariemont

What can happen when a group of devious characters must deal with a stranger who (they think) knows no English? An inspired romp set in rural Georgia, you’ll laugh start to finish at one comic surprise after another.

  • Fri-Sat, Sept. 9-10 at 8pm
  • Sun, Sept. 11 at 7pm
  • Thu-Sat, Sept. 15-17 at 8pm
  • Sun, Sept. 18 at 2pm & 7pm
  • Thu-Fri, Sept. 22-23 at 8pm
  • Sat, Sept. 24 at 4pm & 8pm
  • Sun, Sept. 25 at 2pm

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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE runs Sept. 9-18

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Presented by Xenia Area Community Theater
Sept. 9-18
Xenia

  • Fri-Sat, Sept. 9-10 at 7:30pm
  • Sun, Sept. 11 at 3pm
  • Fri-Sat, Sept. 16-17 at 7:30pm
  • Sun, Sept. 18 at 3pm

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A CATERED AFFAIR runs Sept. 9-18

A CATERED AFFAIR
Presented by Lebanon Theatre Company 
Sept. 9-18
Lebanon

This musical, by four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, score by John Bucchino and direction by Tony Award-winner John Doyle, poses the question that inevitably faces every mother and daughter: whose wedding is it anyway? It’s 1953, and family ties are strained when a Bronx mother struggles to give her only daughter the elaborate wedding she herself never had and the bride never asked for. Based on the 1956 motion picture of the same name. It’s a funny, poignant and oh-so-human tale of love and disaffection, exploring both our need for love and the true meaning of family.

  • Fri, Sept. 9 at 6:30pm (dinner theater)
  • Sat, Sept. 10 at 8pm
  • Sun, Sept. 11 at 2pm
  • Fri-Sat, Sept. 16-17 at 8pm
  • Sun, Sept. 18 at 2pm 

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