Category Archives: On Stage

NATASHA, PIERRE, AND THE GREAT COMET OF 1812
Commonwealth Artists Student Theatre
July 24-Aug. 2
NKU Stauss Theatre [Highland Heights]

Cast: Elliot Martin as Natasha, Hana Conte as Sonya, Athena Updike as Marya D, Jonathan Hester as Anatole, Olive Stewart as Helene, Roland Hensley as Dolokhov, Noah Varland as Old Prince Bolkonsky, Marina Daniszewski as Mary, Jake Hagerty as Balaga, Milo Hickerson as Pierre & Parker Roland as Andrey
Ensemble: Aubree Abbott, Christian Bedinghaus, Parker Flautt, Leah Gregoire Javin Hill, Violet Kimnach, Sabrina Kohus, Emily Lierl, Myles Lovell, Reece Molloy, Ariana Rodriguez, Norah Shadwell, Avery Silvestain, Ivy Syroney, Oscar Syroney, Emil Sztanyo, Alex Towner, Madison Weadbrock & Lilah Whitman

Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, an electropop opera based on a scandalous slice of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Young and impulsive, Natasha Rostova arrives in Moscow to await the return of her fiancé from the front lines. When she falls under the spell of the roguish Anatole, it is up to Pierre, a family friend in the middle of an existential crisis, to pick up the pieces of her shattered reputation. 

• Fri-Sat, July 24-25 at 7:30pm
• Sun, July 26 at 2pm
• Fri-Sat, July 31-Aug. 1 at 7:30pm
• Sun, Aug. 2 at 2pm

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THE SEAGULL
Commonwealth Artists Student Theatre
July 10-19
NKU Stauss Theatre [Highland Heights]

The Seagull is a bittersweet drama about unrequited love, artistic ambition, and the destructive nature of selfishness. The story revolves around a complex web of romantic and creative rivalries on a Russian country estate. Irina, a fading, middle-aged actress; Trigorin, a dissolute but popular writer whom greatness has passed by, and the actress’ frustrated, melancholy son Constantin who is lovesick over Nina, are the players in this bittersweet tragedy of lives and love gone wrong. Nina, enchanted by the debonair Trigorin and obsessed with acting on the stage, follows Trigorin to the city where she bears him a child and becomes a common dilletante. Ultimately deserted by the older man, Nina returns and again rejects Constantin’s overtures of love.

• Fri-Sat, July 10-11 at 7:30pm
• Sun, July 12 at 2pm
• Fri-Sat, July 17-18 at 7:30pm
• Sun, July 19 at 2pm

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