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April 27
Memorial Hall [Over-the-Rhine | Online]
True Theatre continues to produce quarterly one-night-only events featuring five people, from all walks of life, sharing true, personal stories, based on the theme of the evening.
Is “home” really “wherever you hang your hat”? Join our storytellers for an evening that may have you re-thinking your definition of the word!
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THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
Miami University Theatre
April 26-30
Gates-Abegglen Theatre [Oxford]
The Cornley Drama Society takes over our stage with their performance of the 1920’s whodunnit The Murder at Haversham Manor. For this inept troupe of thespians, each moment ushers in a new catastrophe – broken props, missed lines, and even an unconscious leading lady! Luckily for us, their slapstick struggle to overcome and get the play back on track is utterly hysterical. Prepare for one of the funniest nights you’ll ever have at the theatre!
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Photo by Tony Arrasmith/Arrasmith & Associates.
August Wilson’s SEVEN GUITARS
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
April 23-May 14
The Rouse Theatre [Eden Park]
It’s 1948 in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, and blues music echoes throughout the neighborhood. A group of old friends gathers to mourn and reminisce about Floyd “Schoolboy” Barton — a gifted guitarist whose star was on the rise and whose untimely death has irrevocably changed each of them. With live blues and lyrical dialogue, August Wilson weaves a poetic and poignant composition about the Black American experience. This landmark, Tony Award-winning play — a part of Wilson’s American Century Cycle — promises a soulful exploration of the ties that bind and the chords that hold us together. August Wilson’s Seven Guitars is suitable for adult and older teenage audiences. This landmark script contains adult language (including the n-word) as it explores the tunes of life for the story’s characters. Through poetic dialogue and blues melodies, they speak frankly and deeply about hardship, violence, death and racism.
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BANKERS
Know Theatre of Cincinnati
April 21-May 14
[Over-the-Rhine]
Written by Brandt Russell
Directed by Andrew Hungerford
Cast: James Creque as Hunter, Ben Dudley as Herbie, Eileen Earnest as Migrant, Jim Hopkins* as Old Man, k Jenny Jones* as Sharon & Aisha Josiah as Surrey
*appear courtesy Actors Equity Association
What do you do when you think you and your town are the last people on Earth – and then it gets worse? A world premiere full of twists, turns, and tight dialogue that will keep you asking questions about the world we live in now (and where it may be headed). A world premiere show from a local playwright, Bankers was workshopped as a developmental production at the 2019 Cincinnati Fringe Festival.
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RIPCORD
Oxford Area Community Theatre
April 21-30
Oxford Community Arts Center
Directed by Lisa Biales
For four years, irritable and sarcastic Abby Binder has kept a room to herself at the Bristol Place Senior Living Facility, through sheer force of her rude personality. Nursing disappointment at the direction her life has taken, she has no room for distraction. When bubbly, bright, and unbearably cheerful Marilyn Dunne is placed in her room, Abby tries her usual tricks, but fails to scare her annoying new roommate away. RIPCORD is an enemies-to-friends story for a pair of excellently well-rounded, mature women.
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