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December 14, 2022 · 5:57 am

FOR THE LOYAL Runs Jan. 13-29

PrintFOR THE LOYAL
Dayton Theatre Guild
Jan. 13-29
[Dayton]

Directed by Doug Lloyd
Produced by Barbara Jorgensen & Michael Welly

Cast: Heather Atkinson as Mia, George Merusi as Toby, Robert Brumberg as Mitch Carlson, John Casper as Tanner Hale & Casen Kidd as Boy

Toby and Mia are graduate students with a bright future ahead of them: a baby on the way and a college coaching job for Toby. But when Toby stumbles across a secret that threatens to derail their future, he and Mia must decide between honesty and loyalty, and whether doing something wrong is the only way to do what’s right. Inspired by the Penn State sexual abuse scandal, For the Loyal is an emotional and thought-provoking play.

  • Fri-Sat, Jan. 13-14 at 8pm
  • Sun, Jan. 15 at 3pm
  • Fri, Jan. 20 at 8pm
  • Sat, Jan. 21 at 5pm
  • Sun, Jan. 22 at 3pm
  • Fri, Jan. 27 at 8pm
  • Sat, Jan. 28 at 5pm
  • Sun, Jan. 29 at 3pm

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December 14, 2022 · 5:55 am

GRIEG: PEER GYNT IN CONCERT On Jan. 13-14

CSO_GriegGRIEG: PEER GYNT IN CONCERT
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Jan. 13-14
Music Hall [Over-the-Rhine]

Louis Langrée, conductor
Pekka Kuusisto, violin
Camilla Tilling, soprano (Solveig)
May Festival Chorus, Robert Porco, director
Concert Theatre Works, Bill Barclay, director

Program

DANÍEL BJARNASON: Violin Concerto

EDVARD GRIEG: Peer Gynt [original concert-theatre production]
Music by Edvard Grieg
Written and Directed by Bill Barclay
Adapted from the play by Henrik Ibsen
Produced by Concert Theatre Works

A Norwegian fairy tale comes to life in Music Hall with a concert staging of Grieg’s enchanting score to Ibsen’s play, created and directed by Bill Barclay, former Director of Music at Shakespeare’s Globe. Louis Langrée leads the Orchestra and cast, including soprano Camilla Tilling and the May Festival Chorus. Bjarnason’s Violin Concerto opens the program with whimsical whistling by soloist Pekka Kuusisto, for whom the concerto was written.

  • Fri-Sat, Jan. 13-14 at 7:30pm

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December 13, 2022 · 5:52 am

DEARLY DEPARTED Runs Jan. 12-29

MPI_Dearly Departed logoDEARLY DEPARTED 
Mariemont Players
Jan. 12-29
[Walton Creek]

Directed by Aaron Whitehead
Produced by Douglas Berlon and Dee Anne Bryll

In the Baptist backwoods of the Bible Belt, the beleaguered Turpin family proves that living and dying in the South are seldom tidy and always hilarious. Despite their earnest efforts to pull themselves together for their father’s funeral, the Turpins’ other problems keep overshadowing the solemn occasion.

Cast: Cathy Lutts as Raynelle, Christie Bishop as Ray-Bud/Bud, Arlene Balczo as Lucille, Blake Gehring as Junior, Jessie Faye as Suzanne, Lisa Breithaupt as Marguerite, Jackie Miesle as Delightful/Nadine, Adam McCoy as Reverend, Justin Hanks as Royce, Traci Taylor as Veda/Juanita & Josh Zak as Clyde/Norval

  • Thu-Sat, Jan. 12-14 at 7:30pm (Jan. 13 is SOLD OUT)
  • Sun, Jan. 15 at 2pm
  • Thu-Fri, Jan. 19-20 at 7:30pm
  • Sat, Jan. 21 at 2pm & 7:30pm
  • Sun, Jan. 22 at 2pm Rescheduled to Jan. 28 at 2pm
  • Thu-Fri, Jan. 26-27 at 7:30pm
  • Sat, Jan. 28 at 2pm & 7:30pm
  • Sun, Jan. 29 at 2pm

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December 13, 2022 · 5:52 am

HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH Runs Jan. 12-14

TLD_Hedwig logoHEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH
Theatre Lab Dayton
Jan. 12-14
PNC Arts Annex [Dayton]

Cast: Michael Miller as Hedwig and Nicolette Montana as Yitzak

This groundbreaking Obie-winning Off-Broadway smash also won multiple awards for its hit film adaptation. It tells the story of “internationally ignored song stylist” Hedwig Schmidt, a fourth-wall smashing East German rock ‘n’ roll goddess who also happens to be the victim of a botched sex-change operation, which has left her with just “an angry inch.”

  • Thu, Jan. 12 at 7:30pm
  • Fri, Jan. 13 at 8pm
  • Sat, Jan. 14 at 2pm & 8pm

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December 9, 2022 · 5:54 am

THE COST OF LIVING On Jan. 10

CPI_The Cost of Living logoTHE COST OF LIVING 
Cincinnati Playwrights Initiatve
Jan. 10
Aronoff Center Fifth-Third Bank Theater [Downtown]

An exotic dancer and a drug dealer try to forge a “normal” relationship as the city where they live collapses with protests and looting after a police officer shoots an unarmed man. Based on the true story of Timothy Thomas’s death in Cincinnati in 2001.

Playwright Bio:
David Hughes has had a life in the theatre for 45 years. David’s full-length play, Acapulco was one of two plays in Ohio selected by OCTA for the Regional American Association of Community Theatre Festival 2017. David’s ten-minute play, I Am Not A Shoe, was selected for a staged reading at CPI’s recent Foolsfest playwriting competition this past April. He has a B.A. in Theatre Arts, U.C.  He is chairperson of CPI’s Writer’s Workshop.

  • Tue, Jan. 10 at 7:30pm

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