IT’S ALIVE-ISH: 7 New Plays About Weird Stuff
Village Players
Available Aug. 29-Sept. 27
[Online]
Our 2020 New Works production will be a special digital video performance, available to watch online anytime from August 29 – September 27, 2020. Tickets are $10 each and can be purchased below. Thank you for supporting Village Players!
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NEWSIES
INNOVAtheatre
Aug. 20-29
Caesar Ford Amphitheatre [Xenia]
Directed by Richard Lee Waldeck
Assistant director Emily Kallenberg
Vocal & music direction by Sarah Plaugher
Choreographed by Kara Castle
Official cast list (Scroll down) |
Set in turn-of-the century New York City, Newsies is the rousing tale of Jack Kelly, a charismatic newsboy and leader of a band of teenaged “newsies.” When titans of publishing raise distribution prices at the newsboys expense, Jack rallies newsies from across the city to strike against the unfair conditions and fight for what’s right!
Based on the 1992 motion picture and inspired by a true story, NEWSIES features a Tony Award-winning score by Alan Menken (Little Shop of Horrors, Sister Act) and Jack Feldman and a book by Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein (Kinky Boots). It features the now classic songs Carrying the Banner, Seize the Day, and Santa Fe.
Official page | Facebook event |
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SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD
Dare to Defy Productions
Aug. 10-30
[Online]
Directed by Philip Drennen
Music directed by Norman Moxley II
Cast: Jamal Cann, Naman Clark, Allie Haines, Mackensie King, Zach King, Brennan Paulin, Danielle Ruddy, Thomas Cole Schreier, Lindsay Sherman & Garrett Young
2020 has proven not just to be a difficult year but also a year for major change. With our new take on Songs for a New World, we present these songs about love, heartbreak, birth, and struggle through a 2020 lens. Scored with brilliant music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, this show has stood the test of time and we look forward to bringing you plenty of laughs, asking you questions, and diving deep into the current state of the world. Each of us has a story to tell.
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FEAST
Know Theatre of Cincinnati
Aug. 7-Sept. 20
[Online]
Written by Megan Gogerty
Directed by Tamara Winters
Cast: Jennifer Joplin as Agathae
You are cordially invited to break bread, virtually, with one of the seminal monsters of literature: Grendel’s Mother, from the Anglo-Saxon epic, Beowulf. Share in her hard won victories and shattering griefs. Turn your collective gaze upon the wreckage of the 21st century, and find what it takes to maybe build a better world. And have a little treat. You deserve it.
FEAST. is an uncompromisingly brash reflection on devotion, grief, and the communal responsibility to stoke the fires of revolution. It’s a bold mash-up of a classical story with bracing modernity, painting a world where mythology comes crashing into pop culture.
THE HALLELUJAH GIRLS
Troy Civic Theatre
Aug. 7-16
The Barn in Troy City Park
Directed by Beth Shrake
Cast: Jennifer Kaufman as Sugar Lee Tompkins, Julie Zalar as Nita Mooney, Nancy Besecker as Carlene Travis, Kathy Campbell as Mavis Flowers, Madison Wells as Crystal Hart, Niccole SueAnn Wallace as Bunny Sutherland, Michael Schumacher as Bobby Dwayne Dillahunt & Alain Alejandro as Porter Padgett
Official page | Facebook event |
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