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January 31, 2020 · 10:05 am

DESTINY OF DESIRE Runs Feb. 29-March 28

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DESTINY OF DESIRE
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
Feb. 29-March 28
Marx Theatre [Eden Park]

Directed by Jose Luis Valenuela

Burning passion, cunning deception and outrageous melodrama combine in this enormously entertaining homage to Latin American soap operas. A storm brews in the small town of Bellarica, Mexico, when two baby girls are born on the same night in the same hospital. One will have wealth and privilege, and the other will live in poverty. Yet the drama is bound to unfold when a former beauty queen switches the babies at birth in her lust for power. Eighteen years later, fate finds the two girls together again, prompting secrets to be revealed and lies to be unraveled. After all, nothing is impossible in Bellarica! Suitable for adults and older teenage audiences. This Latin-American melodrama features everything there is to love about soap operas: forbidden romance, sexual content, plenty of plotting and scheming, and moments of overly dramatic violence.

  • In preview Sat, Feb. 29 at 8pm & Sun, March 1 at 2pm
  • In preview, Tue-Wed, March 2-4 at 7:30pm
  • Thu, March 5 at 7:30pm
  • Fri, March 6 at 8pm
  • Sat, March 7 at 4pm & 8pm
  • Sun, March 8 at 2pm & 7pm
  • Tue-Thu, March 10-12 at 7:30pm
  • Fri, March 13 at 8pm
  • Sat, March 14 at 4pm & 8pm
  • Sun, March 15 at 2pm & 7pm
  • Tue-Thu, March 17-19 at 7:30pm
  • Fri, March 20 at 8pm
  • Sat, March 21 at 4pm & 8pm
  • Sun, March 22 at 2pm
  • Tue, March 24 at 7:30pm
  • Wed, March 25 at 1pm
  • Thu, March 26 at 7:30pm
  • Fri, March 27 at 8pm
  • Sat, March 28 at 4pm & 8pm

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January 31, 2020 · 9:51 am

ANNIE JR. Runs Feb. 29-March 9

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Diana Hutchinson as Annie. Photo by Mikki Schaffner.

ANNIE JR.
The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati
Feb. 29-March 9
Taft Theatre [Downtown]

Cast: Katie Arber as Miss Hannigan, David Armando as Bundles/Bert Healy, Cammi Caldwellas Annette, Sara Cox as Mrs. Greer, Celia Joy D’Ascenzo as Molly, Marlo D’Ascenzo as Kate, Isabela De Paz as Susie, Lauren Everett as Grace, Trinity G. Gibson as Duffy, Justin Glaser as Oliver Warbucks, Courtney Hammonds as Pepper, Tommi Harsch as Lily, Alyssa Hart as Tessie, Ndaya Hoskins as Ensemble, Diana Hutchinson as Annie, Kyndra Dyanne Jefferies as Apple Seller/Mrs. Pugh, Julia J. Kirkham as July, Ethan Kuchta as Ensemble, Katelyn Moore as Ensemble, Sara Moore as Ensemble/Servant, Claire Northcut as Star-To-Be, Dain Alan Paige as Drake, Nasir Peterson as Ensemble, Jeremiah Plessinger as Rooster, Sammy Schechter as Ensemble, Mark Ross Schutzman as Ensemble, Kate Stark as Cecille, Jake Stibbe as Ensemble, Nyla Jolie Thomas as Zeldy & CJ Zimmer as Ensemble, 

Leapin’ Lizards! Kick off Leap Year with us! The popular comic strip heroine takes center stage in one of the world’s best-loved musicals. With equal measures of pluck and positivity, little orphan Annie charms everyone’s hearts, despite a next-to-nothing start in 1930s New York City. She is determined to find her parents, who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of an orphanage run by the cruel, embittered Miss Hannigan.

  • Sat, Feb. 29 at 2pm*
  • Sun, March 1 at 2pm & 5pm
  • Fri, MArch 6 at 7:30pm
  • Sat, March 7 at 2pm & 5pm
  • Sun, March 8 at 11am (Sensory-Friendly performance) & 2pm
    *Sign language interpreted.

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January 31, 2020 · 9:41 am

THE INTERVIEW Runs Feb. 29-March 8

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Actor’s Theatre Fairborn
Feb. 29-March 8
[Fairborn]

Directed by Brian Sharp

Cast: Pam McGinnis as Bracha, Jenny Westfall as Ann, Sabrina Kilbourne as Rifka & Adonis Lemke as Chris

Bracha Weissman has transformed herself into an emotional recluse – her identity defined by the loss of her family in the Nazi death camps she miraculously survived. Her attachment to the past has estranged her daughter Rifka, who wants to get on with the life of a modern day mom in California. Bracha’s armor begins to crack when Ann Meshenberg appears one day to take her oral testimony for a video archive. Ann, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, has her own agenda: the need to ask a stranger what she could not ask her parents. What begins as a simple history project becomes a story of mothers and daughters forgiving and being forgiven.

  • Sat, Feb. 29 at 7pm
  • Sun, March 1 at 3pm
  • Fri-Sat,March 6-7 at 7pm
  • Sun, March 8 at 3pm

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January 30, 2020 · 9:41 am

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Runs Feb. 28-March 28

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Caitlin McWethy as Elizabeth & Courtney Lucien as Jane. Photo by Mikki Schaffner Photography.

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
Feb. 28-March 28
[Over-the-Rhine]

One of the single most beloved stories of all time returns to the CSC stage in a fresh new adaptation which critics are calling “delightfully different,” “fizzy and festive,” and “unlike any adaptation of Jane Austen one has seen before.” Sweepingly romantic, with a good dose of the tongue-in-cheek, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE follows the affaires de cœur of the witty and willful Elizabeth Bennet, as she finds that the path to true love can lead to the most unexpected of places.

  • In preview Wed-Thu, Feb. 26-27 at 7:30pm
  • Fri-Sat, Feb. 28-29 at 7:30pm
  • Thu-Sat, March 5-7 at 7:30pm
  • Sun, March 8 at 2pm
  • Thu-Sat, March 12-15 at 7:30pm
  • Sun, March 15 at 2pm
  • Thu-Sat, March 19-21 at 7:30pm
  • Sun, March 22 at 2pm
  • Wed-Fri, March 25-27 at 7:30pm
  • Sat. March 28 at 2pm & 7:30pm

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January 30, 2020 · 9:29 am

ALABASTER Runs Feb. 28-March 21

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Know Theatre of Cincinnati
Feb. 28-March 21
[Over-the-Rhine]

Directed by Lisa Sanaye Dring

Cast: Keisha Kemper as Weezy, Jodie Linver as Bib, Kelly Mengelkoch as Allice &
Maggie Lou Rader as June

A noted photographer sets out to explore the topography of “scars.” Her journey lands her in the mysterious realm of an undiscovered folk artist hiding away in North Alabama. A beautiful new play that explores what it means to be truly “seen,” how we pick up the pieces, how we move forward and how we heal.  Narrated by a goat.

  • Fri-Sat, Feb. 28-29 at 8pm
  • Sun, March 1 at 3pm
  • Wed-Sat, March 4-7 at 8pm
  • Sun, March 8 at 3pm
  • Wed-Sat, March 11-14 at 8pm
  • Sun, March 15 at 3pm
  • Wed-Sat, March 18-21

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