GETTING OUT
Thomas More University
March 22-24
[Crestview Hills]
A young woman struggles to re-enter the world after eight years in prison, contending with environmental forces as she attempts to assimilate her former and present selves.
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Back row: Jennifer Pence, Kelly Hale, Jim Sturgill & Jane Peters. Front row: Mary Benken, Kylie Schmidt, Randy Blake & Courtney Flege
MCKENNA’S CHOICE
St. Paul Players
March 22-24
St. Paul Lutheran Church [Reading]
Cast: Jennifer Pence, Kelly Hale, Jim Sturgill, Jane Peters, Mary Benken, Kylie Schmidt, Randy Blake & Courtney Flege
Gentle John McKenna has lived a long, productive and fulfilled life. His beloved wife Victoria has long since passed on, and he is becoming more and more dependent on his son’s family. Realizing his mind is going, McKenna makes a difficult decision… one which has a disturbing impact on all who know and love him. This compassionate family play offers a look at one of life’s most difficult transitions. Includes buffet.
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Mauricio Martinez as Emilio Estefan and Christie Prades as Gloria Estefan and Company, ON YOUR FEET! © Matthew Murphy.
ON YOUR FEET!
Broadway in Cincinnati
March 19-24
Aronoff Center [Downtown]
From their humble beginnings in Cuba, Emilio and Gloria Estefan came to America and broke through all barriers to become a crossover sensation at the very top of the pop music world. But just when they thought they had it all, they almost lost everything.
ON YOUR FEET! takes you behind the music and inside the real story of this record-making and groundbreaking couple who, in the face of adversity, found a way to end up on their feet.
Directed by two-time Tony Award winner Jerry Mitchell (Kinky Boots), with choreography by Olivier Award winner Sergio Trujillo (Jersey Boys) and an original book by Academy Award winner Alexander Dinelaris (Birdman), On Your Feet! features some of the most iconic songs of the past quarter-century—and one of the most inspiring stories in music history.
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ALL DECKED OUT and A ROAD TRIP FROM DENVER TO LAS VEGAS
Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative
March 19
Aronoff Center Fifth-Third Bank Theater [Downtown]
Two one-acts by Barb Timmins
In ALL DECKED OUT, a woman in her PJs frantically seeks help when she finds herself locked out of her new home, unable to get off her elevated deck. In A ROAD TRIP FROM DENVER TO LAS VEGAS, two BFFs (best female friends) and a niece, sustained by a quantity of pot, head west through a desert in an ill-equipped van. The comfort of friendship gives one of the women the strength to get on with her life after she discloses that her long-time marriage has fractured.
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VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE
CenterStage Players
March 15-24
Lockland High School
Directed by Richard Zenk
Produced by Fred Hunt
Cast: Elizabeth Hickerson as Cassandra, Peggy Allen as Masha, Adrianna Boris as Nina, Rick Hunt as Spike, Bec Cole as Sonia & John McInerney as Vanya
Chekhov is alive and well in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where adult siblings Vanya and Sonia reside in their old family home, mourning their lost dreams and missed opportunities. When their often-wrong, fortune-telling maid warns of impending dangers, and their movie star sister, Masha, arrives unexpectedly with young, sexy, boy toy, Spike, the family is launched into a rollicking weekend of one-upmanship, exposed nerves, and a lot of broken mugs. With wit and absurdity, Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike blends Chekhov’s famous ennui with the modern-day toils and troubles of celebrity, social networking, and age into a laugh-out-loud comedy that will tickle your funny bone and stimulate your mind.
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