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August 30, 2017 · 2:09 pm

LOST IN YONKERS Runs Sept. 15-23

MLT_Lost in Yonkers logoLOST IN YONKERS
Middletown Lyric Theatre
Sept. 15-23
Middletown

Directed by Charley Shafor

Cast: Betty Coulter as Grandma Kurnitz, Tad Ehlers as Jay, Clair LaNicca as Bella, Angie Markham as Gert, Greg Nelson as Louie, Jeff Smith as Eddie & Jack Sweeten as Arty

By America’s great comic playwright, this memory play is set in Yonkers in 1942. Bella is thirty-five years old, mentally challenged, and living at home with her mother, stern Grandma Kurnitz. As the play opens, ne’er-do-well son Eddie deposits his two young sons on the old lady’s doorstep. He is financially strapped and taking to the road as a salesman. The boys are left to contend with Grandma, with Bella and her secret romance, and with Louie, her brother, a small-time hoodlum in a strange new world called Yonkers.

  • Fri-Sat, Sept. 15-16 at 8pm
  • Fri, Sept. 22 at 8pm
  • Sat, Sept. 23 at 3pm & 8pm

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August 30, 2017 · 2:08 pm

WICKED Runs Sept. 13-Oct. 15

BIC_Wicked logoWICKED
Presented by Broadway in Cincinnati
Sept. 13-Oct. 15
Downtown

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Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One – born with emerald green skin – is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good makes for “the most complete – and completely satisfying – new musical in a long time” (USA Today).

  • Wed, Sept. 13 at 7:30pm
  • Thu, Sept. 14 at 1pm & 7:30pm
  • Fri, Sept. 15 at 8pm
  • Sat, Sept. 16 at 2pm & 8pm
  • Sun, Sept. 17 at 1pm & 6:30pm
  • Tue-Thu, Sept. 19-21 at 7:30pm
  • Fri, Sept. 22 at 8pm
  • Sat, Sept. 23 at 2pm & 8pm
  • Sun, Sept. 24 at 1pm & 6:30pm
  • Tue-Thu, Sept. 26-28 at 7:30pm
  • Fri, Sept. 29 at 8pm
  • Sat, Sept. 30 at 2pm & 8pm
  • Sun, Oct. 1 at 1pm & 6:30pm
  • Tue-Thu, Oct. 3-5 at 7:30pm
  • Fri, Oct. 6 at 8pm
  • Sat, Oct. 7 at 2pm & 8pm
  • Sun, Oct. 8 at 1pm & 6:30pm
  • Tue-Thu, Oct. 10-12 at 7:30pm
  • Fri, Oct. 13 at 8pm
  • Sat, Oct. 14 at 2pm & 8pm
  • Sun, Oct. 15 at 1pm & 6:30pm

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August 30, 2017 · 2:07 pm

WIT IN A RED HAT On Sept. 12

CPI_Wit in a Red HatWIT IN A RED HAT
Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative
Sept. 12
Aronoff Center – Fifth Third Bank Theater [Downtown]

Written by Tammy Brady
Directed by Jennifer Keith

Cast: Erica Brady, Meredith Conner, Eric Day, Megan Hudson, Chuck Ingram, Judy Littlefield & Judy Sceifres

Three distinctly non-Shakespearean witches violate a pledge not to use their powers as they try to corral their town’s straying males, particularly a chicken farmer tellingly nicknamed ‘Cocksey’. The tactics of the weird sisters — actually only two are siblings — go somewhat awry, as their spells have the side effect of returning the husband of the head (not-at-all-ugly) hag to childhood. Tammy Brady’s good-natured comedy recalls the beloved sitcoms Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie but the enchanting principals here are a generation beyond their TV counterparts — thus, the red hat(s).

  • Tue, Sept. 12 at 7:30pm

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August 29, 2017 · 2:36 pm

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Runs Sept. 8-30

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Sara Clark as Puck in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. Photo by Mikki Schaffner Photography.

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
Sept. 8-30
Over-the-Rhine

Directed by Brian Isaac Phillips

Cast: Geoffrey Warren Barnes II as Peaseblossom, Darnell Pierre Benjamin as Theseus, Kyle Brumley as Demetrius, Billy Chace as Snug, Sara Clark as Puck, Cary Davenport as Mustardseed, Giles Davies as Oberon, Jeremy Dubin as Francis Flute, Candice Handy as a fairy, Matthew Lewis Johnson as Nick Bottom, Sylvester Little, Jr as Philostrate/Cobweb, Courtney Lucien as Hermia, Justin McCombs as Robin Starveling, Miranda McGee as Titania, Caitlin McWethy as Helena, Kelly Mengelkoch as Quince, Barry Mulholland as Egeus, Maggie Lou Rader as HIppolyta, Paul Riopelle as Tom Snout, Tess Talbot as Moth & Crystian Wiltshire as Lysander

Hermia loves Lysander. Lysander loves Hermia. Demetrius loves Hermia. Helena loves Demetrius, and no one loves Helena. When this convoluted love quadrangle flees from prying parental eyes to the forest, they run straight into an ongoing bitter dispute between Oberon and Titania, the King and the Queen of the Fairies, and magical interference turns all their relationships topsy-turvy. Meanwhile, a troupe of enthusiastic but inept thespians likewise falls into magical mayhem as their leading man, Bottom, finds himself the butt of a fairy joke when the trickster Puck swaps his head for a donkey’s – an alteration that Titania finds a distinct improvement.

  • Fri, Sept. 8 at 7:30pm
  • Sat, Sept. 9 at 2pm & 7:30pm
  • Sun, Sept. 10 at 2pm
  • Thu-Sat, Sept. 14-16 at 7:30pm
  • Sun, Sept. 17 at 2pm
  • Thu-Sat, Sept. 21-23 at 7:30pm
  • Sun, Sept. 24 at 2pm
  • Thu-Fri, Sept. 28-29 at 7:30pm
  • Sat, Sept. 30 at 2pm & 7:30pm

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August 29, 2017 · 2:35 pm

THE WISDOM OF EVE Runs Sept. 8-24

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John Langley, Katey Blood, Merritt Beischel, Linda Callahan & Lon Nease. Photo by Kenneth Smith, KPIX Photography.

THE WISDOM OF EVE
Mariemont Players Inc.
Sept. 8-24
Walton Creek Theatre

Directed by Dee Anne Bryll
Produced by Tom Storey

Cast: Linda Callahan, Merritt Beischel, Katey Blood, John Langley, Lon Nease, Aaron Bates, Jim Waldfolge, Joel Lind, Rilla Foster & Betsy Bossart

An engrossing and revealing “inside” story of life in New York’s theatre world, told in terms of an unscrupulous ingénue’s rise to Broadway stardom. Adapted from the story by Mary Orr, on which the film All About Eve (winner of 6 Oscars) and the hit musical Applause were based.

  • Fri-Sat, Sept. 8-9 at 8pm
  • Sun, Sept. 10 at 2pm
  • Thu, Sept. 14 at 7:30pm
  • Fri-Sat, Sept. 15-16 at 8pm
  • Sun, Sept. 17 at 2pm & 7pm
  • Thu, Sept. 21 at 7:30pm
  • Fri, Sept. 15 at 8pm
  • Sat, Sept. 23 at 3pm & 8pm
  • Sun, Sept. 17 at 2pm

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