KNIGHT ERRANT
Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative
Oct. 13
Downtown
Written by Michael Fowler
Directed by Charlie Goetz
Cast: Luka Ashley Carter as Kyle, Jv Katz as Miss Ricks, Elaine Eckstein as Miss Inns & Robert Carlton Stimmel as Sam
Filed under On Stage, Staged Reading
LOW DOWN DIRTY BLUES
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
Nov. 7-Dec. 20
Shelterhouse Theatre [Eden Park]
Co-playwright and direction by Randal Myler
Co-playwright and music direction by Dan Wheetman
Cast: Felicia P. Fields, Chic Street Man & Caron “Sugaray” Rayford
With Joel Greenberg on Bass & Steve Schmidt on Piano
The club may be closed, but the party is just heating up! This sizzling revue finds a group of veteran musicians assembled for an after-hours jam session to swap stories and share their favorite tunes, pulled from the greatest hits of Muddy Waters, Ma Rainey, Sophie Tucker, Howlin’ Wolf, Pearl Bailey and more. Featuring nearly two-dozen smokin’ songs and non-stop riffs, these hot rhythms celebrate the bawdier side of the blues and are guaranteed to keep the theatre sultry and steamy from the first note to the last.
Appropriate for adults and teenage audiences. Though the show celebrates the bawdier side of the blues, it’s via the clever use of innuendo and euphemism in the song lyrics versus anything overtly salacious.
Filed under On Stage
Brent Alan Burington as Andrew Wyke & Rory Sheridan as Milo Tindle in SLEUTH at The Carnegie.
SLEUTH
The Carnegie
Nov. 7-22
Covington
Directed by Greg Procaccino
Cast: Brent Alan Burington as Andrew Wyke & Rory Sheridan as Milo Tindle.
Famous mystery writer, Andrew Wyke, loves to play games. But when he finds out his wife plans to leave him for a young travel agent, he plots a game with murderous consequences. Of course, in a mystery, things are never quite as they seem and games can quickly get out of hand. A fast-paced comedy full of deception and mistaken identities, SLEUTH is a who-dun-it that will keep you riveted in your seat from start to finish.
TALLEY’S FOLLY
Stagecrafters Inc.
Nov. 7-15
Sharonville Cultural Arts Cetner [Sharonville]
Directed by Michael L. Morehead
Cast: Darren Lee as Matt Friedman & Elizabeth Beatty as Sally Talley
The scene is the ornate, deserted Victorian boathouse on the Talley place in Lebanon, Missouri; the time 1944. Matt Friedman, an accountant from St. Louis, has arrived to plead his love to Sally Talley, the susceptible, but uncertain daughter of the family. Bookish, erudite, totally honest and delightfully funny, Matt refuses to accept Sally’s rebuffs and her fears that her family would never approve of their marriage. Charming and indomitable, he gradually overcomes her defenses, telling his innermost secrets to his loved one and, in return, learning hers as well. Gradually he awakens Sally to the possibilities of a life together.
Filed under On Stage
JEKYLL AND HYDE
Loveland Stage Company
Nov. 6-22
Loveland
Directed by Richard Lee Waldeck
Musical direction of Jack Hasty
Choreography by Marjory Clegg
Produced by Becky Cole & Tom Cavano
Cast: John Matthew Riestenberg as Jekyll/Hyde, Alex Ross as Jekyll/Hyde Understudy, Bree Hunter Sprankle-Cox as Lucy Harris, Liz Koch as Lucy Harris Understudy, Katie McCarthy as Emma Carew, Liz Koch as Emma Carew Understudy,Mark Culp as Sir Danvers Carew, Cathy Alter as Lady Beaconsfield, John Sloan as Simon Stride, Michael Kiser as John Utterson, Gary Bracknell as General Lord Glossop, Christopher Koonce as Bishop of Basingstoke, Tom Coop as Sir Archibald Proops, Tony Wright as Lord Savage, Henry Farfsing as Spider, Tonya Oslack as Nellie, Jonathan Eckman as Bisset, Jim Siciliano III as Poole, Paul Henklman as Minister & Adam Peters as Newsboy
Ensemble: Denise Schneiders, Liz Olekas, Faith Whitt, Miranda Eldridge, Susan Schapiro, Matt J. Hannifin, Emma Beck, Carissa Griffith, Jacqlyn Schott, Bobby Baker & Amy Carroll
An evocative tale of two men – one a doctor, passionate and romantic – the other, a terrifying madman; and two women – one, beautiful and trusting –the other, beautiful and trusting only herself. Both women in love with the same man. Both unaware of his dark secret. A devoted man of science, Dr. Henry Jekyll is driven to find a chemical breakthrough that can solve some of mankind’s most challenging medical dilemmas. Rebuked by the powers that be, he decides to make himself the subject of his own experimental treatments, accidentally unleashing his inner demons along with the man the world would come to know as Mr. Hyde.
Filed under On Stage
