THE FULL MONTY
Dayton Playhouse
May 15-31
[Dayton]
Directed by Tim Rezash
When a group of out-of-work steelworkers discover just how much their wives enjoy a Girls’ Night Out, they come up with a daring plan to make some quick cash. The catch? They’ll have to put it all on the line—literally!
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RADIUM GIRLS
Lamplight Theater Company
May 15-24
Madeira-Silverwood Presbyterian Church
Directed by Jay Fultz
Cast: Dalia Basinac, June Berding, Nan Bongiani, Rachel Brzezinski, Janna Huddleston-Gerke, Patrick Nieman, Pia Rader, Justin Sangermano, Xandy Schiefer, Erin Marie Schwartz, Gina Serger, Gloria Sigman, Joe Simmons, Maggie Yegerlehner, Baxter Whitehead & Peter Zelinski
Radium Girls is a powerful historical drama by D.W. Gregory, known as a fast-paced, theatrical ensemble play that blends serious themes with warmth and humor to tell the true, tragic story of factory workers poisoned by radium paint in the 1920s, exploring American obsessions with health, wealth, and science. It’s a gripping drama with educational and contemporary relevance.
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HOLY DAYS
Oxford Area Community Theatre
April 24-May 3
Oxford Community Arts Center
Directed by Bekka Eaton
Set in 1935 during the Kansas Dust Bowl, Holy Days offers an elegiac window into the lives two couples—brothers Gant and Will and their wives Rosie and Molly—as they face the scarcity and separation of a community in decline. As they move through personal grief and communal hardship during the three holy days of Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday, old wounds are reopened, loss is balanced on the brink of revelation, and all that is certain is that things must change.
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HARVEY
Fairfield Footlighters
May 15-17
Fairfield Performing Arts Center
Directed by Nick Brown
Produced by Abby Engel
Mary Chase’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play is the story of Elwood P. Dowd, a polite and friendly man with a very strange best friend—a six-foot, three-and-one-half-inch invisible rabbit named Harvey. Elwood’s sister Veta is concerned the rabbit will interfere with her life as a socialite, so she tries to have Elwood committed at the local sanatorium. Veta is so hysterical when she explains her brother’s condition that she is committed instead. Elwood leaves the sanatorium grounds unbothered, turning the town upside down as everyone goes on the lookout for this mind-mannered hero and his invisible rabbit.
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CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN
Beechmont Players Inc.
May 15-23
Anderson Center Theatre
Directed by Arlene Balczo
Produced by Mary Jo Bissmeyer
Cheaper by the Dozen tells the story of the Gilbreth family, based on the true story of their father, a renowned efficiency expert who tries to apply his principles to managing their twelve children. The play is narrated by two of the Gilbreth children, Anne and Ernestine, and explores the family’s humorous and heart-warming experiences while also revealing the father’s secret heart condition and its impact on his relationship with Anne. The play highlights the balance between the father’s pursuit of efficiency and the family’s need for love and understanding.
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