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August 18, 2014 · 10:54 am

MOON OVER THE BREWERY Runs Sept. 12-21

LTC_Moon Over BreweryMOON OVER THE BREWERY
Presented by Lebanon Theatre Company
Sept. 12-21
Lebanon 

Directed by Matthew Smith

Cast: Rachel Wilson as Miriam Lipsky, Alyssa Mehnert as Amanda Lipsky, Jay Fultz as Warren Zimmerman & David Stone as Randolph

A touching, gently humorous study of a precocious teenager’s “coming of age,” in which fantasy and reality are deftly juxtaposed to heighten the affecting message of the play. Miriam Lipsky, unmarried and living with her thirteen-year-old daughter, Amanda, works as a waitress to pay the bills, but it is her painting that really matters to her. Good subjects are scarce in the drab Pennsylvania coal town where they live, so Miriam dons a miner’s lamp and paints at night, when moonlight softens and transforms the stark landscape. Miriam is also desirous of male companionship, a need which the precocious Amanda (she has an IQ of 160) has discouraged by driving away suitor after suitor with her barbed comments. Amanda, compensating for the lack of a father, has also created an imaginary friend, Randolph, who appears (only to her) in a resplendent white suit and provides mischievous advice and guidance.

  • Fri, Sept. 12 at 6:30pm
    Includes dinner
  • Sat, Sept. 13 at 8pm
  • Sun, Sept. 14 at 2pm
  • Fri-Sat, Sept. 19-20 at 8pm
  • Sun, Sept. 21 at 2pm

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August 14, 2014 · 11:06 am

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF Runs Sept. 12-21

Scot Knisley as Brick, Cheryl Mellen as Big Mama & Sarah Caplan as Mae.

Scot Knisley as Brick, Cheryl Mellen as Big Mama & Sarah Caplan as Mae.

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Presented by Beavercreek Community Theatre
Sept. 12-21
Beavercreek

Directed by Michael Boyd

Cast: Saul Caplan as Big Daddy, Cheryl Mellen as Big Mama, Scott Knisley as Brick, Megan Cooper as Maggie, Sarah Caplan as Mae “Sister Woman,” Jeremey Gingrich as Gooper “Brother Man,” Dave Gaylor as Doc Baugh, Sierra Smith as Dixie, Annie Chiles as Trixie, Nicholas Chiles as Scooter, and Drew Coleman as Ralph

In a plantation house, a family celebrates the sixty-fifth birthday of Big Daddy, as they sentimentally dub him. The mood is somber, despite the festivities, because a number of evils poison the gaiety: greed, sins of the past and desperate, clawing hopes for the future spar with one another as the knowledge that Big Daddy is dying slowly makes the rounds. Maggie, Big Daddy’s daughter-in-law, wants to give him the news that she’s finally become pregnant by Big Daddy’s favorite son, Brick, but Brick won’t cooperate in Maggie’s plans and prefers to stay in a mild alcoholic haze the entire length of his visit. Maggie has her own interests at heart in wanting to become pregnant, of course, but she also wants to make amends to Brick for an error in judgment that nearly cost her her marriage. Swarming around Maggie and Brick are their intrusive, conniving relatives, all eager to see Maggie put in her place and Brick tumbled from his position of most-beloved son. By evening’s end, Maggie’s ingenuity, fortitude and passion will set things right, and Brick’s love for his father, never before expressed, will retrieve him from his path of destruction and return him, helplessly, to Maggie’s loving arms.

  • Fri-Sat, Sept. 12-13 at 8pm
  • Sun, Sept. 14 at 3pm
  • Fri-Sat, Sept. 19-20 at 8pm
  • Sun, Sept. 21 at 3pm

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August 13, 2014 · 10:42 am

IF CINCY Runs Sept. 12-13

IFC_logoIF CINCY
Cincinnati’s first national improv festival
Presented by OTRimprov
Sept. 12-13
Over-the-Rhine

We have an amazing lineup:  Headliners Susan Messing and Kevin Crowley, troupes from Chicago, New York, Detroit, and many more. It will be two nights of really amazing improv, with renowned national acts learning what a great place Cincinnati is to work and play, and local acts showing how strong the local improv scene has grown.   

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August 13, 2014 · 9:30 am

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE Runs Sept. 11-Oct. 5

Clifford Nunley as Stanley & Kim Long as Blanche. Photo by Mikki Schaffner.

Clifford Nunley as Stanley & Kim Long as Blanche. Photo by Mikki Schaffner.

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Presented by Covedale Center for the Performing Arts
Sept. 11-Oct. 5
West Price Hill

Directed by Greg Procaccino

Cast: Maggie Lou Rader as Stella, Clifford Nunley as Stanley, Kim Long as Blanche, Mike Hall as Mitch, Katey Blood as Eunice, Jeff Miller as Steve, Burgess Byrd as Negro Woman, Bob Allen as Doctor, Daniel Lees as Young Collector, Justin Thompson as Pablo, Marian Weage as Flower Lady & Julie Pergrem as The Nurse

Blanche du Bois, a woman whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions, rejects the realities of life as her desperate defense of her weak, vulnerable soul. But when she is reduced to living on the charity of her sister, in a seedy New Orleans apartment, Blanche’s confrontation with her brutish brother in law, leads to a revelation of her tragic self-delusion and, in the end, to madness.

  • Thu, Sept. 11 at 7:30pm
  • Fri-Sat, Sept. 12-13 at 8pm
  • Sun, Sept. 14 at 2pm
  • Thu, Sept. 18 at 7:30pm
  • Fri-Sat, Sept. 19-20 at 8pm
  • Sun, Sept. 21 at 2pm
  • Thu, Sept. 25 at 7:30pm
  • Fri-Sat, Sept. 26-27 at 8pm
  • Sun, Sept. 28 at 2pm
  • Thu, Oct. 2 at 8pm
  • Fri-Sat, Oct. 3-4 at 8pm
  • Sun, Oct. 5 at 2pm

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August 12, 2014 · 11:40 am

PURPLE PAINT on Sept. 9

CPI_Purple PaintPURPLE PAINT
Presented by Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative
Sept. 9
Downtown

As though a chapter out of American History flies loose and settles on the stage, the story of the O’Connor family’s struggles and triumphs in the Appalachian mountains comes to life in Ossmann’s PURPLE PAINT.

  • Tue, Sept. 9 at 7:30pm

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