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November 1, 2022 · 5:55 am

THE WIZARD OF OZ at Loveland High School

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Scarecrow (Sam Broelmann) and Glinda the Good Witch (Liv Bast) promote Loveland High School’s upcoming production of THE WIZARD OF OZ at the district’s Showcase Night.

Loveland High School remembers the Golden Age of Hollywood with a musical that is fun for the whole family.  The Wizard of Oz is set for November 16-19 at 7pm (with an additional 2pm show on the 19th).

Dorothy has never left the Kansas Prairie until a tornado whisks her and her dog away to the Land of Oz. She makes an enemy of the Wicked Witch of the West immediately upon her arrival but continues her quest to get back to Kansas with the help of Glinda the Good Witch, the Scarecrow, the Tinman, and the Lion. It takes all of her friends and an encounter with the local Wizard to discover that the power to get home has been inside her all along.

We can’t wait to see the look on the Wicked Witch’s face when she sees everyone who turns out to experience the magic of this classic musical.  Scarecrow would tell you it’s a no-brainer – get your tickets now!

Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for students and senior citizens. Available on the LHs Drama website: https://lovelandhstheater.wixsite.com/lhsdrama/box-office

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October 20, 2022 · 9:37 pm

The Cappies Returns For Another Year of Amazing High School Theatre

MISC_The Cappies logoCincinnati, OH- As the calendar turns to fall and temperatures outside cool off, the high school theatre season is just about to heat up.

Enter stage right, The Cappies.

The Cappies is an international organization dedicated to recognizing high school theatre and journalism students, with 12 active chapters across the United States and Canada, including a chapter right here in the Greater Cincinnati Area; which encompasses high school theatre programs from both Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. The Critics and Awards Program strives to recognize Greater Cincinnati’s talented community of young writers, performers, and technical crews. High school theatre and journalism students who participate in the Cappies program are trained as critics, attend shows at other schools, and write and publish reviews. At the end of the school year, the student critics vote to give awards to their fellow students for outstanding productions, group and individual performances, and achievements in technical categories. Awards are presented at the annual Cappies Gala.  Below are the shows at area high schools that will perform as part of the Cappies Season this year.

William Mason High School 

Clue: High School Edition
By Sandy Rustin
Based on the Paramount film and the Hasbro board game, the stage show is adapted from the screenplay by Jonathan Lynn with additional material by Hunter Foster, Sandy Rustin and Eric Price.

Performance Dates:
October 21, 22, 28, 29, 2022

Mason High School Studio Theater
6100 S. Mason Montgomery Road
Mason, OH 45040

The show is described as a “murder-mystery comedy thriller” that follows six guests at a mysterious dinner party where they find themselves implicated as murder suspects when their host ends up the victim of foul play. Wadsworth, the butler, leads Mrs. Peacock, Mr. Green, Colonel Mustard, and other guests attempt to find the killer in this comic whodunit.

The show is rated PG for mild adult language, adult situations, and foul play. It is best suited for students middle school aged and up.

Tickets are $15 Reserved, $10 General Admission, and $8 Students, Seniors, and Children. Tickets and can be purchased at masondrama.com

Campbell County High School 

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Play Version)
By C.G Bond

Performance Dates:
October 27-29, 2022 at 7 p.m.
October 29, 2022 at 2 p.m.

Campbell County High School Auditorium
909 Camel Crossing
Alexandria, KY 41001

In this version of the old melodrama, Todd has some grounds for his nefarious activities: he was separated from his family and his daughter abandoned, while he himself was deported on a false charge. He returns to avenge his family, sets up with Mrs. Lovett, the pie maker, and provides her with fillings for her pies. He proceeds with his vengeful plans but the outcome is bitterly ironic.

Tickets are $8 and can be purchased at cctheatrearts.org

Walnut Hills High School 

Macbeth
By William Shakespeare

Performance Dates:
November 3-5, 2022 at 7 p.m.
November 5, 2022 at 2 p.m.

Rick Steiner Black Box Theater
Walnut Hills High School
3250 Victory Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45207

In one of the world’s most well-known tragedies, Macbeth, a popular Scottish noble and general is given a mysterious prophecy by three witches telling him he will be king.  Spurred on by his wife and his own ambition and desires, Macbeth murders his way to the crown, losing his humanity along the way. Recommended for mature audiences 13 and up.

Tickets are $13 for adults and $11 for students, and can be purchased at https://sites.google.com/view/whhstheatredepartment/tickets

School for Creative and Performing Arts 

The Wiz
Book by William F. Brown, Music and Lyrics by Charlie Smalls
From the story “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” by L. Frank Baum

Performance Dates:
November 3-6, 2022

School for Creative and Performing Arts
108 W. Central Parkway
Cincinnati, OH  45202

A beloved Broadway gem, The Wiz infuses L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” with a dazzling mix of rock, gospel and soul music. This timeless tale of Dorothy’s adventures through the Land of Oz is a fun, family-friendly, modern musical.

Tickets are $15.00-$20.00 and can be purchased at https://scpa.cps-k12.org/news/box-office

Ursuline Academy 

Seussical: The Musical
Music and Book by Stephen Flaherty and Lyrics and Book by Lynn Ahrens
Co-conceived by Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens, and Eric Idle
Based on the Works of Dr. Seuss

Performance Dates:
November 10th – 12th, 2022 at 7p.m.
November 12th, 2022 at 2p.m.

5535 Pfeiffer Road
Cincinnati, OH 45242 

Seussical the Musical is based on many of Dr. Seuss’ most famous children’s stories. These classic tales come together when two worlds collide. The story begins with Horton’s discovery of the Whos and follows his adventure to save the tiniest people in the universe. Although Horton’s selflessness is heroic, he faces ridicule from the other animals in the Jungle of Nool for believing in something he cannot see. Undaunted, Horton defends the Whos while caring for an abandoned egg. Seussical reminds audiences of the power a person can play in the life of another. Along the way some of the characters fall in love, fight for justice, have unexpected adventures, and some even save the world

Tickets are $8.00 for students and $10 for adults, and can be purchased at https://search.seatyourself.biz/webstore/accounts/ursulineacademy/buy-tix

Larry A. Ryle High School 

Eurydice
By Sarah Ruhl

Performance Dates:
November 10-12, 2022

10379 US-42
Union, KY 41091

Eurydice reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice not through Orpheus’s infamous pilgrimage to retrieve his bridge, but through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love. With contemporary characters, plot twists, and a script written to be a playground for designers, the play is a fresh look at a timeless love story.

Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at https://www.showtix4u.com/event-details/68191

Saint Ursula Academy 

Little Women: The Musical
Book by Allan Knee, lyrics by Mindi Dickstein, and music by Jason Howland

Performance Dates:
November 10th – 12th. 2022 at 7pm
November 13th, 2022 @ 2pm

Saint Ursula Academy Theater
1339 E McMillan St.
Cincinnati OH 45206

Based on Louisa May Alcott’s life, Little Women follows the adventures of sisters, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy March. Jo is trying to sell her stories for publication, but the publishers are not interested – her friend, Professor Bhaer, tells her that she has to do better and write more from herself. Begrudgingly taking this advice, Jo weaves the story of herself and her sisters and their experience growing up in Civil War America. Featuring beautiful music that was nominated for several Tony Awards, Drama Desk Awards and Outer Circle Critics Awards in the 2005 Broadway Season.

Loveland High School 

The Wizard of Oz
Book by L. Frank Baum, Music and Lyrics by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg
Adapted by John Kane for the Royal Shakespeare Company; Based upon the Classic Motion Picture owned by Turner Entertainment Co. and distributed in all media by Warner Bros.

Performance Dates
November 16-19, 2022

Loveland High School
1 Tiger Trail
Loveland, OH 45140

The classic movie comes to life on the stage with all the characters you know and love.

Dorothy Gale and her dog, Toto, are swept away by a tornado and end up in the Land of Oz. Dorothy needs the help of the local Wizard to get home to Kansas and sets off on the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City, making friends with the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion along the way, each of them with a request for the Wizard too. But their journey is fraught with attacks from a Wicked Witch who wants Dorothy’s magic slippers.

Tickets are $12 for students and senior citizens, $15 adults and can be purchased at https://lovelandhstheater.wixsite.com/lhsdrama/box-office

William Henry Harrison High School 

The Addams Family: School Edition
Book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa.
Based on Characters Created by Charles Addams.

Performance Dates:
November 18th and 19th, 2022

Martin Marietta Theatre
9860 West Road
Harrison, OH 45030

The Addams Family, a comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family, features an original story and it’s every father’s nightmare: Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family–a man her parents have never met. And if that wasn’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before–keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his parents.

Tickets are $10 for students and seniors, and $12 for adults. Tickets can be purchased at https://www.southwestschools.org

Taylor High School 

Mama Mia
Book by Catherine Johnson, Music and Lyrics by Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson

Performance Date:
February 18, 2023 at 7 p.m.

Information not provided. Please contact the school for more information.

Highlands High School 

Sweeney Todd (Musical Version)
Book by Hugh Wheeler, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Based on an adaptation by Christopher Bond

Performance Dates:
March 23rd-March 25, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.
March 26th, 2023 at 2p.m.

Highlands High School
2400 Memorial Pkwy
Fort Thomas, KY 41075

Stephen Sondheim’s and Hugh Wheeler’s tasty, thrilling, theatrical treat, Sweeney Todd, has simultaneously shocked, awed and delighted audiences across the world. An infamous tale, Sweeney Todd, an unjustly exiled barber, returns to nineteenth century London, seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs. Lovett, a resourceful proprietress of a failing pie shop, above which he opens a new barber practice. Mrs. Lovett’s luck sharply shifts when Todd’s thirst for blood inspires the integration of an ingredient into her meat pies that has the people of London lining up… and the carnage has only just begun!

Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for students and can be purchased at www.highlandstheatre.com

Randall K. Cooper High School 

Little Women: The Musical
Book By Allen Knee, Music By Jason Howland, Lyrics by Mindi Dickstein
Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott

Performance Dates:
March 23 and 24, 2023 at 7 pm
March 25, 2023 at 1 p.m. and 7 pm

Randall Cooper High School
2855 Longbranch Rd.
Union, KY 41091

Little Women: The Musical follows the adventures of the four March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, and their beloved Marmee who works at raising the girls alone in Concord, Massachusetts, while their father is a Chaplain for the Civil War Army. With help from their friends and neighbors, the girls are able to grow into astonishing women and fulfill their dreams, despite also suffering a tragic loss.

Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students, and can be purchased at www.cooper.boone.kyschools.us

Mercy McAuley High School 

Seussical the Musical
Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty
Co-conceived by Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens, and Eric Idle
Based on the Works of Dr. Seuss

Performance Dates:
March 24-26, 2023

Mercy McAuley High School
6000 Oakwood Ave.
Cincinnati, OH 45224

Join Mercy McAuley Theatre as we meet all of Dr. Seuss’ most beloved characters in a journey of friendship and family. Fun for the whole family!

Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at mercymcauley.booktix.com

Colerain High School 

Clue: High School Edition
By Sandy Rustin

Based on the Paramount film and the Hasbro board game, the stage show is adapted from the screenplay by Jonathan Lynn with additional material by Hunter Foster, Sandy Rustin and Eric Price.

Performance Dates:
March 24-26, 2023

Colerain High School
8801 Cheviot Rd
Cincinnati OH 45251

Based on the Paramount Pictures movie, the stage adaptation of the Hasbro board game features all of its iconic characters.  When six strangers are invited to a dinner party at the Boddy Mansion, they discover that their host has been murdered.  They are all suspects in this comedic whodunit mystery.

Tickets are $8 for students and $10 for adults, and can be purchased at chsdrama.booktix.com

Roger Bacon High School 

We Will Rock You: School Edition
Music and Lyrics by QUEEN
Story and Script by Ben Elton
School Edition prepared by Stuart Morley

Performance Dates:
March 30-April 2, 2023

Roger Bacon High School Fine Arts Center
4320 Vine St.
Cincinnati, OH 45217

This musical tells the story of a group of Bohemians who struggle to restore the free exchange of thought and fashion, and live music in a distant future where everyone dresses, thinks, and acts the same.  Musical instruments and composers are forbidden and ROCK music is all but unknown.

Featuring the music of QUEEN, this big, brash, in your face show is a number one hit!

TIckets are $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and students. Tickets can be purchased at www.RogerBaconFineArts.com

Nominees for this season will be announced Friday, April 14, 2023, and the annual Cappies Awards Gala will be held at The Procter and Gamble Hall at the Aronoff Center for the Arts on Sunday, May 7, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.

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October 18, 2022 · 6:14 pm

Comedy Thriller Makes World Premiere in Dayton, OH

HRTC_Deadline LogoDEADLINE, a comedy thriller, hits the stage for the first time in its World Premiere production at The Human Race Theatre Company. Canadian playwrights Marcia Kash and Douglas E. Hughes pen this witty and surprising homage to the murder-mystery genre made great by Agatha Christie and Peter Sellars with performances from October 27 – November 13, 2022 at the Loft Theatre.

When a famous playwright dies unexpectedly, leaving behind his highly anticipated but unfinished play, writers Don and Mara are hired to complete it in time for an imminent Broadway opening. With the clock ticking and armed with only the first twenty-five pages of the script, the couple try to get inside the author’s head; instead, they find themselves sucked into the world he has created, cruising around the Caribbean aboard a luxury yacht with members of the cursed Bloodworth family. After one of their shipmates is murdered, Don and Mara realize their only chance of getting home is to write an ending before they meet their own.

“Marcia and Doug have paired a twisty “whodunit” with smart comedy writing, giving our audiences a treat that will feel fresh and familiar all at the same time,” comments Emily N. Wells, Human Race Theatre Company artistic director.  “Thrillers allow us to question our own perceptions of reality – what we think is true versus the facts – and DEADLINE delivers,” she continues. Cincinnati actor and director Jason Podplesky brings the production to life with a stellar cast of familiar faces. Audiences may remember Jason from his recent triple-role performance in Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help last April.

Wells also shares that for the remainder of the 22-23 season, The Human Race Theatre Company launches two new ticket initiatives: two sections of $20 seats available at any time through the box office, and ten $10 rush seats available 90 minutes before any performance. “It’s an invitation to laugh with us, be moved by a story, and share that experience with your neighbor,” she says.

In the all-local cast for this world premiere production are:  Annie Pesch as Mara/Meredith (Family Shots); Josh Aaron McCabe as Don/Silas (Everything That’s Beautiful); Andrew Ian Adams as Dean/Trevor (Airness); Barry Mullholand as Bartholemew (Cincinatti Shakespeare Company); Christine Brunner as Devorah (Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help); and Adelyn Rae Helms as Tabitha (Theatre LAB’s Something Rotten).

Joining Podplesky on the DEADLINE production team are: Ray Zupp, Scenic Design;  John Rensel, Lighting Design; Janet G. Powell, Costume Design; Brando Triantafillou, Sound Design; k. Jenny Jones, Fight Director; Sarah Gomes, Props; Mark Tynan, Production Stage Manager; and Joseph Adams, Production Assistant. For press ticket requests, please contact Monique Cooper, Company Manager at monique@humanracetheatre.org

DEADLINE will play in the Loft Theatre in downtown Dayton, October 27 – November 13, 2022.  Tickets are on sale through Dayton Live box office, 937-228-3630, or online at http://www.humanracetheatre.org   More details about the show can be found on our website.

Special Nights at The Loft:

  • Pay What You CAN – Wed. October 26 at 8 pm – Non-perishable food donations benefit The Foodbank; 100% of cash donations benefit the Take & Make Program at Dayton Metro Library
  • Inside Track – Thursday, Oct. 27 8pm – Pre-show Discussion at 7:15pm
  • Sawbuck Sunday – Sunday, Oct. 29 7 pm – $10 tickets available 5:30pm at the door
  • While We’re On The Subject – Sunday, Nov. 8 2pm – Post-Show Discussion w/ a surprise guest

The Human Race acknowledges its gratitude for the public and private support which makes these productions possible: The Loft Season Sponsors: Jack W. and Sally D. Eichelberger Foundation; Sustainability sponsors:  Anne F. Johnson, Steve and Lou Mason, and Morris Furniture Company;  Additional Season support:  Miriam Rosenthal Foundation for the Arts, Erma R. Catterton Trust, The Shubert Foundation;  Organizational support:  Culture Works, Montgomery County, Ohio Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts, Dayton Region Arts Renewal Grant. Media Sponsor: WDPR Discover Classical. Pay What You Can Sponsor: Enterprise Holdings Foundation.

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October 17, 2022 · 5:42 pm

Walnut Hills High School Theatre Department Welcomes Audiences to their 2022-2023 Season with the Shakespearean Classic, MACBETH

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Wolf Singer as Macbeth & and Nate Caudill as Macduff in the Walnut Hills High School production of MACBETH. Costume design by Paloma Landzador. Hair and Makeup design by Lizzy Rebber and Sci Redding. Photo by Mikki Schaffner Photography.

Cincinnati, OH – After a wonderful season last year, the Walnut Hills High School Theatre Department is eager to welcome back audiences to The Rick Steiner Black Box Theater with a World War I twist on the Shakespearean classic, MACBETH.

The show runs November 3rd-5th, 2022 at 7 p.m. with an additional 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday, November 5th.

In one of the world’s most well-known tragedies, Macbeth, a popular Scottish noble and general is given a mysterious prophecy by three witches telling him he will be king.  Spurred on by his wife and his own ambition and desires, Macbeth murders his way to the crown, losing his humanity along the way.

“This play is a classic for a reason,” says director Mike Sherman. “It is a timeless tale about how the pursuit of power can lead not to the downfall of society, but also the loss of what makes us human.”

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Izzy Lachey as 2nd Witch, Tammy Munoz as Hecate, Josie Leanza as 1st Witch and Clare Graff as 3rd Witch in the Walnut Hills High School Theatre Department’s production of MACBETH. Costume design by Paloma Lanzador. Hair and Makeup design by Lizzy Rebber and Sci Redding. Photo credit- Mikki Schaffner photography.

The design concept of the play updates the setting to Europe in the aftermath of World War I, and will speak to mankind’s capacity for destruction. “The Scottish Play” combines the historical battlefield and style of the early 1900s and the mythological legends of Celtic and Scottish Mythology, further blurring the lines of the truth and reality. In keeping with the play, blood, gore, and death are all to be expected; just in time for Halloween.

“Even if you are familiar with the show and the plot, we’re incorporating lots of scary moments that will make the show fresh and bring the text alive for our audiences, ” says Sherman.

Tickets are $13 for adults and $11 for students. They are now available, and can be purchased at: https://sites.google.com/view/whhstheatredepartment/tickets

This production and the entire WHHS Theatre Season is graciously sponsored by the Walnut Hills High School Class of 1964 Performing Arts Fund.

Featuring Wolf Singer as Macbeth, Emma Dalton as Lady Macbeth, Avery Frank as Banquo, Nate Caudill as Macduff, Loretta Rubin as Malcolm, Emma Smith as Ross, Abby Riddle as Lennox, Sophie Christian as Seton, Josie Leanza as 1st Witch, Izzy Lachey as 2nd Witch, Clare Graff as 3rd Witch, Tammy Munoz as Hecate, Hadrian Dwyer as Duncan/Siward, Kyra Doty as Donalbain/Lady Macduff, Hoyt Noble as a Murderer/Soldier, Andrew Kelm as a Murderer/Soldier, Jude Shotwell as a Murderer/Soldier, Khara Rosebrook as Messenger, James Overton as Sergeant/Doctor, Olivia Hufford as an Apparition, Nola Stowe as an Apparition, Scarlett Frank as an Apparition, Adeleigh Karoutchi as Fleance/Macduff’s Son, Clark Sayre as Porter/Young Siward, Naima Jones as Angus, Kenner Bailey as Mentieth, and Riley Soutar as Gentlewoman/Caithness.

  • Directed by Mike Sherman
  • Assistant Directed by Ryan Peerless
  • Technical Direction by Helen A. Raymond-Goers
  • Production Stage Manager- Abbie Kershner
  • Assistant Stage Manager- Nyla Shahanavaz
  • Co-Hair and Makeup Designers- Lizzy Rebber and Sci Redding
  • Co-Props Designers- AJ Frecker and Oran Wilkins
  • Props Manager- Oran Wilkins
  • Costume Designer- Paloma Lanzador
  • Lighting Designer- Allison Calkins
  • Master Electrician- Maya Busche
  • Scenic Designer- Jae Goodman
  • Sound Designer- Maya Busche
  • Choreographer- Lael Ingram
  • Fight Choreographer- Melissa Bennett Murphy
  • Intimacy Coordinator- Erin Carr 

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October 13, 2022 · 6:15 pm

FRIDA…A SELF PORTRAIT Captures the Iconic Painter’s Stunning Live Story in a One-Woman Show Beginning Oct. 15

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Vanessa Severo in the Portland Center Stage 2021 production of FRIDA…A SELF PORTRAIT. Photo by Owen Carey.

COVINGTON, KY (Oct. 13, 2022)—The stunning life story of iconic Mexican painter Frida Kahlo will illuminate the stage when Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park brings its production FRIDA…A SELF PORTRAIT to The Carnegie in Covington beginning Oct. 15. (Opening night is Oct. 20; the production runs through Nov. 6.)

The intimate, theatrical portrait, written and performed by Vanessa Severo, captures the difficulties and wonders of Kahlo’s life journey through physical hardship, tumultuous romantic relationships and mastering her artistic gifts. With music, movement, raw honesty and moments of deep humor, this one-woman show is as singular as the artist at the center of the play.

“I found this woman that was very ahead of her time — and very tweetable, actually, for today — and kind of the first selfies I would say of the 1930s and ‘40s,” Severo said in an interview with Oregon Public Broadcasting. “But the difference was that in today’s world, we try to put on a patina of ‘everything’s great,’ and here’s this woman who’s painting her pain very clearly and unapologetically, and I thought, I wanted her to be alive and breathing today.”

After years of research and a moving trip to Kahlo’s home at La Caza Azul, Severo brings unparalleled authenticity to the painter’s story. She’s also found uncanny similarities with Kahlo in her own life, allowing her to crack open a powerful portal between them and share inspiring stories of her own.

FRIDA…A SELF PORTRAIT is directed by Playhouse Associate Artistic Director Joanie Schultz, who also directed the world premiere at Kansas City Repertory Theatre and a 2019 production of the play at Portland Center Stage.

“The play is a self-portrait of both the historical figure Frida Kahlo and the performer Vanessa Severo,” said Schultz. “As the piece unfolds, there are moments when the lines become blurred between the actor and the character. What we are left with is pure Frida and pure Vanessa, both searching to be seen and understood.”

Broadway World likened the production to “a series of paintings brought vividly to life,” and Oregon Artswatch wrote, “it broadens the reach of what we all have in common with one another.”

Although Kahlo is the play’s main character, Severo deftly portrays many characters, from Rivera to Frida’s parents and sister. The play is written as an interview with Kahlo (Severo also plays the interviewer) and beautifully incorporates movement, monologue, and Kahlo’s and Severo’s life stories into one cohesive piece.

LOCATION
Due to construction, the Playhouse’s Eden Park facility is temporarily closed. Performances of FRIDA…A SELF PORTRAIT will take place at The Carnegie, 1028 Scott St. Covington, Ky 4101.

CAST/PRODUCTION
Vanessa Severo (Playwright/Frida Kahlo); Joanie Schultz (Director); Jacqueline Penrod(Set Designer); Katherine Davis (Costume Designer); Rachael Cady (Lighting Designer); Thomas Dixon (Sound Designer/Original Compositions); Brooke Redler (Stage Manager

TICKETS 
Performances will take place at The Carnegie in Covington Tuesdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. (except Nov. 2), Saturdays at 2 p.m.and on Sundays at 3 p.m. (except Oct. 16). There is a 1 p.m. performance on Wednesday, Nov. 2.

To purchase tickets or for more information, call the Playhouse Box Office at 513-421-3888 (toll-free in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana at 800-582-3208) or visit www.cincyplay.com. Patrons who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, deaf-blind or speech disabled: dial 711 to connect to the Box Office via Ohio Relay Services.

SPECIAL EVENT

WRITING AND CREATING A SOLO SHOW
A writing and movement workshop inspired by the art of Frida Kahlo with instructor Erin Carr
Sat, Nov. 5 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
The Carnegie, Eva G. Farris Education Center, 1028 Scott Boulevard, Covington, KY 41011
Cost: $25 per participant

Join us for a playwriting and performance workshop inspired by FRIDA…A SELF PORTRAIT during which you will have the opportunity to write and create your own short solo performance piece inspired by a piece of artwork. The first hour will be writing exercises to create a monologue and in the second hour, you will bring your monologue to life through movement and physical exploration. Participants will use prints of Frida Kahlo’s artwork to inspire the personal piece, but participants are also welcome to provide their own piece of inspirational art to work from, portraits are preferred.

This event is intended to be accessible for adults of all experience levels in movement and writing.

ADVISORY
FRIDA…A SELF PORTRAIT is suitable for ages 12 and up. Frida Kahlo boldly captured the details of her life through her art, and so this play includes discussions of adult relationships, illness and other mature themes.

LOCATION
The Carnegie, 1028 Scott Street, Covington, KY, 41011, while construction of the new Moe & Jack’s Place The Rouse Theatre continues. The new mainstage theater will open in Spring 2023.

SPONSORS

Production Sponsor is Digi and Mike Schueler. Artist Sponsor is Bartlett Wealth Management. Honorary Producer is Corporex. Season Sponsors are the Vontz Family and the Rosenthal Family Foundation.

The Playhouse is supported by the generosity of almost 40,000 contributors to the ArtsWave Community campaign. The Ohio Arts Council helps fund the Playhouse with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans. The Playhouse also receives funding from the Shubert Foundation.

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