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July 3, 2017 · 9:05 am

The One Minute Play Festival Returns to Know Theatre!

KTC_1mpf_logoTHE 3rd ANNUAL CINCINNATI
ONE-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL

July 8th & 9th, 2017 at Know Theatre of Cincinnati

The CINCINNATI ONE-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL (#1MPF) returns to for its third year at  Know Theatre of Cincinnati. The marathon evening of one-minute plays by over 30 of Cincinnati’s established and emerging playwrights and directors plays three performances only, Saturday, July 8th at 8pm, and Sunday, July 9th at 3pm & 8pm, at Know Theatre, 1120 Jackson St., Cincinnati, OH 45202. Tickets, priced at $20, are on sale now at knowtheatre.com or via phone at 513-300-5669.

“I’m thrilled to continue the partnership between 1MPF and Know Theatre of Cincinnati”, says 1MPF’s producing Artistic Director, Dominic D’Andrea. “Know has quick become a leader and a hub for new play culture around the country. I think what they’ve accomplished has been astounding. That coupled with our love for the artists in the Cincy community, this festival has quickly become one of our very favorite experiences of the year. I’m super excited to come back and make this work with this incredible community. They bring a lot to it. This is what we do this work for.”

The Know is delighted to bring this rapid-fire celebration of Cincinnati voices back to our stages. Says Associate Artistic Director Tamara Winters, “The One Minute Play Festival is a boon to Cincinnati theatre-lovers – and to our local artists! It’s one of my favorite ways to experience new works in our city – it’s no-holds barred, it’s raw, and it always shows me a side of our local theater scene I’ve never seen before, and I always discover some new local voices along the way!”

The 3rd ANNUAL CINCINNATI ONE-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL will feature brand new one-minute plays by John Bromels, Linnea Bond, Geoffrey Barnes, Nick Carmine, Roger Collins, James Creque, Ben Dudley, Bekka Eaton, Kate Fine, Brian Griffin, Leah Heisel Grande, Becca Howell, Tracy Hoida, Mike Hall, Landon Horton, Alan Jozwiak, David Loehr, Robert Macke, Sara Mackie, Joe McDonagh, Eric Pfeffinger, Alison Rampa, Brant Russell, Alexx Rouse, Maggie Lou Rader, Paul Shortt, Andy Simpson, Derek Snow, Sara Tripp Swartout, & Chris Wesselman.

Cast includes: Eric Minion, Isaiah-Mikel Reaves, Andrew Leonard, Michael Gettinger, Katie Scarlett, Katie Mitchell, Victoria Hawley, Peggy Allen, Clint Bramkamp, James Christian, Jr., Kellyn Dolezal, Judith Johnson, Eric Kilpatrick, Katelyn Reid, Aiden Sims, Amanda Leigh Wilson, Andrew Ian Adams, Emily Fry, Robyn Novak, Alexx Rouse, Andrew Simpson, Nathan Tubbs, Lisa Dirkes, Nicole Hershey, Jacqueline Daaleman, Keith Holland, Daniela Nenova, Kearston Hawkins-Johnson, Deandre Smith, Jared Earland, Tasha Boeckmann, Ella Rivera, Erin Carr, Craig Branch, Jalana Phillips, Elliott Young, Carolyn Guido Clifford, Mac Blais, Chris Logan Carter, Hannah Gregory, Ashley Morton, Sara Tripp Swartout, Katrina Reynolds, Derek Snow, Gabriella Medina, Isaac Hickox-Young, Nick Heffelfinger, Michael Burnham, Mafer Del Real, Carter LaCava, Zach Robinson, Liz Carman, Tatiana Godfrey, Kelsie Rae Slaugh, & James Allen.

Directors include Burgess Byrd, Ian Forgeson, Karen O’Brien, Landon Horton, Lauren Carr, Nate Netzley, Phillip Webster, & Robert Macke.

EVENT DETAILS

  • Title: THE 3rd ANNUAL CINCINNATI ONE-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL
  • Dates: Saturday, July 8th at 8pm & Sunday, July 9th at 3pm & 8pm
  • Tickets: $20. Tickets are currently available at knowtheatre.com or via phone at 513-300-5669.

About THE ONE-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL

THE ONE-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL (#1MPF) is America’s largest and longest running grass roots theatre company, founded by Producing Artistic Director, Dominic D’Andrea . #1MPF is a social barometer project, which investigates the zeitgeist of different communities through dialogue, consensus building and a performance of 50-100 short moments generated by each community. #1MPF works in partnership with theatres and/or social organizations sharing playwright, educational or community-specific missions across the country. The aim is to create locally sourced playwright-focused community events, with the goal of promoting the spirit of radical inclusion. #1MPF represents playwrights of different age, gender, race, cultures, and points of career. The work attempts to reflect the theatrical landscape of local artistic communities by creating a dialogue between the collective conscious and the individual voice.

In each city, #1MPF works with partnering organizations to identify programs or initiatives in each community to support with the proceeds from ticket sales. The goal is to find ways give directly back to the artists in each community. Supported programs have ranged from educational programming, youth poetry projects, theatre program in prisons, playwright residencies and memberships, playwrights salaried commissions, community access projects, arts workshops and other social and artistic initiatives.

Annual partnerships have been created with theaters in over 20 cities including: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Trenton, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Boston, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Seattle, Dallas, Austin, Indianapolis, Anchorage, Honolulu, St. Louis and more, with partnering institutions including Primary Stages, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, New Georges at New York City Center, Z-Space, A.C.T., Trinity Rep, Victory Gardens Theater, Cornerstone Theatre Company, The Playwrights Foundation, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Actor’s Express, InterAct Theatre, Mixed Blood, Walking Shadow Theatre, Passage Theatre, Phoenix Theatre, Kitchen Dog Theatre, Salvage Vanguard & ScriptWorks,  ACT Seattle, Perseverance Theatre, Round House Theatre, Honolulu Theatre For Youth and others.

Notable #1MPF contributors have included: David Henry Hwang, Lynn Nottage, Neil LaBute, Tina Howe, Donald Margulies, Nilaja Sun, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Robert Schenkkan, Lydia Diamond, Phillip Kan Gotanda, Kristoffer Diaz, Rajiv Joseph, Samuel D. Hunter, Karen Hartman, Robert Askins, Colman Domingo, José Rivera, Craig Lucas, Mike Daisey, Greg Kotis, Michael John Garcés and over to 1400 celebrated, emerging, and midcareer playwrights.  For more information visit: www.oneminuteplayfestival.com

Know Theatre of Cincinnati  Know Theatre is Cincinnati’s Theatrical Playground. The Know showcases unexpected voices, new works, and plays that embrace the inherent theatricality of the live experience. Know Theatre seeks to be a place where artists and audiences feel welcome to take artistic risks, creating work that is cutting edge and accessible.

Know Theatre’s work is made possible, in part, by the generosity of community contributions to the ArtsWave Campaign. 

The Ohio Arts Council helps fund Know Theatre with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence, and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.

Know Theatre is also supported by The Carol Ann & Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation, helping to change our communities for the better through collaboration and innovation, and the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, which provides a simple, powerful, and highly personal approach to giving.

Know Theatre is a member of Theatre Communications Group and an Associate member of the National New Play Network.

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June 30, 2017 · 9:53 am

Troy Civic Theatre to Host Regional Theatre Competition

TROY_logoTroy, Ohio, June 30, 2017:  Troy Civic Theatre is hosting the Ohio Community Theatre Association West regional competition on Saturday, July 8th.  Five area theatres will be presenting 30-35 minute excerpts of shows from their 2016-17 season, with 2 of these shows being invited to compete at the OCTA State Conference held over Labor Day weekend.

Three adjudicators will be in attendance, and awards for Merit, Excellence, and Outstanding in performances, ensemble, costumes, props, and direction will be presented that afternoon.  Participating theatres include: Dayton Theatre Guild (THE LAST LIFEBOAT), X*Act (THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST), Beavercreek Community Theatre (VANYA, SONYA, MASHA AND SPIKE), Windmill Productions (TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD), and Troy Civic Theatre (ALMOST, MAINE).

The regional is open to the public.  Registration opens at 8:30 for the morning session, which begins at 9:30.  The afternoon session begins at 2pm.  Admission is $15 per person, with snacks by donation provided throughout the day.

TCT founding member and costumer Gerri Nichols is also being honored during the event for her commitment to community theatre.  Gerri has been awarded the American Association of Community Theatre Robert E Gard Superior Volunteer Award, which is presented to individuals at least 65 who have committed 25 or more years to volunteering in a non-paid position in a community theatre.  The awards were presented during the AACT national conference that took place in June in Illinois.  A representative from the local AACT region is attending the OCTA West regional, and will honor Gerri during the OCTA awards ceremony, The awards presentation is expected to begin between 4:30 and 5 pm on July 8th.  There is a cake reception planned to begin at 3:50 pm in the theatre lobby in Gerri’s honor.

Troy Civic Theatre is a non-profit community theatre located about 20 minutes north of Dayton.  TCT has been honored with several Dayton area, and Ohio regional and state performance and technical awards over the years, and has continued to bring quality entertainment to Troy for more than 50 years.  For more information, please contact the theatre at 937-339-7700.

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June 29, 2017 · 10:12 am

Commonwealth Artists Summer Theatre to Present Popular Blockbuster This Summer!

CAST_Les Miserables logoC.A.S.T. Students will present LES MISERABLES School Edition 

The Commonwealth Artists Summer Theatre (C.A.S.T.), under the direction of Fort Thomas Independent Schools’ theatre instructor Jason Burgess, will present the Broadway hit LES MISERABLES School Edition, a musical by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg and based on the novel by Victor Hugo, for two weekends starting July 21. The cast and crew includes students from 19 area schools including Anderson High School, Newport Central Catholic, Cincinnati Country Day, Seven Hills, Highlands, School for Creative and Performing Arts, Covington Catholic, Wyoming High School and more.

C.A.S.T. is for students in the Greater Cincinnati area who range from incoming freshman to graduating seniors in high school. It was started with the idea of providing high school students a different avenue to being involved in a theatrical production and potentially master classes when schools are not in session. The program doesn’t just focus on acting in a production. The entire crew is made up of students including most of the designers for the different departments involved in creating a production. The ultimate goal is to open the doors of collaboration to students from different high schools in the Greater Cincinnati community to create and produce a show together and to establish new relationships and create new friendships.

LES MISERABLES School Edition is an epic and uplifting story about the survival of the human spirit. In nineteenth century France, Jean Valjean is released from years of unjust imprisonment, but finds nothing in store for him but mistrust and mistreatment. He breaks his parole in hopes of starting a new life, initiating a lifelong struggle for redemption as he is relentlessly pursued by police inspector Javert, who refuses to believe Valjean can change his ways. Finally, during the Paris student uprising of 1832, Javert must confront his ideals after Valjean spares his life and saves that of the student revolutionary who has captured the heart of Valjean’s adopted daughter.

About the Cast

  • Jake Moses (Valjean) is a recent graduate of Seven Hills High School.
  • Timothy Belton (Javert) is a student at Covington Catholic High School
  • Payton Epperson (Marius) is a recent graduate of Highlands High School
  • Maggie Seibert (Cosette) is a student at Highlands High School
  • Savannah Slaby (Eponine) is a recent graduate of Highlands High School
  • Noah Moore (Thenardier) is a recent graduate of Highlands High School
  • Carly Shepherd (Madame Thenardier) is a student at Wyoming High School

The entire cast and crew list can be found at www.castnky.com

Performance Dates

  • Friday, July 21st, 7:30pm, Opening Night
  • Saturday, July 22nd, 7:30pm
  • Sunday, July 23rd, 2pm
  • Friday, July 28th, 7:30pm
  • Saturday, July 29th, 7:30pm
  • Sunday, July 30th, 2pm, Closing Performance

Peformance Location

Performing Arts Center
Highlands High School
2400 Memorial Parkway
Fort Thomas, KY

Tickets

General Admission – $12

Tickets are RESERVED SEATING only. Purchase tickets in advance online at www.castnky.com. Remaining unreserved tickets may be purchased at the door one hour prior to each show.

LES MISERABLES School Edition is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.MTIShows.com

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June 27, 2017 · 1:15 pm

Travis Wall’s SHAPING SOUND: After The Curtain | Fri., Nov. 3 | Aronoff Center

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TRAVIS WALL AND BREAK THE FLOOR PRODUCTIONS
ANNOUNCE NEW FALL AND WINTER TOUR DATES FOR
SHAPING SOUND’S GROUNDBREAKING NEW ‘AFTER THE CURTAIN’
TO PLAY CINCINNATI’S ARONOFF CENTER ON NOVEMBER 3, 2017

TRAVIS WALL and BREAK THE FLOOR PRODUCTIONS are pleased to announce additional dates in the 2017 – 2018 national tour of After The Curtain — the new show by America’s hottest dance company,Travis Wall’s SHAPING SOUND.  After The Curtain will play the Aronoff Center’s Procter & Gamble Hall on Friday, November 3, 2017 at 8:00 PM.

Tickets go on sale Monday, July 10 at 10:00 AM at www.CincinnatiArts.org, (513) 621-ARTS [2787], and the Aronoff Center Ticket Office at 650 Walnut Street, downtown. 

SHAPING SOUND was established in Los Angeles in 2012 with a focus on contemporary dance and choreographic artistry.  Created by the 2015 Emmy Award-winner (and six-time Emmy Award-nominee) for Outstanding Choreography, TRAVIS WALL, along with partners NICK LAZZARINI, TEDDY FORANCE, and KYLE ROBINSON, the company is an evocative collaboration by diverse artists who describe themselves as ‘visual musicians’, i.e. their dance gives shape and form to sound. 

 SHAPING SOUND has impacted audiences with a unique fusion of jazz, modern, and hip-hop choreography.  The four young dancers broke into public awareness with the debut of their reality television seriesAll The Right Moves on the Oxygen channel which followed them in their quest to launch the dance company.  Since that time they have been showcased on all of America’s popular prime time dance, awards, entertainment, and music shows, including:  So You Think You Can Dance, Dancing With The Stars, Glee, and The 2013 Prime Time Emmy Awards.  They were featured in Carrie Underwood’s Grammy Award-winning music video Something In The Water, and they are frequent guests on The Ellen Show.

After The Curtain is the second show for the eclectic dance company, following on the heels of the spell-binding Dance Reimagined, which toured North America for four years.  Conceived and choreographed by TRAVIS WALL, After The Curtain tells the story of a man fighting to find his creative voice after the death of his one true love. Heart-wrenching, breath-taking, and ultimately uplifting, this is one dance show that audiences will remember forever. TRAVIS WALL will be dancing in the show throughout the tour schedule, and he will be joined by his SHAPING SOUND co-founder NICK LAZZARINI.  The remaining company of twelve dancers will be announced at a later date.

TRAVIS WALL, Artistic Director, is the winner of the 2015 Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography. He was the runner-up for the Fox reality show So You Think You Can Dance Season 2, and is currently a resident choreographer for the national dance competition show. He is a five-time Emmy-nominated choreographer for his work on So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing with the Stars.  He choreographed the music video for Carrie Underwood’s “Something In The Water,”which won the CMT Video of the Year, as well as stage shows for Justin Bieber and Demi Lovato. Additional TV credits include choreographing the 82nd Academy Awards, Disneyland’s 60th Anniversary Special on ABC, the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, and an episode of Pretty Little Liars featuring Maddie Ziegler. Feature film credits include choreography for The Wedding Ringer starring Kevin Hart and the contemporary numbers for the feature film Step Up Revolution. He had the privilege of working with First Lady, Michelle Obama on her Let’s Move Campaign, where he created the GimmeFive routine that was performed on The Ellen Show and at The White House. Travis teaches with NUVO Dance Convention. @TravisWall.

For more information visit www.SHAPINGSOUNDCO.COM.

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June 27, 2017 · 1:10 pm

John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous Tour | Fri., Oct. 20 | Aronoff Center

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Popular Emmy Award-winning writer and comedian John Mulaney brings his “Kid Gorgeous” tour to the Aronoff Centers’ Procter & Gamble Hall on Friday,  October 20 at 7:00 PM.

Tickets go on sale Wednesday, June 21 at 10:00 AM at www.CincinnatiArts.org, (513) 621-ARTS [2787], and the Aronoff Center Ticket Office at 650 Walnut Street, downtown.

John Mulaney most recently starred in the Broadway hit, Oh, Hello on Broadway alongside Nick Kroll. In 2015, Mulaney released his third hour-stand-up special a Netflix Original titled The Comeback Kid, which the AV Club called “his best hour of his career.” He began his career in New York’s East Village and has since toured around the world. In 2008, he began writing at Saturday Night Live, where he appeared as a “Weekend Update” correspondent and co-created characters such as “Stefon” with Bill Hader. He currently writes for IFC’s Documentary Now and for Netflix’s Big Mouth, on which he voices the character of Andrew.  Mulaney’s first comedy album, “The Top Part,” was released in 2009. He released his second Comedy Central special and album “New In Town” in 2012, and upon review Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly hailed Mulaney as “one of the best stand-up comics alive.”

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