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June 17, 2016 · 6:23 am

#1MPF & Know Theatre of Cincinnati Present The 2nd Annual ONE-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL

KTC_One Minute Play Festival logoTHE ONE-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL (#1MPF) & KNOW THEATRE of CINCINNATI
PRESENT
THE 2nd CINCINNATI ONE-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL

SUNDAY, JULY 10th
MONDAY, JULY 11th
TUESDAY, JULY 12th

ALL PERFORMANCES AT 8PM

AT KNOW THEATRE
1120 JACKSON STREET
CINCINNATI, OH 45202

The One-Minute Play Festival (1MPF) (Dominic D’Andrea, Producing Artistic Director & Caitlin Wees, Associate Producer) and Know Theatre (Andrew Hungerford, Producing Artistic Direct & Tamara Winters, Associate Artistic Director) continue their dynamic partnership for The 2nd Annual Cincinnati One-minute Play Festival with part of the proceeds to benefit artist residency and educational programming at Know Theatre!

“I’m just thrilled to be returning to Cincinnati. Last year coming to town and working with these artists was the most engaged new festival we had in the country!” Says 1MPF producing artistic director, Dominic D’Andrea. “There is something happening in this town, between the work the Know is doing, the fringe festival, and other work popping up, along with a growing culture of new play work and playwright: Cincinnati is an exciting place to be. I would rather be working here than anywhere else, and I’m so glad we are doing this work with Know and the community. Our work is about exploring the zeitgeist, and no better way to do that than in this forum”, D’Andrea says.

One-minute plays by established and emerging Cincinnati playwrights were commissioned for this special event, prompted by #1MPF’s unique playmaking process.

The festival will feature work created for 1MPF by:
John Bromels, Chris Wesselman, Robert Macke, Kevin Crowley, Becca Howell, Alison Rampa, Joe McDonagh, Mike Hall, Nick Carmine, David J. Loehr, Torie Wiggins, Stacy Sims, Bekka Eaton, Maggie Lou Rader, Linnea Bond, Paul Shortt, Roger Collins, Derek Snow, Tracy Hoida, Rory Sheridan, Sara Swartout, Alan Jozwiak, Katie Fine, Nathan Singer, Brant Russell, Sara Mackie, Allyson West, Geoffrey Barnes, & Eric Pfeffinger 

Directed by Alice Flanders, Brant Russell & Landon Hawkins, Carrington Rowe, Derek Snow, Burgess Byrd, Piper Davis, Rebecca Bromels, & Shelby Becker

The One­Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) is America’s largest and longest running grass roots theatre company, founded by Producing Artistic Director, Dominic D’Andrea. #1MPF is 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, DC, Baltimore, Boston, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Seattle, Dallas, Austin, Indianapolis, Anchorage, Honolulu, St. Louis, and more, with partnering institutions like Primary Stages, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Second Stage Uptown, New Georges at New York City Center, Z-Space, A.C.T., Trinity Rep, Victory Gardens Theatre, 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, 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, Sam Hunter, Karen Hartman, Robert Askins, Colman Domingo, José Rivera, Craig Lucas, Mike Daisey, Greg Kotis, Michael John Garcés, & over to 1400 celebrated, emerging, and midcareer playwrights.  For more information visit: www.oneminuteplayfestival.com.

More Info and Tickets: www.knowtheatre.com

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.

Since 1997, Know Theatre has sought 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 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 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 16, 2016 · 6:10 am

Xavier University Theatre Announces Final Directors for 2016-17 Season

XUT_logo(CINCINNATI, June 14, 2016) – Now in its fourth year as a degree program, Xavier University Theatre continues to foster professional collaborations for students by assembling its most ambitious slate of directors to date. The theatre is thrilled to announce the addition of Ed Stern, the two-time Tony Award winning former artistic director of the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and D. Lynn Meyers, producing artistic director of Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati, to its 2016-17 season. They join Bridget Leak, Dee Anne Bryll, Ed Cohen and Craig Wesley Divino.

“I could not be more excited to have Ed and Lynn joining next year,” says Xavier Theatre Director Stephen Skiles. “They are not only two of the most dynamic directors in our region, but they also have been incredibly supportive of our students. The experience, knowledge and passion that they bring to their work is extraordinary. We are grateful to call them part of our theatre family.”

Ed Stern will direct The Reduced Shakespeare Company’s THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) [REVISED] from Feb. 16-19, 2017. The show features all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays in 97 minutes. An irreverent, fast-paced romp, THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: (ABRIDGED) was London’s longest-running comedy. The play showcases three madcap men in tights as they weave their way through all of Shakespeare’s comedies, histories and tragedies in one wild ride that promises to leave audiences breathless and helpless with laughter.

Lynn Meyers will direct Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s musical INTO THE WOODS. What if Cinderella, Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood and the Baker and his Wife lived in the same story? All must venture into the woods to seek fulfillment of their deepest wishes, but what they find there is that dreams are rarely simple and wishes are not often granted free of complications. This charming story is at once hilariously funny and deeply moving, a fractured look at the flip side of classic fairy tales as only master storyteller Stephen Sondheim (composer of Sweeney Todd and Company) could imagine. INTO THE WOODS will run April 20-22, 2017.

Tickets for the 2016-17 season productions will be available starting July 1, 2016, through the Xavier University Theatre Box Office. Tickets are $17 each for adults and $12 each for students, as well as Xavier faculty and staff. Tickets for THE ALIENS are $15. Subscription packages also are available. To purchase tickets, visit http://www.xavier.edu/theatretickets or call 513-745-3939.

Complete season details:

Xavier Theatre’s 2016-17 Season

SLUT SHAMING by Trey Tatum
Directed by Bridget Leak
Aug. 24-28, 2016
Gallagher Student Center Theatre

Lauren Lucas, time traveler, views her attack, the trial, the aftermath and her life-at-large simultaneously. She sees the woman she will become, the undamaged girl she once was; she learns how far into the future this event will consume her. And then she wakes up in the present, in high school, and she knows the struggles that lay waiting. The Artists’ Pick of the 2014 Cincinnati Fringe Festival, SLUT SHAMING explores how small-town communities aggravate teenage sexual assault.

“Slut Shaming reminds us of the power of forcing labels on people to whom absolute labels only rarely apply and of how the truth of a person — of their history and their character — can almost never be found in absolutes.” – CityBeat

THE MUSIC MAN
Book, Music and Lyrics by Meredith Willson
Directed and Choreographed by Dee Anne Bryll and Ed Cohen
Oct. 20-22, 2016 (Xavier Family Weekend)
Gallagher Student Center Theatre

THE MUSIC MAN follows fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys’ band he vows to organize, despite the fact that he doesn’t know a trombone from a treble clef. By turns wicked, funny, warm, romantic and touching, THE MUSIC MAN is family entertainment at its best. With classic songs such as “Ya Got Trouble,” “Seventy Six Trombones” and “Till There Was You,” THE MUSIC MAN is a six-time, Tony Award winning musical comedy to be shared with every generation.

“If you’re a musical comedy buff, THE MUSIC MAN will show you just why.” – The New York Times

THE DIVINERS by Jim Leonard Jr.
Directed by Stephen Skiles
Nov. 11-19, 2016
Gallagher Student Center Theatre

THE DIVINERS is the story of a mentally disturbed young man and the unlikely, and ultimately life-changing, friendship he develops with a disenchanted preacher in early 1930s Indiana. As the small town of Zion searches to find its way through the economic struggles of the Great Depression, CC Showers seeks to find his redemption through the eyes and trust of Buddy Layman. A story of vulnerability, loss and the redemptive power of faith, THE DIVINERS is a harrowing drama full of humor, heartbreak, hope and love.

“THE DIVINERS … renders the humor and horror of the hinterlands with staggering accuracy … Compelling.” – New York Magazine

HAMLET by William Shakespeare
Directed by Craig Wesley Divino
Feb. 9-12, 2017
Gallagher Student Center Onstage Theatre

A country on the brink of war. A family torn apart. A son tortured by secrets. What does it mean to live? What does it mean to die? How far will we go to remain true to those we love? Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, HAMLET remains one of the greatest stories of all time.

“The seminal masterpiece of Western literature.” – Newsweek

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, ABRIDGED (REVISED)
by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield
Directed by Ed Stern
Feb. 16-19, 2017
Gallagher Student Center Onstage Theatre

All 37 plays in 97 minutes! An irreverent, fast-paced romp through the Bard’s plays, THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: (ABRIDGED) was London’s longest-running comedy. Join these madcap men in tights as they weave their wicked way through all of Shakespeare’s comedies, histories and tragedies in one wild ride that will leave you breathless and helpless with laughter.

“Pithier than Python … Irresistible.” – The New York Times

INTO THE WOODS
music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; book by James Lapine
Directed by D. Lynn Meyers
April 20-22, 2017
Gallagher Student Center Theatre

Be careful what you wish for … What if Cinderella, Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood and the Baker and his Wife lived in the same story? All must venture into the woods to seek fulfillment of their deepest wishes, but what they find there is that dreams are rarely simple and wishes are not often granted free of complications. This charming story is at once hilariously funny and deeply moving, a fractured look at the flip side of the classic fairy tales as only master storyteller Stephen Sondheim (composer of Sweeney Todd and Company) could imagine.

“Blends imagination and playfulness.” – Newsday

THE ALIENS by Annie Baker
Directed by Stephen Skiles
April 5-8, 2017
Xavier’s XHaus – 1123 Walnut Street in Over-the Rhine

Two angry young men sit behind a Vermont coffee shop and discuss music and Bukowski. When a lonely high-school student arrives on the scene, they decide to teach him everything they know. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of Circle Mirror Transformation and The Flick, THE ALIENS is a play with music about friendship, art, love and death. A new Xavier Theatre collaboration with the Center for Innovation, THE ALIENS will be presented at the XHaus space in OTR. Limited seating available. All tickets $15.

“A gentle and extraordinarily beautiful new play.” – The New York Times

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June 10, 2016 · 10:51 am

CCM Announces 2016-17 Mainstage Series

of Acting, Dance, musical theatre and opera 

UC’s College-Conservatory of Music presents eight great works celebrating passion, courage and romance as part of an incredible 2016-17 performance season.

CCM_logoCINCINNATI, OH—The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) is pleased to announce details for its 2016-17 Mainstage Series of acting, dance, musical theatre and opera productions. Between Sept. 29, 2016 and April 15, 2017, CCM’s stars-of-tomorrow and world-class faculty and staff members will present eight diverse masterworks, which span the spectrum of the theatre arts.

Dubbed “a season of passion, courage and romance,” CCM’s 2016-17 Mainstage Series will bring new interpretations of popular classics in the fall with a retelling William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, a revival of the nine-time Tony Award-winning musical A Chorus Line, a flirty and fun-filled production of the fairytale opera Cendrillon and a mixed repertoire dance concert featuring Classics with a Twist.

 In the spring, CCM will also present the Mainstage Series debuts of stirring drama Her Naked Skin, powerful musical Mack and Mabel and epic opera Idomeneo, along with the Dance Department’s celebration of Masterworks and Beyond.

Production and ticketing details are listed below. Single tickets go on sale beginning Aug. 29, 2016, but subscribing is the best way to guarantee your seats for these must-see shows! Fully customizable renewal subscriptions are on sale now with priority seating before July 15, 2016. Subscription packages for new subscribers will go on sale July 18, 2016.

Additional Information

Titles and dates are subject to change – rights pending. To order subscriptions, contact the CCM Box Office at 513-556-4183.

For a complete calendar of events, please visit us online at ccm.uc.edu.

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CCM 2016-17 MAINSTAGE SERIES
Acting, Dance, Musical Theatre, Opera

ROMEO AND JULIET
Written by William Shakespeare
Brant Russell, director

“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” William Shakespeare’s legendary tale of young love and bitter hatred returns to the CCM stage like you’ve never seen it before. Witness the deadly feud between the Montagues and Capulets in this subversive retelling of the Bard’s iconic story. It’s a comedy ­— until it’s not.

Performance Dates: Sept. 28 (preview), Sept. 29–Oct. 2, 2016
Location: Patricia Corbett Theater
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A CHORUS LINE
Conceived and originally directed and choreographed by Michael Bennett
Book by James Kirkwood Jr. and Nicholas Dante
Music by Marvin Hamlisch
Lyrics by Edward Kleban
Diane Lala, director and choreographer
Roger Grodsky, musical director

A nine-time Tony Award-winner, and one of the longest running productions in Broadway history, A Chorus Line tells a strikingly honest tale about the backstage world of musical theatre as 17 dancers vie to make the final cut for the latest smash hit. As the auditions proceed, the diverse backgrounds and motivations of the hopefuls come to the fore, revealing stories that run the gamut of human experience and emotion as they all compete with and learn about one another. It is a process that will change them all forever… for better or worse. A Pulitzer Prize-winning fusion of dance, song and drama, A Chorus Line is a powerful metaphor for all human aspiration.

Performance Dates: Oct. 20–30, 2016
Location: Patricia Corbett Theater
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CENDRILLON (CINDERELLA)
Composed by Jules Massenet
Libretto by Henri Caïn
Mark Gibson, conductor
Robin Guarino, director

One of the world’s most beloved fairy tales comes to the CCM stage in a new modernist production! Despite being under the thumb of her evil stepmother, a poor girl wishes for her dream to come true. Enter her fairy godmother, who provides a ticket to the ball! The poor girl meets Prince Charming and they fall in love. When the clock strikes 12, though, she vanishes… leaving only a single shoe behind. Jules Massenet’s elegant score brings wit and charm to this timeless romance based on Charles Perrault’s telling of the Cinderella fairy tale. This production is sung in French with English supertitles.

Performance Dates: Nov. 17 – 20, 2016
Location: Corbett Auditorium
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CLASSICS WITH A TWIST
CCM Ballet Ensemble
Jiang Qi and Andre Megerdichian, co-directors

CCM’s Department of Dance opens its performance season with a concert of mixed repertoire featuring alumnus James Cunningham of the Cincinnati Ballet, who will choreograph a new work La Nymph with music by Youngwon French. Highlights also include a performance of Schubert’s Winterreise with choreography by Dance Department Chair Jiang Qi and accompaniment by CCM students Yijia Fang, cello and Xinyuan Li, piano. In addition, the graceful performers from CCM Dance will mount a staging of Glazunov’s Scénes de Ballet with choreography by Associate Professor Michael Tevlin, and Assistant Professor Andre Megerdichian will choreograph a collage of dance scenes spanning diverse genres.

Performance Dates: Dec. 1–4, 2016
Location: Patricia Corbett Theater
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HER NAKED SKIN
Written by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Richard Hess, director

London 1913. Women are demanding the right to vote. Thousands of suffragettes of all classes serve time in Holloway Prison in their determination to gain equality through the vote. Their willingness to suffer for social injustice serves as the backdrop for an unlikely love story set in a period of turmoil. Described by the Independent as “a great drama about women, by a woman,” Her Naked Skin premiered to great acclaim at London’s National Theatre in 2008. By exploring the hunger for political and personal emancipation, this play plants a defiant feminist flag center stage. This production contains adult themes and is not recommend for young audiences.

Performance Dates: Feb. 8 (preview), Feb. 9–12, 2017
Location: Patricia Corbett Theater
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MACK AND MABEL
Based on an idea by Leonard Spigelglass
Book by Michael Stewart
Music and lyrics by Jerry Herman
Aubrey Berg, director
William Evan Roider, musical director
Patti James, choreographer

Set against the madcap world of Keystone Kops, Bathing Beauties and pies-in-the-face, the tumultuous relationship between workaholic film director Mack Sennett and his silent-screen star Mabel Normand was the stuff of Hollywood legend. With a memorable score by Broadway master Jerry Herman (Hello, Dolly!, Mame, La Cage aux Folles) Mack and Mabel is a star-crossed, bittersweet love story that explores both the lighter and the darker side of the Golden Age of Comedy. Nominated for eight Tony Awards, Mack and Mabel was praised by the New York Times as “a musical in the old and true tradition.”

Performance Dates: March 2–5, 2017
Location: Corbett Auditorium
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IDOMENEO
Composed by W.A. Mozart
Libretto by Giovanni Battista Varesco (after Antoine Danchet)
Aik Khai Pung, conductor
Marcus Shields, director

Set in the aftermath of the Trojan War, Mozart’s opera seria weaves a tale of gods and monsters, unrequited love and selfless heroism. During his perilous journey back to Greece after years at war, King Idomeneo pledges to sacrifice the first mortal he finds to Neptune in exchange for a safe journey home. When that mortal turns out to be his son Idamante, Idomeneo struggles to find another way to appease the gods, which creates dire repercussions for the people of Crete. Completed in 1780 when the composer was only 24 years old, Idomeneo is widely considered the first of Mozart’s great operas and remains a favorite of opera houses around the world. This production is sung in Italian with English supertitles.

Performance Dates: March 30–April 2, 2017
Location: Patricia Corbett Theater
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MASTERWORKS AND BEYOND
Jiang Qi and Deirdre Carberry, co-directors

Celebrate spring’s arrival with the CCM Ballet Ensemble as they present a mixed bill of pieces choreographed and staged by CCM’s own illustrious faculty. This program features new work by Alabama Ballet associate director and guest choreographer Roger Van Fleteren, along with new works by faculty members Jiang Qi, Deirdre Carberry and Michael Tevlin.

Performance Dates: April 13–15, 2017
Location: Patricia Corbett Theater
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Mainstage Series Subscriptions

The 2016-17 CCM Mainstage Series of acting, dance, musical theatre and opera productions includes subscription packages for six-or-more show, four-show and three-show combinations.

Renewal subscription packages are on sale now. CCM’s fully customizable subscription packages range in price from $69 – $188. Subscribers to CCM’s 2015-16 Mainstage Series can receive priority access to seating by renewing their subscriptions by Friday, July 15, 2016.

New subscriptions go on sale July 18, 2016. Single tickets will be available for purchase beginning Monday, Aug. 29, 2016.

To order subscriptions, contact the CCM Box Office at 513-556-4183.

Concert Series Options

As the largest single source of performing arts events in Ohio, CCM also offers world-class chamber music, choral, jazz, orchestra, percussion, piano and wind ensemble concerts each season. CCM’s Mainstage subscribers receive priority access to Ariel Quartet subscription packages, CCM Concert Series flex ticket packages, prepaid parking and other exclusive perks.

Full programming and package details for CCM’s 2016-17 Ariel Quartet Series and Concert Series will be announced in July. Visit ccm.uc.edu for more information.

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CCM Season Presenting Sponsor and Musical Theatre Program Sponsor: The Otto M. Budig Family Foundation 

Mainstage Season Production Sponsor: Macy’s 

Community Partner: ArtsWave

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University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

2016-17 MAINSTAGE SERIES OF ACTING, DANCE, MUSICAL THEATRE, OPERA

 

ROMEO AND JULIET

Performance Times:

  • 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28 (preview)
  • 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29
  • 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30
  • 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1
  •  p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1
  • 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 2

Location: Patricia Corbett Theater

A CHORUS LINE

Performance Times:

  • 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 20
  • 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21
  • 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22
  • 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22
  • 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 23
  • 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 23
  • 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26
  • 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27
  • 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28
  • 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29
  • 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29
  • 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30

Location: Patricia Corbett Theater

CENDRILLON (CINDERELLA)

Performance Times:

  • 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17
  • 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19
  • 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 20

Location: Corbett Auditorium

CLASSICS WITH A TWIST

Performance Times:

  • 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1
  • 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2
  • 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3
  • 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4

Location: Patricia Corbett Theater

 HER NAKED SKIN

Performance Times:

  • 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8 (preview)
  • 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9
  • 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10
  • 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11
  • 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11
  • 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12

Location: Patricia Corbett Theater

MACK AND MABEL

Performance Times:

  • 8 p.m. Thursday, March 2
  • 8 p.m. Friday, March 3
  • 2 p.m. Saturday, March 4
  • 8 p.m. Saturday, March 4
  • 2 p.m. Sunday, March 5

Location: Corbett Auditorium

IDOMENEO

Performance Times:

  • 8 p.m. Thursday, March 30
  • 8 p.m. Friday, March 31
  • 8 p.m. Saturday, April 1
  • 2 p.m. Sunday, April 2

Location: Patricia Corbett Theater

MASTERWORKS AND BEYOND

Performance Times:

  • 8 p.m. Thursday, April 13
  • 8 p.m. Friday, April 14
  • 2 p.m. Saturday, April 15
  • 8 p.m. Saturday, April 15

Location: Patricia Corbett Theater
 

2016-17 Subscription Prices:

  • 6 or more subscription packages start at $120
  • 4-show subscription packages start at $88
  • 3- show subscription packages start at $69

2016-17 Single Ticket Prices:

  • Opera and Musical Theatre tickets range from $31 – $35 general, $22 – $25 non-UC students
  • Acting and Dance tickets range from $27 – $31 general, $17 – $20 non-UC students

 A preeminent institution for the performing and media arts, the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) is the largest single source of performing arts presentations in the state of Ohio.

Titles and dates are subject to change. For a complete calendar of events,

please visit us online at http://ccm.uc.edu.

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June 9, 2016 · 6:40 am

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park Celebrates 2015-2016 Season Highlights, Announces New Branding

PIP_logo(CINCINNATI) — Today the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park announced that it will cap its 2015-16 season with the launch of a vibrant new logo and brand identity. The new look is the most significant change to the Tony Award-winning theatre’s visual identity in 25 years.

“While our mission remains the same, now more than ever we need an identity that reflects the entire Playhouse experience and supports the full range, depth and quality of the programming we offer,” says Playhouse Artistic Director Blake Robison. “We’re excited to unveil a fresh, contemporary look that paves the way for the Playhouse of the future.”

The announcement comes in the closing week of what has been a very successful 56th season for the Playhouse. Highlights include:

  • Over the past two seasons, Playhouse main stage attendance has increased by 11 percent and single and group ticket sales increased by 30 percent compared to the previous two seasons.
  • The Playhouse’s production of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD played to 95 percent capacity and sold the highest number of single and group tickets in 26 seasons and the third highest of the past 40 seasons (not including A CHRISTMAS CAROL).
  • The Playhouse produced two world premieres by prominent female playwrights, NATIVE GARDENS by Karen Zacarías and THE REVOLUTIONISTS by Lauren Gunderson. NATIVE GARDENS, which was commissioned by the Playhouse, has garnered upcoming productions at Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater and the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. THE REVOLUTIONISTS had a subsequent production at 7 Stages in Atlanta.
  • Since Robison’s first season in 2012-13, multigenerational programming has attracted more families and young people to Playhouse main stage productions. During 2015-16, 11,513 main stage youth tickets have been sold to date — the highest total in more than 20 seasons.
  • The Playhouse’s 25th anniversary production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL, presented by U.S. Bank, played to the highest total attendance of the past 15 seasons.

As the Playhouse moves into its 2016-17 season, the fifth under Robison, the theatre will roll out its new look. It is the product of months of work with LPK, a highly regarded global brand design agency based in Cincinnati. LPK’s insights were blended with input gathered through interviews with Playhouse board members, subscribers, single ticket buyers and others to understand what the Playhouse means to them and to our region overall.

The new logo is comprised of crafted layers that build off of one another. The layers include the use of varying type styles above and below an implied stage line that runs directly through the middle of the logo. The stage line showcases the diversity of Playhouse offerings, the connection between actors and audiences and the contributing elements both onstage and off that add up to create the entire Playhouse experience. Additional graphic elements that complement the logo serve as abstract representations of a theatre, park and cityscape, three fundamental factors critical to the Playhouse’s success.

The Playhouse season is presented by The Otto M. Budig Family Foundation and Heidelberg Distributing Company. The season sponsor of new work is The Lois and Richard Rosenthal Foundation.

The Playhouse is supported by the generosity of the community contributors to the ArtsWave 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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June 2, 2016 · 6:51 am

SOUTH PACIFIC Comes to The Children’s Theatre of Mason Stage June 17-19

60 talented local performers bring this story to the Mason High School Auditorium for four performances 

CTM_logoThe Children’s Theatre of Mason is proud to present SOUTH PACIFIC, June 17-19 in Mason. SOUTH PACIFIC is set in an island paradise during World War II, where two parallel love stories are threatened by the dangers of prejudice and war.

The show will run for four performances – Friday, June 17 at 7:00pm; Saturday, June 18th at 2:00pm and 7:00pm; and Sunday, June 19th at 2:00pm. VIP tickets can be purchased for the Friday and Saturday evening shows for $25 each.  General admission tickets for any show are $12 each.  All tickets can be purchased online at www.ctm-kids.com through June 16th at 5pm and at the door starting one hour before each show.

James Michener, a book editor and university professor, enlisted in the U.S. Navy in October 1942. In April 1944, he was sent to the South Pacific theatre where he was assigned to write a history of the Navy in the Pacific, which allowed him to travel widely. From his travels, which took him to a village named Bali-ha’i and also led him to meet a woman named Bloody Mary, he wrote a collection of stories titled Tales of the South Pacific for which he won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. These stories were the basis for the musical SOUTH PACIFIC, written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.  The original Broadway production premiered in 1949 and was a huge success running for 1,925 performances.  It won ten Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Score.  The original cast album was also the best selling record of the 1940s.  In 2008, SOUTH PACIFIC, enjoyed a successful musical revival, running for 996 performances and winning seven Tony Awards including Best Musical Revival.

Set during World War II on an island in the South Pacific, Nellie, a spunky nurse from Arkansas, falls in love with a mature French planter, Emile. Nellie learns that the mother of his children was an island native and, unable to turn her back on the prejudices with which she was raised, refuses Emile’s proposal of marriage. Meanwhile, the strapping Lt. Joe Cable denies himself the fulfillment of a future with an innocent Tonkinese girl with whom he’s fallen in love out of the same fears that haunt Nellie.  Both Nellie and Joe find themselves struggling to reconcile their own cultural prejudices with their feelings of love, all the while under the dark cloud of a war that is coming ever closer to their island paradise.

The Children’s Theatre of Mason is proud to welcome Veterans to SOUTH PACIFIC!  Veterans from WWII and the Korean War or Veterans over the age of 65 will be able to enter a raffle for the Tri-State Honor Flight.  Honor Flight is free for Veterans and CTM will pay for a guardian to escort the Veteran on the Honor Flight (a $450 value).  Tri-State Honor Flight must approve the Veteran and the guardian after an application has been submitted.

Fans can follow The Children’s Theatre of Mason on Facebook (Children’s Theatre of Mason, Inc. – CTM), Twitter (@CTMkids) and Instagram (CTMKIDS). 

About The Children’s Theatre of Mason
CTM produces two large-scale productions each season, from “Shrek the Musical” and “The Wizard of Oz” to “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” and “Les Miserables” as well as many other popular favorites. CTM offers children from ages 7-18 from all over the Cincinnati area the opportunity to take part onstage as performers as well as off stage as crew members, make-up assistants and many other behind-the-scenes roles. To volunteer, donate or learn more, visit www.CTM-Kids.com or call 513.398.0116.

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