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August 25, 2015 · 1:12 pm

2015-2016 Season Announced by Wright State University

Sept. 24-Oct. 3, 2015
THE GREAT GATSBY

Oct. 29-Nov. 15, 2015
CHICAGO

Jan. 28-Feb. 7, 2016
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

March 17-April 3, 2016
THE MUSIC MAN

For more information visit http://www.wright.edu/theatre-dance-and-motion-pictures

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August 9, 2015 · 1:15 pm

2016 ‘Summer Classics Season’ Announced for Warsaw Federal Incline Theater

Second Year Features More Great Titles and More Show Nights

In every measurable way, the first Summer Classics Season at the Warsaw Federal Incline Theater was a rousing success – including 45 straight sell-outs to open the venue.

Cincinnati Landmark Productions announced today its follow-up Summer Classics Season at the region’s newest performing arts venue.

The 2016 Summer Classics Season, presented by TriHealth, includes:

ANYTHING GOES, June 1-26
BABY, July 6-31
CHICAGO, August 10 – September 4

Based on the strong demand to the inaugural season, the 2016 Summer Classics Season will expand each production run to four weeks (Wednesday to Sunday). This will accommodate the sizeable subscriber base and still allow for single-show ticket availability – something this summer had very little
of.

“”For local, professional-grade performers, this season will be the opportunity to do summer stock theater without having to leave town,” said Tim Perrino, executive artistic director of Cincinnati Landmark Productions. “For the audiences, it will mean more seats available, more great summer nights out with friends and more fun shows onstage in our cool new theater.”

The Warsaw Federal Incline Theater is a brand new, purpose-built, 229-seat performing arts center and parking garage in the Incline District in East Price Hill. Located at the corner of Matson Place and West 8th Street, the $6 million project opened on June 3, 2015.

Subscriptions for the 2016 Summer Classics Season – only $72 – are now on sale. Subscribers to the 2015 Summer Classics Season have their seats held for renewal until March 11, 2016. All seats not renewed by that time will be released. Tickets to individual shows go on sale on April 18, 2016.

The Warsaw Federal Incline Theater is programmed year-round by Cincinnati Landmark Productions,culminating in over 120 show nights. In addition to the Summer Classics Season, the venue will host the four-show District Series season (September to May) designed to complement the Marquee season at the Covedale Center.

Cincinnati Landmark Productions has been serving the West Side for over 30 years – first through its Cincinnati Young People’s Theatre program and then through its ownership and management of the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts in West Price Hill. Since opening in 2002, the arts center quadrupled its subscribership. Attendance ballooned from 13,990 in the 2002-03 season to over 35,000 (representing over 300 zip codes) in the 2014-15 season.

For more information about the Warsaw Federal Incline Theater, visit www.warsawfederalinclinetheater.com or call (513) 241-6550 or (513) 241-6551.

More about the 2016 Summer Classics Season at the Warsaw Federal Incline Theater:

ANYTHING GOES
June 1 – June 26, 2016
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter; Book by Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse;
Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse

Boys-Meet-Girls and the complications get hysterically funny as a boat load of crazy characters, including a bungling gangster, an English gentleman and a bevy of dazzling American showgirls cross the Atlantic in an ocean liner that makes the Love Boat look like a leaky canoe in Cole Porter’s Anything Goes. Terrific songs like “It’s De-Lovely,” “Friendship,” “I Get A Kick Out Of You,” “All Through The Night,” “Anything Goes,” “You’re The Top” and “Blow, Gabriel, Blow” keep this ship steaming full speed ahead!

BABY
July 6 – July 31, 2016
Book by Sybille Pearson, music by David Shire, lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr. Based upon a story developed with Susan Yankowitz

Is there anything more exciting, frightening and utterly transformational than impending parenthood? BABY musically examines how parents-to-be weather the stresses and triumphs, as well as the desperate lows and the comic highs that accompany the anticipation and arrival of their bundle of joy. The show features beautiful songs like “I Want It All,” “Two People in Love” and “The Story Goes On.”

CHICAGO
August 10 – September 4, 2016

By Fred Ebb, Bob Fosse, John Kander, Maurine Dallas Watkins

It’s the roaring twenties Chicago when chorine Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband Amos to take the rap…until he finds out he’s been duped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another “Merry Murderess” Velma Kelly, vie for the spotlight and the headlines, ultimately joining forces in search of the “American Dream”: fame, fortune and acquittal. This sharp edged, dizzyingly funny satire features a glittering score including hits “Razzle Dazzle,” “Cell Block Tango” and the iconic “All That Jazz.” Chicago is the winner of 6 Tony® Awards.

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July 31, 2015 · 8:54 am

trueTHEATRE Announces Season Six

The mission of trueTheatre is to bring together a wide variety of people to share stories in an effort to create community, encourage discussion, and remind everyone that ALL of us have stories to tell with unique insights and broad appeal. Though storytelling can take on many forms, True Theatre realizes that what great stories have in common are their power to hold attention, slow time, and capture the imagination. They may redden cheeks, make eyes water, and elicit eruptions of laughter. They take you somewhere.

Although great storytelling is not limited to true, personal stories, True Theatre believes that these real moments of our lives, from the mundane to the extraordinary, give both the speaker AND the listener the ultimate sense of being part of a larger community than they were aware.

The themes and showsdates for season six are:

trueGAMBLE
Oct. 19
trueFOOD
Jan. 11
trueGAY
April 25
trueANIMAL
July 18

Individual show tickets are $18 and SEASON SUBSCRIPTIONS are also available (for a total of $12 off)! Call the Know Theatre of Cincinnati box office at 513.300.5669 or visit http://knowtheatre.com/true-theatre/ to get yours.

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July 28, 2015 · 9:30 am

2015-2016 Season Announced for WIT-Women in Theatre

WIT-Women in Theatre
Announces the 2015-16 Season on
The Avenue Stage

520 Fairfield Ave, Bellevue, KY 41073
(10 blocks east of Newport on the Levy)

October 16, 17, 23, 24
VENUS IN FUR by David Ives
Directed by Donna Hoffman, the Artistic and Producing Director of WIT-Women in Theatre

VENUS IN FUR is a daring, 21st century play nominated for a Tony Award in 2012 for Best Play.

Plot: Thomas Novachek is the writer-director of a new play opening in New York City; this play-within-the-play is an adaptation of the 1870 novel Venus in Furs by the Austrian author, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and happens to be the novel that inspired the term Masochism. The play begins with Novachek on the telephone lamenting the inadequacies of the actresses who have showed up that day to audition for the lead character, Wanda von Dunayev. Suddenly, Vanda Jordan, bursts in. At first it’s hard to imagine that she will please this very particular and exasperated writer/director: She’s brash, vulgar and unschooled. With comedy and drama, Vanda convinces him to let her audition for the part of Wanda, with the director/writer reading the part of Severin von Kushemski.

April 1, 2, 3, 8, 9
(Premier) RURAL FREE DELIVERY by Grace Epstein
Directed by Marta Backman, Resident Production SM for New Edgecliff Theatre in Cinti.

RURAL FREE DELIVERY is Grace Epstein’s first entry to the greater Northern Kentucky stage. Grace was the dramaturge for WIT’s production of “Honour” in April 2015. She is an Associate Professor and Assistant Department Head of the Department of English at the University of Cincinnati.

Plot: In this dramedy, a lesbian couple has moved from a northern U.S. climate to a small, eastern Kentucky homestead. Hava is a Jewish biologist at a local university and the very pregnant Shirese is an African-American English teacher at the same university. Joined by Hava’s straight sister, Lyla, and a middle-aged, all-things-Kentucky, competent woman, the four of them are both prepared and unprepared for 25 inches of snow, the onset of labor, and the secret about Lyla’s mother.

July 15, 16, 22, 23
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Donna Hoffman

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE is a 1947 play written by American playwright, Tennessee Williams which received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948 and is often regarded among the finest of American plays of the 20th century. “Streetcar” marked a turning point in American acting and directing from melodrama to naturalism. The Stanley Kowalski character played by Marlon Brando represented naturalism while melodrama is shown in all its fluttering theatricality by the character, Blanche Dubois, originally played by Jessica Tandy.

Tickets will go on sale for each play approximately one month prior to opening through St. John United Church of Christ website: https://stjohnchurch.net.