CenterStage Players (of Ohio) is pleased to announce their 2013-2014 Season
Fall 2013: WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Director – Karen Vanover
Christmas 2013: THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER
Director – -Fred Hunt
Winter 2014: THE ROYAL FAMILY
Director – Burt McCollom
Spring 2014: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Director – Francis RTM Boyle
For more information visit www.centerstageplayersinc.com.
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Covedale Center for the Performing Arts Announces the 2013 -2014 Theatrical Season
Season Subscriptions on sale now!
The Covedale Center for the Performing Arts, 4990 Glenway Avenue, expanded its Subscription Series from 3 weeks to 4 weeks in 2011! The 2013 – 2014 shows will again run for 16 performances each.
“The response to our expanded season last year was phenomenal!” said Tim Perrino, Covedale Artistic Director. “But we still have some great seats to offer new subscribers in 2013. Come join the crowd.”
The Covedale 2013 -2014 subscription series features the music of Johnny Cash, Dracula, a holiday classic, a fast-paced whodunit, a salute to the music of Tony Bennett and the world’s most famous stripper too!
Come enjoy great theatrical entertainment – at a great price! Where else can you get six wonderful shows at the low, Subscriber – only price of $19.00 per ticket? The Covedale will now have plenty of great subscriber seats available with great views of the stage – for renewing subscribers and new patrons alike! New subscribers are encouraged to get their seats now, for best seating choices.
Cincinnati Federal Savings is back as the Covedale Season sponsor! Cincinnati Federal is a real partner for the surrounding community and their generous support keeps the development of the Covedale on track for the year ahead.
The Covedale Center for the Performing Arts features the best in local performers and performances. “We’ll now feature a full theatre season and enough shows and seats for our expanding patron base.” The coming season will again see “the Covedale” grow as the region’s most exciting theatrical venue!
Show titles, dates and descriptions are as follows:
Ring of Fire – The Music of Johnny Cash
September 5 – 29, 2013
Created by Richard Maltby, Jr.
Conceived by William Meade
Orchestrations by Steven Bishop and Jeff Lisenby
A set of gifted singers and instrumentalists sing through some of the greatest songs of one of America’s most brilliant singer/songwriters, Johnny Cash. Though he is never impersonated, his remarkable life story is told through his music, climaxing in a concert that will both move and exhilarate!
Dracula
October 17 – November 10, 2013
By John L. Balderston, Hamilton Deane & Bram Stoker
Lucy Seward, whose father is the doctor in charge of an English sanitorium, has been attacked by some mysterious illness. Dr. Van Helsing, a specialist, believes that the girl is the victim of a vampire, a sort of ghost that goes about at night sucking blood from its victims. The vampire is at last found to be a certain Count Dracula, whose ghost is at last laid to rest in a striking and novel manner. Pure escape and great fun.
A Christmas Carol
November 29 – December 22, 2013
Book and Lyrics by Tim Perrino, Music by Jeremy Helmes, Based on the book by Charles Dickens
Come enjoy a fresh take on a Christmas classic. Share the holidays with thousands of Covedale patrons for this special musical version of Dickens’ all time favorite tale. Our holiday haunter has yuletide ghouls and merrymaking a-plenty! We’ll “Bring Back Christmas” with the not-so- “Dear, Mr. Scrooge”, while Bob Cratchit counts his heavenly “Christmas Treasure” and Tiny Tim chimes in with “God Bless Us Everyone!” It’s “Christmas First of All” at the Covedale!
The 39 Steps
January 23 – February 16, 2014
Adapted By Patrick Barlow, from the novel by John Buchan From the movie of Alfred Hitchcock
Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps, a fast-paced whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre! This 2-time Tony® and Drama Desk Award-winning treat is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 zany characters (played by a ridiculously talented cast of 4), an on-stage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers and some good old-fashioned romance! The 39 Steps was Broadway’s longest running comedy, and played its 500th performance on Broadway, May 19th, 2009.
I Left My Heart
February 27 – March 23, 2014
A Salute to the Music of Tony Bennett
Created by David Grapes and Todd Olson
I LEFT MY HEART sports a thrilling score of 40 standards all recorded by Bennett, including “Because Of You,” “Stranger In Paradise,” “Top Hat, White Tie And Tails,” “The Best Is Yet To Come,” “On Green Dolphin Street,” “When Will The Bells Ring For Me,” “Cold, Cold Heart,” “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams,” “I Wanna Be Around,” “The Good Life,” “Rags To Riches,” and his best-known hit, “I Left My Heart In San Francisco.”
Gypsy
April 10 – May 4, 2014
Book by Arthur Laurents; Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Suggested by memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee
Original Production by David Merrick & Leland Hayward; Originally directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins.
GYPSY is the ultimate story about an aggressive stage mother. Join Rose, June and Louise in their trip across the United States during the 1920’s, when vaudeville was dying and burlesque was born. Jule Styne’s music and Stephen Sondheim’s lyrics include: “Let Me Entertain You”, “Some People”, “You’ll Never Get Away from Me”, “If Momma Was Married”, “All I Need Is the Girl”, “Everything’s Coming Up Roses”, “You Gotta Get A Gimmick” and “Together Wherever We Go”. This is one of the greatest Broadway shows of all time!
Subscriptions: Just $114.00 for the Six-Show Series
Single Tickets: Just $21.00 for Student/Seniors; $24.00 for Adults
Tickets available at the Box Office, 4990 Glenway Avenue, by phone at 513.241.6550 and online at http://www.cincinnatilandmarkproductions.com
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The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) is pleased to announce details for its 2012-13 Studio Series of opera, musical theatre and drama.
The series opens in October with a revival of the comedy-horror-rock musical Little Shop of Horrors and concludes in April with an extended run of the Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning musical Parade, co-produced with the Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center.
CCM’s 2012-13 Studio Series also includes public workshop performances of two new American operas produced in collaboration with Cincinnati Opera, a pair of socially relevant and emotionally powerful dramas, and a fresh take on one of Georges Bizet’s earliest operas.
Please see the listings below for full production and ticketing details.
Tickets and Parking Information
Aside from CCM’s co-production of Parade, all Studio Series events are free and open to the general public. Reservations are required for all free Studio Series productions and can be made the week of each show by visiting the CCM Box Office or calling 513-556-4183.
Parking is available in the CCM Garage (at the base of Corry Boulevard off of Jefferson Avenue) and additional garages throughout the UC campus. Please visit uc.edu/parking for information on parking rates.
For directions to CCM Village, visit ccm.uc.edu/about/directions.
Additional Information
Titles and dates subject to change – rights pending. For more information regarding CCM events, contact the CCM Box Office at 513-556-4183 or visit ccm.uc.edu.
CCM 2012-13 STUDIO SERIES
Opera, Musical Theatre, Drama
Little Shop of Horrors
Music by Alan Menken
Book and lyrics by Howard Ashman
Thom Christopher Warren, guest director
Ryan Shirar, musical director
Joey Dippel, choreographer
Based on the low-budget film directed by Roger Corman, Little Shop of Horrors is a comedy-horror-rock musical about a hapless florist who raises a plant that feeds on human blood. With a score in the style of early 1960s rock and roll, doo-wop and early Motown, the show “satirizes many things: science fiction, ‘B’ movies, musical comedy itself and even the Faust legend.” Come and see it – but please, don’t feed the plant!
Performance Times:
Location: Cohen Family Studio Theater
Admission: Admission is free, but reservations are required. Tickets become available at noon on Monday, Oct. 8. Visit the CCM Box Office or call 513-556-4183 to reserve. Limit two tickets per order.
Opera Fusion – New Work Lab Presents:
Champion
A partnership between CCM Opera and Cincinnati Opera
Composed by Terence Blanchard
Libretto by Michael Cristofer
TBA, conductor
James Robinson, director
Fabian Almazan, pianist
Opera Fusion welcomes five-time Grammy-winner Terence Blanchard and Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Cristofer for a 10-day residency, culminating in a public workshop performance of their new opera Champion. A unique fusion of jazz and operatic styles, Champion is based on the true story of boxer Emile Griffith. A world champion prizefighter, Griffith experienced both triumph and tragedy; in winning the Welterweight Championship in 1962, his punches put opponent Benny “The Kid” Paret in a coma from which he never recovered. Just before the match, Paret had mocked Griffith using homosexual slurs. Years later, Griffith’s homosexuality was revealed when he was nearly killed by a gang outside a gay bar. Champion presents a modern tragic hero who is ultimately consumed by rage, regret and the terrible consequences of his actions.Champion will make its world premiere at Opera Theatre of St. Louis (OTSL) in 2013. OTSL Artistic Director James Robinson directs.
CCM Performance Time: 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27
Location: Patricia Corbett Theater
Admission: Admission is free, but reservations are required. Tickets become available at noon on Monday, Oct. 22. Visit the CCM Box Office or call 513-556-4183 to reserve. Limit two tickets per order.
Cincinnati Opera Performance Time: 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 28
Location: Mayerson Theater, School for Creative and Performing Arts, 108 W. Central Parkway, downtown Cincinnati
Admission: Admission is free, but reservations are required. Tickets become available at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 8. Please contact the Cincinnati Opera Box Office at 513-241-2742 to reserve. Limit two tickets per order.
The Laramie Project
Written by Moisés Kaufman and members of Tectonic Theater Project
Richard E. Hess, director
The facts surrounding the death of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student whose brutal murder shocked the country in 1998, come to life on stage. Award-winning playwright Moisés Kaufman and members of his theater company traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, to conduct 200 interviews with the residents of the town. What resulted is a powerful dramatization of the murder, investigation and subsequent convictions—a sobering look into how hate is born and nurtured in the back streets of a friendly American town. Mature subject matter.
Performance Time:
Location: Cohen Family Studio Theater
Admission: Admission is free, but reservations are required. Tickets become available at noon on Monday, Nov. 26. Visit the CCM Box Office or call 513-556-4183 to reserve. Limit two tickets per order.
Opera Fusion – New Work Lab Presents:
Morning Star
A partnership between CCM Opera and Cincinnati Opera
Composed by Ricky Ian Gordon
Libretto by William M. Hoffman
Steven White, conductor
Ron Daniels, director
Carol Walker and Lydia Brown, pianists
Ricky Ian Gordon (composer of 2007’s The Grapes of Wrath) and William M. Hoffman (librettist of 1991’s The Ghosts of Versaille) workshopMorning Star, a story of sisterhood set against the backdrop of New York City’s tragic Triangle Shirt Factory fire of 1911. The workshop will culminate with a public performance conducted by Steven White (the Metropolitan Opera) and directed by Ron Daniels (director of the 2009 filmThe War Boys) on Dec. 4 and 5.
Cincinnati Opera Performance Time: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4
Location: Memorial Hall, 1225 Elm Street, downtown Cincinnati
Tickets: Admission is free, but reservations are required. Tickets become available at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 8. Please contact the Cincinnati Opera Box Office at 513-241-2742 to reserve. Limit two tickets per order.
CCM Performance Time: 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5
Location: Cohen Family Studio Theater
Tickets: Admission is free but reservations are required. Tickets become available at noon on Monday, Dec. 3. Visit the CCM Box Office or call 513-556-4183 to reserve. Limit two tickets per order.
Doctor Miracle (Le docteur Miracle)
Composed by Georges Bizet
Libretto by Léon Battu and Ludovic Halévy
Stefano Sarzani, conductor
Omer Ben Seadia, director
This farce revolves around the making of an omelette thought to be poisonous. Young lovers, the mayor of Padua and a conniving servant careen through one of Georges Bizet’s earliest operas. Hilarity ensues, but true love triumphs in the end. Featuring some of Bizet’s liveliest music, Le docteur Miracle will be sung in French with English supertitles.
Performance Dates:
Location: Cohen Family Studio Theater
Admission: Admission is free, but reservations are required. Tickets become available at noon on Monday, Feb. 11. Visit the CCM Box Office or call 513-556-4183 to reserve. Limit two tickets per order.
Execution of Justice
Written by Emily Mann
Michael Burnham, director
A chilling examination of the trial of Dan White for the murder of Harvey Milk, San Francisco’s first openly gay Supervisor, and Mayor George Moscone. Scrupulous in its objectivity, the play suggests a public and legal mind-set that allows criminals to avoid just punishment. Dan White was convicted on the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter and spent only a little over five years in prison. Mature subject matter.
Performance Dates:
Location: Cohen Family Studio Theater
Admission: Admission is free, but reservations are required. Tickets become available at noon on Monday, April 15. Visit the CCM Box Office or call 513-556-4183 to reserve. Limit two tickets per order.
Parade
Co-produced by CCM Musical Theatre and the Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center
Book by Alfred Uhry
Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
Ed Cohen and Dee Anne Bryll, directors
Stephen Goers, musical director
In the sweltering intolerance of 1913 Atlanta, northerner and Jewish factory manager Leo Frank is wrongfully accused of murdering a 13 year-old girl under his employment. As press frenzy and public outrage overwhelm his defense, Frank’s only hope lies in a brave crusade by the southern wife he never understood, among a people that never understood him. A Tony Award-winner for best book and score, Parade is a transformational story of a country at odds with its declarations of equality.
Performance times:
Location: The Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center, 1028 Scott Blvd., Covington, KY
Admission: $19 – $26; tickets may be purchased through the Carnegie Box Office at 859-957-1940 or online at www.thecarnegie.com.
CCM Season Presenting Sponsor & Musical Theatre Program Sponsor: The Otto M. Budig Family Foundation.
Opera Fusion: New Works is sponsored by a generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Drama Studio Series Sponsor: Neil Artman and Margaret Straub
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New Edgecliff Announces Restructured Season
TALK RADIO out, PROOF in
As most have heard by now, New Edgecliff Theatre was given an 11th hour surprise in June, with the news that the Columbia Performance Center was no longer available. Artistic Director Jim Stump says, “Our original response was, ‘Damn the torpedoes. Full speed ahead!’” Since then they’ve been reassessing, and just last week, the board and staff sat down and took a hard second look at the numbers, coming to the conclusion that with the venue expense being nearly quintupled, they needed to reassess the wisdom of trying to maintain the full production schedule they’d originally planned for the CPC. Stump adds, “It just seemed prudent to more efficiently focus our resources.”
Eric Bogosian’s “Talk Radio”, originally slated to open the season in September, will be dropped. The newly restructured plan is to open at the Aronoff’s Fifth Third Theater with the already scheduled double bill of David Sedaris’ “The Santaland Diaries” and Ginna Hoben’s “The 12 Dates of Christmas” in November/December. Resident Playwright Catie O’Keefe’s new play, “Slow Descent From Heaven,” still scheduled for the February/March slot, will move to a yet-to-be-named venue. The April slot will remain at the Fifth Third, with the originally scheduled “Miss Witherspoon” to be replaced by David Auburn’s “Proof”.
In addition to their regular season, in October, NET will continue its traditional one-night-only Fall fundraiser, the annual Sweet Suspense Radio Drama. This year it’s “The Canterville Ghost”, once again adapted by Catie O’Keefe.
Executive Director Michael Shooner sees the short-term pain as leading to inevitable long-term gain. He says, “When we decided on the season theme of ‘Next’, we had no idea how apropos it would be. Our response to this unexpected chain of events has put us in a position to imagine a great variety of next steps. We’re excited to see where it all leads!”
For “The Santaland Diaries / The 12 Dates of Christmas” reservations, call the Cincinnati Arts Association ticket offices at 513.721.3344. For further information, go to newedgecliff.com or call 513.399.6638.
Season Schedule
October 20th, 2012 – “The Canterville Ghost” by Oscar Wilde, adapted for the stage by Catie O’Keefe
NET’s annual Sweet Suspense Radio Drama returns with a family friendly radio style adaptation of the Oscar Wilde classic. This one night only event includes a recreation of an early radio studio complete with live sound effects by Mike Martini.
Where others have run screaming in terror, the Otis family seems quite comfortable in their new haunted house. After moving to England and into Canterville Chase, this family of Americans finds nothing frightening about the famous Canterville ghost. In fact, his attempt to replenish an old blood stain is nothing but annoying and his efforts to scare the family members usually end in the ghost hiding in fear. It’s not until the young daughter, the Virginia, takes an interest in helping the murderous spirit, that the family and the ghost find peace and quiet. The production will once again be under the direction of Bob Allen.
November 28 – December 8, 2012 – “The Santaland Diaries” by David Sedaris (adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello) and “The 12 Dates of Christmas” by Ginna Hoben
Everyone’s favorite elf Crumpet, the elf fixated on spastic children, obnoxious parents, nutty co-workers and, oh yeah … “One Life to Live”, is back in this alter native holiday favorite.
Then, in “12 Dates of Christmas”…what happens when Mary sees her fiancé making out with his co-worker on national TV at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade? She dumps him and then spends the next year being set up, hooked up, strung up, and fed up as she navigates her life “alone” as a New York actor in her thirties.
“Hoben has created a woman’s show to join the annual, male-dominated Christmas lineup, but like “The Santaland Diaries”, it is a tale of real life and holiday hope touching us all.” — Eric Minton, Shakespeareances.com
February 20th-March 2nd, 2013 – “Slow Descent from Heaven” by Resident Playwright Catie O’Keefe
NET resident playwright Catie O’Keefe and director Ed Cohen join forces for our winter show with the world premiere of “Slow Descent from Heaven”. NET produced O’Keefe’s “Darker” in the Fringe Festival last year to rave reviews and she has adapted the last two Radio Dramas.
Relationships for Molly have never come easy; part of that might have to do with the fact that she’s worked hard to advance her career as a NASA scientist in the late twentieth century. From the passionate Russian lover to the practical minded momma’s boy, she has her work cut out for her. Taking a glimpse into Molly’s life in between two world-changing events in NASA, we see that life for some is a lot like the painful push to leave the Earth’s atmosphere, while for others it’s more like the slow descent back down from Heaven.
April 17th – 27th, 2013 – “Proof ” by David Auburn
Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play, David Auburn’s “Proof” is a smart, mysterious, surprising, and compassionate play of ideas. On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father’s who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into the most difficult problem of all: How much of her father’s madness—or genius—will she inherit?
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Untethered Theater is proud to announce its full, official season for 2012-2013. The ensemble will stage four shows about isolation, love, mortality and starting over at the Clifton Performance Theatre. Tickets will be available at untetheredtheaterco.com closer to performance dates. Announcements about casting and directors to soon follow.
SAVAGE IN LIMBO
11/9-11/25
By John Patrick Shanley
A Savage walks into a bar. She has a purse full of cash and a consuming need to make a change in her life, starting with the apartment she shares with her mother. At this Bronx bar she’s surrounded by other stunted losers, fellow 32 year olds who peaked long ago. Some of them find freedom at the bottom, while others find they’re still alone. Savage in Limbo is a heartrending dark comedy about unrealized potential and realizing you never had potential to begin with.
RED LIGHT WINTER
1/18-2/3
By Adam Rapp
Matt can talk about the world at length even if he’s too emotionally muddled to participate in it. Davis is the eternal life of the party. These college pals take one last stab at their 20s with a trip to Amsterdam, where a night with a beguiling prostitute called Christina changes everything. One of the most provocative plays of the past decade, the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Red Light Winter reminds us that the past – no matter how much you’d like to forget, or what you choose to remember – is never far behind.
APARTMENT 3A
4/12-4/28
By Jeff Daniels
No one donates to public television anymore. Bitter and hanging onto her idealism by a thread, Annie Wilson is fighting the good fight while fighting off the advances of her lovestruck coworker Elliot. When she moves into a new apartment, her married neighbor Donald becomes a confidant, sharing stories of love, loss and scrambled eggs. This is a story about faith of all kinds. It’s never to late for a second chance, right?
LOVE STORIES
7/12-7/28
By Itamar Moses
Nothing is what it seems in these five vignettes about the tactics we use to keep love, and how to cope without it. An interview with a Russian director becomes a passive aggressive altercation. A play is stripped down to the most basic subtext and rebuilt as something else entirely. A writer must swallow his a pride to meet the man who took his place. Through it all, there’s that universal truth about love: it hurts, but you will get used to it.
Visit untetheredtheaterco.com for updates and more. The Clifton Performance Theatre is located at 404 Ludlow Avenue in the Clifton Gaslight District.
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