GHOST the Musical
Jan. 10-Feb. 9
JERSEY BOYS
Feb. 13-March 23
INTO THE WOODS
March 27-May 4
CHILDREN OF EDEN
May 8 – June 15
MATILDA the Musical
June 26-Aug. 10
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
Aug. 14-Sept. 14
LEGALLY BLONDE the Musical
Sept. 18-Oct. 26
SCROOGE the Musical
Nov. 1-Dec. 28
For more information visit www.lacomedia.com.
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Local Playwriting Group Selects Scripts for Staged Readings
Cincinnati, Ohio—July 10, 2024—At its June board meeting, Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative (CPI) Board of Directors announced the selected scripts for its New Voices 2024/2025 season which will showcase both new and emerging local playwrights.
The following CPI members will have their Full-length, One Act and Short plays performed as staged readings at the Fifth Third Theater in downtown Cincinnati on the following six Tuesday evenings at 7:30 p.m.
September 17, 2024
HeARTLAND by Paul Shortt
October 15, 2024
Thump by Michael DeFrancesco
November 12, 2024
Please Hold for the Pandemic . . . . by Liz Coley
The Beginning of Forever by Bertha Lynn Davis
February 11, 2025
Lovefest 3
CPI’s original ten-minute play festival fundraiser returns for a third time to support the American Heart Association with 8 short plays about love and romance! Lovefest 3 Playwrights will be announced in the Fall of 2024.
March 11, 2025
Finding Mickey Mantle by Wendy Vogel
April 15, 2025
Natchez Trace by Jeremy Simmons
Burnt Toast of Broadway by Greg Hatfield
Guardian Angel Blues by Dave Doster
This Ain’t Like You, Adrienne and An Old Person at the Bank by Roger Brookfield
Twenty-minute audience talkback sessions are conducted for staged readings with 2 or fewer playwrights at the end of each performance. Written feedback is obtained from the audience for staged readings with 3 or more playwrights.
Season tickets go on sale Friday, July 12 through Tuesday, September 17, 2024 for $50 which includes all 6 dates for the price of 5 and can be purchased online at https://www.cincinnatiarts.org/events/detail/cpi-new-voices-2024-2025-series or by calling the Aronoff box office at 513-621-2787. Online and phone orders will incur additional service fees. Single event tickets go on sale on July 30, 2024 for $10 per person plus service fees. Lovefest 3 tickets will be $15 each plus service fees. In person ticket purchases at the Aronoff box office will not incur service fees.
CPI is a non-profit theater arts organization whose mission is to support playwrights in the Cincinnati Metropolitan Area by offering free playwriting workshops, cold and staged readings to provide valuable feedback so that scripts can be further developed to potentially become fully produced or published.
To join CPI, visit the website at https://cincyplaywrights.org or follow on social media both on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/cincyplaywrights and X https://x.com/cincyplaywright.
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Every show in our 2024-25 season is a regional premiere and we’re so excited to bring these amazing plays to our audience for the coming season. More information will be coming soon, but make plans now to catch everything in our season!
POTUS by Selina Fillinger
September 13-28, 2024
One four-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven brilliant and beleaguered women he relies upon most risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble.
Selina Fillinger’s brilliant, all-female farce took Broadway by storm in a star-studded production that earned three 2022 Tony nominations.
MINDGAME by Anthony Horowitz
November 1-16-2024
A prominent author of novels and “true crime”stories enters a secluded mental institution to interview a serial killer who has been confined there for thirty years. The superintendent of the institution does not want the interview to take place and is hostile. In an effort to make the writer to understand what it means to be insane, he restrains him in a straight jacket. Then he pulls out a scalpel; he is the serial killer. The inmates have taken over the asylum and killed all of the staff except for “Nurse Plimpton”. Actually a doctor, she tries to intervene and is gruesomely dispatched or so the audience thinks. Mindgame was a riveting hit in London’s West End and later Off-Broadway starring Keith Carradine directed by Ken Russell.
HANGMEN by Martin McDonnagh
January 24-February 8, 2025
It’s 1965, and the death penalty has just been abolished in the United Kingdom. Naturally all of Oldham, northern England, wants to know what Harry, the second-best hangman in the country, has to say about it. As the news breaks, Harry’s pub is overrun with locals and reporters looking for a quote, until a visitor arrives with a darker and more mysterious agenda
MR. PARKER by Michael McKeever
March 14-29, 2025
At 54 years old, Terry Parker finds himself at a crossroads in his life. After the loss of his partner of 30 years, he finds himself suddenly single and unable to adjust to a world that has moved on without him. After a night of heavy drinking, he wakes up with a 28-year-old bartender-slash-Uber-driver. These two very different people begin a tentative relationship, and what starts out as a one-night stand becomes a journey of self-discovery for a man trying to let go of the past and move forward, while dealing with the pressures of being middle-aged, gay and alone in the ever-changing landscape of today’s America.
TBA – Stay tuned for the announcement of the final show of our season. We’ll be posting it very soon!
Ted J. Weil, Producing Artistic Director, says, “This is a season of plays about chaos…from the chaos of dark minds, to the changes that alter our lives irrevocably, to the outrageous (and farcical) inner workings of the White House, this season offers drama, mystery, comedy and pathos. I am honored by the hard work and artistry of the wonderful people who choose to share their talents and passion with us at Falcon Theatre and am thrilled to have these outstanding plays to offer our amazing artists and audience.”
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Announcing Our 2024-2025 Season
Chicago: Teen Edition
Directed by Nate Bissinger
October 25-27
Tickets go on sale to the public on 9/21/2024
*Collaboration with Turpin High School*
Chicago is a legendary, Tony award-winning musical about fame, fortune and acquittal—a masterful, musical commentary on American celebrity culture.
Lord of the Flies
Directed by Chad Weddle
November 1-3
*Collaboration with Turpin High School*
A stage adaptation of the classic William Golding novel, where of a group of English school boys are stranded on a island and forced to confront not only the defects of their society, but the defects of their own natures.
The Tempest
Directed by Hannah Linser-Wilder
January 31-February 2
Tickets go on sale to the public on 12/28/25
One of William Shakespeare’s most thrilling plays, The Tempest opens with a storm, a shipwreck, and powerful magic. It expertly combines comedy, drama and even music to tell a captivating story of love, revenge, and magic.
2025 Mainstage Film: Behind Closed Doors
Written and Directed by Mary Harpring
March 14-15
Tickets go on sale to the public on 2/8/2025
*Collaboration with Turpin High School*
Film students from both Anderson and Turpin high schools collaborate once again on this original thriller, written by Turpin senior Mary Harping and scored by Turpin senior Joshua Yamaguchi.
Disney’s Frozen, Jr.
Directed by Chad Weddle
April 24-27
Tickets go on sale to the public on 3/8/2025
The Broadway musical Frozen focuses on the relationship between two royal sisters, Elsa, and Anna. When their kingdom is thrown into an endless winter, only true love and sacrifice can make things right. This family-friendly production is filled with beloved characters and songs.
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BLITHE SPIRIT
September 27-29, 2024
Directed by Kate Brauer-Bell
A smash comedy hit on London and Broadway stages, this much-revived classic from the playwright of “Private Lives” offers wit, conflict and big laughs as a fussy, cantankerous novelist finds himself haunted by the ghost of his late first wife.
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE
November 15-17, 2024
Directed by Cameron DeVille
Cut off from the outside world by its remote location and shunned by all who know its forbidding and sinister reputation, Hill House has remained empty and silent except for the daily visits of its grumbling caretaker, Mrs. Dudley. Its isolation is broken by the arrival of Dr. Montague, an investigator of supernatural phenomena who has been granted a short lease by the present owner. His mission is to delve into the morbid history of the house and to come to grips with the occult forces that have made it uninhabitable for many years. Visitors too are absorbed by the supernatural, but their approach is via direct communication with the departed spirits—a type of psychic research which is regarded fearfully by Dr. Montague and which, as subsequent events bear out, brings on a crisis in which the evil forces of Hill House are goaded to a new and, for one of those present, fatal fury.
GODSPELL
February 21-23, 2025
Directed by Anna Schindler Brown
A small group of people help Jesus Christ tell different parables by using a wide variety of games, storytelling techniques and a hefty dose of comic timing. An eclectic blend of songs, ranging in style from pop to vaudeville, is employed as the story of Jesus’ life dances across the stage. Dissolving hauntingly into the Last Supper and the Crucifixion, Jesus’ messages of kindness, tolerance and love come vibrantly to life. A masterful retelling of the original sensation, injected with contemporary references and dazzling new arrangements is sure to entertain audiences.
ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID
May 23-25, 2025
Directed by Ginny Johnson
ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID is the rollicking tale of four loyal and determined women who definitively answer the question, “Just how far are you willing to go to keep a promise to a friend?” If you’ve ever elbowed a stranger out of the way to catch a bride’s bouquet, seriously questioned the mental stability of the duo saying “I do”, or been forced to wear the world’s ugliest bridesmaid dress, this deliriously funny JONES HOPE WOOTEN COMEDY is definitely for you…and your dearly beloved!
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