Excited to share Cincinnati Landmark Productions’ 2024 Summer Classics Season
at Warsaw Federal Incline Theater
’24 Summer Packages ON Sale Now!
FOUR SHOWS at the sizzling price of only $112.00!
The Summer Classics Season will feature FOUR great musicals:
For more information visit www.cincinnatilandmarkproductions.com/Incline
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A YEAR OF DISCOVERY
LOVE AND INFORMATION
Sept. 15-17, 2023
Directed by Aaron Rossini
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Oct. 19-22, 2023
Directed by Suann Pollock
TWELFTH NIGHT
Nov. 17-19, 2023
Directed by Jeremy Dubin
XT STUDENT SHOWCASE SERIES
Feb. 9-18, 2024
Student-directed
THE PROM
March 22-24, 2024
Directed by Darnell Pierre Benjamin
JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLIAN
April 19-21, 2024
Directed by Stephen Skiles
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THE LIAR
Sept. 29-Oct. 8, 2023
KELLY THE DESTROYER VS THE SPRINGFIELD COBRAS
Oct. 20-29, 2023
CABARET
Nov. 3-19, 2023
BY THE BOG OF CATS
Feb. 2-11, 2024
A DOLL’S HOUSE
Feb. 15-18, 2024
A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2
Feb. 22-25, 2024
THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTMAN COUNTY SPELLING BEE
March 15-31, 2024
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Local Playwriting Group Selects Scripts for Staged Readings
Cincinnati— July 28, 2023 — At its July board meeting, the CPI Board of Directors selected scripts for its New Voices 2023/2024 season which will showcase a more diverse group of local playwrights including a college student and three female playwrights.
The following members of the Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative (CPI) will have their plays performed as staged readings at the Fifth Third Theater in downtown Cincinnati.
September 19, 2023
October 10, 2023
November 14, 2023
February 20, 2024
March 12, 2024
April 16 or 17, 2024 (date and venue dependent on number of tickets sold by December 31, 2023)
CPI staged readings include an audience talkback session after each performance to help the playwright(s) develop their script for future productions and/or publication.
Season tickets go on sale August 1 through September 19, 2023 for $50 which includes all 6 shows for the price of 5 and can be purchased online at www.cincinnatiarts.org/events/detail/cpi-new-voices-2023-2024-series in person or by calling the Aronoff box office at 513-621-2787.
CPI is a non-profit arts organization whose mission is to support new and veteran playwrights in the Cincinnati Metropolitan Area by offering free playwriting workshops, cold and staged readings to receive valuable feedback so they can further develop their scripts to become fully produced or published. For more information about joining CPI, visit our website at https://cincyplaywrights.org or follow us on social media on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/cincyplaywrights or on Twitter at https://twitter.com/cincyplaywright
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SLEEPING GIANT by Steve Yockey
Aug. 4-20, 2023
Directed by Andrew Hungerford
A marriage proposal gone awry awakens an ancient evil deep within a lake and triggers a rising tide of unsettling events.
As things take a turn for the horrifying, Sleeping Giant asks: how far will you go to find something to believe in?
This dark comedy from Know favorite Steve Yockey [Pluto (2013), The The Fisherman’s Wife (2015), Heavier Than.., (2017) Mercury (2019)], and show runner of HBO’s The Flight Attendant and Netflix’s Dead Boy Detectives, combines equal parts humor and dread in a truly unexpected story for the stage.
MONSTERS OF THE AMERICAN CINEMA by Christian St. Croix
Sept. 22-Oct. 8, 2023
Directed by Tamara Winters
When his husband dies, Remy Washington, a Black man, finds himself both the owner of a drive-in movie theater and a caregiver to his late husband’s straight, white teenage son, Pup. United by their love of classic American monster movies, the two have developed a warm and caring familial chemistry
Their bond is tested when Remy uncovers secret in footage on Pup’s video camera. Christian St. Croix, author of 2020’s Zack, has written a haunting and heartening drama about fathers and sons, queerness and loss the wrestles with how to bring someone back from the brink of becoming one the monsters we fear.
BLERDS by J. Corey Buckner
Nov. 17-Dec. 10, 2023
Directed by Derek Snow
BLERDS follows DJ, Brandon, and Kiera, three Black middle school nerds as they set off across Washington DC in October of 2002 on a quest to reach a Star Wars Convention and meet the coolest Jedi in the galaxy: Samuel L Jackson.
A world premiere coming-of-age journey in the spirit of Goonies and Stand By Me from J. Corey Buckner. It’s a clear-eyed love-letter to the pop-culture tales that have become our modern mythology, an adventure through Black family joy and the perils of the world, as told through the lens of sci-fi fandom.
KAIROS by Lisa Sanayedring
Feb. 16-March 3, 2024
Directed by Rebecca Wear
Kairos, a world premiere by Lisa Sanaye Dring (director of Alabaster (2019)), starts as a meet cute rom com…and then the world changes.
A budding relationship is tested by the advent of Prometheus, a procedure that grants immortality to a select few. What happens to commitment, meaning and care when linear time breaks open?
THE LIGHT CHASERS
April 5-28, 2024
With her father 10 years into an improbable mission to the stars, a teenage girl vows to find a way to reach him across the lightyears to reunite her family.
The Light Chasers is a world premiere theatrical adventure based upon the album Light Chasers by Cloud Cult, produced in partnership with University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music.
It’s a story about family, loss, and the galactic distances to which we would go to heal.
For more information visit www.knowtheatre.com.
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