CMT is Excited to Announce our 2023-24 60th Diamond Jubilee Season
Mainstage Productions
THE PROM
Directed by Skip Fenker
Nov. 3-11, 2023
CHILDREN OF EDEN
Directed by Joey Schnell
April 26-May 4, 2024
Studio Series
STAYING ALIVE: That 70s Music
Directed by David Radtke
Sept. 8-16, 2023
AND THE WORLD GOES ‘ROUND
Directed by Megan Horton
Feb. 9-17, 2024
GIVE MY REGARDS TO THE FOURTH WALL
Directed by Elizabeth Travnik
May 31-June 7, 2024
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THE FERRYMAN by Jez Butterworth running two weekends: June 30 to July 2 and July 7 to July 9.
THE FERRYMAN is set in Northern Ireland in 1981, during the height of the Troubles. Quinn, a former terrorist, has swapped his career with the Irish Republican Army (IRA) for a life on the farm in rural Armagh. He now lives with his sickly wife, their children, his sister-in-law and nephew. The IRA murdered Quinn’s brother, Seamus, when he was just twenty years old and his body has only recently been discovered. He was one of the sixteen men and women who were killed and buried in unknown locations during the 1970s, leaving their family unsure as to whether they were alive or dead. Seamus was apparently shot dead following Quinn’s defection from the IRA in 1972, and a threateningly influential IRA member, Muldoon, now comes to pay Quinn a visit. He is keen to ensure that there are no further repercussions to the IRA’s cause, now Seamus’ murder has come to light.
MEAN GIRLS: High School Edition running two weekends: July 14 to July 16 and July 21 to July 23.
After years in the making, Mean Girls: The Musical hits the stage with the favorite characters from the movie, powerful music, and timely pop culture and news references. Janis Sarkisian and Damian Hubbard welcome the audience to their “Cautionary Tale”: Cady Heron is the new girl at North Shore High School in Chicago, desperate to fit in and find friends. Janis and Damian befriend the new girl, and when The Plastics set their sights on Cady, Janis convinces naive Cady to be their “friend” in order to bring down Queen Bee Regina George’s reign. Along the way, Cady loses herself, her friends, and her crush, all for the chance to be popular and loved. When dethroned Regina gets revenge by releasing the Burn Book, Cady is brought down and must mend her broken relationships with Janis, Aaron, and even Regina. With dynamic songs for young performers, Mean Girls is an anthem to friendship, loyalty, girl power, and being true to yourself.
For more information visit www.caststages.org/shows.
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Beechmont Players Inc is thrilled to announce their 2023-2024 season
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
By Agatha Christie
Adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig
Directed by Jim Waldfogle
July 28 – August 5, 2023
Ken Ludwig’s clever adaptation of the Agatha Christie classic boasts all the glamour, intrigue and suspense of Dame Agatha’s celebrated novel, with a healthy dose of humor to quicken the pace.
GLADYS NIGHTS
By Becky Kimsey
Directed by Steve Phelan
October 6 – October 14, 2023
Gladys has an imaginary friend that reappears in her adult life to help her facilitate a career change from mild-mannered office worker to an assassin-for-hire. When Gladys advertises her new occupational services on social media, things really spin out of control. It’s a hilarious, fast-paced, action-packed ride that engages the audience and has them laughing from start to finish!
AMERICAN SON
By Christopher Demos-Brown
Directed by James & Sarah Updike
February 2 – February 10, 2024
An estranged bi-racial couple must confront their feelings about race and bias after their son is detained by the local police following a traffic stop incident. Their disparate histories and backgrounds inform their assumptions as they try to find out what happened to their son.
DEATH BY FATAL MURDER
By Peter Gordon
Directed by jef brown
May 3 – May 11, 2024
Inspector Pratt’s record of crime detection at Bagshot House in not enviable. In his two previous visits, chronicled in Murdered to Death and Secondary Cause of Death, the body count mounted disastrously as he looked on, helpless and hopeless! Now he is back and, as usual, chaos reigns supreme. During the course of his latest investigations, Pratt meets the new owner of the house, Nancy Allwright and soon he is embroiled in more mystery, aided and abetted by Miss Maple and Constable Thomkins. Upper-crust Ginny and Italian gigolo Enzo help with enquiries but danger soon looms with an unexpected arrival, and a frightening suggestion by Welsh busybody, Blodwyn Morgan.
*Season ticket information coming soon!*
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MUSICAL OF MUSICALS
By Eric Rockwell and Joanne Bogart
Directed by Dennis Murphy
October 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, & 28, 2023
CHARLOTTE’S WEB
By E. B. White Adapted by Joseph Robinette
Directed by Bob Kelley
December 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, & 10, 2023
THE OUTSIDER
By Paul Slade Smith
Directed by David Roth
February 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, & 24, 2024
SOUTHERN FRIED NUPTIALS
By Osborne & Eppler
Directed by Dan Hawkins
May 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, & 18, 2024
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VILLAGE PLAYERS ANNOUNCES ITS 2023-2024 SEASON
February 2, 2023, Fort Thomas, KY— Village Players of Fort Thomas is excited to announce its 2023-2024 mainstage season. Whether it’s family, friends, young or old, near or far, you can find it here at Village Players.
DOUBLEWIDE, TEXAS by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten
A comedy in September/October 2023
Courtesy of Dramatists Play Service
Directed by Fred Murrell
“In this hilarious, fast-paced comedy, the inhabitants of one of the smallest trailer parks in Texas—four doublewides and a shed—are thrown for a loop when they realize the nearby town of Tugaloo is determined to annex them. The rollicking mayhem of this flat-out funny Jones Hope Wooten comedy escalates as the residents attempt to secede from Texas, discover a traitor in their midst, and turn the tables in a surprising and side-splitting finale. So grab your Stetson and come on over to Doublewide, Texas, where life is double the fun, double the joy, and where audiences double over with laughter!”
THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER by Barbara Robinson
A holiday comedy in December 2023
Courtesy of Concord Theatricals
Directed by Amy Waldfogle
“In this hilarious Christmas classic, a couple struggling to put on a church Christmas pageant is faced with casting the Herdman kids–probably the most inventively awful kids in history. You won’t believe the mayhem – and the fun – when the Herdmans collide with the Christmas story head on!”
ART by Yasmina Reza
A seriocomedy in February/March 2024
Courtesy of Dramatists Play Service
Directed by John Leo Muething
“How much would you pay for a white painting? Would it matter who the painter was? Would it be art? One of Marc’s best friends, Serge, has just bought a very expensive painting. It’s about five feet by four, all white with white diagonal lines. To Marc, the painting is a joke, but Serge insists Marc doesn’t have the proper standard to judge the work. Another friend, Ivan, though burdened by his own problems, allows himself to be pulled into this disagreement. Eager to please, Ivan tells Serge he likes the painting. Lines are drawn and these old friends square off over the canvas, using it as an excuse to relentlessly batter one another over various failures. As their arguments become less theoretical and more personal, they border on destroying their friendships. At the breaking point, Serge hands Marc a felt tip pen and dares him: “Go on.” This is where the friendship is finally tested, and the aftermath of action, and its reaction, affirms the power of those bonds.”
SPREADING IT AROUND by Londos D’Arrigo
A comedy in April/May 2024
Courtesy of Concord Theatricals
Directed by Betsy Bossart
“Angela Drayton, a wealthy widow living in an up-scale retirement community, is tired of handing out money to her unappreciative children. So she starts the ‘S.I.N. (Spending It Now) Foundation,’ to give to those truly in need. This terrifies her greedy son, driving him to devise a plan to have her committed. Featuring delicious roles for adult and mature actors, this poignant family comedy has played numerous theatre in the US and Canada, and continues spreading the laughs around.”
“We’ve chosen a slate of shows that I think features something for everyone.” says play reading committee chair and treasurer C.J. Bossart
Season packages are $60 and individual show tickets are $20 and will be available soon at villageplayers.org.
Village Players of Fort Thomas is a vibrant community theatre, continually producing plays and musicals for almost 60 years. Our productions range across a spectrum of periods and styles, presented in our intimate, three-quarter-thrust performance space in the heart of Fort Thomas, Kentucky. We stage innovative and of-the-moment works alongside beloved classic pieces while serving as an incubator for new talent, ideas, and writing. Each season features four mainstage shows, including a family-friendly winter production, as well as a summer production of original short plays produced by the New Works branch of the group.
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