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May 29, 2017 · 9:00 am

2017-2018 Season Announced by Village Players

Village Players is pleased to announce our 2017-2018 season:

VP_Collected Stories lgooCOLLECTED STORIES 
By Donald Margulies
Directed by Dan Maloney

Audition Dates: July 9 & 10, 2017
Performance Dates: SEPT 29, 30; OCT 1, 5, 6 & 7 (2017)

Six years in the lives of two intensely creative people— Prof. Ruth Steiner and Ruth’s most devoted disciple, Lisa Morrison—are chronicled in this award-winning play. Hoping to become a writer herself, Lisa latches on to Ruth for consul, advice, and moral support. The trouble begins when Lisa gets into print and her reputation begins to surpass that of her mentor.

VP_The Unvarnished Truth logoTHE UNVARNISHED TRUTH
By Royce Ryton
Directed by Steve Phelan

Performance Dates: DEC 1, 2, 3, 7, 8 & 9 (2017)

Tom and Annabel are a reasonably happy couple. But one evening they have an argument as to who loves the other most. A rough and tumble ensues, and to his horror, Tom discovers that Annabel is dead. So starts a hectic evening of black farce. The hysterical ending finds the stage littered with female corpses, frantic males and a potential fifth victim banging on the door

VP_Ring Around the Moon logoRING ROUND THE MOON 
By Jean Anouilh; Adapted by Christopher Fry
Directed by Alan Karol

Performance Dates: FEB 9, 10, 11, 15, 16 & 17 (2018)

A poetic mixture of farce, romance and comedy. Twin brothers—shy, sensitive Frederic and heartless, aggressive Hugo—are embroiled in a love triangle. To save Frederic from an unhappy marriage, Hugo tries to distract him with a beautiful dancer who isn’t all she seems. Not only does she break up the cynical romances that have been going on before she arrived, but she loses her own heart as well.

BingoBasicLogoBINGO! THE WINNING MUSICAL 
By Michael Heitzman, Ilene Reid and David Holcenberg
Directed by Peggy Kenney

Performance Dates: APR 20, 21, 22, 26, 27 & 28 (2018)

A group of die-hard bingo players will stop at nothing to make their weekly game. In between the number calling, strange rituals and fierce competitions, love blossoms and long-lost friends reunite. Lovable characters Vern, Honey and Patsy spring to life while audiences play bingo right along with them.

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April 26, 2017 · 9:07 am

2017-2018 Season Announced by Sunset Players

SSP_logoSunset Players is proud to announce its 38th season line-up:

MOON OVER BUFFALO by Ken Ludwig with performances on September 22 – October 7, 2017. The hilarious MOON OVER BUFFALO centers on fading 1950s stars George and Charlotte Hay who learn they might have one last shot at stardom: Frank Capra is coming to see their matinee show and might cast them in his next movie. Unfortunately, everything goes wrong with a visit from their daughter’s clueless fiancé and hysterical uncertainty about which play they’re performing caused by Charlotte’s old stage-manager mother who hates George.

GOLDILOCKS ON TRIAL by Ed Monk with performances on December 1 – 10, 2017. Goldilocks is on trial for breaking and entering. Will she be found guilty and sent to prison, or will the truth come out? It’s up to Judge Wallabee and some very silly jurors to decide, after hearing testimony from Goldee, the bickering Three Bears and surprise witness Merwin the Big Bad Wolf, among others.

THE GAME’S AFOOT by Ken Ludwig with performances on February 16 – March 3, 2018. It is December 1936, and Broadway star William Gillette, admired for his Sherlock Holmes portrayal, has invited his cast members for a weekend at his Connecticut castle. But when one of the guests is stabbed to death, the festivities in this house of tricks and mirrors quickly turn dangerous. It’s up to Gillette who assumes the role of Holmes, to track down the killer. The danger and hilarity are non-stop in this glittering whodunit set during the Christmas holidays.

ANGEL STREET by Patrick Hamilton with performances on May 4 – 19, 2018. A Broadway hit, ANGEL STREET focuses on the Manninghams who live on Angel Street in 19th century London. While everything begins with Victorian tranquility, it becomes apparent the suavely handsome Mr. Manningham is slowly driving his devoted wife Bella to the brink of insanity with a cunning kindness that masks sinister motives. While he is out, Mrs. Manningham has an unexpected caller: Inspector Rough from Scotland Yard who is convinced her husband is a homicidal maniac who committed murder 15 years ago in the same house.

Cincinnati community theater premiere of IF/THEN music by Tom Kitt and Book and Lyrics by Brian Yorkey with performances on July 6 – 21, 2018. From the creators of the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning Next to Normal, IF/THEN is a fascinating new musical that simultaneously follows one woman’s two possible life paths, painting a deeply moving portrait of the lives that we lead, as well as the lives that we might have led.

Sign language interpreters from Cincinnati State will continue to sign for select shows throughout the season.

Tickets remain on sale for the remaining 2016-2017 Season. Performances include:

·        THE SAVANNAH SIPPING SOCIETY by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten. Performances in May 5 – 20, 2017.  A Regional Premiere, meet four Southern women, all needing to escape the sameness of their day-to-day routines, are drawn together by Fate—and an impromptu happy hour—and decide it is high time to reclaim the enthusiasm for life they’ve lost through the years. Over the course of six months filled with laughter, hilarious misadventures and the occasional liquid refreshment, these middle-aged women successfully bond and find the confidence to jumpstart their new lives.

·         THE TOXIC AVENGER, Book and lyrics by Joe DiPietro, Music and lyrics by David Bryan. Performances in July 7 – 22, 2017. A Regional Community Theater Premiere and winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical, The Toxic Avenger is a charming love story and laugh-out-loud musical that has it all — an unlikely hero, his beautiful girlfriend, a corrupt New Jersey mayor and two guys who play everyone else, from bullies, mobsters, old ladies and stiletto-wearing back-up singers. Featuring a wailing rock score, this comical musical has something for everyone to enjoy and will leave audiences laughing in the aisles as it rocks the house.

Friday and Saturday performances begin at 8 pm. Sunday matinee starts at 3 pm, and Thursday performance is at 7:30 pm. Goldilock on Trial performances will be Friday at 7 pm and Saturday and Sunday at 2 pm.

To learn more or reserve tickets, call 513-588-4988 or visit www.sunsetplayers.org.

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April 13, 2017 · 5:54 pm

Death Knocks on SSCC Theatre’s Door for Their Fourteenth Season

SSCC_14th Season logoSSCC Theatre’s Fourteenth Season arrives this fall bringing a foreboding theme to the stage. “When choosing a season, we have certain criteria we adhere to,” says Rainee Angles, theatre director. “An educational piece, a comedy, a drama, and a classic. When those pieces come together, it usually presents a strong season for us… and this year, those pieces also bring an air of death. A sensitive subject for many, but the only certain in this life, we believe this season will take our audience on a memorable journey, with laughs and tears.”

Season tickets for SSCC Theatre’s Thirteenth Season go on sale July 21, with tickets for the set of three shows starting at $21. The schedule for the season is:

DEATH OF A SALESMAN by Arthur Miller. The story revolves around the last days of Willy Loman, a failing salesman, who cannot understand how he failed to win success and happiness. Through a series of tragic soul-searching revelations of the life he has lived with his wife, his sons, and his business associates, we discover how his quest for the ‘American Dream’ kept him blind to the people who truly loved him. “Death of a Salesman” opens the season November 3 – 5, 2017.

DEAD MAN’S CELL PHONE by Sarah Ruhl. An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man—with a lot of loose ends. A play about how we memorialize the dead, and how that remembering changes us, it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world. “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” runs April 6 – 8, 2018.

DEAD MAN WALKING by Tim Robbins. Based on the successful book and film, Sister Helen Prejean, a catholic nun, receives a letter from a death row inmate by the name of Matthew Poncelet. Poncelet was sentenced to Louisiana’s death row for killing two young teenagers. Although Poncelet was sentenced to death, Carl Vitello, his accomplice, was sentenced to a lesser sentence of life without parole. Poncelet, as depicted by the press, is a volatile criminal who often makes references regarding Hitler as a role model. By becoming Matt’s spiritual advisor, Helen is able to get inside the mind of a convicted killer. With letters and visits, Prejean is able to discover and understand a man that the rest of the world only views as a cold-blooded killer. “Dead Man Walking” closes the season July 27 – 29, 2018.

To purchase your season tickets, explore our season history, or to learn more about SSCC Theatre, please visit www.sscctheatre.com

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April 10, 2017 · 9:03 am

Replacement Production Announced by Cincinnati Music Theatre

cmt_logoComing next spring…

Cincinnati Music Theatre is proud to announce our replacement for Fiddler on the Roof – featuring a timeless score from theatre icons Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Lowe, CAMELOT is based upon the exciting legend of King Arthur.

Directed by Dennis Murphy, CAMELOT runs May 11 – 19, 2018, at the Aronoff Center for the Arts. Look for auditions this December!

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April 6, 2017 · 8:32 am

2017-2018 Season Announced by Middletown Lyric Theatre

MLT_logo2017 – 2018 SEASON

SEPTEMBER 15, 16, 22 & 23
LOST IN YONKERS – Comedy: By: Neil Simon
By America’s great comic playwright, this memory play is set in Yonkers in 1942. Bella is thirty-five years old, mentally challenged, and living at home with her mother, stern Grandma Kurnitz. As the play opens, ne’er-do-well son Eddie deposits his two young sons on the old lady’s doorstep. He is financially strapped and taking to the road as a salesman. The boys are left to contend with Grandma, with Bella and her secret romance, and with Louie, her brother, a small-time hoodlum in a strange new world called Yonkers

NOVEMBER 10, 11, 17 & 18
THE GAME’S AFOOT: Farce by: Ken Ludwig
It is December 1936 and Broadway star William Gillette, admired the world over for his leading role in the play Sherlock Holmes, has invited his fellow cast-members to his Connecticut castle for a weekend of revelry. But when one of the guests is stabbed to death, the festivities in this isolated house of tricks and mirrors quickly turn dangerous. Then it’s up to Gillette himself, as he assumes the persona of his beloved Holmes, to track down the killer before the next victim appears. The danger and hilarity are non-stop in this glittering whodunit set during the Christmas holidays.

FEBRAURY 16, 17 23 & 24
GRAND CONCOURSE: Comedy/Drama by: Heidi Schreck
Having dedicated her life to religious service, Shelley runs a Bronx soup kitchen with unsentimental efficiency, but lately her heart’s not quite in it. Her brisk nature masks an unsettling fear that her efforts are meaningless. When Emma — an idealistic but confused college dropout — arrives to volunteer, her reckless mix of generosity and self-involvement pushes Shelley to the breaking point. With keen humor and startling compassion, Heidi Schreck’s play navigates the mystery of faith, the limits of forgiveness, and the pursuit of something resembling joy

APRIL 13, 14, 20 & 21
MY NAME IS ASHER LEV – Drama Adapted by: Aaron Posner
Asher Lev tells his story in a series of flashbacks. He is a Ladover Hasidic Jew born with a great artistic talent. His sect of Judaism, however, does not believe that art is a worthwhile pursuit. When he begins to draw nudes and pictures of the Cruxifixion, Through the years, he has continued to argue with his parents about the nature and value of his work. They attend one of his shows in New York, but are horrified by the centerpiece of the exhibit:a painting of Jesus Christ

MAY 11, 12, 18 & 19
CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION: Comedy/Drama By: Annie Baker
When four lost New Englanders who enroll in Marty’s six-week-long community-center drama class begin to experiment with harmless games, hearts are quietly torn apart, and tiny wars of epic proportions are waged and won. A beautifully crafted diorama, a petri dish in which we see, with hilarious detail and clarity, the antic sadness of a motley quintet.

JUNE 8,9,15 & 16
PRESENT LAUGHTER: Farce/Comedy By: Noel Coward
At the center of his own universe sits matinee idol Garry Essendine: suave, hedonistic and too old, says his wife, to be having numerous affairs. His line in harmless, infatuated debutantes is largely tolerated but playing closer to home is not. Just before he escapes on tour to Africa the full extent of his misdemeanors is discovered. And all hell breaks loose. Noel Coward’s Present Laughter premiered in the early years of the Second World War just as such privileged lives were threatened with fundamental social change.

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