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March 19, 2019 · 12:01 pm

Cast Announced for MERCURY at Know Theatre of Cincinnati

KTC_logoThe cast includes:

Andrew Ian Adams as Brian
Andrew’s previous Know appearances include the smash hit Neverwhere (2017) and 2016’s The Fisherman’s Wife (also by Mercury playwright Steve Yockey). He’s also a member of the Know-To-Go education program, bringing theater for young audiences to schools and libraries, and performs with OTRimprov.

James Creque as Nick
James has previously appeared at the Know in Hearts Like Fists (2015), All Childish Things (2015), The Fisherman’s Wife (2016), and SuperTrue (2018).

Eileen Earnest as Olive
Eileen has previously appeared at the Know in Beertown and The Fisherman’s Wife (both in 2016). She’s also a member of OTRimprov, the Know’s affiliated improv troupe.

Elizabeth Chinn Molloy as Heather
Elizabeth was last seen on the Know stage in 2018’s SuperTrue.

Robyn Novak as Pamela
We’re thrilled to have Robyn make her mainstage debut with Mercury following her appearances in Serials! and Cincy Fringe!

Tess Talbot as Alicia
Tess returns to the Know after appearing in Listen for the Light (2017) and playing the titular scientist in Ada and the Engine (2018).

Patrick Earl Phillips as Sam
Patrick is a familiar face to Know audiences from his many appearances at Serials! and Cincy Fringe; we’re delighted to welcome him to his Know Mainstage debut.

Directed by Andrew Hungerford. Performances run April 19-May 11.

For more information visit www.knowtheatre.com/season-21/mercury

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March 13, 2019 · 2:47 pm

See Know Theatre’s Producing Artistic Director in Rare Solo Performance in SAND, March 28 – 30

KTC_Sand posterSee Know Theatre’s Producing Artistic Director in a rare solo performance in
SAND
the US premiere of a devastating new play by
Nick Gill

SPECIAL LIMITED RUN: March 28 – 30

“so you want to build a simple nuclear bomb”

Join us at Your Theatrical Playground, Know Theatre, for a rare chance to see our Producing Artistic Andrew J. Hungerford onstage in the solo performance of an unforgettable new play, in its US premiere.

It’s now the sixth of August 1945.
She is alone.
god, my head.
At 8.15 in the morning, everything is quiet.
The house is still.
Thirty one thousand and sixty feet above her, there is a single aircraft.
In forty three seconds, the bomb it has released will have fallen around twenty nine thousand feet and will detonate above the city.
In forty four seconds, seventy thousand people will be dead.

and the world turns.

            – excerpt from SAND by Nick Gill

 

At Know Theatre for a special limited run, March 28 – 30, SAND is a riveting new work of theatre that combines fiction, science, and history to explore the threat of nuclear weapons and the devastation of nuclear war. It’s a fractured collection of narratives that jump across the stories of a dozen women over a century-long timeline, building to an inevitable breaking point.

SAND is an intense, poetic dive into the frightening power that humanity wields against itself. A version of the play was shown at the Royal Court Theatre on June 17, 2013, directed by Vicky Featherstone and performed by Eileen Walsh & Toby Jones.

Acclaimed director and University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music professor Brant Russell (The Man-Beast) helms a script-in-hand staging of the show for the US premiere of this powerful new script.

SAND also offers a rare chance to catch a performance by Producing Artistic Director Andrew Hungerford, last seen in a dramatic role on Cincinnati stages in his 2010 Cincy Fringe Show, “Of People and Not Things.”

Says Hungerford,

“I first read this script just a few weeks ago, and instantly knew we needed to produce it. For one, it’s a perfect fit for the SecondStage of our season examining fear itself.

From a personal perspective, I was plagued by nightmares and anxiety attacks about nuclear war as a kid growing up at the tail end of the cold war.

In the 90’s, it felt like the world began to come to its collective senses as disarmament began to take hold. But now as non-proliferation treaties are scrapped, as countries ramp up missile production and nuclear programs, it’s vital for us to consider the ramifications of those choices, to take a hard look at the nuclear powder keg our modern world sits atop.”

As a small but nimble professional Theatre, Know Theatre is uniquely suited to take a show from page-to-stage both rapidly and effectively – especially when a story is as relevant to this moment as Nick Gill’s SAND is.

Join us for a gripping night of hot-off-the-presses theatre, in a special limited run from March 28 – 30 – only at Your Theatrical Playground, Know Theatre of Cincinnati.

Cast

  • Starring Know Theatre Producing Artistic Director Andrew J. Hungerford

Production Team

  • Director –  Brant Russell
  • Scenic & Lighting Designer – Andrew J. Hungerford

Calendar Listing

Production:  SAND by Nick Gill – a US premiere

When: 8:00 pm March 28, 29, and 30

Where:  Know Theatre of Cincinnati. 1120 Jackson Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. In historic Over-the-Rhine.

Tickets:      

  • $15 regular price tickets
  • $25 “Living Wage” tickets, supporting working artists in Cincinnati
  • $10 Rush tickets at the door 10 minutes prior to curtain (when available)

Tickets can be purchased by visiting knowtheatre.com or calling 513.300.5669 (KNOW).

Season Design sponsorship provided by Travis McElroy.

Know Theatre is Cincinnati’s Theatrical Playground. The Know showcases unexpected voices, new works, and plays that embrace the inherent theatricality of the live experience. Know Theatre seeks to be a place where artists and audiences feel welcome to take artistic risks, creating work that is cutting edge and accessible.

Know Theatre’s work is made possible, in part, by the generosity of community contributions to the ArtsWave Campaign.

The Ohio Arts Council helps fund Know Theatre with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence, and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.

Know Theatre is also supported by The Carol Ann & Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation, helping to change our communities for the better through collaboration and innovation, and the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, which provides a simple, powerful, and highly personal approach to giving.

Know Theatre is a member of Theatre Communications Group and an Associate Member of the National New Play Network.

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February 19, 2019 · 12:15 pm

CONTEMPORARY ACTING WITH NEW WORKS and ADVANCED ACTING With Jared Joplin and Miranda McGee at Know Theatre

KTC_Contemporary and Advanced Acting promoContemporary Acting with New Works

This contemporary acting workshop taught by area theatre favorites, Jared Joplin and Miranda McGee, begins with group/ensemble work and continues into scene study using cutting edge contemporary scripts. A fantastic opportunity to hone your acting skills while getting a glimpse of what’s new in American Theatre! The class meets for six 2.5 hour sessions, with an invited performance for the final session on Know Theatre’s Underground cabaret stage.

Details:

  • All classes will take place Mondays from 6:30pm-9:00pm

  • Classes will take place at Know Theatre and Gabriel’s Corner

  • April 8, 15, 29, May 6, 13, 20 (Performance)

  • Cost: $175

ENROLL HERE: Enroll in Contemporary Acting with Jared Joplin and Miranda McGee

Advanced Acting for Adults

For those that have taken our Contemporary Acting class or for actors wanting to take the next step, this is the next step in advancing your skills, working with methods from prominent theatre practitioners and with more complex scripts from classical texts. Explore methods from Stanislavski and Meisner to Chakra work and Kaiser and expand your theatrical tool kit! The class meets for six 2.5 hour sessions, with an invited performance for the final session on Know Theatre’s Underground cabaret stage.

Details:

  • All classes will take place Tuesdays from 6:30pm-9:00pm

  • Classes will take place at Know Theatre and Gabriel’s Corner

  • April  9, 16, 23, 30, May 7, 14 (Performance)

  • Cost: $175

ENROLL HERE: Enroll in Advanced Acting with Jared Joplin and Miranda McGee

 

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February 12, 2019 · 10:56 am

The End of the World is Just the Beginning in ALWAYS PLENTY OF LIGHT AT THE STARLIGHT ALL-NIGHT DINER

ktc_always plenty of light at the starlight all night diner logoA world premiere play by Darcy Parker Bruce
Running February 22 – March 16 

When an asteroid threatens the earth, the logical escape is your favorite diner, right? Especially when that diner just might be… a Time Machine.

It’s just your average night at the Starlight All-Night Diner – coffee, cigarettes, secret longings begging to be confessed, a mysterious comet in the night’s sky – you know, the usual.

Overnight janitor Sam and her very pregnant compatriot, late-night waitress Jessa, are passing the time polishing the fixtures and polishing off some coconut cream pie.

But just as Sam is ready to spill her heart, in bursts the frantically brilliant Dr. Moxie and his graduate assistant, Danni, with a revelation that the comet isn’t just a pretty celestial event – it’s the end of the world as we know it.

Armed with a coffee maker, a backup generator, and a conveniently-timed scientific breakthrough, Dr. Moxie has a plan to get the ladies of his favorite diner out of harm’s way.

But of course, even the most brilliant scientist can’t account for every variable…

In this charmingly queer love story, the stakes are more than life-and-death – they’re life-or-extinction. Previously workshopped at New York’s Fresh Fruit Festival in 2016, Darcy Parker Bruce’s Always Plenty of Light at the Starlight All Night Diner is a world premiere adventure story about finding hope and connection in the face of insurmountable odds.

Know Theatre’s own Community Relations Manager Alice Flanders returns to the director’s chair after 2018’s hit comedy Marian, or the True Tale of Robin Hood by Adam Szymkowicz. And she has assembled a cast of some of Cincinnati’s brightest stars to breathe life into the Starlight:

Leah Strasser returns to the Know MainStage, after her unforgettable turn as Alanna Dale in 2018’s Marian…, as the very pregnant, very conflicted Jessa; whose friendship with overnight janitor Sam is…complicated. Played by Lormarev Jones, fresh from her onstage adventures at The Carnegie in Hunchback of Notre Dame and Dreamgirls, Sam has a lot more emotional baggage than she can fit in her trusty pick-up truck – and even more devotion to Jessa.

The one and only Michael Burnham, whose production of Corpus Christi in 2003 made the Know just a little bit infamous, joins us onstage for the first time since 2010 as Dr. Moxie, whose devotion to the Starlight diner, its denizens, and its coffee is exceeded only by his hunger for scientific knowledge (and his desire to survive the apocalypse).

And making her Know Theatre MainStage debut as his beleaguered but optimistic graduate assistant Danni is Maggie Cramer, who comes to us after spending a season with our neighbors at Ensemble Theatre as part of their apprentice company.

What can you expect from Always Plenty of Light at the Starlight All-Night Diner?

Witty banter, rich relationships, tender moments, wacky antics, lesbian love stories. And maybe a dinosaur. Producing Artistic Director Andrew Hungerford chose this play to carry us through the February doldrums because:

At its core, Starlight is about people who love each other coming together in a time of darkness to confront the impossible. Who and what do we rely on when we run out of road? Clearly the answers are, in no particular order: friends, love, coffee, science, and pie. I think that’s an important message for everyone to hear in a bleak midwinter. 

See what happens when you run out of places (and time) to run from your problems in Always Plenty of Light at the Starlight All-Night Diner by Darcy Parker Bruce, playing February 22 – March 16 at Your Theatrical Playground.

Cast in Alphabetical Order

  • Dr. Moxie – Michael Burnham
  • Danni – Maggie Cramer
  • Sam – Lormarev Jones
  • Jessa – Leah Strasser 

Production Team

  • Director –  Alice Flanders
  • Scenic & Lighting Designer – Andrew J. Hungerford
  • Costume Designer – Noelle Johnston
  • Sound & Projections Designer – Douglas Borntrager
  • Prop Designer – Rebecca Armstrong 

Calendar Listing

Production:  ALWAYS PLENTY OF LIGHT AT THE STARLIGHT ALL-NIGHT DINER by Darcy Parker Bruce – a world premiere

When:

  • 8:00 pm February 22, 23, 27, 28; March 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16
  • 3:00 pm February 24; March 3*, 10
    *A pre-show brunch is available on this date with purchase of $35 “Brunch + Show” tickets in advance.  Brunch provided by Water Tower Fine Wines.

Where:
Know Theatre of Cincinnati. 1120 Jackson Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202.
In historic Over-the-Rhine.

Tickets:

  • $25 regular price tickets
  • $35 “Living Wage” tickets, supporting working artists in Cincinnati
  • $15 Rush tickets at the door 10 minutes prior to curtain (when available)
  • FREE walk-up tickets are available on Wednesdays, as part of Know’s Welcome Experiment.
    Advance reservations to Welcome Experiment performances are $5.00.

Tickets can be purchased by visiting knowtheatre.com or calling 513.300.5669 (KNOW). 

This production made possible through the generosity of Joshua Wallace. 

Season Design sponsorship provided by Travis McElroy. 

Additional MainStage support provided by
The Louise Taft Semple Foundation
The John A. Schroth Charitable Trust, PNC Bank Charitable Trust Committee 

Know Theatre is Cincinnati’s Theatrical Playground. The Know showcases unexpected voices, new works, and plays that embrace the inherent theatricality of the live experience. Know Theatre seeks to be a place where artists and audiences feel welcome to take artistic risks, creating work that is cutting edge and accessible. 

Know Theatre’s work is made possible, in part, by the generosity of community contributions to the ArtsWave Campaign.  

The Ohio Arts Council helps fund Know Theatre with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence, and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans. 

Know Theatre is also supported by The Carol Ann & Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation, helping to change our communities for the better through collaboration and innovation, and the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, which provides a simple, powerful, and highly personal approach to giving. 

 Know Theatre is a member of Theatre Communications Group and an Associate Member of the National New Play Network. 

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January 28, 2019 · 3:32 pm

ALWAYS PLENTY OF LIGHT AT THE STARLIGHT ALL NIGHT DINER Runs Feb. 22-March 16

ktc_always plenty of light at the starlight all night diner logoALWAYS PLENTY OF LIGHT AT THE STARLIGHT ALL NIGHT DINER
Know Theatre of Cincinnati
Feb. 22-March 16
[Over-the-Rhine]

Directed by Alice Flanders

Cast: Lormarev Jones as Sam, Leah Strasser as Jenna, Michael Burnham as Dr. Franklin Moxie, PhD & Maggie Cramer as Danni

When an asteroid threatens the earth, the logical escape is your favorite diner, especially when that diner just might be a Time Machine. ALWAYS PLENTY OF LIGHT… is an adventure story about finding hope and connection in the face of insurmountable odds. A cross between Jurassic Park, Back to the Future, and Fried Green Tomatoes. Rated: PG-13.

  • Fri-Sat, Feb. 22-23 at 8pm
  • Sun, Feb. 24 at 3pm
  • Wed-Sat, Feb. 27-March 2 at 8pm
  • Sun, March 3 at 3pm
  • Wed-Sat, March 6-9 at 8pm
  • Sun, March 10 at 3pm
  • Wed-Sat, March 13-16 at 8pm

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