SERIALS! 15
Know Theatre of Cincinnati
Jan. 27-March 24
[Over-the-Rhine]
This is quick and dirty episodic theatre! Small casts! Minimal tech! Blink-and-you’ll-miss-it scene transitions!
Each episode is 15 minutes MAX – and even then we recommend aiming for 12-13 minutes. Leave the audience wanting more!
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The Texas Annie “Interactive Show Experience” Debuts January 18, 2025, at The Know Theatre’s Underground Bar: A Campy Musical for the Fight Against Shame and Oppression
CINCINNATI, OH – On Saturday, January 18, 2025, the Texas Annie “Interactive Show Experience” debuts at The Know Theatre’s Underground Bar, bringing a fresh, community-driven take to the celebrated satirical musical. This updated version of the show, featuring a new digital component supported by an Ohio Arts Council Artist Opportunities Grant, offers a night of connection, laughter, and activism.
Designed to build community while tackling urgent social justice issues, Texas Annie takes audiences on a journey as hilarious as it is heartwarming. With rising anti-obscenity laws targeting the LGBTQ+ population, this new version of the show couldn’t come at a better time.
Event Details:
Time:
5-6pm: Happy Hour with Texas Annie-themed drink specials
6-7pm: The Texas Annie “Interactive Show Experience”
7-9pm: Sapphic Sips After Party hosted by Midwestern Lesbian
Tickets: On sale now! Early bird discount through December 20th.
Get Tickets Here
About Midwestern Lesbian
Midwestern Lesbian—founded by Kelsey Ference—is an event promotion and community engagement platform dedicated to creating inclusive, empowering spaces for the Midwest’s LGBTQ+ community. Known for hosting sold-out events like the Big Gay Bar Crawls and Sapphic Sips, Midwestern Lesbian has built a reputation for fostering meaningful connections through social gatherings, queer networking opportunities, and community-focused initiatives.
For the Texas Annie premiere, Midwestern Lesbian is bringing their signature energy to the Sapphic Sips After Party, providing an inviting space for queer women and allies to celebrate, network, and connect after the show. With over 35,000 social media followers and a track record of capacity-filled events, Midwestern Lesbian continues to play a vital role in promoting LGBTQ+ culture and activism throughout Cincinnati.
Attendees can look forward to:
Opportunities to meet fellow LGBTQ+ community members.
Door prizes donated by CalExotics and local queer-owned businesses.
The signature community-centered atmosphere that Midwestern Lesbian is known for.
A New, Interactive Experience
This new, reimagined version of Texas Annie: The Legend of the Moan Ranger transforms the original staged production—which debuted to sold-out crowds and won the Audience Pick Award at the 2022 Cincinnati Fringe Festival—into a high-energy, cabaret-style experience. With audience shoutbacks, singalongs, digital projections, and comedic sound effects, this version invites connection and engagement like never before.
Join the Movement
All proceeds from the January 18th performance will help fund Texas Annie’s journey to the NYC Fringe Festival in April 2025.
How You Can Support Texas Annie:
Follow on Instagram: @TexasAnnieMusical
Stream the concept album on Spotify: Texas Annie
Make a tax-deductible donation: Donate Here
Sign up for the newsletter: Join Here
Texas Annie’s Creative Team
Produced by: Jenn Howd and Maggie Perrino
Book by: Jenn Howd & Roz Mihalko
Music by: John Woods, Stephen Goers, Roz Mihalko, and Jenn Howd
Lyrics by: Roz Mihalko, Jenn Howd, and John Woods
Directed & Choreographed by: Maggie Perrino
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This new holiday comedy runs December 6-22, 2024
This holiday season, one family will risk it all to make it to Christmas morning together… or die hard trying.
Christmas Eve, 1988. Mack’s literary star is on the rise (but his marriage is on the rocks) when he returns home to celebrate the holiday with his family. In an effort to reignite their parents’ romance, the teenage kids enact a plan to make Dad a hero again, but when late night intruders kidnap Mom, Mack and the kids embark on a Sweettart and adrenaline-fueled adventure to save their family.
DIE HARD IS A CHRISTMAS MOVIE is a spoof-parody of the 1988 blockbuster hit “Die Hard,” by local comedy writers A.J. Baldwin & Alexx Rouse. This World Premiere holiday comedy brims with bombs, bad accents, and belly laughs and runs December 6–22, 2024. Actors sponsored by Patrick Cusick. Directed by Tatiana Godfrey.
Rated: PG–13
CW: an array of weaponry, snorting pulverized candy, comedic Hollywood violence, and language!
About the Cast
Production Team: SB Hall (Scenic Designer), Chris Lipstreu (Lighting Designer), Noelle Wedig-Johnston (Costume Designer), Doug Borntrager (Sound & Video Designer), Danielle Robison (Props & Scenic Charge), Ri Moodie (Fight Choreographer), and Drew Homan (Technical Director.)
Production Stage Manager is Grace Wohlschlegel.
Performance Information
DIE HARD IS A CHRISTMAS MOVIE runs December 6–22, 2024
Know Theatre of Cincinnati, 1120 Jackson Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202
All evening performances are at 7:30pm, matinee performances are at 2pm.
Arts & Service Industry Night: Monday, December 16th at 7:30pm
ASL-interpretation on Friday, December 20th at 7:30pm
Ticket Information
We are Know Theatre of Cincinnati: where artists and audiences can come together to produce and experience work that you haven’t seen before. We strive to build a community around viscerally theatrical, exciting new works.
The 22nd Annual Cincinnati Fringe Festival is made possible by a generous partnership with our neighbor the Art Academy of Cincinnati.
Know Theatre is supported by the generosity of tens of thousands of contributors to the annual ArtsWave Campaign, the region’s primary source for arts funding.
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 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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DIE HARD IS A CHRISTMAS MOVIE
Know Theatre of Cincinnati
Dec. 6-22
[Over-the-Rhine]
By A.J. Baldwin & Alexx Rouse
Directed by Tatiana Godfrey
Cast: Phineas Clark, Beasley, Alexx Rouse & Andrew Ian Adams
A shot-for-shot remake of the perennial action classic, set inside the suburban home of a family on the brink of collapse.
It’s Christmas Eve and Lane has invited her estranged husband, Mac, back home to provide a “normal Christmas” to their kids. But when Mac picks Die Hard for the family’s movie night, the classic “Is this a Christmas Movie?” debate takes on a life of its own.
It doesn’t take long for an R-rating and a bunch of blood to expose old wounds and rekindle arguments, and Mac and Lane must grapple with what’s appropriate for their family and the holiday. By the time the explosions start, life is mirroring art and soon an office building full of terrorists feels like a much safer room to be in. Rated: PG-13
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The Know Theatre celebrates the spooky-weird joy of Halloween with a weekend of events
The Know Theatre of Cincinnati presents an unforgettable weekend of spooky entertainment featuring the award-winning dark musical comedy Edgar Allan by the Coldharts on Friday, October 25th, and the Know Theatre Halloween Party & Improv Jam on Saturday, October 26th.
Eleven-year-old Edgar Allan has only one goal: to be the most remarkable boy at English boarding school. He has only one obstacle: Edgar Allan.
A manic lullabye inspired by the childhood and short stories of Edgar Allan Poe.
Edgar Allan is a two-person dark musical-comedy, adapted from the short story William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe, created and performed by Katie Hartman and Nick Ryan. It follows eleven-year-old Edgar Allan in his first year at Manor House School, as he seeks to gain academic ascendancy over the student body. All goes to plan until another boy named Edgar Allan arrives in class… complicating his schemes of dominance. Edgar Allan is a dark, comedic riff on the obsessions, the mania, and the insanity that haunted the life and work of America’s first professional writer.
Edgar Allan premiered at the 2013 Twin Cities Horror Festival in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and has performed hundreds of times, playing venues across the United States, Canada, and Off-Broadway. The show is a six time ‘Best of the Fest’ winner, receiving awards in London, Orlando, Ithaca, Minneapolis, Cincinnati and Edmonton. The “Edgar Allan” original cast album has been archived in the United States Library of Congress Podcast Preservation Project. More information available at www.thecoldharts.com.
Producing Artistic Director Bridget Leak emphasizes that “This production of Edgar Allan encapsulates what we do best here at Know Theatre: providing a welcoming place for artists and creating a platform for them to present the highest caliber of art. We are a community that nurtures independent theatre artists and champions original work that can’t be seen anywhere else.”
The Spirits & Spirits VIP Experience begins at 7:30pm and includes an American Whiskey Tasting guided by Dean McHone of Diageo Hospitality as well as Tarot Readings. Price of admission also includes entry to the October 26th Halloween Party.
Saturday night’s Halloween Party will include party games, an Improv Jam led by improviser and horror-movie aficionado Dave F’n Powell, followed by a costume contest with prizes for best costumes in multiple categories. Guests who arrive in costume receive their first drink free.
Performance & Ticket Information
Tickets available at https://www.knowtheatre.com/special-events.
Friday, October 25th: The Coldharts’ Edgar Allan and Spirits & Spirits
Doors open at 7:00pm
Spirits & Spirits VIP Tasting Experience begins at 7:30pm
EDGAR ALLAN begins at 8:30pm
Saturday, October 26th: Halloween Party, Costume Costume & Improv Jam with Dave F’n Powell
Doors open at 7:30pm
Improv Jam begins at 8:30pm on the Mainstage
Costume Contest begins at 9:30pm
We are Know Theatre of Cincinnati: where artists and audiences can come together to produce and experience work that you haven’t seen before. We strive to build a community around viscerally theatrical, exciting new works.
The 22nd Annual Cincinnati Fringe Festival is made possible by a generous partnership with our neighbor the Art Academy of Cincinnati.
Know Theatre is supported by the generosity of tens of thousands of contributors to the annual ArtsWave Campaign, the region’s primary source for arts funding 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 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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