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(Cincinnati, OH — July 10, 2026) One Off Productions is excited to present the second show of its 2026 season: The Sunset Limited, written by Cormac McCarthy, most well-known for his acclaimed novels Blood Meridian and The Road, among others. The Sunset Limited runs July 23-August 1 at Gabriel’s Corner in Over-the-Rhine and follows The Pyromaniacs, the absurdist morality tale which ran this spring. 

In The Sunset Limited, an ex-con from the South saves the life of an intellectual atheist who wasn’t looking for salvation on a subway platform in New York City. The reformed murderer-turned-savior ventures to offer salvation of another kind, bringing the failed suicide victim back to his Harlem apartment for an articulate and moving debate about truth, fiction and belief. The two-person cast features local acting veterans Sylvester Little, Jr. and Michael G. Bath.

Director Rupert Spraul says, “The Sunset Limited is a conversation that wrestles with faith and futility. Cormac McCarthy is working out questions with himself and attempts to litigate whether life means anything at all. Are we just a cosmic accident, flailing in the desolate void dumbstruck at the view of our own hubris and screaming atrocities? Is there something at the core that yearns for, and can fulfill, communion with a creator? No one has an answer, though some claim to, and everyone yearns for one. You can cling to belief and you can cling to despair. Which is the delusion?”

The Sunset Limited runs at Gabriel’s Corner, 1425 Sycamore Street, Cincinnati, OH, 45202 on:

Thursday, July 23 at 7:30pm
Friday, July 24 at 7:30pm
Saturday, July 25 at 7:30pm

Thursday, July 30 at 7:30pm
Friday, July 31 at 7:30pm
Saturday, August 1 at 7:30pm

Doors open at 7pm. Tickets are $20. Ticket and show information available at www.oopstroupe.com or find ticket information directly at https://square.link/u/LMtMC8w2.

About One-Off Productions:
One-Off Productions (OOPs) is a grassroots independent arts initiative in Cincinnati, OH, making impactful, accessible, professional, experimental art.

Find us on Instagram at @one.off.productions or Facebook

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(Cincinnati, OH — March 19, 2026) One Off Productions is excited to present its fourth show The Pyromaniacs, written by Max Frisch and translated by Alistair Beaton, running March 25-April 4 at Gabriel’s Corner in Over-the-Rhine. This show comes after last summer’s Judith, Deliver Us and successful runs of Happy Birthday, Wanda June and Romeo and Juliet: A Fool’s Paradise. Founder Rupert Spraul directs, and co-founder Hannah Gregory serves as stage manager. Audiences can expect to see OOPs regulars, as well as new faces onstage: Ellyn Broderick, Wesley Carman, Kevin Crowley, Terry Gosdin, R. Graham Rogers, Katie Scarlett, and Rory Sheridan make up the ensemble.

In The Pyromaniacs, well-to-do man of business Brett Biedermann has got things under control, until he discovers that the two men he’s invited into his home are the pyromaniacs who have already burned down much of the town. He and his superficial wife, concerned only with saving themselves and their home, decide to appease the pyros—which serves only to postpone the inevitable.

Director Rupert Spraul says, “The Pyromaniacs is an absurdist parable about human complacency, and the damning impulse to put selfish superficial comfort above community. Skirting any accountability, we choose to ignore the warnings of an imminent catastrophe and compromise our values to maintain personal security and comfort. It’s a farce about accommodating the evil that will be our destruction. The Pyromaniacs urges its audience to consider how we let events like the ones in the play happen. And it’s also very funny.”

The Pyromaniacs runs at Gabriel’s Corner, 1425 Sycamore Street, Cincinnati, OH, 45202 on:

• Wednesday, March 25 at 7:30pm
• Thursday, March 26 at 7:30pm
• Friday, March 27 at 7:30pm
• Saturday, March 28 at 7:30pm

• Wednesday, April 1 at 7:30pm
• Thursday, April 2 at 7:30pm
• Friday, April 3 at 7:30pm
• Saturday, April 4 at 7:30pm

Doors open at 7pm. Tickets are $15. Ticket and show information available at www.oopstroupe.com or find ticket information directly at https://oopspyro.eventbrite.com.

Original painting by Rory Sheridan

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About One-Off Productions:

One-Off Productions (OOPs) is a grassroots independent arts initiative in Cincinnati, OH, making impactful, accessible, professional, experimental art.

Find us on Instagram at @one.off.productions or Facebook

(Cincinnati, OH –– July 2025) –– One Off Productions (OOPs) presents the premiere of Hannah Gregory’s new musical Judith, Deliver Us at Gabriel’s Corner, running from August 1-9. Judith, Deliver Us is a folk musical reimagining of the Book of Judith and is set in a fictional 1920s coal town. The musical focuses on themes of autonomy of person and place, fair labor practices, and gender roles.

Known for her musicals at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, Gregory won the Producer’s Pick for Descent: a Murder Ballad in 2019, the Critics’ Pick for The Belle and Boone Helm in 2021 and Wuthering: a musical on the moors in 2022, and presented slapstick comedy The Highway Woman in 2023.

Hannah Gregory takes on the title role and is joined by Johnny Kyle Cook, Brianna Miller, Rory Sheridan, and Tess Talbot in supporting roles. Wesley Carman, Jonathan Hobbs, Nathan Tubbs, Douglas Fries, and Ben Dudley round out the cast.

OOPs is excited to host guest director Katie Hartman, who is known in the theatrical sphere for her work in The Coldharts and as the Cincinnati Fringe Festival Producer, while OOPs Artistic Director Rupert Spraul music directs and plays guitar in the show’s five-piece band.

Judith, Deliver Us runs at Gabriel’s Corner on 1425 Sycamore Street in Over-the-Rhine on the following dates and times:

• Friday, August 1 at 7:30pm
• Saturday, August 2 at 7:30pm
• Wednesday, August 6 at 7:30pm
• Thursday, August 7 at 7:30pm (ASL interpreted)
• Friday, August 8 at 7:30pm
• Saturday, August 9 at 7:30pm

Please visit https://square.link/u/LMtMC8w2 for tickets and more information, and stay tuned for other OOPs updates on Facebook and Instagram (one.off.productions).