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HOME BREW THEATRE is The Drama Workshop’s celebration of short plays by local authors. There will be four performances the weekend of January 15-17, 2027.

Friday 1/15 730pm. Saturday 1/16 2pm. Saturday 1/16 730pm. Sunday 1/17 2pm.

Auditions are:

• Tuesday October 6: 630-930pm
• Wednesday October 7: 630-930pm

Location: The Glenmore Playhouse: 3716 Glenmore Ave. Cheviot, OH 45211

Use this link to sign up for an audition slot: https://www.signupgenius.com/index.cfm?go=s.signup&urlid=70A094FA8A622A6FC1-66107974-auditions&useFullSite=true#/

Scripts will be made available once play selection is complete. 

Audition Requirements: All actors will be asked to fill out an online audition form, and upload a headshot and resume. Auditions will consist of readings from selected scripts. You may be requested to stay past your audition time to read with other actors. Auditions will be in front of a panel of directors, and will be recorded on video for any director unable to make it.

Rehearsals likely begin in November. Rehearsal schedules will be determined per each play’s director and cast availability.

If cast, you will be required to 

• Become a member of The Drama Workshop. Membership fee is $20.
• Sign and abide by TDW’s Code of Conduct.

For questions regarding Home Brew Theatre 10, please email tdw.homebrew@gmail.com

The Drama Workshop, director Dennis Murphy and musical director Linda Abbott will hold auditions for the musical MAN OF LA MANCHA on September 27 and 28, 2026. 

Auditions will be held at the Arts Center at Dunham, 4356 Dunham Lane, Cincinnati, 45238. 

Those wishing to audition are asked to sign up for a time slot at https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A094FA8A622A6FC1-65438045-manofla

Rehearsals for MAN OF LA MANCHA will begin in early January and performances will run March 4 -22, 2027 at the Glenmore Playhouse.

Please prepare 16 to 32 bars of a ballad from a classic Broadway musical written prior to 1970. (Bring sheet music in the correct key or your own taped or electronic accompaniment.) Those auditioning will also be asked to read selected scenes from the script and to participate in a short movement audition.

One of the Muleteers plays the guitar. If you are interested in auditioning for this role, please bring your guitar and prepare a song to play at the audition.

Callbacks will be held by invitation on Wednesday, September 30 beginning at 7 p.m.

MALE ROLES

• Miguel de Cervantes (also plays Don Quixote and Alonso Quijana) – actor/author, imprisoned by the Inquisition – [Tenor/High Baritone]
• Cervantes’ Manservant (also plays Sancho Panza, Don Quixote’s squire) — [Tenor]
• Barber — a traveling barber [Tenor]
• Padre — the local priest [Tenor/High Baritone]
• Duke – (also plays Dr. Sansón Carrasco — Antonia’s fiancé and the Knight of the Mirrors) [Baritone/Tenor]
• Governor – (also plays Innkeeper, Maria’s husband) [Baritone]
• Seven Muleteers:
  • Jose – smallest of the muleteers
  • Tenorio – also plays Rocinante, Quixote’s Horse
  • Paco – also plays Dapple, Panza’s Donkey
  • Juan – uses whip
  • Anselmo – most villainous [Tenor + falsetto]
  • Pedro – leader, largest of the muleteers [Tenor]
  • Guitar Player

Non singing roles:

• Captain of the Guards
• 3 Guards (also play Attendants to the Knight of the Mirrors and the Inquisition)

FEMALE ROLES

• Aldonza (Dulcinea) – kitchen wench/love interest of Quixote [Mezzo-Soprano]
• Antonia – Alonso’s niece, fiancé to Carrasco [Soprano]
• Don Quijana’s Housekeeper [High Alto]
• Maria – the Innkeeper’s wife
• Fermina – a servant at the inn
• Moorish dancer