In honor of 60 years of bringing theatre to the west side of Cincinnati and beyond, The Drama Workshop is proud to announce their website make-over!
Come check out the sleek new design at http://thedramaworkshop.org.
Thanks for the years and years and years and years and … … of support! We couldn’t be more thrilled with the community theatre scene in Cincinnati and how it has evolved and continues to thrive here!
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The Drama Workshop will hold AUDITIONS for NUNSENSE on Sunday June 16 from 2:00 to 5:00 and Monday June 17 from 7:00 to 10:00. Call backs will be
Thursday, June 20 at 7:00 PM. Director is Lizanne Ingram, Music Director is
Linda Abbott. Produced by Megan Schultheis and Gretchen Gantner
Auditions are at THE GLENMORE PLAYHOUSE, 3716 Glenmore Avenue, Cheviot, OH 45211
Roles for 5 women.
Show runs Friday, October 4 through Sunday, October 20; 9 performances.
Auditioners are asked to prepare 32 bars from a musical theatre song and come prepared to dance. Headshots and resumes are appreciated but not required.
Audition appointments may be made by emailing or calling Gretchen Gantner
at GRoose1876@aol.com or 513.470.5516. Walk-ins will be accepted in the
first available time slot.
NUNSENSE Character descriptions:
Show synopsis:
The Order of the Little Sisters of Hoboken take over a high school
auditorium to hold a fundraising variety show to raise money to bury several
sisters (who were accidentally poisoned by their cook). They must inter the nuns
before the health inspector comes and finds the dead nuns in their
freezer! Fraught with hilarity, both Catholic and otherwise, we watch as 5 nuns
try to perform their planned performance amidst chaos and calamity.
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BAREFOOT IN THE PARK
Presented by The Drama Workshop
April 26-May 12
Cheviot
Directed by Laura Boggs
Produced by Mary Stone with Leslie Roden
Cast: David Trump as Paul, Jennifer Rhodenhiser as Corie, – Bob Brunner as Victor Velasco, Bett Kooris as Mother, Ray Lebowski as Telephone Repair Man & Doug Tumeo as Delivery Man
A conservative young lawyer and his irrepressible bride struggle with marital discord after the ecstasy of the honeymoon gives way to the reality of setting up housekeeping in a five-flight walk-up. Throw in an emotionally repressed mother-in-law, a bohemian upstairs neighbor, and a bottle of Ouzo, and you end up with a laugh-a-minute comedy that will keep you in stitches! Suitable for ages 14 and up.
Official page with online ticketing |
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The Drama Workshop’s production of JERRY FINNEGAN’S SISTER was selected to represent Ohio at this year’s AACT regional festival in Hartford, Wisconsin. We estimate that it’s going to cost $1200 to make the trip next month. ACT Cincinnati has kicked in $300, and OCTA has donated $200 towards this effort. We have a Kickstarter campaign going to help us get the rest of the way.
http://www.kickstarter.com
/projects/1967181645/
the-drama-workshop-sends-jfs-to-aact
Cast and crew going up will be Bonnie Emmer, Nick Castle, Cindy Emmer, Ray Persing, Tobie Braverman, and Jason Cox.
If you can, please kick in a little towards this effort!
Thanks in advance for your assistance!
Ray Persing
The Drama Workshop
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(Cheviot, Ohio) The Drama Workshop, one of Cincinnati’s oldest and most critically acclaimed community theater companies, is proud to present John Patrick Shanley’s “Doubt, A Parable”. The Pulitzer Prize winning drama opens March 8, and will play 3 consecutive weekends at The Glenmore Playhouse, 3716 Glenmore Avenue, Cheviot, Ohio 45211.
“Doubt” presents a gripping tale set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964. A young, progressive priest, Father Flynn, is working to modernize the schools’ strict customs, placing him into direct conflict with the authoritarian principal of the school, Sister Aloysius. Aloysius is steadfastly resisting the changes sweeping through the church and the community – including the acceptance of the school’s first black student, Donald Muller. When Sister James, a young teacher at the school, shares with Sister Aloysius her suspicion that Father Flynn has met secretly with Donald, the principal’s suspicious nature leads her to believe the worst. Armed with moral certainty, she begins crusading to remove Flynn from the school, and – if possible – the priesthood. Now, Flynn and Aloysius find themselves locked in an epic battle that threatens to destroy the church and school that they both serve.
This tale reaches beyond the obvious connections to recent issues within the Catholic Church, and expands the story to examine the rationale behind personal motivations and the shades of grey present in the relationship between any two people. In addition to winning the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, “Doubt” also won the 2005 Tony Award for Best Play, the 2005 Drama Desk Award for Best New Play, and 2005 New York Drama Circle’s Best Play Award.
The Drama Workshop’s production of “Doubt, A Parable” is directed by Michael L. Morehead and produced by Ray Persing. The show features an award-winning cast, including Glenn Schaich as Father Flynn, Christine Dye as Sister Aloysius, Julia Hedges as Sister James, and Burgess Byrd as Mrs. Muller.
Because of the strong nature of the material, TDW does not recommend this show for children.
Tickets may be ordered online through The Drama Workshop’s website at www.thedramaworkshop.org, or through the TDW ticket line at 513-598-8303. Tickets are $15, but discounts are available for groups of 10 or more.
THE DRAMA WORKSHOP was founded in 1954. TDW is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to education and promotion of theatrical arts. Based at the newly renovated Glenmore Playhouse in Cheviot, The Drama Workshop is widely recognized as one of greater Cincinnati’s most accomplished community theater organizations, garnering dozens of awards annually from the Association of Community Theaters. TDW productions have been regularly selected to represent the Southwest Ohio region at the Ohio Community Theater Association annual conference, and it was recently chosen to represent the state of Ohio at the American Association of Community Theaters at the 2013 Midwest Theater Festival in April 2013. Prospective members, and individuals or businesses interested in helping to advance TDW’s mission are encouraged to contact the group through our website at www.thedramaworkshop.org or by phone at 513-598-8303.
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