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Cincinnati, OH-The Walnut Hills High School Theatre Department is elated to be welcoming back audiences to the Rick Steiner Black Box Theatre with the senior high play, THE BIRDS.

Two men abandon an increasingly vain and shallow society, making their way into the desert to live among the birds. Seeking the freedom and tranquility that come with bird-living, they must make a case for why they deserve an avian transformation, but all they have to offer are the pieces of civilization they’ve tried to leave behind. The Birds begs the question: Can human beings truly go against their nature?

The show runs April 18-20th at 7pm, with an additional performance at 2pm April 20th in the Rick Steiner Black Box Theatre.

Maya Busche as Matt, Naima Jones as Dillon, Elijah Eison as The King, Corinne Adams as Chorus Leader, and Andrew Canter as Rags in the Walnut Hills High School production of The Birds. Photo by Mikki Schaffner Photography.

Tickets are $13 for adults and $11 for students. They are now available, and can be purchased at: https://sites.google.com/view/whhstheatredepartment/tickets

This production and the entire WHHS Theatre Season is graciously sponsored by:

• The Walnut Hills High School Class of 1964 Performing Arts Fund
• Wings Walnut Hills Theatre Boosters
• Solution Roofing
• Riverview Heating and Cooling
• Betsy and Brian Peerless

Aristophanes’ THE BIRDS
By Brian Reno and Gabriel Vega Wiessman

Featuring: Maya Busche as Matt, Naima Jones as Dillon, Andrew Canter as Rags/Chorus of Birds, Elijah Eison as The King, Clark Sayre as A Prophet/A Politician/The Open Defecator/A Process Server/PR Guy Interloper, Adelaide Linser as A Singer/Songwriter/Chorus of Birds, AJ Frecker as A PR Guy/Chorus of Birds. Charles Burdsall as A Movie Mogul/Chorus of Birds, Jonathan Rubin as Famous Sidekick/Chorus of Birds, Lauryn Shafer as Superhero #1/Chorus of Birds, Kyra Doty as Superhero #2/Chorus of Birds, Corinne Adams as Chorus Leader/Chorus of Birds, Norah Boem as Chorus of Birds, Violet Garitson as Chorus of Birds, Max Rush as Chorus of Birds, and Jana Smith as Chorus of Birds.

• Director/Technical Director: Helen A Raymond-Goers
• Assistant Director: Mackenzie Bell
• Stage Manager: Nyla Shahanavaz
• Assistant Stage Manager: Elliott Bruegemann
• Scenic Designers: Will Boone and Laine Adams
• Costume Designer: Emma Smith
• Props Designer: Abbie Kershner
• Lighting Designers: Ryan Peerless and Gabby Crawford
• Sound Designer: Jack Hardig
• Hair and Makeup Designer: Sci Redding
• Marketing and Publicity: Lizzy Rebber and Clark Sayre
• Master Electrician: Maya Busche

Izzy Lachey as Velma Kelly, Wolf Singer as Billy Flynn & Lizzy Rebber as Roxie Hart. Photo by Mikki Schaffner Photography.

The Walnut Hills High School Theatre Department Presents Celebrity, Scandal, and A Commentary on the American Criminal Justice System, Through Satirical Comedy in CHICAGO

Cincinnati, OH- The Walnut Hills High School Theatre Department is elated to be welcoming back audiences to its auditorium with the senior high musical, Chicago (Teen Edition). 

In roaring twenties Chicago, chorine Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband, Amos, to take the rap… until he finds out he’s been duped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another “Merry Murderess,” Velma Kelly, vie for the spotlight and the headlines, ultimately joining forces in search of the “American Dream”: fame, fortune, and acquittal.

Regarding the musical, director Mike Sherman says, “Chicago is a classic of the American Musical Theatre, and a show our audiences have long requested. It is a masterpiece of satire that is still sadly relevant today, but it makes its points with songs, dances, and lots of laughs.”

The show runs February 15-17, 2024 in the Walnut Hills High School Auditorium. 

Tickets are $13 for adults and $11 for students. They are now available, and can be purchased at: https://sites.google.com/view/whhstheatredepartment/tickets

This production and the entire WHHS Theatre Season is graciously sponsored by: 

• The Walnut Hills High School Class of 1964 Performing Arts Fund
• Wings Walnut Hills Theatre Boosters
• Solution Roofing
• Riverview Heating and Cooling
• Betsy and Brian Peerless

Featuring: Lizzy Rebber as Roxie Hart, Izzy Lachey as Velma Kelly, Wolf Singer as Billy Flynn, Maya Busche as Mama Morton, Christian Jordan as Amos Hart, Tre Hall as Master of Ceremonies, Adelaide Linser as Mary Sunshine, Caroline Lovelace as Liz/Dancer, Sophie Catanalotto as Annie/Dancer, Emma Dalton as June/Dancer, Mya Verticchio as Hunyak/Dancer, Lael Ingram as Mona/Dancer, Tamara Munoz as Go To Hell Kitty/Dancer, Winter Cruser as Male Tap Dancer/Doctor/Reporter, Kyra Doty as Female Tap Dancer/Clerk/Dancer, Maya Lipscomb as Bailiff/Dancer, Naima Jones as Judge/Dancer, Nate Caudill as Fred Casley/Reporter, Andrew Canter as Harry/Reporter, Clark Sayre as Sgt. Fogarty/Reporter, Jonathan Rubin as Aaron/Reporter, James Overton as Harrison/Reporter, and Elijah Cook, AJ Frecker, Violet Kimnach, Annie Larsen, Adah Mosher, Tamara Munoz, Andrew Prevost, Jana Smith, Kendra Sullivan, Jonas Warner, and Anna Wright as Reporters. 

Directed by Mike Sherman

Assistant Directed by Oran Wilkins

Choreographer- Kate Stark

Student Choreographer- Izzy Lachey

Assistant Student Choreographer- Lael Ingram

Music Director- Steve Goers

Technical Direction by Helen A. Raymond-Goers

Production Stage Manager- Jameira Jones

Assistant Stage Managers- Richie Bell and Max Rush

Hair and Makeup Designer- Laylah Torain

Props Designer- Oran Wilkins

Costume Designer- Paloma Lanzador

Lighting Designer- Ryan Peerless

Marketing and Publicity Head- Lizzy Rebber

Master Electrician- Maya Busche

Scenic Designer- Max Rush

Sound Designers- Nyla Shahanzvaz and Heather Strom

Members of The Tectonic Theatre Project played by Arrow Coker, Adah Mosher, Jonathan Rubin, Charles Burdsall, Clark Sayre, and Nola Stowe. Photo by Mikki Schaffner. Costumes by Diabou Fall.

Cincinnati, OH- Following a fantastic season last year, the Walnut Hills High School Theatre Department is eager to welcome back audiences to The Rick Steiner Black Box Theater with THE LARAMIE CYCLE.

Part I, The well-known classic THE LARAMIE PROJECT, runs November 2nd-4th, 2023 at 7 p.m. with an additional 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday, November 4th. Part II, the lesser-known THE LARAMIE PROJECT: TEN YEARS LATER runs December 9 &10, 2023 at 2 p.m. with an additional 7 p.m. performance on Saturday, December 9.

In October 1998, a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten, and left tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised, and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay. Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half, in the aftermath of the beating and during the trial of the two young men accused of killing Shepard. They conducted more than 200 interviews with the people of the town. Some people interviewed were directly connected to the case, while others were citizens of Laramie, and the breadth of the reactions to the crime is fascinating.

Kaufman and Tectonic Theater members have constructed a deeply moving theatrical experience from these interviews and their own experiences in Laramie. THE LARAMIE PROJECT is a breathtaking collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.

Ten years later on September 12th, 2008, five members of Tectonic returned to Laramie to try to understand the long-term effect of the murder. They found a town wrestling with its legacy and its place in history. In addition to revisiting the folks whose words riveted us in the original play, this time around, the company also spoke with the two murderers, McKinney and Henderson, as well as Matthew’s mother, Judy Shepard. THE LARAMIE PROJECT: TEN YEARS LATER is a bold new work, which asks the question, “How does society write its own history?”

“On the 25th anniversary of Matthew Shepard’s death, we are incredibly honored and excited to be the first high school theatre program in the area to do both of these plays as a cycle.” says director Mike Sherman. “Matthew’s murder was a watershed moment for our country that inspired a generation of activists, and we feel these two plays still have many lessons to teach us about how we as a country react to, respond, and view national tragedies like this.”

Tickets are $13 for adults and $11 for students. They are now available, and can be purchased at: https://sites.google.com/view/whhstheatredepartment/tickets.

CONTENT WARNING: Verbal descriptions of violence, assault, death and use of sexual orientation slurs.

This production and the entire WHHS Theatre Season is graciously sponsored by the Walnut Hills High School Class of 1964 Performing Arts Fund.

THE LARAMIE PROJECT
Featuring cast members Katie Berich, Norah Boehm, Charles Burdsall, Andrew Canter, Nate Caudill, Arrow Coker, Elijah Cook, Aida Doumbia, Kyra Doty, Noa Jaffee, Christian Jordan, Josie Leanza, Caroline Lovelace, Adah Mosher, Hoyt Noble, Larena Peart, Khara Rosebrook, Jonathan Rubin, Clark Sayre, Lauryn Shafer, Jude Shotwell, Wolf Singer, and Nola Stowe.

Directed by Mike Sherman
Assistant Director by Laylah Torain
Technical Direction by Helen A. Raymond-Goers
Production Stage Manager- Abbie Kershner
Assistant Stage Manager- Richie Bell
Costume Designer- Diabou Fall
Hair and Makeup Designer- Lizzy Rebber
Co-Props Designers- AJ Frecker and Oran Wilkins
Props Manager- Oran Wilkins
Lighting Designer- Sophie Glenn
Scenic Designer- Ryan Peerless
Sound Designer- Maya Busche
Mistress Electrician- Maya Busche
Head of Marketing and Publicity- Lizzy Rebber

THE LARAMIE PROJECT: TEN YEARS LATER
Featuring cast members Corrine Adams, Andrew Canter, Theo Davis, Kyra Doty, Morgan Felsburg, Clare Graff, Izzy Lachey, Clark Sayre, and Wolf Singer

Directed by Mike Sherman
Assistant Director- Emma Dalton
Production Stage Manager- Abbie Kershner
Assistant Stage Manager- Maya Busche
Costume Designer- Katie Berich
Costume/Hair and Makeup Assistant Designer- Lizzy Rebber
Hair and Makeup Designer- Corrine Adams
Lighting and Scenic Designer- Ryan Peerless
Mistress Electrician- Maya Busche
Props and Set Decoration- Morgan Felsburg and Wolf Singer
Props Manager- Oran Wilkins
Sound Designer- Oran Wilkins
Head of Marketing and Publicity- Lizzy Rebber