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CHURCH AND STATE Runs April 18-27

CHURCH AND STATE
Xenia Area Community Theatre
April 18-27
[Xenia]

Directed by Mike Taint

Cast: Steve Mongelli as Senator Charles Whitmore (R/NC), Amy Taint as Sara Whitmore, Jonah Reed as Alex Klein, Shawn Furl as Tom & Brandon Castillo as Marshall

Church & State is a fast-paced dramedy about faith, politics, and “The Twitter”. The play is about Charles Whitmore’s Senate re-election campaign, and how he decides to finally tell the public exactly what’s on his mind, no filter. As his devoutly Christian wife and liberal Jewish campaign manager try to contain the damage, the play looks at how religion influences politics and how politics has become a religion. The play is simultaneously funny, heartbreaking, and uplifting.

  • Fri-Sat, April 18-19 at 7pm
  • Sun, April 20 at 3pm
  • Fri-Sat, April 25-26 at 7pm
  • Sun, April 27 at 3pm

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Auditions Announced for TALKING WITH… at Xenia Area Community Theatre

Directed by Catherine Shannon

Auditions: March 17th & 18th @7pm

Performances: May 16th-25th
Auditions will take place in the form of cold reads. Actors will have time to look over the sides before their audition.
Casting Breakdown:
Actors of all ages (18+), ethnicities, races, and disabilities are encouraged to audition. All characters are female-presenting and the play is consisted of eleven monologues.
  • 15 MINUTES- (20s-30s F) An insecure actress prepares in her dressing room while musing about the imbalanced relationship between audience and performer and the “self-lacerating exposure” of entertainment, wishing for a deeper connection with the people watching her.
  • SCRAPS- (30s-50s F) A housewife reveals her escapist double-life as the Patchwork Girl from the Wizard of Oz books. Her maladaptive daydreaming transports her into the lands of Oz, but increasingly struggles to navigate between reality and fairytale.
  • CLEAR GLASS MARBLES- (30s-50s F) A woman recounts the time leading up to her mother’s death and the lessons it gave her, learning to let go of each day with the drop of a clear glass marble.
  • AUDITION- (20s-30s F) A jittery young actress exhibits increasing desperation to be cast, going to violent and threatening lengths to secure her spotlight.
  • RODEO- (30s-50s F) An ex-rodeo star reflects on the commercialization of rodeo that ended her career, and the monetization of passion.
  • TWIRLER- (20s-30s F) A champion baton twirler relays her rise to glory and expresses the cathartic revelations of twirling, arguing to the audience the unparalleled spiritual connection of “throwing yourself up to God.”
  • LAMPS- (50s-70s F) An older woman responds to her progressive lonliness and questions of aging with the patterns and versatility of light, filling her home with lamps to conduct shadows.
  • HANDLER- (20s-30s F) A Pentecostal Holiness snake handler presents to the audience her demanding faith and the threat of being bit if you don’t have spirit.
  • DRAGONS- (30s-40s F) A woman giving birth takes pride in her life’s tenacious abnormality through the pains of labour and a doctor “affronted by the extraordinary” of her little dragon.
  • FRENCH FRIES- (50s-70s F) A homeless woman dreaming of living in a McDonald’s balances humor with solemnity as she affirms plastic as God’s proof of eternity.
  • MARKS- (50s-70s F) Having spent too long “unmarked by life,” a woman adorned in scars and tattoos declares the importance of living your life upon your skin- and her mission to help others’ lives truly start.

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Cast Announced for CHURCH AND STATE at Xenia Area Community Theatre

Xenia Area Community Theater, director Mike Taint and assistant director Onyx Davis are pleased to announce the cast of CHURCH AND STATE, opening in Xenia on Friday April 19, 2025.

  • Steve Mongelli as Senator Charles Whitmore
  • Amy Taint as Sara Whitmore
  • Jonah Reed as Alex Klein
  • Shawn Furl as Tom
  • Brandon Castillo as Marshall

For more information visit www.xeniaact1.org

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MY WILLIAM SHATNER MAN CRUSH Runs March 7-16

MY WILLIAM SHATNER MAN CRUSH
Xenia Area Community Theatre
March 14-23
[Xenia]

Directed by Nikki Lange & T.C. Kimmet

Cast: Frank Raynor as Randy, Ryan Kimmet as Frank, Wade Davis as Tony, Mary McKinley as Jenny, Anna Blair as Zora, Sasha Kozlova as June, Edith Waugh as Sadie & Trenton Napier as Announcer/Others

Three nerdy roommates and the woman who likes one of them…The problem is that she won’t say which one she likes.

  • Fri-Sat, March 7-8 at 7pm
  • Sun, March 9 at 3pm
  • Fri-Sat, March 14-15 at 7pm
  • Sun, March 16 at 3pm

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2025-2026 Season Announced by Xenia Area Community Theatre

AS YOU LIKE IT (as a Drunk Play)
Sept. 13-27
Directed by Nikki Lange & Tanya Kimmet

ANGEL STREET (GASLIGHT)
Oct. 17-26
Directed by Onyx Davis

DIRTY DEEDS AT THE DEPOT 
Dec. 12-21
Directed by Melodee Bass

OLD-SCHOOL LIVING 
Jan. 23-Feb. 1, 2026
Directed by Dee Berdine

AN EVENING OF THE ABSURD
KRAPP’S LAST TAPE and THE BALD SOPRANO
March 13-22, 2026
Directed by Mike Taint and Matt Lindsay

I REMEMBER MAMA 
May 8-17,2026
Directed by Debra Zweber

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