Cincinnati Playhouse News

The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park's world-premiere production of HAPPY WORST DAY EVER by Arlene Hutton will be performed "Off the Hill" at 14 Greater Cincinnati community centers from October 2 through October 31.

Victory Gardens opens its 2010/11 Season with Edward Albee's At Home At The Zoo directed by Artistic Director Dennis Za?ek. The production runs October 1 - October 31, 2010 at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue in Lincoln Park. The Press Opening is Monday, October 11, 2010, at 7:30 pm.

A Noise Within (ANW), the acclaimed classical repertory theatre company, revisits CHARLES DICKENS' thrilling GREAT EXPECTATIONS with the West Coast premiere of a powerful stage adaptation by Neil Bartlett opening Saturday, October 30 and closing Sunday, December 19, 2010 (previews begin Saturday, October 23). ANW Co-Founders and Co-Artistic Directors Julia Rodriguez-Elliott and Geoff Elliott co-direct this production - which features original music by noted composer Doug Newell - based on Dickens' masterful novel. Bartlett was also the adaptor of A Noise Within's 2008-09 season favorite Oliver Twist. This marks the second time Rodriguez-Elliott and Elliott have co-directed Great Expectations at A Noise Within, the first produced during the 1995-96 season, winning numerous awards.

The Second City, the world's premier comedy company and school of improvisation, is coming to the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park with an original show about all things Cincinnati.

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) continues its 2010-11 season with the West Coast premiere of Marcus; or The Secret of Sweet, directed by A.C.T. Associate Artistic Director Mark Rucker (A.C.T.'s The Rainmaker and the award-winning film Die, Mommy, Die!).

Florida Stage opens its 24th season with the new mystery 'Cane,' written by Andrew Rosendorf. Cane represents the first in a collection of plays being commissioned by Florida Stage about issues central to the state of Florida (The Florida Cycle). This is a deeply human and riveting new play with some extraordinary special effects-that looks at how it is possible that one of the wettest states in the nation has become so dry.

Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced the complete cast and creative team for the Globe's 13th annual production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

The Harbor Lights Theater Company presents I HATE HAMLET By Paul Rudnick, Starring Mandy Bruno, Joy Franz, Jay Montgomery, Caralyn Kozlowski, Howard Kaye, and Paul Wyatt. November 12th -21st, 2010

Penguin Rep Theatre closes its 33rd season with the New York premiere of MRS. MANNERLY, a comedy by Jeffrey Hatcher, October 1 through October 24 in Stony Point, New York. Directed by Penguin Rep artistic director Joe Brancato, MRS. MANNERLY stars Diane Ciesla and Mark Shanahan.

Renowned director Tazewell Thompson stages the poignant comic-drama Broke-ology, by Nathan Louis Jackson at TheaterWorks in Downtown Hartford.

English propriety is laid low by fistfights, gunplay, broken crockery, and a plane crash in George Bernard Shaw's Misalliance.

Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans announce the new musical Daddy Long Legs, directed by John Caird, the Tony and Olivier Award-winning director of Les Misérables, with music and lyrics by Paul Gordon, composer of Jane Eyre.

THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS, an adaptation of Isabel Allende's epic novel written by award-winning playwright Caridad Svich, will play the Denver Center Theatre Company's Space Theatre September 17-October 23 (opening night Thursday, September 23.)

Off-Broadway's acclaimed Irish Repertory Theatre continues its 23rd Season with Tony Award-nominated Irish playwright Conor McPherson's ST. NICHOLAS - a modern-day Gothic tale about a theatre critic, a beautiful actress, and a coven of vampires -- starring John Martello and directed by Alex Dmitriev, with previews set to begin October 15, prior to its official press opening on October 20 at Irish Repertory Theatre Company's W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre (132 West 22nd Street).

Writers' Theatre continues its 2010/11 Season with Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene, adapted for the stage by Giles Havergal, directed by Associate Artistic Director Stuart Carden.

LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS & MC COY RIGBY ENTERTAINMENT are thrilled to present the second production of their 2010-2011 season of shows - a brand new musical event from the Tony and Olivier Award-winning director of Les Misérables and the creator of Jane Eyre, DADDY LONG LEGS, based on the novel by Jean Webster, with music and lyrics by Paul Gordon (Jane Eyre), book and direction by Tony and Olivier Award-winner John Caird (Les Miserables), original musical direction by Laura Bergquist, musical direction by Julie McBride and starring Megan McGinnis and Robert Adelman Hancock.

Cape May Stage, a professional South Jersey Equity theatre company, is honoring actors Lynn and Ron Cohen at the annual NJ Theatre Alliance Applause Awards this year at the Bickford Theatre in Morristown, NJ on October 18, 2010. Lynn and Ron Cohen have chosen Cape May Stage as their artistic home and have committed to sharing their work with our community bypassing far more lucrative and higher profile projects.

The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park will open its Thompson Shelterhouse 2010 - 2011 season with Cincinnati native Theresa Rebeck's THE UNDERSTUDY. This bitingly witty and entertaining look behind the scenes of the acting world begins previews on September 18 and continues through October 17.

Lust, love and horror set the stage for the opening production of Bristol Riverside Theatre's 2010-11 mainstage season with Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher, running September 28-October 17. Directed by BRT Artistic Director Keith Baker, the ensemble cast features Ezra Barnes, Sean Gormley, Eileen Ward, and Debra Whitfield.

Piven Theatre Workshop extends its 2009-10 season with the Chicago premiere of Sarah Ruhl's adaptation of Chekov's Three Sisters, directed by Artistic Director Emeritus Joyce Piven. The production will run October 16 - November 21, 2010 at Piven Theatre Workshop, 927 Noyes Street