Michael Shooner News

The new crime action comedy, THE KING OF BLOODY FOOKIN' BRITAIN, directed by Julio Mario Barriga and Derek Evans, will be released on TVOD in April.

New Edgecliff Theatre today announced an exciting addition to NET's performance line up with the regional premiere of Conor McPherson's "St. Nicholas". This chilling one-man show features NET Executive Director Michael Shooner and is directed by Brian Robertson. "St. Nicholas" will run in NET's newly-created major production slot, Feb. 23-March 10.

New Edgecliff Theatre presents the regional premiere of Conor McPherson's "St. Nicholas". This chilling one-man show features NET Executive Director Michael Shooner and is directed by Brian Robertson. "St. Nicholas" will run in NET's newly-created major production slot, Feb. 23-March 10.

New Edgecliff Theatre today announced an exciting addition to NET's performance line up with the regional premiere of Conor McPherson's "St. Nicholas". This chilling one-man show features NET Executive Director Michael Shooner and is directed by Brian Robertson. "St. Nicholas" will run in NET's newly-created major production slot, Feb. 23-March 10.

Everyone has obsessions, and New Edgecliff Theatre's 2011-2012 season seeks to examine the changes brought about by those obsessions - both in a person's life and the lives of those around them. The five-show season includes the late Lanford Wilson's Burn This and the regional premieres of St. Nicholas by Conor McPherson, and Reasons to be Pretty by Neal LaBute. The annual Sweet Suspense event returns for Halloween. NET breathes new life into its annual holiday offering, pairing The Santaland Diaries with new work from True Theatre.

Having already arranged to fill New Edgecliff Theatre's recently vacated Cincinnati Directors Competition slot with their highly-regarded 2010 Cincy Fringe favorite, 'Aberrant Reflections on the Barbarism of You & I', Artemis Exchange hasjust been informed that the innovative show been accepted for inclusion in this year's Chicago Fringe, set for Sept. 1-11.

Under new Artistic Director Jim Stump, New Edgecliff Theatre will produce a local premiere and bring back The CincinnatiDirectors Competition in its appropriately-named 2010-2011 'Contenders' season. As Stump says, 'This season focuseson one of the strongest human instincts - to compete, whether against others or ourselves.'

New Edgecliff Theatre opens its 2009-2010 season with the critically acclaimed Equus. Written by the Oscar Award-winning Peter Shaffer, Equus opened at the National Theatre in 1973 and became a worldwide sensation, winning both the Tony and Drama Desk Awards. In 2007, a new production opened in London starring Richard Griffiths and Daniel Radcliffe (star of the Harry Potter series), becoming one of the biggest hits ever seen in the West End before moving to Broadway.

Now in its eleventh season, New Edgecliff Theatre (NET) is about to produce its first bona fide musical ever, and it's doing it with a bang, bringing to Cincinnati the regional premiere of A.M. Collins' and Chad Henry's 'Angry Housewives'.