ENSEMBLE THEATRE CINCINNATI

One person’s trash is someone else’s treasure. Two essential workers from different worlds discover there’s more that binds them than taking out the trash in ...

Danny’s a white, blue-collar, New York City sanitation worker. Marlowe’s the Black, Ivy-educated newbie who just joined his route. Thrown together in the cab of ...

Start. Your. Engines. For 10 hard-luck Texans, a new lease on life is so close they can touch it. Under a scorching sun for days ...

Families, are we right? A world premiere comedy! Steph has typical mid-life woes on her plate: a precocious daughter about to graduate high school and ...

You know his iconic work. Now know him. Written and originally performed by playwriting legend August Wilson himself, this autobiographical tour-de-force chronicles Wilson’s days as ...

Everyone’s favorite hippo makes her musical debut in this world premiere! Based on the true story of the hippo that captured the world’s heart, this ...

She’s got some amendments. Fifteen-year-old Heidi earned her college tuition by winning constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful, and achingly ...

Good fences make good neighbors, right? But what about clotheslines? When the unflappable Jack Key moves in next door to the endearingly neurotic Lizzy Nash, ...

Things arent always black and whiteespecially when it comes to relationships. When Dean, a young professional, and Danya, an aspiring singer, go on a refreshingly ...

In Greenwich Village a generation or so ago, the city is alive. Joni Mitchell sings, friends and lovers come and go, and the regulars change ...

Its out with the old and in with the new (sort of). Over a quiet dinner for two, Bill and Nancy serenely decide to divorce ...

From the creators of last seasons hit Cinderella comes a whimsical adaptation of the classic fairy tale about a kingdom where an enchanting mystery is ...

Explosive drama: Made in America.This powerful drama takes us to the forgotten heart of America, where old friends come together at their favorite bar as ...

Presented in partnership with Caracole and in observation of International AIDS Memorial Day and annual Pride Celebrations, Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens shares ...

Based on the acclaimed book by Cheryl Strayed (author of the best-sellingWild),Tiny Beautiful Things is a funny and deeply touching exploration of resilience followingthe then-struggling ...

Your Negro Tour Guide draws heavily from columns and National Public Radio commentaries collected in Kathy Y. Wilsons book, Your Negro Tour Guide: Truths in ...

PhD candidates Sanam and Ariel have spent the better part of the last decade exhaustively researching vanishing bee populations across the globe. Just as these ...

What do you get when you combine a nearsighted bookworm heroine, two fabulously self-absorbed stepsisters, one devilishly diva stepmother, along with a self-empowering Well-Wisher? A ...

Nya, a public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son, Omari, opportunities theyll never have. But when ...

From improv and script analysis to lighting and sound design, ETCs fun summer camps offer theatrical experiences for everyone! Whether together or apart, this one-of-a-kind ...

This one-woman play by emerging playwright Isaiah Reaves thrillingly recounts the story of his grandmother, a nationally recognized Civil Rights pioneer Betty Daniels Rosemond and ...

Set from 1953 and traveling to 1985, this 1999 Tony Award for Best Play winner, chronicles the life of trumpet players broken family as it ...

Set from 1953 and traveling to 1985, this 1999 Tony Award for Best Play winner, chronicles the life of trumpet players broken family as it ...

An impromptu behind-bars snapshot taken during a 1970s protest lockup sparks an eccentric, four-decade friendship. Every year, photographer Danny and her friends reunite to take ...

Join us Thursday, 2/11 at7:00 pm for a discussion with two-time OBIE award-winning playwright, Susan Miller! She'll be talking about our current streaming production of ...

Within this one week camp for grades 9-12, participants will take classes and workshops taught by professional teaching artists in improv, acting, audition technique, script ...

Through hands-on instruction, participants will explore the technical areas of our theatre and craft. Those involved will attend a variety of classes covering subjects such ...

A two-week day camp for ages 7-15 yrs with classes taught by professional teaching artists, culminating in full production of an age-appropriate one-act play. A ...

An impromptu behind-bars snapshot taken during a 1970s protest lockup sparks an eccentric, four-decade friendship. Every year, photographer Danny and her friends reunite to take ...

London, 1952. Pioneering British biophysicist Rosalind Franklins DNA discovery leads to the Nobel Prizenot for her, but for three men: Francis Crick, James Dewey Watson, ...

Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son, Omari, opportunities theyll never have. But ...

Maude, aka Madame Rosa, is not your average fortune teller. A true clairvoyant with a bluntness that wont quit, she often scares her customers away ...

ETC will present an evening of 10-minute plays by local plawrights centering on the theme of justice to accompany the regional premiere of Pipeline by ...

Prince Ivans father has declared that it is time for his sons to marry, but when Ivan discovers his bride-to-be is actually a frog, he ...

Prince Ivans father has declared that it is time for his sons to marry, but when Ivan discovers his bride-to-be is actually a frog, he ...

Meet Joe Marks, a graduating basketball star whose college scholarship is suddenly in jeopardy when his poorly-written, sexually explicit note to his girlfriend is confiscated ...

Watch, learn, and laugh along as Seth Rudetsky works his magic with 10 local artists, helping them choose the best audition songs to showcase their ...

Hailed as one of Broadways most original musicals and the winner of 5 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, this is the groundbreaking story inspired by ...

For this fierce pack of elite teenage female athletes, intensity is not a perfume label. Drive. Ambition. Endurance. Precision. We’re not talking about any high ...

A makeshift family of auto workers navigates a high-stakes power-play in this searing drama. Times are tough in 2008 Detroit as a hundred-year-old industry grinds ...

A bold, bitingly funny (and completely unauthorized) sequel to one of the most groundbreaking plays ever written. Nora famously slammed the door on her marriage, ...

A deliciously inappropriate comedy of daring one-upmanship. A sunny room on an upper floor is prime real estate at Bristol Senior Living Facility, so when ...

Join the ever-curious Alice and her bubbly friends for an unforgettable tea party. Based on the beloved, imaginative tale by Lewis Carroll, this modern retelling ...

Bruce Cromer takes the stage for two weeks only! A jaded theatre critic spins a tale beginning with obsession and ending with a descent into ...

An enchanting, darkly comic rock-fable musical. A gypsy prophecy propels melancholy sandwich-maker Harold and two bewitching sisters through a star-crossed journey of love and connection. ...

Brilliantly innovative, heartbreaking, and wickedly funny, this landmark American musical is about a gender-crossed glam rocker who immigrates to America, determined to become a superstar. ...

Born in 1896 into abject poverty, Ethel Waters became a Vaudeville success and a recording sensation while crossing racial barriers to emerge as a Broadway ...

Theatre Royal, London, 1833. Edmund Kean, the greatest actor of his generation, has collapsed on stage while playing Othello. A young African-American actor is called ...

Breaking with tradition, Erik Blake has brought his family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter’s apartment. As darkness falls outside the ramshackle pre-war duplex and ...

Wanting the best for his daughters, an overprotective king locks the castle doors each night. Yet, each morning, the princesses’ shoes have been curiously worn ...

We want to believe that serendipity brings us together, but is that just a myth? Mining the comedy of missed connections, this 2016 Humana Festival ...

Robert returns to Dublin to reunite with Cait, the woman who captured his heart during a James Joyce literary tour 35 years ago. Dancing backwards ...

It’s 1972 and Agnes, a single mother and former nurse, runs a quiet bed and breakfast on a remote island off the Washington coast that ...

When blind date newbie Aaron is set up with serial-dater Casey, a casual drink at a busy New York restaurant turns into an uproarious high-stakes ...

This sequel to last year's runaway hit continues the story about what happens following “happily ever after.” What happens when Prince Freddy and Cinderella move ...

Eighteen-year-old Tray is working on his college essay, boxing at the gym, and holding down a part-time job. When he happens to be at the ...

He’s young, he’s broke, his landlord’s knocking at the door, and he’s just found out his wife is going to have a baby. To make ...

He’s young, he’s broke, his landlord’s knocking at the door, and he’s just found out his wife is going to have a baby. To make ...

He’s young, he’s broke, his landlord’s knocking at the door, and he’s just found out his wife is going to have a baby. To make ...

With a score of show-stopping anthems ranging from American-roots to folk to gospel, Violet tells the story of a young woman's quest for beauty amidst ...

Twenty years ago, Emma walked out on her husband, cowboy-poet Ulysses, in the middle of a night that he can't remember, and that she will ...

An unexpected pregnancy ends an ace fighter pilot's career in the sky. Reassigned to operate remote-controlled military drones in the Middle East from a windowless ...

What do you get when you combine a nearsighted bookworm heroine, two fabulously self-absorbed stepsisters, one devilishly diva stepmother, along with a self-empowering Well-Wisher? A ...

What's a renowned diva to do with decades of memories that light the corners of her mind? And where to put the acres of memorabilia ...

Caroline, a veteran social worker, thinks she has a typical case on her hands when she meets Peter and Karlie, two teenage drug addicts accused ...

This is a new romantic comedy from the Pulitzer-, Oscar-, and Tony Award-winner John Patrick Shanley, writer of Doubt and Moonstruck. Anthony and Rosemary are ...

1967, Detroit. When their parents die, Chelle and Lank inherit their childhood home. To make ends meet, the siblings host “basement parties,” spinning the newest ...

Described by The New York Times as "a cagy, emotionally resonant drama packed with plot twists," this powerfully engaging piece is also a haunting and ...

For the holidays, ETC features the return of Sleeping Beauty. Romance, comedy, action, rock n' roll, and opera—this magical, musical version of Sleeping Beauty has ...

TimeOut NY declared An Iliad "pure theater: shocking, glorious, primal and deeply satisfying." With the lingering shadow of war in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, this ...

Based on the 1997 documentary film of the same name, Hands on a Hardbody garnered three Tony Award nominations, and features a brilliant score from ...

Hilarious and honest, Size Matters is an autobiographical one man show with fifteen characters. The show addresses the topics of bullying, body issues, love, and ...

On April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. cools down in a lonely Memphis hotel room after delivering the speech of a lifetime. When ...

Meet Billy: the deaf son of a fiercely outspoken family obsessed with self-expression. He has adapted brilliantly to his family’s unconventional ways, but they’ve never ...

It is 1899 and the mysterious, brilliant, mathematically precise Englishman Phileas Fogg has wagered his considerable fortune that the world can now be circumnavigated in ...

From Gina Gionfriddo whose writing credits include Law & Order and the new Netflix series House of Cards, Rapture, Blister, Burn is a "piercingly sharp, ...

A new play by the creator of TV's hit drama Brothers & Sisters, this searing comedy was named the Outstanding Play by the Outer Critics ...

REGIONAL PREMIERE. The season concludes with the highly anticipated sequel to Ensemble Theatre’s best selling show of all time! Marvelous Wonderettes: Caps & Gowns takes ...

REGIONAL PREMIERE. Set during the Great Depression, Susannah travels the country, recording lost traditional songs. Hoping to find the one song that will bring her ...

REGIONAL PREMIERE. This spirited drama centers on legendary psychoanalyst Dr. Sigmund Freud, who invites a then little-known professor, C.S. Lewis, to his home in London. ...

For the holidays, Ensemble Theatre will bring back one of its most cherished family-friendly musicals with the return of ALICE IN WONDERLAND. A magical musical ...

REGIONAL PREMIERE. This irreverent, yet poignant comedy is inspired by the hilarious memories of a childhood etiquette class, wherein playwright Jeffrey Hatcher conjures up the ...

Regional Premiere. In this humor laced drama, Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire (RABBIT HOLE) explores the struggles, shifting loyalties and unshakeable hopes that come with ...

Next to Normal returns to Ensemble Theatre for a limited encore engagement. The Goodmans seem like a perfect family. The only problem is that sometimes ...