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ENSEMBLE THEATRE CINCINNATI

1127 Vine St
Cincinnati, OH

Upcoming Shows

Fourteen Funerals
Fourteen Funerals
Mar 21 – Apr 12, 2026

Family. You can’t pick ’em—even when they’re dead.When Sienna receives a cryptic call about the untimely deaths of distant relatives in Blissfield, Indiana, she finds...

The House on Watch Hill
The House on Watch Hill
May 9 – May 31, 2026

The scariest thing isn’t the haunted house—it’s growing up.Based on true events and full of nostalgic charm, The House on Watch Hill is a thrilling new theatrical...



Cincinnati Critics Wanted

BWW is always seeking talented theater enthusiasts to head up feature coverage our over 130 regional areas. As a Contributing Editor, you will have the opportunity to review the shows of your choice, conduct interviews with local and touring talent, design features of your own choosing for publishing, and work/network with your local theater press reps to bring exposure to the theatrical offerings in your area.

All applicants should have excellent writing skills and an interest for giving local theaters and productions some prominence on BroadwayWorld.com.

Your compensation as a featured writer with us not only includes exclusive press seats to all of the shows you cover (as is standard in your area and arranged between you and the theater) but also the opportunity to be published under your own byline and publishing profile on both the local and main pages of the site for maximum exposure to our 5M+ monthly visitors.

If this sounds like you, please send a resume and one writing sample to social@broadwayworld.com.

Past Shows

Where We Stand
Where We Stand
Jan 31 – Feb 22, 2026

Every choice echoes. Every listener bears witness.What does community mean? And what do we owe to one another? In a town running low on compassion,...

It's Fritz! A Sequel to Fiona: The Musical
It's Fritz! A Sequel to Fiona: The Musical
Dec 3 – Dec 31, 2025

The sequel to ETC’s bestselling show of all time arrives this holiday season!Everyone knows Fiona the hippo, but her little brother Fritz is still figuring...

Next To Normal
Next To Normal
Sep 13 – Oct 11, 2025

One of ETC’s most popular shows returns!This Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical delves into the heart of a family shattered by mental illness but...

Side Man
Side Man
Mar 22 – Apr 4, 2021

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...

20th Century Blues
20th Century Blues
Feb 1 – Feb 28, 2021

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...

Meet the Artists with Susan Miller
Meet the Artists with Susan Miller
Feb 11

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...

Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Jun 5 – Jul 1, 2018

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....

His Eye is on the Sparrow
His Eye is on the Sparrow
Apr 24 – May 19, 2018

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...

Red Velvet
Red Velvet
Mar 6 – Mar 31, 2018

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...

The Humans
The Humans
Jan 23 – Feb 17, 2018

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...

The Dancing Princesses
The Dancing Princesses
Nov 29 – Dec 30, 2017

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...

This Random World
This Random World
Oct 10 – Nov 4, 2017

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...

Bloomsday
Bloomsday
Apr 4 – Apr 23, 2017

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...

When We Were Young and Unafraid
When We Were Young and Unafraid
Feb 21 – Mar 12, 2017

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...

First Date
First Date
Jan 17 – Feb 5, 2017

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...

Cinderella: After Ever After
Cinderella: After Ever After
Nov 30 – Dec 30, 2016

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...

brownsville song (b-side for tray)
brownsville song (b-side for tray)
Oct 11 – Oct 30, 2016

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...

The Legend of Georgia McBride
The Legend of Georgia McBride
Sep 6 – Sep 25, 2016

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...

Violet
Violet
May 3 – May 22, 2016

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...

Annapurna
Annapurna
Mar 22 – Apr 10, 2016

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...

Grounded
Grounded
Jan 26 – Feb 14, 2016

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...

Cinderella
Cinderella
Dec 2 – Jan 3, 2016

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...

Buyer and Cellar
Buyer and Cellar
Oct 13 – Nov 1, 2015

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...

Luna Gale
Luna Gale
Sep 8 – Sep 27, 2015

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...

Outside Mullingar
Outside Mullingar
May 6 – May 24, 2015

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...

Detroit '67
Detroit '67
Mar 17 – Apr 5, 2015

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...

The Other Place
The Other Place
Jan 28 – Feb 15, 2015

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...

Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty
Dec 3 – Jan 4, 2015

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...

An Iliad
An Iliad
Oct 15 – Nov 2, 2014

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...

Hands on A Hardbody
Hands on A Hardbody
Sep 3 – Sep 21, 2014

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...

Size Matters
Size Matters
May 7 – May 25, 2014

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...

The Mountaintop
The Mountaintop
Mar 19 – Apr 6, 2014

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...

Tribes
Tribes
Jan 29 – Feb 16, 2014

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...

Around The World in 80 Days
Around The World in 80 Days
Dec 4 – Jan 4, 2014

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...

Rapture, Blister, Burn
Rapture, Blister, Burn
Oct 9 – Oct 27, 2013

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

Other Desert Cities
Other Desert Cities
Sep 4 – Sep 22, 2013

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...

MARVELOUS WONDERETTES: CAPS & GOWNS
MARVELOUS WONDERETTES: CAPS & GOWNS
May 1 – May 19, 2013

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...

BLACK PEARL SINGS!
BLACK PEARL SINGS!
Mar 13 – Mar 31, 2013

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...

FREUD'S LAST SESSION
FREUD'S LAST SESSION
Jan 23 – Feb 10, 2013

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....

Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland
Nov 28 – Dec 30, 2012

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...

MRS. MANNERLY
MRS. MANNERLY
Oct 10 – Oct 28, 2012

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...

GOOD PEOPLE
GOOD PEOPLE
Sep 5 – Sep 23, 2012

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
Next to Normal
Jun 15 – Jul 1, 2012

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...

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