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Dayton, OH 45402

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First Standings Announced for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Dayton Awards; THE MUSIC MAN Leads Best Musical!


by BWW Awards - December 01, 2025

The first standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Dayton Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

The Human Race Theatre Company To Present SEASONAL SHORTS, A NEW HOLIDAY COMEDY FESTIVAL


by A.A. Cristi - November 11, 2025

The Human Race Theatre Company will present SEASONAL SHORTS, a new collection of six short holiday plays written by local playwrights, running December 10–21, 2025, at The Loft Theatre....

The Human Race Theatre Company to Present DRACULA: A FEMINIST REVENGE FANTASY, REALLY


by A.A. Cristi - September 30, 2025

The Human Race Theatre Company marks its 40th anniversary by returning to the play that started it all: Dracula. This time, the company takes a fresh bite with Kate Hamill’s Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really, a darkly comic and gender-bending reimagining of Bram Stoker’s classic novel....

DAD'S PLACE - A FARCE to be Presented at Human Race Theatre Company


by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 12, 2025

Fathers and sons, downsizing, and imposter syndrome? Right at home in Jake Lockwood’s world premiere Dad’s Place – A Farce starting the 40th Season at The Human Race Theatre Company. Learn more! ...

THE WEDDING SINGER and More Set for Wright State Theatre 2025–2026 Season


by A.A. Cristi - June 12, 2025

Wright State University’s Department of Theatre, Dance, and Motion Pictures has announced its 2025–2026 season, themed “Remember, Reflect, Reimagine.” Spanning comedy, drama, musicals, and world premieres, the season invites audiences to explore coming-of-age stories, historic turning points, and fr...

The Human Race Theatre Company To Present THE COMEUPPANCE by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins


by A.A. Cristi - May 20, 2025

The Human Race Theatre Company will present The Comeuppance, a sharp and moving new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. The production runs June 4–15, 2025, at The Loft Theatre in downtown Dayton....

Curve Announces UK Premiere Of New Musical INDIGO In Studio Theatre


by A.A. Cristi - March 10, 2025

Curve will present the UK premiere production of new musical INDIGO, which will run from 26 June to 19 July this summer in the Studio Theatre. Tickets for INDIGO will be on-sale to Made at Curve Circle, Patrons and Friends from Tuesday 11 March, ...

Curve Announces UK Premiere Of New Musical INDIGO In Studio Theatre


by A.A. Cristi - March 10, 2025

Curve will present the UK premiere production of new musical INDIGO, which will run from 26 June to 19 July this summer in the Studio Theatre. Tickets for INDIGO will be on-sale to Made at Curve Circle, Patrons and Friends from Tuesday 11 March, ...

CAMELOT to be Presented at The Human Race Theatre Company


by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 20, 2025

Embark on a majestic journey to a realm where honor, dignity, and morality pave the way for a new era under the youthful King Arthur’s reign, with Camelot, coming to The Human Race Theatre Company this spring. Learn more!...

I NEED THAT Comes to Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati


by Stephi Wild - January 16, 2025

Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati will kick off the new year with the regional premiere comedy I Need That, by award-winning playwright Theresa Rebeck. Learn more here!...

Past Shows

peerless
peerless
4/25 - 5/12/2024


What would you do to get into your dream college? For Twins M and L, the answer is...anything. When D gets “their” spot instead, they figure ...

Shipwrecked! An Entertainment: The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as Told by Himself)


Adventure on the High Seas catapults man to fame and fortune! Is it too good to be true?

Reindeer Sessions
Reindeer Sessions
12/13 - 12/23/2023


What REALLY happened on that foggy Christmas Eve?

INDIGO
6/8 - 6/25/2023

BARBECUE
4/13 - 4/30/2023

A SOLDIER’S PLAY
2/14 - 2/19/2023

WHO’S HOLIDAY!
12/8 - 12/23/2022

DEADLINE
10/27 - 11/13/2022

GROUNDED
9/8 - 9/25/2022

My 80 Year Old Boyfriend
6/16 - 7/3/2022

My 80-Year-Old Boyfriend
6/16 - 7/3/2022


In this delightful new musical, Charissa, a quirky, twenty-something actress, meets Milton, a quick-witted, eighty-something millionaire who loves Schubert, Shakespeare and Dallas BBQ. From a ...

A SOLDIER’S PLAY
2/14 - 2/19/2022

AIRNESS
AIRNESS
10/21 - 11/7/2021


By Chelsea Marcantel An exuberant reminder that everything we need to rock is already inside us. When Nina enters her first air guitar competition, she ...

LOOPED
LOOPED
8/5 - 8/22/2021


Based on a real event, which has been the subject of gossip for years in Hollywood, Looped takes place in the summer of 1965, when ...

THE REVOLUTIONISTS
THE REVOLUTIONISTS
6/23 - 7/4/2021


Four beautiful, badass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, but feeling a bit like ...

NOW AND THEN
NOW AND THEN
4/28 - 5/9/2021


Sometimes what happens after last-call just might change your life forever. One night in 1981, just as Jamie is closing the bar where he works, ...

Gloria: A Life
2/27 - 3/15/2020


This production celebrates Ohio-born journalist, social political activist and nationally recognized leader of the American feminist movement, Gloria Steinem, with the play by Emily Mann, ...

Elisabeth von Trapp & Friends


A Special One-Night Only Holiday Event!Elisabeth von Trapp has been called "magical" and "a motivational musician." She's a member of one of the most famous ...

The Cake
10/31 - 11/17/2019


Della makes cakes, not judgment calls — those she leaves to her husband, Tim. Besides, she was just selected as a contestant on The Great ...

LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR & GRILL


A celebration of life and art fully lived. “Music is light to me.” – Billie Holiday The time is 1959. The place is a seedy ...


In 1959, Billie Holiday, or “Lady Day” as she was called, performed one of her final shows in a run-down bar in South Philly. In ...

Lizzie
Lizzie
6/13 - 6/30/2019


"Lizzie Borden too an axe..." And we know what happened next. Or do we? It's a powerful rock-show retelling of the sensational - and bloody ...

Sylvia
Sylvia
4/25 - 5/12/2019


Middle-aged Greg brings home a dog he found - or rather, one that found him. With no identification other than "Sylvia" on her nametag, she ...

26 Pebbles
26 Pebbles
2/2 - 2/19/2017


26 Pebbles A World Premiere by Eric Ulloa directed by Igor Goldin February 2 – 19, 2017 On December 14, 2012, an act of unbelievable ...

Master Class
Master Class
6/9 - 6/26/2016


One of the opera world’s greatest legends takes center stage as Maria Callas gives three aspiring singers a rough welcome into the world of performing. ...

Lewis Black's One Slight Hitch


Life in suburban Cincinnati is good for Doc and Delia Coleman on the morning they’re about to throw their eldest daughter the perfect wedding they ...

The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie
2/4 - 2/21/2016


Memories as fragile as glass are tossed into the air in Tennessee Williams’ first great masterpiece. Dreams meet reality and love becomes desperate in a ...

Santaland Diaries
Santaland Diaries
12/10 - 12/19/2015


Meet the quintessential elf gone bad as he relives a series of less-than-merry misadventures in David Sedaris’ hysterical antidote for holiday havoc. Spend some time ...

Steel Magnolias
Steel Magnolias
11/5 - 11/29/2015


The sassy hit of our 1988-1989 season finally returns! Many things beside hair get done at Truvy’s hair salon, and that’s why it is the ...

Lewis Black in Concert


Lewis Black in Concert: A Benefit to The Human Race (Theatre Company) October 11, 2015 at the Victoria Theatre Comedian Lewis Black, the “King of ...

The Full Monty
The Full Monty
9/10 - 10/4/2015


In need of quick cash and low on prospects, six unemployed Buffalo steelworkers come up with the outrageous idea to put on a strip act ...

Crowns
Crowns
6/11 - 7/5/2015


Crowns by Regina Taylor adapted from the book by Michael Cummingham and Craig Marberry June 11 – July 5, 2015 When troubled Brooklyn teenager Yolanda ...

Taking Shakespeare
Taking Shakespeare
4/16 - 5/3/2015


Taking Shakespeare by John Murrell directed by Aaron Vega April 16 – May 3, 2015 When a longtime, disillusioned college professor is asked to tutor ...

Buyer & Cellar
Buyer & Cellar
2/12 - 3/1/2015


Buyer & Cellar by Jonathan Tolins directed by Scott Stoney February 12 – March 1, 2015 An out-of-work actor in Los Angeles, Alex takes on ...

Family Shots
Family Shots
1/22 - 2/8/2015


Family Shots by Michael Slade directed by Kevin Moore January 22 – February 8, 2015 Charming family patriarch Sam Baker lies in a hospital bed, ...

Mame
Mame
10/30 - 11/23/2014


Mame Dennis is a free-wheeling eccentric without a care until she becomes the guardian of her ten-year-old nephew, Patrick. Now it’s up to her to ...

Miracle on South Division Street


60 years ago, Grandpa Nowak had a vision of the Virgin Mary in his Buffalo, New York barbershop and had an unusual statue of her ...

Play It by Heart
Play It by Heart
6/12 - 7/6/2014


This production is already listed but we are extending the run an additional week. The added performances are July 1, 2, 3 and 5 at ...

Play It by Heart
Play It by Heart
6/13 - 6/29/2014


It’s the passing of the torch in a country music dynasty as superstar Jeannine Jasper’s long career draws to a close. The changing world of ...

Other Desert Cities
Other Desert Cities
3/28 - 4/13/2014


The Wyeth family’s Palm Springs Christmas reunion is already a tense affair between conservative parents Lyman and Polly, former GOP celebrities, their two grown children ...

Torch Song Trilogy
Torch Song Trilogy
1/31 - 2/16/2014


Poignant and filled with witty, sharp humor, Fierstein’s deeply personal story of self - discovery redefined an era in gay America. What begins as a ...

Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof
11/1 - 11/17/2013


Welcome to the village of Anatevka, where tradition is everything. But change is sweeping across the land and into poor dairyman Tevye’s house. When his ...

Becky's New Car
Becky's New Car
9/13 - 9/29/2013


Becky Foster is stuck in neutral - middle aged, in middle management and a middling marriage — until an honest misunderstanding with a wealthy widower ...

Avenue Q
6/6 - 6/29/2013


Leave the kids at home and get ready for some ridiculous, riotous and downright raunchy puppet behavior in this 2004 triple Tony Award® winner. Come ...

Oliver!
Oliver!
11/29 - 12/16/2012


Consider yourself at home with this beloved Tony Award®-winning musical based on Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist. Orphaned at birth, sold from a workhouse and led ...

Under a Red Moon
Under a Red Moon
10/18 - 11/18/2012


WORLD PREMIERE! A spine-tingling pursuit of truth Witness a chilling psychological thriller inspired by the true events of Britain's notorious 1949 "Acid Bath Murderer." Confessed ...

Managing Maxine
Managing Maxine
9/6 - 9/23/2012


She's bold, yet tender. She's brash, but sincere. And at the age of 70, Maxine Levine may have just found real love for the first ...

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Scrooge: The Musical in Dayton Scrooge: The Musical
La Comedia (11/1 - 12/28)

HOLIDAY SHOW Tracker
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Singin' In The Rain in Dayton Singin' In The Rain
La Comedia (2/19 - 3/29)
Jesus Christ Superstar in Dayton Jesus Christ Superstar
La Comedia (4/2 - 5/10)
Les Miserables in Dayton Les Miserables
Schuster Performing Arts Center [Mead Theatre] (2/3 - 2/8)
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory in Dayton Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
La Comedia (6/25 - 8/9)
The Wedding Singer in Dayton The Wedding Singer
La Comedia (5/14 - 6/21)
Come From Away in Dayton Come From Away
La Comedia (8/20 - 9/27)
Stinky Cheese Man in Dayton Stinky Cheese Man
La Comedia (10/13 - 10/24)
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