by Stephi Wild - January 20, 2026
The Hot Wing King is coming to Dayton this summer. Written by Katori Hall and directed by Darnell Pierre Benjamin, performances run June 3 - 14, 2026. Learn more here!...
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....
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....
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! ...
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....
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!...
by A.A. Cristi - January 13, 2025
A Distinct Society, a gripping dramatic comedy by Kareem Fahmy coming to The Human Race Theatre Company in February. Tickets are on sale through the Dayton Live box office....
by A.A. Cristi - November 08, 2024
Dayton Live will welcome SEASON'S GREETINGS: A HOLIDAY CABARET back to the PNC Arts Annex for five performances, December 4 – 7. Presented and produced by Dayton Live, this unique 6-person holiday cabaret is now in its fourth season....
by Stephi Wild - September 25, 2024
Our Town, a deeply moving and thought-provoking piece of theatre written by Thorton Wilder and described by playwright Edward Albee as the finest American play ever written, envelops us in the places and faces of Grover’s Corners, holding up a mirror to all of humanity. ...
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 ...
Adventure on the High Seas catapults man to fame and fortune! Is it too good to be true?
What REALLY happened on that foggy Christmas Eve?
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
Della makes cakes, not judgment calls — those she leaves to her husband, Tim. Besides, she was just selected as a contestant on The Great ...
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 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 ...
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 A World Premiere by Eric Ulloa directed by Igor Goldin February 2 – 19, 2017 On December 14, 2012, an act of unbelievable ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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: A Benefit to The Human Race (Theatre Company) October 11, 2015 at the Victoria Theatre Comedian Lewis Black, the “King of ...
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 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 by John Murrell directed by Aaron Vega April 16 – May 3, 2015 When a longtime, disillusioned college professor is asked to tutor ...
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 by Michael Slade directed by Kevin Moore January 22 – February 8, 2015 Charming family patriarch Sam Baker lies in a hospital bed, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Foster is stuck in neutral - middle aged, in middle management and a middling marriage — until an honest misunderstanding with a wealthy widower ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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Wizard of Oz on Ice
Clark State Performing Arts Center (2/25 - 2/25) | |
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Murder On The Orient Express
La Comedia (1/15 - 2/15) | |
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Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
La Comedia (6/25 - 8/9) | |
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Pinkalicious
La Comedia (4/14 - 4/25) | |
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Come From Away
La Comedia (8/20 - 9/27) | |
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Santa Claus: The Musical and The Gift of Christmas
La Comedia (11/12 - 12/28) | |
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The Wedding Singer
La Comedia (5/14 - 6/21) | |
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Les Miserables
Schuster Performing Arts Center [Mead Theatre] (2/3 - 2/8) | |
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Stinky Cheese Man
La Comedia (10/13 - 10/24) | |
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