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The spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future converge on the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park as U.S. Bank presents Charles Dickens' iconic holiday story, A CHRISTMAS CAROL. The beloved tale of a miserly humbug's redemption, enjoyed each season by multiple generations of Cincinnatians, will be performed for its 23rd year in the Playhouse's Robert S. Marx Theatre from Nov. 27 through Dec. 29.

FAKE FLOWERS DON'T DIE, winner of this year's Macy's New Play Prize For Young Audiences, opens the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park's 2013-14 Off the Hill season with performances at more than a dozen Tristate community centers from tonight, Sept. 28 through Nov. 2. The script, by nationally acclaimed playwright John Yearley, is the 12th recipient of the Macy's New Play Prize, for which national playwrights are chosen by The Playhouse to create new work specifically for younger audiences.

FAKE FLOWERS DON'T DIE, winner of this year's Macy's New Play Prize For Young Audiences, opens the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park's 2013-14 Off the Hill season with performances at more than a dozen Tristate community centers from Sept. 28 through Nov. 2.

Know Theatre has announced When The Rain Stops Falling by Andrew Bovell, acclaimed Australian playwright and author of Speaking in Tongues (recently seen at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park in 2012). Time Out Magazine's Best New Play of 2010, When the Rain Stops Falling opens on February 8, 2013 and runs through March 16, 2013. Cincinnati Shakespeare Company's Producing Artistic Director Brian Isaac Phillips will direct the production, with scenic and lighting design by Andrew Hungerford, costume design by Noelle Wedig, and sound design by Doug Borntrager.

The Human Race Theatre Company wraps up its 2011-2012 25th Anniversary Season with the Midwest premiere of Band Geeks!, described as 'a gleefully entertaining musical about the trials and tribulations of a down-on-its-luck Ohio high school marching band.'

The first play in Neil Simon's autobiographical trilogy is a portrait of the playwright as a teen in 1937, living with his family in a lower middle-class Brooklyn walk-up.

Covedale Center for the Performing Arts Presents BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS, 1/20-2/6

Covedale Center for the Performing Arts Presents BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS, 1/20-2/6

Covedale Center for the Performing Arts presents the season closer, Singin' In The Rain, based on the MGM Film. Screenplay by: Betty Comden and Adolph Green, songs by: Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed

Covedale Center for the Performing Arts presents the season closer, Singin' In The Rain, based on the MGM Film. Screenplay by: Betty Comden and Adolph Green, songs by: Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed