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The Match Game
The Match Game
4/13 - 5/5/2024


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 ...

Hands on a Hardbody
Hands on a Hardbody
6/8 - 6/30/2024


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 ...


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THE MATCH GAME Comes to Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati Next Month


by Stephi Wild - March 22, 2024

 Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati will present the world premiere dramedy The Match Game by Steven Strafford. Performances run April 13 – May 5, 2024. ...

Ensemble Theatre Presents August Wilson's HOW I LEARNED WHAT I LEARNED


by A.A. Cristi - January 29, 2024

Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati (ETC) kicks off the new year with the regional premiere drama August Wilson's How I Learned What I Learned, co-conceived by Todd Kreidler....

Casting Society Of America Member D. Lynn Meyers To Audition Actors For MEALS 4 MONOLOGUES, December 4-5 & 7


by A.A. Cristi - November 13, 2023

Ensemble Theatre is hosting auditions for Meals 4 Monologues. Find out how you can participate in this virtual audition event....

Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati Presents World Premiere Musical FIONA: THE MUSICAL, November 29 – December 29


by A.A. Cristi - October 25, 2023

Everyone's favorite hippo makes her musical debut! Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati (ETC) is thrilled to present Fiona: The Musical, written by Cincinnati native Zina Camblin and ETC composer David Kisor....

Ghostlight Theatre Co to Present Inaugural Playwright Festival Featuring New Works by Dedrick Weathersby


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 03, 2023

Join Ghostlight Theatre Co for their Inaugural Playwright Festival featuring new works by Dedrick Weathersby. Don't miss the opportunity to experience these brand new plays in a staged reading format with light staging and costuming. ...

Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati Opens 2023-2024 Season With WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME


by A.A. Cristi - August 16, 2023

Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati (ETC) opens its 38th year with the Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award nominee What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schreck. Called “endearingly funny” and “deeply affecting” by The Washington Post, this boundary-breaking dramedy breathes new life into our Consti...

Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati Reveals Winner of the 2023 Jackie Demaline Regional Collegiate Playwriting Competition


by Stephi Wild - July 11, 2023

Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati (ETC) is pleased to announce the winner of the fifth annual PLAY/write: The Jackie Demaline Regional Collegiate Playwriting Competition. The annual collegiate competition nurtures local aspiring dramatists who are helping to shape the future of American theatre and provid...

Review: MAYTAG VIRGIN at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati


by Ana-Brit Asplen - June 03, 2023

A love story at its core, director Bridget Leak uses a great deal of nuance to form the connection of its two characters as they navigate the slow burn of attraction, grief, and life itself....

Ensemble Theatre Reveals Lineup For 2023-2024 Season


by Stephi Wild - May 18, 2023

Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati (ETC), the region’s premiere theatre, is delighted to announce its 2023-2024 season, which features a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a world premiere comedy, an autobiographical tour-de-force, and the revival of a unique rock musical. Along with this compelling lineup, next sea...

Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati Closes The 2022-2023 Season With The Regional Premiere Dramedy MAYTAG VIRGIN, May 27 – June 18


by A.A. Cristi - May 02, 2023

​​​​​​​Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati (ETC) closes its 2022-2023 Season with the regional premiere dramedy Maytag Virgin by Audrey Cefaly. May 27–June 18, 2023. Directed by Bridget Leak. Premiere Sponsors are John Goering; Mark Haggard and Daniel Brown....

Past Shows

August Wilson's How I Learned What I Learned


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 ...

Fiona: The Musical
Fiona: The Musical
11/29 - 12/29/2023


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 ...

What the Constitution Means to Me


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 ...

Maytag Virgin
Maytag Virgin
5/27 - 6/18/2023


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, ...

Who All Over There?
Who All Over There?
4/8 - 4/30/2023


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 ...

Morning Sun
Morning Sun
2/25 - 2/19/2023


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 ...

Grand Horizons
Grand Horizons
1/14 - 2/5/2023


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 ...

The Dancing Princesses
The Dancing Princesses
11/30 - 12/30/2022


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 ...

Sweat
Sweat
9/17 - 10/9/2022


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 ...

Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens


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 ...

Tiny Beautiful Things
Tiny Beautiful Things
5/28 - 6/25/2022


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 ...

Double Bill: Your Negro Tour Guide / I Shall Not Be Moved


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 ...

Queen
Queen
2/19 - 3/19/2022


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 ...

Cinderella
Cinderella
12/1 - 12/30/2021


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 ...

Pipeline
Pipeline
9/22 - 10/16/2021


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 ...

Technical Theatre Intensive 2021


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 ...

I Shall Not Be Moved: The Story of Betty Daniels Rosemond, First Draft Reading


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 ...

Side Man
Side Man
3/22 - 4/11/2021


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 ...

Side Man
Side Man
3/22 - 4/4/2021


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
2/1 - 2/28/2021


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


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 ...

High School Summer Stock 2020


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 ...

 Technical Theatre Intensive


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 ...

Jr. Summer Stock 2020
Jr. Summer Stock 2020
7/6 - 7/17/2020


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 ...

20th Century Blues
20th Century Blues
5/30 - 6/27/2020


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 ...

Photograph 51
Photograph 51
4/18 - 5/16/2020


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, ...

Pipeline
Pipeline
3/7 - 4/4/2020


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 ...

Fortune
Fortune
1/18 - 2/15/2020


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 ...

10 Minute Connections: Justice


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 ...

The Frog Princess
12/4 - 1/4/2020


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 ...

The Frog Princess
The Frog Princess
12/4 - 1/4/2020


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 ...

Sex and Education
Sex and Education
10/15 - 10/26/2019


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 ...

Seth Rudetsky's 'Deconstructing Broadway'


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 ...

Fun Home
Fun Home
8/31 - 9/28/2019


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 ...

The Wolves
The Wolves
6/1 - 6/29/2019


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 ...

Skeleton Crew
Skeleton Crew
4/13 - 5/11/2019


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 Doll's House, Part 2
A Doll's House, Part 2
3/2 - 3/30/2019


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, ...

Ripcord
Ripcord
1/19 - 2/16/2019


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 ...

Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland
11/28 - 12/30/2018


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 ...

St. Nicholas
St. Nicholas
10/12 - 10/27/2018


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 ...

Fly By Night
Fly By Night
9/1 - 9/29/2018


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. ...

Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
6/5 - 7/1/2018


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
4/24 - 5/19/2018


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
3/6 - 3/31/2018


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
1/23 - 2/17/2018


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
11/29 - 12/30/2017


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
10/10 - 11/4/2017


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
4/4 - 4/23/2017


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


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
1/17 - 2/5/2017


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
11/30 - 12/30/2016


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 ...

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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


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 ...

Violet
Violet
5/3 - 5/22/2016


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
3/22 - 4/10/2016


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
1/26 - 2/14/2016


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
12/2 - 1/3/2016


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
10/13 - 11/1/2015


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
9/8 - 9/27/2015


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
5/6 - 5/24/2015


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
3/17 - 4/5/2015


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
1/28 - 2/15/2015


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
12/3 - 1/4/2015


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
10/15 - 11/2/2014


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
9/3 - 9/21/2014


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
5/7 - 5/25/2014


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
3/19 - 4/6/2014


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
1/29 - 2/16/2014


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
12/4 - 1/4/2014


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
10/9 - 10/27/2013


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
9/4 - 9/22/2013


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


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!
3/13 - 3/31/2013


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
1/23 - 2/10/2013


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
11/28 - 12/30/2012


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
10/10 - 10/28/2012


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
9/5 - 9/23/2012


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
6/15 - 7/1/2012


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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