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Masterful performances.

Nestled on a hill and commanding a superb view of downtown Cincinnati, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park has been offering audiences the finest in professional theatre for more than 60 years. Nationally known for its excellence and commitment to new works and as an artistic home for America’s best actors, directors and designers, the Playhouse always keeps its primary role at center stage – to serve the Tristate by producing the finest in classic and contemporary works: musicals, dramas, comedies and recent hits. Simply put, the Playhouse strives to celebrate the live theatrical experience in superlative fashion, in a setting that is second to none.  

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2010 - 2020

May 22, 2017, 10:37 AM

Sixtieth Season (2019-20)

Once on This Island, book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, music by Stephen Flaherty, based Upon the Novel, “My Love, My Love” by Rosa Guy

Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace, adapted for the stage by Jennifer Blackmer

Moe & Jack Rouse and Randolph Wadsworth present The Lifespan of a Fact, Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell and Gordon Farrell

2 Pianos, 4 Hands, Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt

First Financial Bank presents A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin

Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, Alan Janes

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Leading Ladies presents Destiny of Desire, Karen Zacarías (Closed early due to the pandemic.)

Actually, Anna Ziegler (Unable to open due to the pandemic.)

Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig (Unable to open due to the pandemic.)

The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati presents Becoming Dr. Ruth, Mark St. Germain (Unable to open due to the pandemic.)

 


 

Fifty-Ninth Season (2018-19)

Misery, William Goldman, based on the novel by Stephen King

The Roommate, Jen Silverman

Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon

Cincinnati King, KJ Sanchez

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin

The Second City — It's Not You, It's Me

In the Heights, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, book by Quiara Alegría Hudes, conceived by Lin-Manuel Miranda

The Last Wide Open, Audrey Cefaly

August Wilson's Two Trains Running

The Thanksgiving Play, Larissa FastHorse

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, based on the comic strip "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schulz; book, music and lyrics by Clark Gesner

Tiny Houses, Chelsea Marcantel

 


 

Fifty-Eighth Season (2017-18)

Shakespeare in Love, based on the screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, adapted for the stage by Lee Hall, music by Paddy Cunneen

Mr. Joy, Daniel Beaty

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Simon Stephens | Adapted from the novel by Mark Haddon

Frank Ferrante in An Evening with Groucho

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin

Million Dollar Quartet, book by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux

Be Here Now, Deborah Zoe Laufer

Marie and Rosetta, George Brant

Sooner/Later, Allyson Currin

Treasure Island, Ken Ludwig, adapted from the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson

Murder for Two, book and music by Joe Kinosian, book and lyrics by Kellen Blair

 


 

Fifty-Seventh Season (2016-17)

A Prayer for Owen Meany, a novel by John Irving, adapted by Simon Bent

Disgraced, Ayad Akhtar

Jitney, August Wilson

The Second City's Holidazed & Confused Revue

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin

Little Shop of Horrors, book and lyrics by Howard Ashman, music by Alan Menken, based on a film by Roger Corman, screenplay by Charles Griffith

Summerland, Arlitia Jones

Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë, adapted by Polly Teale

All the Roads Home, Jen Silverman

Ken Ludwig's Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery

Erma Bombeck: At Wit's End, Allison Engel and Margaret Engel

 


 

Fifty-Sixth Season (2015-16)

The Secret Garden, book and lyrics by Marsha Norman, music by Lucy Simon, based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Sex with Strangers, Laura Eason

Mad River Rising, Dana Yeaton

Low Down Dirty Blues, Randal Myler and Dan Wheetman

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin

Native Gardens, Karen Zacarías

The Revolutionists, Lauren Gunderson

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, adapted by Christopher Sergel

Mothers and Sons, Terrence McNally

Satchel Paige and the Kansas City Swing, Trey Ellis and Ricardo Khan

Bad Dates, Theresa Rebeck

 


 

Fifty-Fifth Season (2014-15)

Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club, Jeffrey Hatcher, based on characters
created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and "The Suicide Club" by Robert Louis Stevenson

I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti, Jacques Lamarre from the novel by Giulia Melucci

Safe House, Keith Josef Adkins

Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical, Janet Yates Vogt and Mark Friedman

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin

Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash, Richard Maltby Jr. and William Meade, adapted from
the Broadway production by Richard Maltby Jr. and Jason Edwards

Chapatti, Christian O'Reilly

Peter and the Starcatcher, Rick Elice, adapted from the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson

Buzzer, Tracey Scott Wilson

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Christopher Durang

Circle Mirror Transformation, Annie Baker

 


 

Fifty-Fourth Season (2013-14)

Fly, Trey Ellis and Ricardo Khan

Seven Spots on the Sun, Martín Zimmerman

Cabaret, Joe Masteroff, Fred Ebb and John Kander

The Complete History of Comedy (abridged), Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin

Clybourne Park, Bruce Norris

4000 Miles, Amy Herzog

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, adapted for the stage by Joseph Hanreddy and J. R. Sullivan

A Delicate Ship, Anna Ziegler

Venus in Fur, David Ives

The North Pool, Rajiv Joseph

 


 

Fifty-Third Season (2012-13)

The Three Musketeers, Ken Ludwig, adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas

Through the Night, Daniel Beaty

Brighton Beach Memoirs, Neil Simon

Hank Williams Lost Highway: The Music and Legend of Hank Williams, Randal Myler and Mark Harelik

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin

Abigail/1702, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

Leveling Up, Deborah Zoe Laufer

The Trip to Bountiful, Horton Foote

The Book Club Play, Karen Zacarías

Double Indemnity, James M. Cain, adapted for the stage by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright

Shipwrecked! An Entertainment: The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont As Told By Himself, Donald Margulies

 


 

Fifty-Second Season (2011-12)

God of Carnage, Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton

As You Like It, William Shakespeare

Red, John Logan

Always ... Patsy Cline, Ted Swindley

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin

Dead Accounts, Theresa Rebeck

Speaking in Tongues, Andrew Bovell

Merrily We Roll Along, Stephen Sondheim & George Furth, based on the original play by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart

Tigers Be Still, Kim Rosenstock

Thunder Knocking on the Door, Keith Glover, Keb' Mo' & Anderson Edwards

The Second City 2: Less Pride ... More Pork

 


 

Fifty-First Season (2010-11)

High, Matthew Lombardo

The Understudy, Theresa Rebeck

You Can't Take It With You, George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart

The Second City Does Cincinnati: Pride and Porkopolis

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin

Over the Tavern, Tom Dudzick

The Piano Teacher, Julia Cho

Gee's Bend, Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder

Behind the Eye, Carson Kreitzer

Beehive, Larry Gallagher

The Pavilion, Craig Wright

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Playhouse Productions

2010 - 2020

May 22, 2017, 10:37 AM

Sixtieth Season (2019-20)

Once on This Island, book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, music by Stephen Flaherty, based Upon the Novel, “My Love, My Love” by Rosa Guy

Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace, adapted for the stage by Jennifer Blackmer

Moe & Jack Rouse and Randolph Wadsworth present The Lifespan of a Fact, Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell and Gordon Farrell

2 Pianos, 4 Hands, Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt

First Financial Bank presents A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin

Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, Alan Janes

americUS, UNIVERSES

Leading Ladies presents Destiny of Desire, Karen Zacarías (Closed early due to the pandemic.)

Actually, Anna Ziegler (Unable to open due to the pandemic.)

Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig (Unable to open due to the pandemic.)

The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati presents Becoming Dr. Ruth, Mark St. Germain (Unable to open due to the pandemic.)

 


 

Fifty-Ninth Season (2018-19)

Misery, William Goldman, based on the novel by Stephen King

The Roommate, Jen Silverman

Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon

Cincinnati King, KJ Sanchez

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin

The Second City — It's Not You, It's Me

In the Heights, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, book by Quiara Alegría Hudes, conceived by Lin-Manuel Miranda

The Last Wide Open, Audrey Cefaly

August Wilson's Two Trains Running

The Thanksgiving Play, Larissa FastHorse

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, based on the comic strip "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schulz; book, music and lyrics by Clark Gesner

Tiny Houses, Chelsea Marcantel

 


 

Fifty-Eighth Season (2017-18)

Shakespeare in Love, based on the screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, adapted for the stage by Lee Hall, music by Paddy Cunneen

Mr. Joy, Daniel Beaty

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Simon Stephens | Adapted from the novel by Mark Haddon

Frank Ferrante in An Evening with Groucho

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin

Million Dollar Quartet, book by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux

Be Here Now, Deborah Zoe Laufer

Marie and Rosetta, George Brant

Sooner/Later, Allyson Currin

Treasure Island, Ken Ludwig, adapted from the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson

Murder for Two, book and music by Joe Kinosian, book and lyrics by Kellen Blair

 


 

Fifty-Seventh Season (2016-17)

A Prayer for Owen Meany, a novel by John Irving, adapted by Simon Bent

Disgraced, Ayad Akhtar

Jitney, August Wilson

The Second City's Holidazed & Confused Revue

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin

Little Shop of Horrors, book and lyrics by Howard Ashman, music by Alan Menken, based on a film by Roger Corman, screenplay by Charles Griffith

Summerland, Arlitia Jones

Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë, adapted by Polly Teale

All the Roads Home, Jen Silverman

Ken Ludwig's Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery

Erma Bombeck: At Wit's End, Allison Engel and Margaret Engel

 


 

Fifty-Sixth Season (2015-16)

The Secret Garden, book and lyrics by Marsha Norman, music by Lucy Simon, based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Sex with Strangers, Laura Eason

Mad River Rising, Dana Yeaton

Low Down Dirty Blues, Randal Myler and Dan Wheetman

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin

Native Gardens, Karen Zacarías

The Revolutionists, Lauren Gunderson

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, adapted by Christopher Sergel

Mothers and Sons, Terrence McNally

Satchel Paige and the Kansas City Swing, Trey Ellis and Ricardo Khan

Bad Dates, Theresa Rebeck

 


 

Fifty-Fifth Season (2014-15)

Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club, Jeffrey Hatcher, based on characters
created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and "The Suicide Club" by Robert Louis Stevenson

I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti, Jacques Lamarre from the novel by Giulia Melucci

Safe House, Keith Josef Adkins

Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical, Janet Yates Vogt and Mark Friedman

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin

Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash, Richard Maltby Jr. and William Meade, adapted from
the Broadway production by Richard Maltby Jr. and Jason Edwards

Chapatti, Christian O'Reilly

Peter and the Starcatcher, Rick Elice, adapted from the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson

Buzzer, Tracey Scott Wilson

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Christopher Durang

Circle Mirror Transformation, Annie Baker

 


 

Fifty-Fourth Season (2013-14)

Fly, Trey Ellis and Ricardo Khan

Seven Spots on the Sun, Martín Zimmerman

Cabaret, Joe Masteroff, Fred Ebb and John Kander

The Complete History of Comedy (abridged), Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin

Clybourne Park, Bruce Norris

4000 Miles, Amy Herzog

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, adapted for the stage by Joseph Hanreddy and J. R. Sullivan

A Delicate Ship, Anna Ziegler

Venus in Fur, David Ives

The North Pool, Rajiv Joseph

 


 

Fifty-Third Season (2012-13)

The Three Musketeers, Ken Ludwig, adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas

Through the Night, Daniel Beaty

Brighton Beach Memoirs, Neil Simon

Hank Williams Lost Highway: The Music and Legend of Hank Williams, Randal Myler and Mark Harelik

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin

Abigail/1702, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

Leveling Up, Deborah Zoe Laufer

The Trip to Bountiful, Horton Foote

The Book Club Play, Karen Zacarías

Double Indemnity, James M. Cain, adapted for the stage by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright

Shipwrecked! An Entertainment: The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont As Told By Himself, Donald Margulies

 


 

Fifty-Second Season (2011-12)

God of Carnage, Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton

As You Like It, William Shakespeare

Red, John Logan

Always ... Patsy Cline, Ted Swindley

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin

Dead Accounts, Theresa Rebeck

Speaking in Tongues, Andrew Bovell

Merrily We Roll Along, Stephen Sondheim & George Furth, based on the original play by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart

Tigers Be Still, Kim Rosenstock

Thunder Knocking on the Door, Keith Glover, Keb' Mo' & Anderson Edwards

The Second City 2: Less Pride ... More Pork

 


 

Fifty-First Season (2010-11)

High, Matthew Lombardo

The Understudy, Theresa Rebeck

You Can't Take It With You, George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart

The Second City Does Cincinnati: Pride and Porkopolis

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, adapted by Howard Dallin

Over the Tavern, Tom Dudzick

The Piano Teacher, Julia Cho

Gee's Bend, Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder

Behind the Eye, Carson Kreitzer

Beehive, Larry Gallagher

The Pavilion, Craig Wright

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Investing in New Stories

“When you have the resources to invest in new playwrights and new stories – and we do – then doing productions like this becomes your responsibility to the art form.” Read about our commissions and the Jerome Fey Endowment for New Plays.

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