Cincinnati Theatre Newsroom

This is the final week to vote for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Cincinnati Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

Voting continues for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Cincinnati Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

With its spectacular design elements and a talented, lively cast, How the Grinch Stole Christmas is a great outing for any family looking to celebrate some holiday spirit, or really anyone who appreciates the classic story by Dr. Seuss.

Cincinnati Opera and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) invite the public to a free preview of Lalovavi, a new opera by composer Kevin Day and librettist Tifara Brown.

Don't miss your chance to vote for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Cincinnati Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

NARUTO The Symphonic Experience will visit more than sixty cities on its first North American tour, including a stop at the Aronoff Center’s Procter & Gamble Hall. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Check out the first stats for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Cincinnati Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

The second round of voting begins December 2 and ends at 11:59pm ET on Wednesday, December 4. The Top next results show (announcing the Top 15 finalists in both age categories) will air on Friday, December 6 at 7pm and 9pm.

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra President and CEO Jonathan Martin plans to retire on February 16, 2025, following a seven-year tenure helming the organization. Learn more.

Beck Center for the Arts has announced the December production, Channeling Grimm, by Tracy Wells. This fun fairy-tale themed play brings The Grimm Brothers from the page to the stage.

The Carnegie and University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music join forces this November for Jen Silverman’s WITCH. Check out photos from the production.

Voting is now open for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Cincinnati Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

It takes a theatrical village to create a show like A CHRISTMAS CAROL! Watch the video of the production team of A Christmas Carol at Cincinatti Playhouse in the Park assemble the set, then experience holiday magic like never before.

The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati has announced a second, transformative gift of $500,000 from the Farmer Family Foundation to benefit TCT’s campaign to revitalize Cincinnati’s Emery Theater and make it the company’s permanent MainStage home.

The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati's 24-25 MainStage Season at the Taft Theatre will continue with Santa Claus: The Musical. This is the company's last season at the Taft Theatre before opening the reimagined Emery Theater in October 2025.

Julianne Akins Smith has been appointed as the new Executive Director of the Cincinnati May Festival, Vocal Arts Ensemble, and Cincinnati Boychoir.

Rutka is a new musical that adapts the diary entries of a young Jewish girl's final months before being killed in 1943 in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Featuring an original indie-rock musical score, Rutka finds the balance of telling a nuanced account of her adolescent experiences while growing up in a time of terror and isolation.

Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati will host its 13th annual Meals 4 Monologues auditions. Actors from throughout the nation are invited to a general audition call, and are encouraged to make a donation to Cincinnati’s Freestore Foodbank. 

Children’s Theatre Company has released first look photos of its return engagement of Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. Opening night is Saturday, November 9, 2024 at 7pm.

Lolita Chakrabarti’s dazzling Olivier and Tony Award®-winning stage adaption of LIFE OF PI embarks on another exciting adventure when it launches its North American Tour in Baltimore, Maryland in December 2024 at the Hippodrome Theatre. Cincinnati is one of 22 cities on the tour where theatregoers can experience this extraordinary show. 

Time is running out to submit nominations for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Cincinnati Awards. Don't miss Thursday's October 31st deadline!

Actors Collaborative Toledo presents John Patrick Shanley's Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, November 15-17, 2024, in the Chapel Theatre at Trinity Episcopal Church.

Get a firstt look at RUTKA, a new indie-rock musical adapted from Rutka’s Notebook: A Voice from the Holocaust, making its world premiere at Ohio's Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.

Single tickets for the national tour of COME FROM AWAY at the Aranoff Center will go on sale Friday, October 25 at 10:00 AM. Learn how to purchase tickets.

The Carnegie and University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) are joining forces this November for Jen Silverman's WITCH.