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THE HUMAN RACE THEATRE COMPANY

126 N. Main St. Ste. 300
Dayton, OH 45402

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A Frosty Night
A Frosty Night
12/11 - 12/22/2024


In this world premiere farce, Mark Brown takes on winter with a twist! Sharon Frosty, Frosty the Snowman’s wife, knows that he’s up to no ...

A Distinct Society
A Distinct Society
2/5 - 2/16/2025


In the tranquil hush of a library that straddles the U.S. – Canada border, life is about to change. When an Iranian father and daughter, ...

Camelot
Camelot
3/25 - 4/6/2025


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 ...

The Comeuppance
The Comeuppance
5/27 - 6/8/2025


As the sun sets on the eve of their twentieth high school reunion, a close-knit group of former classmates—once known as the “Multi-Ethnic Reject Group”—reunites ...


RELATED STORIES

SEASON'S GREETINGS: A HOLIDAY CABARET Returns For Fourth Year


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....

OUR TOWN Comes to Wright State Theatre


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. ...

Human Race Theatre Company Hosts Successful Fundraising Night


by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 24, 2024

Human Race Theatre Company held a successful fundraising event, bringing together supporters and community members to celebrate and support the arts. The night featured performances and raised significant funds....

Human Race Theatre Company Reveals 2024-25 Season


by Stephi Wild - April 17, 2024

The season features five productions, combining fresh and favorite works, all showcased in the unique style of The Human Race Theatre Company.  Learn more about the lineup here!...

Cast and Creative Team Set for PEERLESS at The Human Race Theatre Company


by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 05, 2024

The Human Race Theatre Company will present Peerless. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets....

THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE Comes to Wright State Theatre


by Stephi Wild - February 29, 2024

Wright State Theatre will present two casts in  The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, running March 15 - March 31....

Big Laughs And High Seas With SHIPWRECKED! AN ENTERTAINMENT


by A.A. Cristi - January 22, 2024

Join The Human Race Theatre Company for a comedic adventure on the high seas with 'SHIPWRECKED! An Entertainment.' Experience the amazing adventures of Louis de Rougement as he weaves a mesmerizing tale of survival, bravery, and fame. Get ready for laughter, thrills, and a touch of theatrical specta...

Winners Announced For The 2023 BroadwayWorld Dayton Awards


by BWW Awards - January 09, 2024

Winners have been announced for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Dayton Awards! See who was selected audience favorite in Dayton! Winners include The Human Race Theatre Company, Children's Performing Arts of Miamisburg and more....

Last Chance to Vote for the BWW Dayton Awards; Voting Ends 12/31


by BWW Awards - December 26, 2023

It's the final week left to vote for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Dayton 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!...

2 Weeks to Vote for the BWW Dayton Awards; DISNEY’S NEWSIES, ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND, Human Race Theatre Company & More Lead!


by BWW Awards - December 18, 2023

There's just two weeks left to vote and we have the latest standings as of Monday, December 18th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Dayton Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Past Shows

Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson
Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson
10/9 - 10/20/2024


This fast-paced romp re-examines the world’s most famous detective story with a bold new feminist lens. In this highly theatrical escapade, oddball female roommates Sherlock ...

peerless
peerless
4/25 - 5/12/2024


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 ...

Shipwrecked! An Entertainment: The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as Told by Himself)


Adventure on the High Seas catapults man to fame and fortune! Is it too good to be true?

Reindeer Sessions
Reindeer Sessions
12/13 - 12/23/2023


What REALLY happened on that foggy Christmas Eve?

INDIGO
6/8 - 6/25/2023

BARBECUE
4/13 - 4/30/2023

A SOLDIER’S PLAY
2/14 - 2/19/2023

WHO’S HOLIDAY!
12/8 - 12/23/2022

DEADLINE
10/27 - 11/13/2022

GROUNDED
9/8 - 9/25/2022

My 80 Year Old Boyfriend
6/16 - 7/3/2022

My 80-Year-Old Boyfriend
6/16 - 7/3/2022


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 ...

A SOLDIER’S PLAY
2/14 - 2/19/2022

AIRNESS
AIRNESS
10/21 - 11/7/2021


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 ...

LOOPED
LOOPED
8/5 - 8/22/2021


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 ...

THE REVOLUTIONISTS
THE REVOLUTIONISTS
6/23 - 7/4/2021


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 ...

NOW AND THEN
NOW AND THEN
4/28 - 5/9/2021


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, ...

Gloria: A Life
2/27 - 3/15/2020


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, ...

Elisabeth von Trapp & Friends


A Special One-Night Only Holiday Event!Elisabeth von Trapp has been called "magical" and "a motivational musician." She's a member of one of the most famous ...

The Cake
10/31 - 11/17/2019


Della makes cakes, not judgment calls — those she leaves to her husband, Tim. Besides, she was just selected as a contestant on The Great ...

LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR & GRILL


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
Lizzie
6/13 - 6/30/2019


"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 ...

Sylvia
Sylvia
4/25 - 5/12/2019


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
26 Pebbles
2/2 - 2/19/2017


26 Pebbles A World Premiere by Eric Ulloa directed by Igor Goldin February 2 – 19, 2017 On December 14, 2012, an act of unbelievable ...

Master Class
Master Class
6/9 - 6/26/2016


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. ...

Lewis Black's One Slight Hitch


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 ...

The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie
2/4 - 2/21/2016


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 ...

Santaland Diaries
Santaland Diaries
12/10 - 12/19/2015


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 ...

Steel Magnolias
Steel Magnolias
11/5 - 11/29/2015


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


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 ...

The Full Monty
The Full Monty
9/10 - 10/4/2015


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
Crowns
6/11 - 7/5/2015


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
Taking Shakespeare
4/16 - 5/3/2015


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
Buyer & Cellar
2/12 - 3/1/2015


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
Family Shots
1/22 - 2/8/2015


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
Mame
10/30 - 11/23/2014


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 ...

Miracle on South Division Street


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 ...

Play It by Heart
Play It by Heart
6/12 - 7/6/2014


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 ...

Play It by Heart
Play It by Heart
6/13 - 6/29/2014


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 ...

Other Desert Cities
Other Desert Cities
3/28 - 4/13/2014


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 ...

Torch Song Trilogy
Torch Song Trilogy
1/31 - 2/16/2014


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 ...

Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof
11/1 - 11/17/2013


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's New Car
Becky's New Car
9/13 - 9/29/2013


Becky Foster is stuck in neutral - middle aged, in middle management and a middling marriage — until an honest misunderstanding with a wealthy widower ...

Avenue Q
6/6 - 6/29/2013


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 ...

Oliver!
Oliver!
11/29 - 12/16/2012


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 ...

Under a Red Moon
Under a Red Moon
10/18 - 11/18/2012


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 ...

Managing Maxine
Managing Maxine
9/6 - 9/23/2012


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 ...

Band Geeks!
Band Geeks!
5/31 - 6/17/2012


The Cuyahoga Marching Beavers are 75 trombones short of a Music Man, and there's only one cornet left, but while the band may be close ...

Gem of the Ocean
Gem of the Ocean
3/29 - 4/15/2012


Each of the ten plays in the late August Wilson's famed "Pittsburgh Cycle" covers a different decade of the 1900s in an urban African-American neighborhood, ...

Red
Red
1/19 - 2/5/2012


"What do you see?" asks artist Mark Rothko in the opening line of Red, as he stares at one of his works — and what ...

Caroline, or Change
Caroline, or Change
11/3 - 11/20/2011


It's America in 1963, with the turmoil of the JFK assassination and the civil rights movement. In a Jewish household in Louisiana, the divorced African-American ...

God of Carnage
God of Carnage
9/8 - 9/25/2011


Anyone who is a parent, or who had parents, will recognize the carnage of this 2009 Tony® Award winner for Best Play. The mayhem starts ...

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A Distinct Society in Dayton A Distinct Society
The Human Race Theatre Company (2/5 - 2/16)
Ghost: The Musical in Dayton Ghost: The Musical
La Comedia (1/10 - 2/9)
Legally Blonde: The Musical in Dayton Legally Blonde: The Musical
La Comedia (9/18 - 10/26)
Camelot in Dayton Camelot
The Human Race Theatre Company (3/25 - 4/6)
Scrooge: The Musical in Dayton Scrooge: The Musical
La Comedia (11/1 - 12/28)
Jersey Boys in Dayton Jersey Boys
La Comedia (2/13 - 3/23)
MJ in Dayton MJ
Schuster Performing Arts Center [Mead Theatre] (6/24 - 6/29)
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