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Dead Man’s Cell Phone opens tonight at the ETC

Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone opens tonight at 7:30pm at the Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati in the heart of Over-the-Rhine’s Gateway Quarter. The production will run now through October 25 and is the regional premiere for the show.

Dead Man’s Cell Phone is described as a “dark-edged new comedy about a woman who answers a dead man’s cell phone and finds her life turned upside down,” and is the winner of the 2008 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical.

In the production, Jean, an unsuspecting young woman in a quite café, answers an incessantly ringing cell phone, after discovering that its owner has “entered a dead zone.” Intrigued, she becomes ensnarled in the dead man’s life, attending his funeral and meeting his insanely eccentric family. Soon, Jean is going on a date with his brother, a drinking binge with his wife, and a mysterious rendezvous with his mistress–not to mention trips to the afterlife and the black market!

Tickets start at just $30 for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings; $35 for Saturday and Sunday matinees; and $40 for opening night, Friday and Saturday evenings. Children 12 years or younger get in for just $16, and both students and seniors receive $3 off regular prices. You can purchase your tickets now by visiting the ETC’s box office (map) that is open Monday through Friday from 10am to 5pm, and two hours prior to each show. You can also call the box office at (513) 421-3555 or purchase your tickets online.

Automobile parking is available on surrounding streets, in the Gateway Quarter parking lot at 12th & Vine, and at the Gateway Parking Garage which can be accessed from 12th Street or Central Parkway. Bicycle parking is also available in the immediate vicinity of the theatre, bus service from Metro is also available. Plan your trip now using Metro’s Trip Planner.

BONUS TIP: Hit up Lavomatic Cafe, located a half-block away, before hand for some great wine or dinner before the show and make it a complete evening.

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This Week In Soapbox 9/8

This Week in Soapbox (TWIS) you can read about what will be Cincinnati’s largest brewpub, how you can help save Covington’s Nordheim Gallery, a new vintage shop on Main Street in OTR, Cincinnati’s new Bicycle Master Plan that kicks off this week, multiple events going on in Over-the-Rhine this weekend, a new 76-unit residential development in East Walnut Hills, and how the Latonia neighborhood in Covington is hoping a new Small Area Study will help make the community even better.

If you’re interested in staying in touch with some of the latest development news in Cincinnati please check out this week’s stories and sign up for the weekly E-Zine sent out by Soapbox Cincinnati. Also be sure to become a fan of Soapbox on Facebook!

TWIS 9/8:

  • Officials want your help in saving Covington’s Nordheim Gallery – full article
  • Atomic Number Ten bringing vintage style to Main Street – full article
  • Cincinnati kicks off new Bicycle Master Plan process in hopes of encouraging more cyclists – full article
  • Events crowd the weekend calendar for Over-the-Rhine – full article
  • 76-unit DeSales Flats project near completion – full article
  • Small Area Study looks to address issues in Latonia neighborhood – full article
  • Moerlein Lager House to anchor Central Riverfront Park – full article
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‘Little Shop of Horrors’ at the Aronoff Center

For its fourth season in Cincinnati, Jersey Productions will be bringing Little Shop of Horrors to the Aronoff Center for the Arts. This will be the second year that Jersey Productions has been at the Aronoff Center as a resident company.

The production is described as a “rock musical about a hapless florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood,” and features music composed by Alan Menken. Director Gina Kleesattle says that the show features something for everyone from the interesting story, to the 60’s style rock/Motown music, and to the romance and murder told throughout.

Little Shop of Horrors will be shown at the Jarson-Kaplan Theater at the Aronoff Center for the Arts in downtown Cincinnati from August 14 through August 22. Tickets are $20 to $25 (student, senior and group discounts are available) for each show and can be purchased at the Aronoff Center ticket office at 650 Walnut Street (GoogleMap), by phone at (513) 621-2787, or online here.

Show Times:
Friday, August 14 @ 8pm
Saturday, August 15 @ 8pm
Sunday, August 16 @ 3pm
Thursday, August 20 @ 2pm
Friday, August 21 @ 8pm
Saturday, August 22 @ 8pm

Photo: Kiera Thomas (Ronnette), Chauntel McKenzie (Crystal), Chanelle Williams (Chiffon)–“The Urchins”

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Michael Fried reviews Sala at the CAC tonight

At 6:30 this evening, the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) will host world-famous art critic Michael Fried as he analyzes Anri Sala’s piece Long Sorrow using his unique methodology. The event is free, but donations are requested.

The international art community simultaneously lauds and criticizes Fried for his method of critiquing art. Fried approaches art with an eye toward modernism and realism, and the phenomenon of the everyday.

CAC hosts Long Sorrow as part of Sala’s exhibit “Purchase not by Moonlight.” The exhibit features videos, films and photographs carefully calibrated with the architecture of CAC’s Rosenthal Center to present a spatial and time-based multimedia experience.

Photo Credit – Johns Hoppkins University

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Big night in OTR tonight

Tonight is not only a Final Friday gallery hop night throughout historic Over-the-Rhine, but it is also another Vine-L Friday in the Gateway Quarter.

Vine-L Friday will run from 6pm to 10pm and is looking to compliment the Final Friday crowds in the surrounding area. As a result many Gateway Quarter businesses will have displays from local artists and live music throughout. There will also be food, drinks and discounts at all your favorite locally-owned shops.

There will also be members of ArtWorks Cincinnati around to discuss their four-story mural of Mr. Cincinnati – Jim Tarbell. The new mural will be prominently displayed on the southern wall of the same building that houses Park+Vine. The mural should be complete within the coming weeks according to officials.

Following the Final Friday and Vine-L Friday fun, there will be an after party starting at 10pm at Below Zero Lounge at the southeast corner of 12th & Walnut streets.

Here’s a full lineup of this week’s Vine-L Friday activities:

  • Venice on Vine Pizza, 1301 Vine St. – Visionaries and Voices exhibits “Hair Salon” by Kenny Barger with a special menu of gourmet pizzas as well as live jewelry making by “One Bead at a Time.”
  • Segway Cincinnati, 1150 Vine St. – Works by Josh Beeman and Billy 7. Live music by “Vinny Bricks” and “that guy from Okinawa” City Cellars will be on hand with its frozen desert cart to cool off the crowd.
  • Park+Vine, 1109 Vine St. – The unveiling of the new exhibit “Mimockracy.”
  • Switch Lighting and Design, 1207 Vine St. – New works by Alison Shepard will be exhibited.
  • Outside, 16 E. 12th St. – Live DJ playing Electronica, Trip Hop, Soul and Funk, with refreshments served.
  • Below Zero Lounge, 1122 Walnut St. – The official VINE-L Friday After Party. Live music by the “Blue Merchants” at 10pm benefitting Gary Burbank’s “Play It Forward” Project.
  • Mixx Ultra Lounge, 1203 Main St. – Marcus Jordan exhibiting works from his collection titled “My Passion.”
  • Coffee Emporium, 110 E. Central Parkway – Extending its hours until 10pm and featuring works by Allison Archberger and the Thirty Duo Collection.
  • Lackman Lofts, 1237 Vine St. – Kate McClung exhibiting works from her “Balanophagy” collection.
  • Duveneck Flats, 1220 Vine St. – Mark Cummings exhibiting new works from his “In Bloom” collection and Stan Stenten will be showing pieces from the collection “Visions of Cincinnati – Old and New”

Photo from 5chw4r7z