August 27th, 2012
By Rick Pender |
Arts |
Posted In: Theater
New Edgecliff Theatre Cancels 'Talk Radio'
Company recently found out Columbia Performance Center was no longer available
New Edgecliff Theatre will cancel its first production of the season,
largely the result of its need for a new venue. The group has performed
in the Columbia Performance Center, the "pink church" on Eastern Avenue
in the Columbia-Tusculum neighborhood on Cincinnati's East Side, for
several years. Without much notice over the summer, NET was informed by
the property's owner that the facility would no longer be available.
Artistic Director Jim Stump tells me that they've been notifying the
actors and designers who had been recruited for a staging of Eric
Bogosian's
Talk Radio that the production, scheduled to open on
Sept.
27, is not going to happen. He wrote to me in an email, "This is
due to a number of factors, not the least of which was the suddenness of
our losing the Columbia with little warning. This meant we spent a
significant portion of the time we would normally dedicate to the first
production to the search for a new venue. In the end, we didn't feel we
could present a production of the quality our audiences would expect."
NET is still seeking a permanent solution to its venue needs, but Stump says the company will present
The Santaland Diaries and The 12 Dates of Christmas at the Aronoff's Fifth Third Bank Theater in December.
Check with the city of Cincinnati/Recreation department. The Madison Arts Center was given back to the city, and may be available.