09/18/2025
Posting a call for art. Support local art and the Human Race Theatre!
Call for Art
DRACULA!
OCTOBER 29 - NOVEMBER 9, 2025
Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really
Presented by the Human Race Theatre Company
Playwright: Kate Hamill Director: Emily N. Wells
Bouncing between horror and humor, Kate Hamill’s adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic novel is a thrilling play that questions who the true monsters are. No damsels in distress, no romanticized villains – just a gleeful stake through the heart!
If your art tends toward the gory and graphic, the dark and deadly, or is vengefully feminist…
Submit your work to hang in the gallery lobby of The Loft Theatre! Art will hang during the run of the show. Deadline for submission of 5-8 jpeg images is Monday, October 20 by midnight. Please send to Marsha Pippenger at [email protected] along with titles, sizes, media, price, and a short artist bio. Art should be properly wired to hang; no size restrictions at this time.
Selected artist(s) will receive two complimentary tickets to Dracula!
SO YOU CAN PLAN AHEAD:
DECEMBER 10 - 21, 2025
Seasonal Shorts
Playwrights: Kelsey Celek, Chris Leyva, Marley Masterson, Aleah Vassell, Torie Wiggins, Robb Willoughby; Director: Heather Wilson-Bowlby
Six short plays celebrating seasonal memories, moments and silliness—for adults only! Featuring all the ups and downs of winter, our local playwrights’ original plays will have your sides splitting and leaving the theatre in a festive mood.
Submit your Holiday Art!
FEBRUARY 24 - MARCH 1, 2026
Contradiction of the Southern Soul
Playwright: Sally Mayes; Director: Brett Cullen
Described as a memory play with music, an actress returns to her East Texas hometown in the wake of a family tragedy to make peace with the past and accept the future.
APRIL 8 - 19, 2026
Hay Fever
Playwright: Nöel Coward; Director: Bob Hetherington; Co-production with Wright State University
Hoping for a quiet weekend in the country with some guests, Judith and David Bliss, a retired actress and her novelist husband, find peace to be impossible when their children, Simon and Sorel, appear with guests of their own. A houseful of misunderstandings, tempers, and drama ensue as the quiet weekend comes to a hilarious and exhausting end.
JUNE 3 - 14, 2026
The Hot Wing King
Playwright: Katori Hall; Director: Darnell Pierre Benjamin
It’s time for the annual “Hot Wang Festival” in Memphis Tennessee, and Cordell Crutchfield knows he has the wings that’ll make him king. Supported by his beau Dwayne and their culinary clique, The New Wing Order, Cordell is marinating and firing up his frying pan in a bid to reclaim the crispy crown. When Dwayne takes in his troubled nephew, however, it becomes a recipe for disaster. Suddenly a first-place trophy isn’t the only thing Cordell risks losing.
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Since 1986, The Human Race Theatre Company has pushed the boundaries of creativity and brought theatrical excellence to the Dayton, Ohio community.
2025/26 will mark 40 years of The Human Race Theatre Company bringing live professional theatre to Dayton and southwestern Ohio, serving a population numbering nearly one million.
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