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The Contemporary Theatre Of Ohio to Present THE SKELETON CREW Next Month


by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 23, 2024

The Contemporary Theatre of Ohio presents 'Skeleton Crew,' a play that explores the lives of four auto plant workers during the 2008 recession....

Winners Announced For The 2023 BroadwayWorld Columbus Awards


by BWW Awards - January 09, 2024

Winners have been announced for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Columbus Awards! See who was selected audience favorite in Columbus! Winners include Weathervane Playhouse, The Abbey Theater of Dublin, and more....

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


by BWW Awards - December 26, 2023

It's the final week left to vote for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Columbus 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 Columbus Awards; RAGTIME, A CHRISTMAS STORY, Abbey Theater of Dublin & 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 Columbus Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

BroadwayWorld Columbus Awards; RAGTIME, A CHRISTMAS STORY, Columbus Children's Theatre & More Lead!


by BWW Awards - December 11, 2023

It's the final 3 weeks and we have the latest standings as of Monday, December 11th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Columbus Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

BroadwayWorld Columbus Awards December 5th Standings; RAGTIME Leads Best Musical!


by BWW Awards - December 05, 2023

It's December, and the first standings of the month have been announced as of Tuesday, December 5th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Columbus Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Latest Standings Announced For The 2023 BroadwayWorld Columbus Awards; A CHRISTMAS STORY Leads Best Play!


by BWW Awards - November 27, 2023

Happy Holidays! The latest wave of standings have been announced as of Monday, November 27th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Columbus Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Latest Standings Announced For The 2023 BroadwayWorld Columbus Awards; KINKY BOOTS Leads Best Musical!


by BWW Awards - November 20, 2023

The latest wave of standings have been announced as of Monday, November 20th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Columbus Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Winners Announced For The 2022 BroadwayWorld Columbus Awards


by BWW Awards - January 23, 2023

The winners have been announced for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Columbus Awards, honoring the best in regional productions, touring shows, and more which had their first performance between October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022. ...

12 Days Left To Vote For The 2022 BroadwayWorld Columbus Awards; Abbey Theater of Dublin Leads Favorite Local Theatre!


by BWW - December 19, 2022

The latest standings as of Monday, December 19th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Columbus Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites....

Past Shows

Elf The Musical
Elf The Musical
12/19 - 12/29/2023


Buddy Hobbs, a young orphan child, mistakenly crawls into Santas’ bag of gifts and is transported back to the North Pole. After discovering the baby, ...

Blazing Guns at Roaring Gulch
Blazing Guns at Roaring Gulch
10/20 - 10/22/2023


Blazing Guns at Roaring Gulch is a play that takes place in the lobby of the Roaring Gulch Hotel. Hero, Harry Heartstone, is found in ...

Kinky Boots
Kinky Boots
7/27 - 8/5/2023


Music and Lyrics by Cyndi Lauper Book by Harvey Fierstein Original Broadway Production Directed and Choreographed by Jerry Mitchell Based on the Miramax motion picture  ...

New Year's Eve Fundraising Gala


A final toast to our 50th Anniversary Season! For 50 years Weathervane Playhouse has produced professional productions serving Licking County and Central Ohio, all while ...

Gypsy
Gypsy
12/20 - 12/29/2018


Regarded by many theater professionals as the greatest musical ever created, Gypsy is the ultimate tale of an ambitious stage mother fighting for her daughters’ ...

The Full Monty
The Full Monty
10/18 - 10/27/2018


While spying on their wives at a "Girls' Night Out," a group of unemployed steelworkers from Buffalo sees how much they enjoy watching male strippers. ...

Pippin
Pippin
8/2 - 8/11/2018


With a beautifully theatrical and emotional score by four-time Grammy winner, three-time Oscar winner, and musical theatre legend, Stephen Schwartz (composer of Wicked, Godspell, and ...

Merrily We Roll Along
Merrily We Roll Along
7/19 - 7/28/2018


Merrily We Roll Along begins in the present and moves backwards, tracing the lives of wealthy, jaded composer, Franklin Shepard, and his two estranged friends ...

42nd Street
42nd Street
7/5 - 7/14/2018


The ultimate show-biz musical, 42nd Street celebrates Broadway, Times Square, and the people who make the magic of musical theatre. Aspiring chorus girl Peggy Sawyer ...

I Hate Hamlet
I Hate Hamlet
6/20 - 6/30/2018


As its title suggests, Paul Rudnick’s 1991 play I Hate Hamlet deals with the question of just how relevant William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is for modern ...

A Chorus Line
A Chorus Line
6/7 - 6/16/2018


A Chorus Line is a celebration of those unsung heroes of the American Musical Theatre: the chorus dancers — those valiant, over dedicated, underpaid, highly ...

Avenue Q
Avenue Q
7/27 - 8/5/2017


Through the use of puppets, this “laugh-out-loud” musical details the struggles and anxieties associated with entering adulthood. Assured by their parents and by children’s television ...

A Comedy of Tenors
A Comedy of Tenors
7/13 - 7/22/2017


From the author of Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery comes another hilarious comedy by Ken Ludwig. The scene: a single hotel suite, four operatic tenors, ...

South Pacific
South Pacific
6/29 - 7/8/2017


Love and war set the scene for this Golden Age musical that premiered on Broadway in 1949 and was an immediate hit, running for almost ...

Peter and the Starcatcher
Peter and the Starcatcher
6/15 - 6/24/2017


Who was Peter Pan before there was Peter Pan? In Peter and the Starcatcher, a prequel to J.M. Barrie’s beloved children’s story, an orphan boy ...

Children of Eden
Children of Eden
6/1 - 6/10/2017


“Let There Be” light at Weathervane Playhouse for the first show of the 2017 Summer Season! A wonderfully creative take on the story of Adam ...

Mamma Mia!
Mamma Mia!
12/20 - 12/30/2016


Don't change your mind, be the first in line, for Weathervane Playhouse's Winter production of Mamma Mia! Featuring the music of hit European group ABBA, ...

The Fantasticks
The Fantasticks
10/13 - 10/22/2016


A feud as big as the Montague and Capulets keep two lovers apart in this classic American musical, which comes to the Weathervane stage this ...

Nice Work If You Can Get It
Nice Work If You Can Get It
7/30 - 8/8/2015


Nice Work If You Can Get It Music and Lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin Book by Joe DiPietro Inspired by Material by P.G. ...

Dial M For Murder
Dial M For Murder
7/16 - 7/25/2015


Dial M For Murder by Frederick Knott Director: Mark Seamon Scenic Designer: Jeremy Hollis Lighting Designer: Jennifer Sansfacon Sound Designer: Megan Culley Costume Designer: Cora ...

The Pajama Game
The Pajama Game
7/2 - 7/11/2015


The Pajama Game Book by George Abbott and Richard Bissell Music and Lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross Based on the novel “7 1/2 ...

One Man, Two Guvnors
One Man, Two Guvnors
6/18 - 6/27/2015


One Man, Two Guvnors by Richard Bean based on The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni with songs by Grant Olding Director: Kevin Connell ...

Rent
Rent
6/4 - 6/13/2015


Rent Book, Music and Lyrics by Jonathan Larson Musical Arrangements Original Concept/Additional Lyrics Steve Skinner Billy Aronson Music Supervision and Additional Arrangements Dramaturg Tim Weil ...

Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus Christ Superstar
12/18 - 12/28/2014


It seems especially fitting that the first rock opera, created as a concept album at the end of the turbulent ’60s, should have at its ...

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
6/5 - 6/29/2014


Dirty Rotten Scoundrels has been described as stylish, sexy, irreverent, and "Broadway musical comedy heaven." Based on the popular 1988 film of the same name, ...

Don’t Dress for Dinner
Don’t Dress for Dinner
5/1 - 5/18/2014


Bernard is planning a romantic weekend with his chic Parisian mistress in his charming converted French farmhouse, whilst his wife, Jacqueline, is away. He has ...

Life with Father
Life with Father
3/27 - 4/14/2014


A loveable curmudgeon stands at the center of this charming comedy that pokes gentle fun at the art of parenting. Set in New York City ...

David and Lisa
David and Lisa
2/28 - 3/16/2014


David and Lisa is a modern-day Romeo and Juliet set in the world of those labeled as less-than-perfect. When the film version was released in ...

Race
Race
1/30 - 2/16/2014


Multiple award-winning playwright/director David Mamet tackles America's most controversial topic in a provocative new tale of sex, guilt and bold accusations. Two lawyers find themselves ...

Uncle Vanya
Uncle Vanya
1/9 - 1/25/2014


A retired professor and his beautiful young wife return to the country estate left by his deceased first wife to find themselves overwhelmed by the ...

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat


This toe-tappin’ musical spins the Biblical tale of Joseph and his coat of many colors. The 2013 production of this beloved musical marks the 14th ...

Christmas My Way: A Sinatra Holiday Bash


It’s beginning to look a lot like a Frank Sinatra-style Christmas in this fresh, cool, swinging musical revue! There won’t be a silent night when ...

The Waverly Gallery
The Waverly Gallery
10/31 - 11/16/2013


This is a wacky and heartrending look at the effect of senility on a family. Gladys, the elderly matriarch of the Green family, has run ...

Night Must Fall
Night Must Fall
10/10 - 10/27/2013


This taut psychological thriller contains all the elements of a classic British murder-mystery – an autocratic dowager, her lonely spinster companion, a gloomy remote country ...

Xanadu
Xanadu
9/5 - 9/22/2013


Xanadu follows the journey of a magical and beautiful Greek muse, Kira, who descends from the heavens of Mt. Olympus to Venice Beach, California in ...

The 2013 8x10 TheatreFest
8/16 - 8/18/2013


Aspiring playwrights are invited to submit their entries for the 2013 8x10 TheatreFest. Weathervane's volunteer judges will read all of the entries and select eight ...

Honk!
Honk!
7/19 - 8/14/2013


Honk! tells the story of a young duckling named Ugly, whose odd, gawky looks instantly incite prejudice from his family and neighbors. Separated from the ...

The Music Man
6/6 - 6/30/2013


Music Professor Harold Hill has arrived in River City, Iowa, in 1912 for the purpose of forming a boy’s marching band. He swoops into town ...

The 39 Steps
5/2 - 5/19/2013


Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps, a fast-paced whodunit for ...


Join us for this world-premiere production of a play for young audiences — commissioned by Weathervane Playhouse! This production will be geared to pre-school and ...

Charley's Aunt
4/4 - 4/21/2013


In this classic English comedy from 1892, Jack Chesney loves Kitty Verdun and Charley Wykeham loves Miss Amy Spettigue. They invite the ladies to meet ...

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Peace Within the Storm in Columbus Peace Within the Storm
Columbus Performing Arts Center Van Fleet Theatre (7/5 - 7/7)
Brittney Mack - Putting on the Britt in Columbus Brittney Mack - Putting on the Britt
The Avalon Theatre (5/24 - 5/24)
'night, Mother in Columbus 'night, Mother
eMBer Women's Theatre (4/19 - 5/4)
The Dinner Detective Comedy Mystery Dinner Show in Columbus The Dinner Detective Comedy Mystery Dinner Show
The Dinner Detective Columbus (6/1 - 6/15)
How Do We Get There From Here? - Melissa Kelley in Columbus How Do We Get There From Here? - Melissa Kelley
The Avalon Theatre (6/8 - 6/8)
The Lion King in Columbus The Lion King
Ohio Theatre (6/12 - 7/7)
Design For Murder in Columbus Design For Murder
Licking County Players (5/10 - 5/19)
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