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BWW Review: CATCO's PETER AND THE STARCATCHER Takes Audiences on an Adventure to Neverland
The wooden deck and porthole windows that adorn the Vern Riffe Center's Studio One Theatre might cause landlubbers' legs to wobble a bit while finding their seats, but audience members need not fear seasickness when they come to watch CATCO's regional premiere of "Peter and the Starcatcher."...
BWW Review: Ohio State Students Showcase Dance Skills in High-Energy DANCE DOWNTOWN Performance
Students from Ohio State University's Department of Dance took to the Capitol Theatre stage Saturday night for the annual Dance Downtown event, performing pieces that touched upon myriad topics from climate change to the infusion of art and movement....
BWW Review: Unlikely Friendship Found in LOST LAKE
From the onset of their relationship in LOST LAKE, Hogan (James Hughes) and Veronica (Chiquita Mullins Lee) only have one thing in common - Hogan's depilated cottage in upstate in New York....
BWW Review: Despite 19th-Century Setting, OSU's AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE Engages Students in Contemporary Issues
The issue of sanitation in a Norwegian town might not seem like the most interesting subject for a play presented to an audience of college students, but the Ohio State Department of Theatre's production of Henrik Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People" surprisingly touches on contemporary questions still ...
BWW Review: Westerville Symphony Presents an Exquisite PAIRINGS: AN EVENING OF WINE AND MUSIC
In continuing its commitment to bring the highest quality of classical music and music education to Central Ohio, the Westerville Symphony presented PAIRINGS: AN EVENING OF WINE AND MUSIC at The Medallion Club on November 6. ...
BWW Review: BalletMet's DRACULA Haunts Halloween Stage with Dark Drama
Halloween isn't always just about candy and kids in costumes -- it also often calls to mind the supernatural fantasies that haunt our nightmares. Last weekend, BalletMet delved into the spine-chilling story of Bram Stoker's "Dracula," just in time for the ghoulish holiday....
BWW Review: Actors' Empathy, Emotion Shines Through in CATCO's THE ELEPHANT MAN
From its Broadway debut in 1979 to its revival starring Bradley Cooper just last year, Bernard Pomerance's Tony Award-winning play "The Elephant Man" has challenged audiences through the decades to think beyond physical appearances and sympathize with others' plights. Now, this message comes to the ...
BWW Review: GOOD KIDS Explores Serious Themes on Ohio State Stage
"Good Kids" provides the spark necessary to begin conversations regarding the choices one makes in his or her life and how those decisions impact the future, and leaves audience members with much to think about long after they leave the theater....
BWW Review: A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC Goes a Long Way
One of the dangers of hearing a great Broadway melody by itself is it loses its context. Such is the case with SEND IN THE CLOWNS. Everyone has covered the song from Stephen Sondheim's A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, from Judy Collins to Frank Sinatra to Krusty the Clown with the later one being my personal f...
BWW Review: KINKY BOOTS Struts Into the Ohio Theatre With Glitter and Gut
Multiple Tony Award-Winning hit, KINKY BOOTS, strutted into the Ohio Theatre last night with plenty of glamour and charm. Directed and choreographed by Tony Award-Winning Jerry Mitchell with music by Grammy Award-winning icon Cyndi Lauper and book by four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein, KIN...
BWW Review: BREAKING BALLET World Premiere Shatters Preconceptions of Dance
The world premiere of BalletMet's "Breaking Ballet" thrust audiences into a world where the music of Cyndi Lauper, the tradition of classical ballet and the serendipity of urban romance converged on the same stage within a single two-hour program....
BWW Review: Imagine's SWEENEY TODD a Perfect Pre-Halloween Musical
If there were ever a show that was never destined for dinner theatre, it might be SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET....
BWW Review: Otterbein Delivers Solid Interpretation of RENT
There are some shows that a director just doesn't mess with. However, RENT, Jonathan Larson's urban reworking of LA BOHEME, is more pliable than a pizza....
BWW Reviews: Weathervane Cast Transforms for DIAL M FOR MURDER
One of the potential drawbacks to summer stock theatre has become one of the Weathervane Playhouse's greatest strengths this summer. Each summer regional theatres bring a cast of college students and put them to work on not just one but a series of shows....
BWW Reviews: Thoroughly Thrilled with Imagine's MILLIE
Those who have never seen THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE before should be very careful when they attend Imagine Production's version of the two-act musical. In her directorial debut with Imagine, director/choreographer Rose Babington has together a show that future MILLIE productions will have a hard time...
BWW Reviews: Students Get Noticed in CCT's SEUSSICAL JR.
Columbus Children's Theatre will make their third appearance at the Junior Theatre Festival in Atlanta this year with their Summer Youth Conservatory production of SEUSSICAL JR. Be one of the lucky ones and catch it now at the Park Street Theatre through July 19, 2015....
BWW Reviews: THE ALL NIGHT STRUT Resurrects the Sounds of the 30s and 40s
Composer George Gershwin had been dead for almost six decades by the time Connor Allston, Lottie Prenevost, J.T. Wood and Morgan Wood were born. Yet the combined power of the voices of that quartet brought back to life the music of Gershwin and his contemporaries in Otterbein University's production...
BWW Reviews: OHIO WINE FESTIVAL - Showcasing Ohio's Best in Class
The Ohio Wine Festival presented by PNC and Columbus Monthly kicked off its 14th year at the North Market on July 10, and runs through this weekend only. Twenty local wineries, including award-winners, six additional, and two right from Central Ohio (Signature Wines and RockSide Winery & Vineyard)...
BWW Reviews: Weathervane Wins THE PAJAMA GAME
The Weathervane Playhouse in Newark has taken a shotgun approach to the musicals it is presenting this summer. The theater company opened its summer season with RENT, the edgy rock musical by Jonathan Larson. Then it staged with THE PAJAMA GAME, a light-hearted musical by Richard Alder and Jerry Ros...
BWW Reviews: BEAUTIFUL CUL DE SAC Shines a Comedic Light on Suburban Life
Humid summer nights spent grilling and mowing lawns in a subdivision might initially seem like an odd concept for a musical, but a new production performed by Columbus' own Shots in the Dark Theatre Company took inspiration from these often-mundane surroundings to create a new musical that explores ...
BWW Reviews: ONCE Channels the Music and Romance of the Emerald Isle
Featuring a stage decorated with an upright piano, mismatched chairs and colorful wooden tables, the Palace Theatre's crystal-draped ceilings faded away to become a cozy pub straight off the streets of Dublin, Ireland, during the touring production of 'Once,' which opened in Columbus on June 9....
BWW Review: Weathervane Not Afraid of Finding Alternate Ways to Pay RENT
How do you write a song when the chords sound wrong
Though they once sounded right and rare?
When the notes are sour
Where is the power you once had to ignite the air?...
BWW Reviews: THE BARENAKED LADIES' 'Last Summer On Earth' Tour Gets Off To a Soggy Start
The Barenaked Ladies, the headlining act of The Last Summer on Earth Tour with Colin Hay and the Violent Femmes, have made a living off irony. The Canadian band of singer Ed Robertson, drummer Tyler Stewart, bassist Jim Creeggan and keyboardist Kevin Hearn churned out quirky hits 'If I Had A Million...
BWW Reviews: ROLLING STONES Are More Than 'Only Rock-and-Roll'
When I was a teenager, a parenting magazines put out a tongue-in-cheek list of the 'the top most terrifying sentences a parent can hear.' Nearing the top of the list was the one over 60,000 people heard May 30 at Ohio Stadium: 'Ladies and Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones.'...
BWW Reviews: Short North Stage's THRILL ME Lives Up To Its Name
If Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb are indeed 'Super men' as the two principle characters claim throughout the Short North Stage's production of THRILL ME: THE STORY OF LEOPOLD AND LOEB, the whole world is in trouble....
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Beatles/Wings/Paul McCartney Tribute Concert Maumee Indoor Theater (6/05-6/05) |
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La Cage Aux Folles Hilliard Civic and Cultural Arts Center (11/06-11/15) |
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AC/DC Ohio Stadium (7/15-7/15) |
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Doo Dah Parade + Party 2026 On July 04, 2026 Goodale Park (7/04-7/04) |
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The Music Man Weathervane Playhouse (7/09-7/18) |
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Dirty Talk Shadowbox Lice (4/12-8/15) |
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