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Review: REVIEW: DISNEY'S NEWSIES at Southern Theatre
What did our critic think of REVIEW: DISNEY’S NEWSIES at Southern Theatre? Aristotle is credited with coming up with the phrase, 'the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.' Had he witnessed the Columbus Children Theatre's production of DISNEY'S NEWSIES, the philosopher may have reversed the ...
Review: TICK, TICK … BOOM at Garden Theater
What did our critic think of TICK, TICK … BOOM at Garden Theater? Rarely can one sum up the message of an entire musical in three words. However, composer and lyricist Jonathan Larson sums up the message of TICK, TICK ... BOOM! in three words found in the middle of the song, 'Johnny Can't Decide:'...
Review: ERIC CLAPTON at Schottenstein Center
What did our critic think of ERIC CLAPTON R at Schottenstein Cente? In Rolling Stone's countdown of the top 100 guitarists, the late Eddie Van Halen described Eric Clapton as 'basically the only guitar player who influenced me - even though I don't sound like him. There was a basic simplicity to his...
Feature: TICK, TICK … BOOM at Garden Theater
What did our critic think of TICK, TICK … BOOM at Garden Theater? No actors will be waiting in the wings when the curtain goes up on the Short North Stage's production of TICK, TICK ... BOOM Sept. 9, 10, and 11 at the Garden Theater (1187 North High Street in downtown Columbus)....
Review: ROGER WATERS' THIS IS NOT A DRILL at Nationwide Arena
What did our critic think of ROGER WATERS' THIS IS NOT A DRILL at Nationwide Arena? A little mini drama took place at the will call window moments before Roger Waters was scheduled to take the stage for his 'This is not a drill' concert on Aug. 10 at Nationwide Arena (200 West Nationwide Boulevard i...
Review: Hilliard Arts Council is K-ra-zy for CRAZY FOR YOU
What did our critic think of CRAZY FOR YOU at Hilliard Arts Council?A celebration of arts and community for the Hilliard community; who could ask for anything more?...
Review: OTTERBEIN'S PIRATES OF PENZANCE at Cowen Hall
What did our critic think of BWW REVIEWS: OTTERBEIN’S PIRATES OF PENZANCE at Cowen Hall? Otterbein University offers a much-needed refresher course in Gilbert and Sullivan with its presentation of THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE for its final production of the summer season. The two-act comedic musical c...
BWW Review: WICKED Flies High at the Ohio Theatre
Winning more than 100 international awards including three Tony Awards and a Grammy Award, WICKED has managed to cast its spell on more than 60 million people across the globe for nearly two decades, and is still going strong today. Read our critic's review....
BWW Review: SPRING AWAKENING at Garden Theater
It has been over 130 years since German playwright Frank Wedekind first published SPRING AWAKENING. In 2006, the play was reinvented when Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater turned it into a musical....
BWW Review: AJR at Value City Arena
At AJR's May 13 concert at Value City Arena, Jack Met estimated he and his brothers Ryan and Adam Brett have played Columbus the second most out of any city behind their native home, New York City....
BWW Interview: It's Not Easy Being Green for WICKED's Deguzman at Ohio Theater
Some nights Lissa deGuzman (who plays Elphaba in the national tour of WICKED) and Jennafer Newberry (who plays Glinda) walk out of a theater together and run into a throng of fans of the 2003 musical....
BWW Interview: SNS' SPRING AWAKENING at Garden Theater
The May 5 performance of the Short North Stage's production of SPRING AWAKENING at the Garden Theater (1187 N. High Street in downtown Columbus) will be more than just opening night for Emma Rose Johnson and Sage Lee....
BWW Review: BWW REVIEWS: THE EAGLES at Nationwide Arena
What is the sound of America? When you think of the United States' landscape, what band do you think of? Read our critic's review. ...
BWW Review: CATCO'S HEAD OVER HEELS at At Riffe Center
CATCO's presentation of the musical HEAD OVER HEELS may be the ultimate May-December romance with an age gap of nearly 400 years. The production takes Arcadia, a 16th century play written by Sir Phillip Sidney and remixes it with the music of the Go Gos, a 1980s all-girl quintet. The musical, which ...
BWW Review: PRETTY WOMAN at the Ohio Theatre - Powerful Vocals Despite Dated Material
An illustrious creative team is at the helm of PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL, with direction and choreography by two-time Tony Award®-winner Jerry Mitchell, music and lyrics by Grammy®-winner Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance, and book by the movie's legendary director Garry Marshall and screenwriter J. F....
BWW Review: SNS LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS At the Garden Theatre
The great thing is the casting changes add and do not detract from the show. Riley and Mia Angelique, who plays Audrey, carry the arc of co-worker crush awkwardness, the puppy love stage of courting, and finally self-sacrificing true love....
BWW Review: COME FROM AWAY Lands at the Ohio Theatre - Celebrating the Power of Humanity
Nominated for seven Tony awards in 2017 and winning Best Direction in a Musical under Christopher Ashley’s extraordinary direction, COME FROM AWAY landed in Columbus at the Ohio Theatre on Tuesday night to a welcoming and lively audience. ...
BWW Interview: COME FROM AWAY Cast Member Julie Johnson
COME FROM AWAY is an actor’s challenge. To tell the story of what happened in Newfoundland, the cast members take on the voices and actions of at least three to five characters a night. That's no problem for Johnson...
BWW Review: BWW REVIEWS: ALTAR BOYZ at Garden Theater
Director/choreographer Dionysia Williams describes the 90-minute musical as a “perfect love letter to the late 1990s/early 2000 boy bands”...
BWW Review: BWW REVIEWS: FIDDLER ON THE ROOF at The Palace Theatre
FIDDLER, which runs Dec. 14-19 at the Palace Theatre (34 West Broad Street in downtown Columbus), has everything a good musical should have: a solid plot that sticks with the viewer for months and months, excellent acting and singing, and catchy songs that leave indelible mark in the brain. Its endi...
BWW Review: BWW REVIEWS: SHORT NORTH STAGE'S SISTER ACT at Garden Theater
Prior to BOOK OF MORMON's release in 2011, nuns were easily the most scrutinized religious organization in the entertainment industry. On Broadway, there's THE SOUND OF MUSIC, NUNSENSE, and AGNES OF GOD to name a few while Hollywood has given us a convent full of films with Sisters making appearance...
BWW Review: HADESTOWN at Ohio Theater
Even before patrons of the opening night of HADESTOWN arrived at the Ohio Theater (39 E. State Street in downtown Columbus), the lush red seats were being filled. On top of each seat was a red carnation, thanking attendees for returning to the theater after a long shutdown due to the Covid 19 virus....
BWW Review: CATCO'S MR. BURNS: A POST ELECTRIC PLAY at Riffe Center
There's an old joke that says only three things can survive a nuclear war - cockroaches, Twinkies, and Cher. In the post-apocalyptic world of CATCO'S MR. BURNS: A POST ELECTRIC PLAY, only a handful of people, a limited number of cans of Diet Coke, and the flawed memories of the Fox Network's cartoon...
BWW Review: YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN AT Garden Theater
For the second time in a year, the Short North Stage is bringing Mel Brooks' comedic musical YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN back to life. The musical opened Oct. 7 and will run through Nov. 7 at the Garden Theater (1187 North High Street in downtown Columbus)....
BWW Review: NOISES OFF at Garden Theater
Chances are director Edward Carignan has never been a part of a production as wildly chaotic as NOTHING’S ON, the play which provides the backdrop for Short North Stage’s production of NOISES OFF. The fictional play within a play has enough egos, pratfalls, romance, and mistaken identities to ma...
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