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Columbus Symphony Board Chair Lisa Barton announced that the contract of Music Director Rossen Milanov has been extended through the 2024-25 season.

Inspired by the original 1936 film of the same name, this raucous musical comedy takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the hysteria caused when clean-cut kids fall prey to marijuana, leading them on a hysterical downward spiral filled with evil jazz music, sex and violence.

Inspired by the seasons and topographies, George Winston's concerts feature a variety of styles including melodic folk piano, New Orleans R&B piano, and stride piano.

Oozing with sweetness, the irresistible WAITRESS is serving up goodness in Columbus, Ohio just in time for the holidays.

Presented by CAPA, the Lincoln Theatre Association, and the King Arts Complex, The Hip Hop Nutcracker is a contemporary re-imagining of Tchaikovsky's timeless music performed by a supercharged cast of a dozen all-star dancers, an on-stage DJ, and an electric violinist.

A stage manager cues the creation of the world.

Actors' Theatre of Columbus is excited to announce its upcoming 2018 summer play series, Monsters & Men, a boisterous romp through all the things that we're afraid of murder most foul; melancholy monsters; talking tomcats; and feuding fairies.

Now, Wall and SHAPING SOUND are back with their brand new show, After the Curtain.

Seussical is a fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza! The Cat in the Hat tells the story of Horton, an elephant who discovers a speck of dust containing Whos, including Jojo, a Who child sent off to military school for thinking too many 'thinks.

Ember Women's Theatre's production of Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling will take place Todays and Saturdays, November 3rd - 11th 2017, at MadLab Theatre, 227 N.

Columbus Children's Theatre will present Mr.

One of the darkest musicals ever written, Sweeney Todd is the unsettling tale of a Victorian-era barber who returns home to London after fifteen years of exile to take revenge on the corrupt judge who ruined his life.

'Our Country's Good' begins next month at Theatre Columbus State's Nestor Auditorium (550 E.

The beautiful thing about the Short North Stage's production of writer Tom Eyen's musical is each member of the show brings something unique and beautiful to the two-act, two-and-a-half hour show.

In the madcap comedy tradition of Lend Me a Tenor, the hilarious Moon Over Buffalo centers on George and Charlotte Hay, fading stars of the 1950s.

An annual Columbus tradition since 1983, the CSO's Holiday Pops is the creation of chorus master and conductor Ronald Jenkins who has led all of its 104 performances to date.

MadLab's world premiere production of Kitezh by Jennifer Feather Youngblood will take place Fridays and Saturdays, Dec.

The Tony-nominated musical WAITRESS, which will be playing the Ohio Theatre November 7-12, has announced the names of the two young local girls selected to perform the role of Lulu during the Columbus engagement.

The age old debate of nature versus nurture finds itself at the heart of Willy Russell's BLOOD BROTHERS, which runs Oct.

The historic Drexel Theatre launched America's Greatest Films in 2017 as a thank you to the community for its support during the 2016 renovation of the theatre.

Based on the New Line Cinema film written and directed by John Waters and set against the backdrop of 60s America, 'Hairspray' tells the story of teenaged Tracy Turnblad and her dream to dance on the Corny Collins Show.

Edward Albee's award-winning iconic play, in which a middle-aged college professor and his wife invite into their home an unwitting younger couple for drinks after a late-night faculty party.

King Ave Players is proud to present 'The Fantasticks' at King Ave United Methodist Church! Come and join us for this fabulous show, refreshments, and a free will offering.

Proudly listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Drexel Theatre will add another prestigious historic designation to its resume when it reveals a newly installed Ohio Historical Marker from the Ohio History Connection at a brief ceremony on Tuesday, November 7, at 6pm.

Performed simultaneously in American Sign Language and English, this acclaimed production of American Buffalo by Los Angeles-based theatre company Deaf West deftly delivers an extraordinary theatre experience through the remarkable integration of David Mamet's explosive script and the palpable expre