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With less than a week until opening night of Circle of Blood, Shadowbox Live is in high gear finalizing show components as well as community engagement components that support the collaborators and celebrate this world premiere production.

The Tony-nominated musical WAITRESS will make its Columbus premiere at the Ohio Theatre November 7-12, and is holding auditions to find two young girls to perform the role of Lulu for the duration of the Columbus engagement.

Founded by pianist and arranger Scott Bradlee in 2009, Postmodern Jukebox reimagines contemporary pop, rock, and R&B hits in the style of various yesteryears-from swing to doo-wop to ragtime to Motown-or as Bradlee himself puts it, 'pop music in a time machine.

Theatergoers found Post-It Notes attached to their program and were asked to describe CATCO's performance of the musical FUN HOME.

Peppa Pig, the #1 family show of 2016, is back with an action-packed live show featuring your favorite characters as life-size puppets and costumed characters in Peppa Pig's Surprise!

Each of the three acts of Noises Off contains a performance of the first act of a play within a play, a sex farce called Nothing On.

As part of the CSO's Concerts for Kids series, CSO Music Director Rossen Milanov and the Columbus Symphony have teamed up with the acting troupe Really Inventive Stuff to present The Life & Times of Beethoven at the Ohio Theatre on Sunday, October 22.

Direct from Johannesburg, South Africa, two deeply rhythmic ensembles Real Actions Pantsula and Stimela The Gumboot Musical will perform two distinct South African dance traditions as they uplift, unite, and entertain while following their historical tradition of spreading awareness of socioeconom

Television personality, author, and Food Network star Alton Brown launched his #ABRoadEats initiative to discover culinary treasures and connect with his millions of followers while Alton Brown Live: Eat Your Science tours the country.

Broadway legend Andrew Lloyd Webber's high-octane Broadway and West End hit School of Rock The Musical is coming to Columbus' Ohio Theatre October 10-15.

In its six year hiatus from American television from 2007-13, people would always asked comedian Greg Proops, 'Do you miss not doing WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY anymore?' Proops would always shake his head.

Amanda Wingfield, the centerpiece of Tennessee Williams' 1944 masterpiece, THE GLASS MENAGERIE, is much like the staple Southern hospitality, the lemon meringue pie.

Even though they are two centuries apart, composers Ludwig van Beethoven and Pulitzer Prize-winning Caroline Shaw both speak with a provocative voice that is raw, earthy, and dug deep from the soul.

Columbus Children's Theatre will present the regional premiere of Junie B.

A brand new play receiving its first fully staged production.

SRO Theatre Company's 2017-2018 season, it's 33rd,  opens with The Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert and Sullivan's hilarious, hopeful farce that follows young Frederic, an orphan who has mistakenly been apprenticed to an ineffectual but raucous band of pirates.

In 1967, the career of Arlo Guthrie, eldest son of America's beloved singer/writer/philosopher Woody Guthrie, exploded with the release of Alice's Restaurant, whose title track helped foster a generation's commitment to social consciousness and activism.

The Pirates of Penzance is Gilbert and Sullivan's fifth collaboration and follows young Frederic, an orphan who has mistakenly been apprenticed to an ineffectual but raucous band of pirates.

Due to an overwhelming response to the Columbus Symphony's upcoming performance of Star Wars in Concert on Friday, October 6, a second performance has been added on Saturday, October 7, at 8pm.

CAPA presents Buddy Guy at the Palace Theatre (34 W.

MadLab's Ohio premiere production of And Then They Fell by Tira Palmquist will take place Fridays and Saturdays, Oct.

SRO Theatre Company's 2017-2018 season, it's 33rd,  continues with The Crucible, Arthur Miller's landmark drama that has gripped audiences for nearly 65 years and couldn't be more timely in today's political environment.

This Fall, Shadowbox Live runs the gamut of entertainment from sketch comedy to musical tributes to meta-media.

Following an eight-month, national search, the Board of Trustees for the Columbus Association for the Performing Arts (CAPA) today announced the appointment of Chad Whittington to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

Just under its year anniversary, The Nest Theatre has announced the official launch of its downtown Columbus space in Franklinton!