COLUMBUS THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 97

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

Since the release of the first Star Wars movie nearly 40 years ago, the Star Wars saga has had a seismic impact on both cinema and culture.

Backstage at the Lincoln, the Lincoln Theatre's intimate concert series featuring local artists, has announced the remaining performances for 2017.

Southern-born, indie-folk group The Lone Bellow has created a sound that mixes folk sincerity, gospel fervor, and heavy metal thunder, but at its heart, they are about harmony-voices united in a lone bellow.

Our version of The Tempest attacks the assumption of American exceptionalism.

It's 1950, and new colors are being added to the Red Scare.

Whose Live Anyway? is 90 minutes of hilarious, improvised comedy and song created on the spot by cast members Ryan Stiles, Greg Proops, Jeff B.

CSO Music Director Rossen Milanov will lead the Columbus Symphony in a performance of two of the world's most iconic symphonic landscapes-Respighi's The Pines of Rome and Strauss' An Alpine Symphony.

MadLab's world premiere production of Counter/Top by Kirin McCrory will take place Todays and Saturdays, Aug.

Miss Mona runs the Chicken Ranch, a brothel with a long history in a small Texas town.

The Columbus Symphony Chorus will hold auditions for the 2017-18 season at 6:30 pm on Monday and Tuesday, August 21 and 22, at the Ohio Theatre.

In the newest symphonic mashup from visionary composer and conductor Steve Hackman, classical meets hip-hop in a musical journey that bridges two artists separated by more than a century.

Stage & Screen and National Theatre Live present Tony Kushner's multi-award winning two-part play, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, captured live and broadcast on its 25th anniversary.

TajMo: The Taj Mahal & Keb' Mo' Band sees blues titans Taj Mahal and Keb' Mo' share the stage with their bands for an exciting night of music, performing songs from their long-anticipated collaborative album TajMo released in May 2017.

In Inconceivable: And Other Absurdities, Ohio-based performance artist Danielle Mari channels more than a dozen characters as she guides the audience through her twisted fallopian tubes in the true story of her quest to become a mother.

Weathervane Playhouse managing artistic director Kevin Connell had a sense of trepidation leading up to the July 27 opening night for AVENUE Q.

The Harry Potter Film Concert Series returns to the Ohio Theatre with Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the second film in the Harry Potter series.

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This version of The Tempest attacks the assumption of American exceptionalism.

Aphra Behn's 1687 comedy is a zany blend of commedia dell'arte, music, and science fiction.

MadLab's world premiere production of Counter/Top by Kirin McCrory will take place Fridays and Saturdays, Aug.

Honored by an EXPY Award from Experience Columbus in 2016, Festival Latino is now in its 21st year and the largest Latin event in Ohio.

Ohio's very own Short North Stage will be hosting yet another Charles Busch play 'Cleopatra' July 27th - August 6th at the Garden Theater.

New Vision Dance Co.

Here is Rydell High's senior class of 1959: duck-tailed, hot-rodding 'Burger Palace Boys' and their gum-snapping, hip-shaking 'Pink Ladies' in bobby sox and pedal pushers, evoking the look and sound of the 1950s in this rollicking musical.