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Amadeus
5/3 - 5/18/2025
In the court of the Austrian Emperor Joseph II, Antonio Salieri is the established composer. Enter the greatest musical genius of all time: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Salieri has given ...
Macbeth
5/8 - 5/18/2025
Aethereal Jest Arts Council's production of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth." This avant-garde take on one of the most famous tragedies runs 5/9-5/18.
Theatre Roulette 2025
5/15 - 5/31/2025
Theatre Roulette is the longest running short play festival in central Ohio. Theatre Roulette 2025 features 17 short plays presented on 3 separate and totally ...
Theatre Roulette 2025
5/15 - 5/31/2025
Theatre Roulette is the longest running short play festival in central Ohio. Theatre Roulette 2025 features 17 short plays presented on 3 separate and totally ...
Rock this Way
3/6 - 6/1/2025
Experience the raw energy and unforgettable hits of Aerosmith and Van Halen in this high-octane music tribute show....
America’s largest interactive comedy mystery dinner theatre show is now playing in Columbus OH! Solve a hilarious mystery while you feast on a fantastic dinner. ...
The Fall of the House of Usher
5/29 - 6/7/2025
Loosely based on the classic Edgar Allan Poe Tale In this adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale, playwright Jack Neary reimagines The Fall of ...
Punch Brothers
6/11
Punch Brothers return to Columbus for a performance at the Southern Theatre on June 11, 2025. The virtuosic quintet includes renowned musicians Chris Thile on ...
You're My Boy
6/6 - 6/15/2025
Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon; two men who dominated world events in the last half of the 20th Century. Nixon is a young, fiercely ambitious ...
Grease
6/12 - 6/21/2025
It’s 1959, and Rydell High is buzzing with too-cool-for-school Burger Palace Boys and gum-snapping, hip-shaking Pink Ladies. A summer romance has bloomed between head greaser ...
America’s largest interactive comedy mystery dinner theatre show is now playing in Columbus OH! Solve a hilarious mystery while you feast on a fantastic dinner. ...
Arts Immersion Program
6/6 - 6/27/2025
Shadowbox Live offers the Arts Immersion Program, a free two-week intensive for students aged 15 to 21, focused on vocal, acting, dance, and music performance. ...
Avalon Productions Presents… STEEL MAGNOLIAS
7/10 - 7/12/2025
Avalon Productions Presents… STEEL MAGNOLIAS Thursday, July 10, 2025 @ 7pm Friday, July 11, 2025 @ 7pm Saturday, July 12, 2025 @ 2pm Saturday, July ...
America’s LARGEST interactive true crime mystery dinner show is now playing in Columbus, OH! At The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show, you’ll tackle a ...
Murder Night in Blood Forest brings the beloved characters from the podcast Welcome to Night Vale to life for a unique live experience. The story ...
America’s LARGEST interactive true crime mystery dinner show is now playing in Columbus, OH! At The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show, you’ll tackle a ...
Sounds of The Avalon Presents… Kat Edmonson Tuesday, July 29, 2025 @ 7pm Kat Edmonson is an award-winning songwriter and singer "with an equal foothold ...
Kiss and Tell
4/3 - 8/30/2025
This sketch comedy and music experience is hilarious peek into the funny, awkward, and steamy side of relationships proves some stories are too good not ...
Wine Down Wednesdays
5/21 - 9/7/2025
Wine Down Wednesdays returns to the Lincoln Theatre for its fourth season, featuring live jazz on the rooftop patio. Beginning May 21, local artists will ...
Avatar: The Last Airbender In Concert celebrates the 20th anniversary of the beloved animated series with a special live performance. Taking place at the Palace ...
Ninja Kidz, the popular YouTube stars, bring their first-ever live stage show to the Palace Theatre on November 15, 2025. Siblings Bryton, Ashton, Paxton, and ...
The Hobbit
11/7 - 11/16/2025
It's unusual for a modern work to become a classic so quickly, but Tolkien's "ring" stories, which began with The Hobbit , clearly are in ...
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Latest Columbus Reviews
Review: THE DROWSY CHAPERONE at Short North Stage
by Paul Batterson - May 11, 2025
Although the cast took a wrecking ball to the fourth wall separating the audience from the actors and the show within a show is intentionally light on plot, The Drowsy Chaperone serves up a cocktail that is two shots of Golden Age musicals, a jigger of acerbic wit, three parts parody, and a half oun...
Review: STOP MAKING SENSE'S JERRY HARRISON at Southern Theatre
by Paul Batterson - May 06, 2025
Jerry Harrison doesn’t have too many regrets in his musical career. The Talking Heads’ keyboardist, who was in town to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the band’s landmark film STOP MAKING SENSE May 4 at the Southern Theatre (21 E. Main Street in downtown Columbus), is in the Rock and Roll Hall of ...
Review: DONNIE IRIS AND THE CRUSIERS at Bluestone
by Paul Batterson - May 05, 2025
“I'll tell you what it is. It happens because of the audience,” Iris said in an interview with BroadwayWorld.com in April. “The audience is there with you, you know what I mean? The joy we give them, they give it back to us. We just keep going back and forth with them and it’s a wonderful thing. It ...
Review: THE LAST FIVE YEARS at Riffe Center Studio 2
by Paul Batterson - April 28, 2025
However, the audience can deduct the pair didn’t make it from the first line of the show’s opening number “Still Hurting” – Jamie is over and Jamie is gone/ Jamie's decided it's time to move on. Although they know the heart ache is coming, the audience can’t turn away from it....
Review: A BEAUTIFUL NOISE: THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL at Ohio Theatre
by Paul Batterson - April 24, 2025
The stellar cast accommodates theater goers on both sides of the Diamond spectrum and by the end of the two-act musical the average music fan will be surprised by how many Diamond songs he or she knows by heart and how good some of those songs truly are....
Review: SUTTON FOSTER at Southern Theatre
by Paul Batterson - April 13, 2025
Foster possesses the uncanny ability to choose a set list from musicals and pop songs to reveal who she is as a performer. Is there anything that Sutton Foster doesn’t do well?...
Review: BOBBY AND THE CHIMPS at Abbey Theater Of Dublin
by Paul Batterson - April 08, 2025
The play, BOBBY AND THE CHIMPS, made its world premiere on April 3 and runs through April 12 at the Abbey Theater of Dublin (5600 Post Road in Dublin). In some ways, Phillips’ version of the debate of teaching evolution vs. creation is truer to life than its forerunner....
Review: A CHORUS LINE at Garden Theatre
by Paul Batterson - March 30, 2025
A Chorus Line is the perfect vehicle for SNS, which has a seemingly endless supply of actors capable of carrying a show individually, but who are willing to work as a unit to pull one off.?...
BWW Review: FUNNY GIRL - The Greatest Star Comes to the Ohio Theatre
by Christina Mancuso - March 26, 2025
It seems an impossible feat to follow in the shadow of the legendary Barbara Streisand who originated the iconic role of Fanny Brice in the 1964 Broadway production of FUNNY GIRL, which received eight Tony Award nominations. But Hannah Shankman marched herself onto the stage at the Ohio Theatre and...
Review: FAT HAM at Riffe Center Studio One
by Paul Batterson - March 11, 2025
Ijames reinvented the Shakespearean tragedy into something far more accessible for modern-day audiences. Instead of a dark tale of murder and revenge set in a dreary Denmark castle, Ijames brilliantly updates it into a backyard barbeque, replete with a karaoke machine, a gas grill, and a game of cha...
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