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You're My Boy
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
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 ...

Morning Sun
Morning Sun
6/6 - 6/21/2025


Morning Sun ,  by Simon Stephens, is a poignant drama that traces the life of Charley McBride over five decades within a Greenwich Village apartment. ...

The Dinner Detective Comedy Mystery Dinner 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. ...

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


Avalon Productions Presents… STEEL MAGNOLIAS Thursday, July 10, 2025 @ 7pm Friday, July 11, 2025 @ 7pm Saturday, July 12, 2025 @ 2pm Saturday, July ...

The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show - Columbus


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 ...

The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show - Columbus


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 ...

Voiceless
Voiceless
7/25 - 7/27/2025


A side slapping romantic fairy tale for adults. Their kids are welcome as well. Think "Shrek" but less polite and funnier.

Sounds of The Avalon Presents… Kat Edmonson


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 ...


Over the Rhine, the husband-and-wife duo of Karin Bergquist and Linford Detweiler, will perform a full-band concert at the Lincoln Theatre on August 2. Joined ...

Kiss and Tell
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
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: MILLENNIUM at Shadowbox Live!


by Paul Batterson - June 12, 2025

What did our critic think of MILLENNIUM at Shadowbox Live!?...

Review: KIMBERLY AKIMBO at Ohio Theatre


by Paul Batterson - June 05, 2025

Chances are Seth Weetis, the anagram-obsessed friend in KIMBERLY AKIMBO, would have a field day with the show’s title. The two-act musical opened June 3 and runs through June 8 at the Ohio Theatre....

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.?...



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