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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 ...
CATS
7/17 - 7/20/2025
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s CATS , reimagined in a magical garden. July 17–19 at 7PM, July 20 at 2PM at Westerville North High School. One weekend ...
MadLab's Young Writers Short Play Festival 2025
7/10 - 7/20/2025
MadLab's Young Writers Short Play Festival 2025, featuring 6 short plays written by a group of super talented central Ohio teens, runs 7/10 - 7/20
Shrek the Musical
7/11 - 7/20/2025
Based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks Animation film, Shrek The Musical is a Tony Award-winning fairy tale adventure, featuring all new songs from Jeanine Tesori (Thoroughly ...
The Tempest
7/11 - 7/20/2025
Aethereal Jest Arts Council's production of William Shakespeare's “The Tempest” is a thrilling take on a classic story. Prospero uses magic to conjure a storm ...
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 ...
Mary Poppins
7/25 - 7/27/2025
It's a jolly holiday with..." Morrow Little Theatre's production of Disney and Cameron Mackintosh 's Mary Poppins. One of the most popular Disney movies of all ...
Voiceless
7/25 - 7/27/2025
Voiceless by Shannon J Reilly Directed by Ivory Mazur Welcome to the enchanted forest between the kingdoms of Lullashire and Knottingdale, where we find Flynn, ...
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 Tuesday, July 29, 2025 @ 7pm Kat Edmonson is an award-winning songwriter and singer "with an equal foothold ...
Over the Rhine
8/2
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 ...
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 ...
Waitress
7/10 - 8/10/2025
Short North Stage opens their 25/26 Season with the Sara Bareilles smash hit, "Waitress" This musical retelling of the 2007 movie follows the titular waitress, ...
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 ...
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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Review: WAITRESS at Short North Stages
by Paul Batterson - July 13, 2025
Everyone should have a way of expressing themselves. Some sing. Some shout. Some curse....
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by Paul Batterson - July 11, 2025
The June 9 performance of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s epic musical HAMILTON may have opened under a cloud of disappointment at the Ohio Theatre (39 E. State Street in downtown Columbus). Before the opening curtain, theatergoers learned the roles of Aaron Burr and Angelica Schuyler, two of the lynch pins in...
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by Paul Batterson - June 14, 2025
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by Paul Batterson - June 05, 2025
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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 ...
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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....
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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....
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