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Akron, OH 44313



First Standings Announced for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Columbus Awards; AMERICAN IDIOT Leads Best Musical!


by BWW Awards - December 01, 2025

The first standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Columbus Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

First Standings Announced for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Cleveland Awards; LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS Leads Best Musical!


by BWW Awards - December 01, 2025

The first standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Cleveland Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

1st Stage Launches The Directors' Residency And Commission To Develop Regional Directors


by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 27, 2025

1st Stage is launching the Directors’ Residency and Commission program to help develop early career directors who live and work in the region. Learn ore....

Winners Announced For The 2024 BroadwayWorld Columbus Awards


by BWW Awards - January 13, 2025

Winners have been announced for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Columbus Awards! The 2024 Regional Awards honor regional productions, touring shows, and more which had their first performance between October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024....

Review: NEXT TO NORMAL at Riffe Center Studio 1


by Paul Batterson - October 29, 2024

Sometimes you can tell a lot about a production even before you enter the theatre. For example, the Columbus Children’s Theatre placed a large fishbowl of Kleenex packets in the lobby for attendees of its musical, NEXT TO NORMAL....

Interview: Rachel Hertenstein of NEXT TO NORMAL at Columbus Children's Theater


by Paul Batterson - October 07, 2024

“It’s difficult to play Diana but it’s incredibly healing for me personally. You never play a character who’s exactly like you. However, when you find a role you connect with, it can be a beautiful way to explore a part of yourself.' Rachel Hertenstein...

Past Shows

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 ...

The Fall of the House of Usher


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 ...

Max's House: A Musical Puppet Show


Max’s House is a musical puppet show about reconnecting with the things that bring us joy (in this case, singing and dancing) and returning to ...

A Golden Fleecing
A Golden Fleecing
10/18 - 10/20/2024


Sarah Sweetflower has inherited Cactus Bob’s Saloon in the ghost town of Elbow’s Bend.  It is here that she plans to open Sarah Sweetflower’s Sarsaparilla ...

The Addams Family: A New Musical Comedy


A twist on the ever-evolving tale of The Addams Family. Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with ...

The Red Velvet Cake War
The Red Velvet Cake War
7/11 - 7/20/2024


Planning a family reunion is never fun, but for Gaynelle, Peaches and Jimmie, they couldn’t have picked a worse time. Their antics have become the ...

The SpongeBob Musical
The SpongeBob Musical
6/27 - 7/6/2024


When the citizens of Bikini Bottom discover that a volcano will soon erupt and destroy their humble home, SpongeBob and his friends must come together ...

Ken Ludwig's Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood


Travel through the Sherwood Forest for Ken Ludwig’s Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood! This story is packed with thrills, romance, and laughter as you ...

Man of La Mancha
Man of La Mancha
5/30 - 6/8/2024


Set in Spain in 1597,  Man of La Mancha  follows the story of Manuel de Cervantes, the author of  Don Quixote , a prisoner awaiting ...

Elf The Musical
Elf The Musical
12/19 - 12/29/2023


Buddy Hobbs, a young orphan child, mistakenly crawls into Santas’ bag of gifts and is transported back to the North Pole. After discovering the baby, ...

Blazing Guns at Roaring Gulch
Blazing Guns at Roaring Gulch
10/20 - 10/22/2023


Blazing Guns at Roaring Gulch is a play that takes place in the lobby of the Roaring Gulch Hotel. Hero, Harry Heartstone, is found in ...

Kinky Boots
Kinky Boots
7/27 - 8/5/2023


Music and Lyrics by Cyndi Lauper Book by Harvey Fierstein Original Broadway Production Directed and Choreographed by Jerry Mitchell Based on the Miramax motion picture  ...

New Year's Eve Fundraising Gala


A final toast to our 50th Anniversary Season! For 50 years Weathervane Playhouse has produced professional productions serving Licking County and Central Ohio, all while ...

Gypsy
Gypsy
12/20 - 12/29/2018


Regarded by many theater professionals as the greatest musical ever created, Gypsy is the ultimate tale of an ambitious stage mother fighting for her daughters’ ...

The Full Monty
The Full Monty
10/18 - 10/27/2018


While spying on their wives at a "Girls' Night Out," a group of unemployed steelworkers from Buffalo sees how much they enjoy watching male strippers. ...

Pippin
Pippin
8/2 - 8/11/2018


With a beautifully theatrical and emotional score by four-time Grammy winner, three-time Oscar winner, and musical theatre legend, Stephen Schwartz (composer of Wicked, Godspell, and ...

Merrily We Roll Along
Merrily We Roll Along
7/19 - 7/28/2018


Merrily We Roll Along begins in the present and moves backwards, tracing the lives of wealthy, jaded composer, Franklin Shepard, and his two estranged friends ...

42nd Street
42nd Street
7/5 - 7/14/2018


The ultimate show-biz musical, 42nd Street celebrates Broadway, Times Square, and the people who make the magic of musical theatre. Aspiring chorus girl Peggy Sawyer ...

I Hate Hamlet
I Hate Hamlet
6/20 - 6/30/2018


As its title suggests, Paul Rudnick’s 1991 play I Hate Hamlet deals with the question of just how relevant William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is for modern ...

A Chorus Line
A Chorus Line
6/7 - 6/16/2018


A Chorus Line is a celebration of those unsung heroes of the American Musical Theatre: the chorus dancers — those valiant, over dedicated, underpaid, highly ...

Avenue Q
Avenue Q
7/27 - 8/5/2017


Through the use of puppets, this “laugh-out-loud” musical details the struggles and anxieties associated with entering adulthood. Assured by their parents and by children’s television ...

A Comedy of Tenors
A Comedy of Tenors
7/13 - 7/22/2017


From the author of Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery comes another hilarious comedy by Ken Ludwig. The scene: a single hotel suite, four operatic tenors, ...

South Pacific
South Pacific
6/29 - 7/8/2017


Love and war set the scene for this Golden Age musical that premiered on Broadway in 1949 and was an immediate hit, running for almost ...

Peter and the Starcatcher
Peter and the Starcatcher
6/15 - 6/24/2017


Who was Peter Pan before there was Peter Pan? In Peter and the Starcatcher, a prequel to J.M. Barrie’s beloved children’s story, an orphan boy ...

Children of Eden
Children of Eden
6/1 - 6/10/2017


“Let There Be” light at Weathervane Playhouse for the first show of the 2017 Summer Season! A wonderfully creative take on the story of Adam ...

Mamma Mia!
Mamma Mia!
12/20 - 12/30/2016


Don't change your mind, be the first in line, for Weathervane Playhouse's Winter production of Mamma Mia! Featuring the music of hit European group ABBA, ...

The Fantasticks
The Fantasticks
10/13 - 10/22/2016


A feud as big as the Montague and Capulets keep two lovers apart in this classic American musical, which comes to the Weathervane stage this ...

Nice Work If You Can Get It
Nice Work If You Can Get It
7/30 - 8/8/2015


Nice Work If You Can Get It Music and Lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin Book by Joe DiPietro Inspired by Material by P.G. ...

Dial M For Murder
Dial M For Murder
7/16 - 7/25/2015


Dial M For Murder by Frederick Knott Director: Mark Seamon Scenic Designer: Jeremy Hollis Lighting Designer: Jennifer Sansfacon Sound Designer: Megan Culley Costume Designer: Cora ...

The Pajama Game
The Pajama Game
7/2 - 7/11/2015


The Pajama Game Book by George Abbott and Richard Bissell Music and Lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross Based on the novel “7 1/2 ...

One Man, Two Guvnors
One Man, Two Guvnors
6/18 - 6/27/2015


One Man, Two Guvnors by Richard Bean based on The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni with songs by Grant Olding Director: Kevin Connell ...

Rent
Rent
6/4 - 6/13/2015


Rent Book, Music and Lyrics by Jonathan Larson Musical Arrangements Original Concept/Additional Lyrics Steve Skinner Billy Aronson Music Supervision and Additional Arrangements Dramaturg Tim Weil ...

Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus Christ Superstar
12/18 - 12/28/2014


It seems especially fitting that the first rock opera, created as a concept album at the end of the turbulent ’60s, should have at its ...

The 2013 8x10 TheatreFest
8/16 - 8/18/2013


Aspiring playwrights are invited to submit their entries for the 2013 8x10 TheatreFest. Weathervane's volunteer judges will read all of the entries and select eight ...

The Music Man
6/6 - 6/30/2013


Music Professor Harold Hill has arrived in River City, Iowa, in 1912 for the purpose of forming a boy’s marching band. He swoops into town ...

The 39 Steps
5/2 - 5/19/2013


Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps, a fast-paced whodunit for ...


Join us for this world-premiere production of a play for young audiences — commissioned by Weathervane Playhouse! This production will be geared to pre-school and ...

Charley's Aunt
4/4 - 4/21/2013


In this classic English comedy from 1892, Jack Chesney loves Kitty Verdun and Charley Wykeham loves Miss Amy Spettigue. They invite the ladies to meet ...

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