Review: THE SIMON AND GARFUNKEL STORY at Southern Theatre
by Paul Batterson - February 10, 2026
What did our critic think of THE SIMON AND GARFUNKEL STORY at Southern Theatre?...
Review: LEATHER AND LACE at Shadowbox Live
by Paul Batterson - February 06, 2026
Shadowbox’s latest production is more leather than lace, offering a wide variety of power ballads from each generation....
Review: LES MISERABLES at Ohio Theatre
by Paul Batterson - January 29, 2026
Reviewing the revered LES MISERABLES is always a mixed bag. The show, running Jan. 27–Feb. 1 at the Ohio Theatre (39 E. State Street, downtown Columbus), is a towering piece of musical theater history. It has a cadre of powerful songs (“Do You Hear The People Sing?,” “I Dreamed a Dream,” a...
BWW Review: LES MISERABLES Still Stands Strong at the Ohio Theatre
by Christina Mancuso - January 28, 2026
There’s something truly special about LES MISERABLES that keeps audiences coming back for more, and this LES MIZ is certainly no exception. Arguably the greatest musical of all time, LES MISERABLES strikes every chord with its powerful message of love, rebellion, sacrifice, redemption and inspir...
Review: Short North Stage's COME FROM AWAY at Garden Theatre
by Paul Batterson - January 25, 2026
What did our critic think of SHORT NORTH STAGE'S COME FROM AWAY at Garden Theatre?...
Review: THE CALL at The Shedd Theater
by Paul Batterson - January 24, 2026
What did our critic think of THE CALL at The Shedd Theater?...
Review: BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL at Ohio Theatre
by Paul Batterson - January 07, 2026
Comedian John Mulaney has famously raised a few uncomfortable questions about BACK TO THE FUTURE — why a teenager is best friends with a decades-older nuclear scientist, why no one uses a time machine for anything meaningful, and why the story hinges on Marty nearly romancing his own mother....
BWW Review: SIX the Musical - Rewriting History with Female Empowerment
by Christina Mancuso - December 17, 2025
Winner of 26 awards in the 2021/2022 Broadway season, including the 2022 Tony Award for Best Original Score (Music and Lyrics) and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, SIX is the story of the six wives of Henry VIII who reclaim their identities in the shadow of their infamous spouse. W...
Review: AJR ACOUSTIC SET at Newport Music Hall
by Paul Batterson - December 09, 2025
What did our critic think of AJR ACOUSTIC SET at Newport Music Hall?...
Review: STRAIGHT NO CHASER'S HOLIDAY ROAD at Palace Theatre
by Paul Batterson - December 04, 2025
Straight No Chaser has been a holiday tradition with many repeat attenders because their show doesn’t easily fit into a preset gift box. They are either a comedy group that harmonizes extremely well or an a cappella group that thrives because it doesn’t take itself too seriously. If you take awa...
Past Shows
Six: Teen Edition
Feb 6 – Feb 15, 2026
The Electrifying New Musical Phenomenon! From Tudor Queens to Pop Icons, the SIX wives of Henry VIII take the mic to reclaim their identities.
A Comedy of Errors
Jan 9 – Jan 18, 2026
Shakespeare’s classic comedy comes to life in this new one-hour adaptation. When a man and his servant travel to Ephesus in search of their missing...
A Christmas Carol
Dec 12 – Dec 21, 2025
A heartwarming play with a capella music adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic novel.
The Witch of November
Nov 7 – Nov 16, 2025
A World Premiere play written by Columbus based playwright Vidas Barzdukas commemorating the 50th anniversary of the mysterious sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.
Gutenberg! The Musical!
Aug 9 – Aug 17, 2025
In this two-man musical spoof, a pair of aspiring playwrights perform a backers’ audition for their new, ill-advised project — a musical about Johann Gutenberg.
Hadestown: Teen Edition
Aug 7 – Aug 16, 2025
Hadestown invites audiences on a journey to the underworld and back. Inspired by traditions of classic American folk music and vintage New Orleans jazz.
You're My Boy
Jun 6 – Jun 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...
Bobby and the Chimps
Apr 3 – Apr 13, 2025
Bobby and the Chimps, a world premiere by playwright James Phillips, explores a heated school board race in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where the clash between creationism...
Bobby and the Chimps
Apr 3 – Apr 13, 2025
The race for school board in the small town of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania gets heated when two ideologies collide in this Professional Premiere.
Mae West: After Dark
Feb 6 – Feb 9, 2025
A one-woman Herstory exploring the incredible, glamorous life and wonderfully controversial work of the icon of all icons. Whether you are already a devoted fan...
Macbeth
Jan 10 – Jan 19, 2025
The Abbey Theater of Dublin and Dublin Coffman High School co-present a sixty (60) minute adaptation of William Shakepeare's Macbeth!A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives...
Macbeth
Jan 10 – Jan 19, 2025
The Abbey Theater of Dublin and Dublin Coffman High School co-present a sixty (60) minute adaptation of William Shakepeare's Macbeth!A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives...
Madeline's Christmas
Dec 13 – Dec 22, 2024
Join us for the Dublin premiere of this page-to-stage, musical adaptation of the beloved children’s book! After their morning walk with Miss Clavel, 12 little...
City Jail
Nov 22 – Nov 24, 2024
Be in the audience for the encore production of this fully conceived production (from staged readings in 2021 to full-scale production in 2022) at the...
A Walk in the Woods
Oct 3 – Oct 5, 2024
In the woods of Geneva, two superpower arms negotiators, a Russian and an American, meet informally after long, frustrating hours at the bargaining table.
An Umbrella on a Rainy, Rainy Day
Aug 21 – Aug 23, 2024
A world premiere play written by Dublin, Ohio resident Robert Cooperman. A family is blessed by the surprise arrival of a new addition. Although at...
Alice by Heart
Aug 9 – Aug 17, 2024
From the Tony and Grammy award-winning creators of “Spring Awakening”, “Alice by Heart” is a touching musical inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. In the...
American Idiot
Aug 8 – Aug 17, 2024
Green Day’s powerhouse album is brought to life in this electric-rock musical of youthful disillusion. Johnny, Tunny and Will struggle to find meaning in a...
Otterbein Playwrights Collective
Jun 14 – Jun 16, 2024
Witness two world premiere productions – written by Otterbein University creative writing students performed by Central Ohio Teens!
A Walk in the Woods
May 17 – May 19, 2024
In a woods on the outskirts of Geneva, two superpower arms negotiators, a Russian and an American, meet informally after long, frustrating hours at the...
Van Gogh's in the Attic
Apr 4 – Apr 14, 2024
A world premiere, break-neck comedy by Irish playwright and Abbey Theater favorite Sean Cooney. Set on the south coast of Ireland in the 1980s, Fergal...
Our Town
Mar 14 – Mar 24, 2024
Thornton Wilder’s timeless, Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life, set in the mythical village of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, is an American classic with universal appeal....
The Drums of War
Jan 19 – Jan 28, 2024
A world premiere play by retired Ohio Supreme Court Judge, playwright, and novelist Herb Brown. England stands alone as Nazi Germany conquers Continental Europe, and...
Women Who Know: A Witch Play
Nov 3 – Nov 5, 2023
Women Who Know: A Witch Play’ explores the lives of three generations of women from Pendle, England, who, like so many others, met their end...
A Real Boy by Jeff Downing
Oct 19 – Oct 28, 2023
Area premiere of the retelling of a classic fairy tale. When Geppetto’s latest wooden creation magically comes to life, a new story begins for an unlikely father and...
Moby Dick's Gone Missing
Oct 5 – Oct 15, 2023
When the Hollywood film production of ‘Moby Dick’ descends upon a small fishing town in County Cork, Ireland, the townspeople are both fascinated and frustrated...
The Inheritance PART 2 by Matthew Lopez
Sep 21 – Sep 30, 2023
Area Premiere of the 2020 Tony Award Winning play. Inspired by E.M. Forster’s masterpiece Howards End, The Inheritance is an epic examination of survival, healing, class...
The Inheritance PART 1 by Matthew Lopez
Sep 7 – Sep 16, 2023
Area Premiere of the 2020 Tony Award Winning play Inspired by E.M. Forster’s masterpiece Howards End, The Inheritance is an epic examination of survival, healing,...
McQueen by JAMES PHILLIPS
May 25 – Jun 3, 2023
FIRST TIME IN THE UNITED STATES! NOWHERE SEEN BUT ON THE LONDON STAGE!THE HIT LONDON SHOW!Evolution Theatre Company presents THE NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE OFNever before...
One Show / Two Plays
Jul 20 – Apr 29, 2023
Evolution Theatre Company, Dublin’s only professional theatre company will present two original plays written by local playwrights in our production of One Show / Two...
A Yankee Goes Home
Apr 14 – Apr 23, 2023
On a rooftop in New York City, retired Police Officer Flinter Flynn struggles to find the ability to communicate with the outside world and his...
The Price of Power
Jan 13 – Jan 22, 2023
President John F. Kennedy and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover are locked in a fight for political survival. Kennedy can fire Hoover, but Hoover knows...
City Jail
Nov 11 – Nov 13, 2022
What happens when a woman advances a false claim of sexual harassment? What would compel her to do such a thing? Can the ‘horribles’ that...
Catspaw
Mar 17 – Mar 27, 2022
Wealthy and controlling Barbara Shepard has gone missing. Barbaras son, Richard, thinks his stepfather, Peter, knows more than he is telling. Richards sister, Lindy, isnt...
The Duchess
Feb 10 – Feb 19, 2022
A World Premiere! The Duchess traces the rise of Warren G. Harding and his talented, ambitious wife. They are aided by three of the most...
City Jail
Jan 7
A workshop production that will be performed in-person (adhering to all CDC and Franklin County Public Health guidelines) January 7, 2022, at 7 p.m. EST....
Otterbein Playwrights Collective
Jun 25 – Jul 3, 2021
Join us for the inaugural collaboration between Otterbein and the Abbey Theatre of Dublin. The collective consists of three, one-act shows written by Otterbein students...
How To Be A Trainer
Apr 16 – Apr 17, 2021
The Abbey Theater of Dublin will present the world premiere production of the one-man play How To Be A Trainer, written and performed by award-winning...
Songs for a New World
Mar 25 – Mar 27, 2021
Its about one moment. Its about hitting the wall and having to make a choice or take a stand or turn around and go back....
Songs for a New World
Mar 19 – Mar 27, 2021
It's about one moment. It's about hitting the wall and having to make a choice... or take a stand... or turn around and go back....
#CHARLOTTESVILLE
Feb 19 – Feb 28, 2021
In-person and Live streaming: Feb. 19 & 20 at 7 p.m. Streaming on demand: Feb. 21 thru 28 Cost: $10/ticket or stream #CHARLOTTESVILLE is a...
Future, Here
Jan 28 – Jan 31, 2021
Welcome to Future, an unincorporated village being monitored by Society. The village populationfive randomly selected childrenis driven by a national effort to develop appropriately adapted...
Diary of Recovering Daughters
Jan 21 – Jan 28, 2021
live-stream viewing: Thursday, Jan. 21 performance at 7 p.m. Encore streams for on demand viewing: Thursday, Jan. 21 – Thursday, Jan. 28 Cost: $10/ticket or...
Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail'
Jan 15 – Jan 18, 2021
The Abbey Theater of Dublin, in honor of Martin Luther King Day, will present an encore, on-demand streaming presentation of Troy Anthony Harris adaptation and...
go to coda
Nov 20 – Nov 29, 2020
Worrell P McConnell sits in the back yard of his country farmhouse and waits for his missing dog to return home when he suffers a...
WE SERVED
Nov 11 – Nov 15, 2020
A play created by veterans about veterans. This Veterans Day celebration is a preview for the May 2021 full-scale World Premiere production of We Served,...
Aliens! 3 Miles, Turn Left!
Oct 16 – Oct 25, 2020
The Abbey Theater of Dublin, as part of its ongoing Virtual Theatre Project, will present the Ohio premiere production of Aliens! 3 Miles, Turn Left,...
Marie Regina: The Life of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
Jul 31 – Aug 2, 2020
After 19 years of imprisonment, Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots was beheaded by her cousin Queen Elizabeth I of England in 1587. Why was she...
Sweet N Sour - Mosaic
Jul 3 – Jul 10, 2020
Join the youth pop group Sweet n Sour for an evening of songs, dances, beautiful photos, musical theater, and poems as they celebrate the 4th...
The Show Must Go Online!
May 22 – Jun 28, 2020
A frazzled Theater Teacher sends a video message to her students from her home office, announcing that their production of Brushes With Greatness: The Dental...
Martin Luther King Jr.'s
Jun 19
In April 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed in Birmingham, Alabama after he defied a state courts injunction and led a march of black...
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Jun 25 – Jun 27, 2015
CPC Theatrical presents a new production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, at the Abbey Theater of Dublin. Reduced price preview June 25 at...
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