Elizabeth West

For the first time since the show premiered on Broadway in 2021, the musical Diana has returned to the stage.  This time in a brand new staging at Frederick's Way Off Broadway as part of the theatre's 30th Anniversary Season. 

Registration has begun at The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre for its 2024 Summer Theatre Camp which will begin on July 22nd.

The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre's 30th Anniversary Season will continue this spring with the regional theatre premiere of Diana – The Musical.

Way Off Broadway kicks off its 30th Anniversary Season with Agatha Christie's A Murder is Announced, a classic murder mystery filled with mixed motives, concealed identities, and a determined inspector. Miss Marple is on hand to provide the solution in a dramatic final confrontation.

Celebrate the holiday season with Way Off Broadway's original holiday show, Jingle Jingle All the Way.

Get into the holiday spirit with Way Off Broadway's presentation of A Charlie Brown Christmas. This live stage adaptation of the beloved television classic brings Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang to life. Don't miss this festive production at Way Off Broadway.

The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre's 2023 Season continues this fall with the Tony Award-winning musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder. 

Registration has begun at The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre for its 2023 Summer Theatre Camp which will begin on July 17th.

In addition to its regular Mainstage Season, Way Off Broadway has become known for its special events throughout the year. Notably, its interactive murder mysteries in which the audience gets involved and helps solve the case at hand. 

The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre’s 2023 Season – theatre’s 29th of bringing live Broadway-style entertainment to the Mid-Maryland region – will kick off in January with the classic musical that brings the Arthurian legend to life on the stage, Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot.  

Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's, a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker Audrey Fulquard, and is berated by Mr. Mushnik daily. One day as Seymour is seeking a new mysterious plant, he finds a very mysterious unidentified plant which he calls Audrey II. The plant seems to have a craving for blood and soon begins to sing for his supper. Soon enough, Seymour feeds Audrey's sadistic dentist boyfriend to the plant and later, Mushnik for witnessing the death of Audrey's ex. Will Audrey II take over the world or will Seymour and Audrey defeat it? Performances run November 4 - 13, 2022 at The Wagnalls Memorial, 150 East Columbus St, Lithopolis, OH 43136. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit:https://www.facebook.com/WagnallsCommunityTheatre/

Five casts of three readers do a costumed dramatic reading using Dicken’s own performance script. Live performances include a Victorian tea service at intermission. Victorian Christmas music precedes and ends each “Stave” of the story. Period charm combines with an increasingly relevant story for our times.

Pickerington Community Theatre had a night of cabaret-style outdoor performance to celebrate the return of live theater. Performers included: Rachel Lorenz, Lindsay Weiser, Victoria Morejon, Katelyn Cordell, Marquan Denby, Ella Drake, Shelly Riggs, Courtney Werner, Corrine Gorgas, Sam Myers, Jaxon Newsome, Samuel Jeffries, Elizabeth West, Veronica Tuttle, Ashton Leyland, Malena Dewhurst, Ashley Robbe, Carli Werner, Mercedes Seaman, Tori Daniels, Jill Henwood, Tuttle-Berstein Family, Takafumi Uzawa, Charlotte Emigh, Maryn Hoyt, and Nora West. PCT is excited to announce audition information for its Fall 2021 production of 12 Angry Jurors! Auditions will be held at Epiphany Lutheran Church (268 Hill Road North, Pickerington, Ohio 43147) on Friday, July 30 and Saturday, July 31, 2021. More information about the audition and upcoming shows can be found on their website: http://pickeringtoncommunitytheatre.org/

PRIMARY STAGES announced today additional programming for Primary Plus, a series of online programs aimed at helping artists connect with Primary Stages and with each other. For additional details about each program and the most up-to-date information please visit primarystages.org/explore/primary-plus.

With book by Dennis Kelly and original songs by Tim Minchin, Matilda The Musical is the story of an extraordinary little girl who, armed with a vivid imagination and a sharp mind, dares to take a stand and change her own destiny. Matilda performs October 25th thru November 3rd, 2019, Fri/Sat at 7:00pm and Sun at 3pm at The Wagnalls Memorial, 150 E. Columbus, St., Lithopolis, OH 43136.

Portland Stage's antidote to the winter doldrums is a new production of Oscar Wilde's incandescent classic of comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest. More than a century after its creation, this quintessential comedy of manners proves a delicious and refreshing confection of perfectly crafted playwriting. For well over two hours Wilde regales his viewers with one bon mots after another, with pithy and poetic, wise and urbane, cynical and silly dialogue that delights with its energy and acuity.

Hailed by Time Magazine as "campy trash," Blackfriars Theatre is proud to present The Rocky Horror Show on October 26th - November 11th. This 70s cult classic will star Rochester's favorite local drag queen, Mrs. Kasha Davis, as the "Sweet Transvestite," Dr. Frank 'n' Furter. Mrs. Kasha Davis has made a name for herself in the Rochester community and beyond - performing nationally, starring in Season 7 of RuPaul's Drag Race, and in house at the theatre's wildly popular Drag Story Hour.

Roald Dahl's timeless story of the world-famous candy man and his quest to find an heir is a golden ticket to adventure. BPA Theatre School's sumptuous summer production featuring students, grades 1 - 10 is Directed by Pete Benson, with Musical Direction by Reece Sauve, Choreography by Heather Dawson, and Costume Design by Dawn Janow.

The much-anticipated production of Avenue Q at Blackfriars Theatre features the same puppets used in the original Broadway production. The laugh-out-loud musical tells the timeless story of a recent college grad named Princeton, who moves into a shabby New York apartment all the way out on Avenue Q. He soon discovers that, although the residents seem nice, it's clear that this is not your ordinary neighborhood. Together, Princeton and his new-found friends struggle to find jobs, dates and their ever-elusive purpose in life. Avenue Q is the winner of the highly coveted and rarely achieved Tony Award 'Triple Crown' - winning Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book. 

The much-anticipated production of Avenue Q at Blackfriars Theatre features the same puppets used in the original Broadway production. The laugh-out-loud musical tells the timeless story of a recent college grad named Princeton, who moves into a shabby New York apartment all the way out on Avenue Q. He soon discovers that, although the residents seem nice, it's clear that this is not your ordinary neighborhood. Together, Princeton and his new-found friends struggle to find jobs, dates and their ever-elusive purpose in life. Avenue Q is the winner of the highly coveted and rarely achieved Tony Award 'Triple Crown' - winning Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book.