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Gallery Players and New Players Theater recent collaboration of Matthew Lopez’s The Whipping Man covers countless ideas in a driving and emotional story. A tense beginning swiftly draws the audience into a dilapidated and half burnt mansion in Richmond, Virginia… [Read More]
Let me preface all of this by stating that I do not particularly enjoy musicals where plot subordinates the music. I like driving stories and forward momentum. CATCO’s freshly opened Five Guys Named Moe falls into the questionable plot category,… [Read More]
Viva Vagina, Shadowbox Live’s newest Stage 2 production, conjures up thoughts of a musical variation of Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues or a cabaret-style, satirical, faux-chauvinistic but ultimately feminist comedy. This production does not really do either. Instead, it presents a… [Read More]
Long awaited and highly anticipated, the U.S. tour of Nick Stafford’s War Horse cantered into the Ohio Theatre last night to a full house. Based on Michael Morpurgo’s children’s book of the same name, War Horse tells the tale of… [Read More]
I did a quick peruse of TV Guide’s current top ranks to see two identical shows vying for top place (The Voice and American Idol). Then I noticed Dancing with the Stars, that show that reincarnates 80s celebrities. Scrolling down… [Read More]
Andrew Levitt never planned to call Columbus home. Rather, he thought he would hang around for a bit and test out a drag character, Nina West, for a few months before heading to New York. That was 2001. He never… [Read More]
Recently, I joked with a friend about the idea of staging a tragedy as a comedy, a sort of Anti-Chekovian theater, if you will. Willy Loman serves as a literal punchline; the audience tears up because they laugh so hard…. [Read More]
“…silence…silence…silence…” Most people, if they know John Cage, know him as the man who created 4’33”, a piece of three parts that lasts four minutes and thirty-three seconds where the musicians do nothing. The audience hears the silence and the… [Read More]
Green Day’s punk opera, American Idiot landed at the Palace Theater last night. The raucous, wild musical provides a roller coaster of a journey that may feel more like a rock concert than “musical theater.” However, American Idiot serves as… [Read More]
This weekend, Gallery Players at the Jewish Community Center (JCC), opened their sixth production of Fiddler on the Roof to sold-out performances and loving audiences. The classic and much adored musical centers on Tevye, a poor milkman, his wife Golde,… [Read More]
Tonight, the Short North Stage opens Ordinary Days, a chamber musical written by Adam Gwon. Despite the show’s long history and generally warm reception it received in New York, it may need more time before those accolades come in Columbus…. [Read More]
Columbus seems overtaken right now with Mark Rothko. Until May 26th, The Columbus Art Museum hosts Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade 1940-1950. Meanwhile, CATCO performs the play Red, a brief glimpse into the painter’s life. For those that know little… [Read More]
Last night, the touring production of Million Dollar Quartet played to a packed house at the Palace Theatre. The show features a rollicking array of popular songs from the titular musicians. Loosely based on a famed night in rock n’… [Read More]
Walking into the lobby of CATCO’s space in the Vern Riffe Center prior to a performance of CATCO is Kid’s production of Beauty and the Beast: Isabella e la Bestia, almost feels like wandering the streets the evening of Halloween…. [Read More]
“All knowledge is precious, whether or not it serves the slightest human use.” Mull over that one; it serves as a central role in The History Boys, a divine play penned by Alan Bennett. Available Light Theatre’s production offers little… [Read More]
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