Richard Sanford
Richard Sanford is a freelance contributor to Columbus Underground covering the city's vibrant theatre scene. You can find him seeking inspiration at a variety of bars, concert halls, performance spaces, museums and galleries.
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OSU Celebrates New Theatre, Film, and Media Arts Building
A year after The Ohio State University founded its...
Entertainment
Theater Review: Original Productions Theater and Abbey Theater of Dublin’s ‘Van Gogh’s in the Attic’
I've been a big fan of Irish writer Sean...
Entertainment
Theater Review: The Magic of Connection and Pain in Available Light’s ‘You Will Get Sick’
Available Light has done it again - after one...
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Theater Preview: The Wexner Center Presents Anonymous Ensemble’s Ohio Premiere of ‘Llontop’
The Wexner Center for the Arts continues a strong...
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Theater Review: Broadway In Columbus Brings Tony-Winning Tribute to Young Love ‘Moulin Rouge!’ to the Ohio
The Broadway in Columbus series kicks off 2024 with some steam and color to fight the January gray and cold, with John Logan (Book)...
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Theater Review: The Contemporary Theatre of Ohio’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ Digs into the Magic of Storytelling
One of the great joys of theatre is its immediacy: the charge of being in a room with other living, breathing humans, and being...
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Theater Review: Gallery Players’ Luminous ‘Fiddler on the Roof’
Upon its Broadway debut in 1964, Fiddler on the Roof, the Jerry Bock (music), Sheldon Harnick (lyrics), and Joseph Stein (book) adaptation of the...
Theatre
Theater Review: CCT’s Charming ‘Mr. Scrooge’ Returns
I've heard nothing but good things about Columbus Children's Theatre so far this season - raves about their production of Ragtime and maybe even...
Entertainment
Theater Review: Short North Stage’s Exuberant ‘Kinky Boots’
After last year's detour into White Christmas, Short North Stage revives their delightful holiday tradition of glammy disco (and disco-adjacent) musicals with a marvelous...
Entertainment
Beloved ‘A Christmas Carol’ Returns to the Ohio Courtesy of CAPA and Short North Stage
For decades, Columbus families flocked to the Ohio Theater for an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol as a cherished part of their...
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Theater Review: eMBer Women’s Theatre’s Haunting, Powerful ‘Second Servings’
eMBer Women's Theatre's New Play Program is exactly what...
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Theater Preview: Acclaimed Playwright Aya Ogawa Brings Autobiographical ‘The Nosebleed’ to the Wexner Center
The Wexner Center for the Arts continues a strong...
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Theater Review: Short North Stage’s Gorgeous ‘The Color Purple’
Short North Stage soars into 2024 with a luminous...
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Theater Review: Available Light’s ‘Fairview’ Nests Questions of Fairness and Empathy in Ribald, Powerful Satire
Partway through Available Light's breathtaking - in a lot...
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Theater Review: Abbey Theater Dives Into Precarious Moment in History With Herb Brown’s World Premiere ‘The Drums of War’
Herb Brown is one of Columbus' finest playwrights with...