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Before I delve into a review of MadLab and Shepherd Productions’ rendition of The Empire Builders, watch this first: Now that you watched that (you did, right?), kudos to Johnny Hall for creating an engaging and true teaser trailer. This… [Read More]
Shadowbox Live’s The Rocky Horror Show makes for a fun and unique evening (or afternoon) out on the town. It promises and provides plenty of wonderful music, quality staging and fine design in a not-to-miss show. As with most Shadowbox… [Read More]
Hedwig’s ShoNo stop on her Rust Belt Tour opened this weekend at The Garden Theater to uproarious applause. JJ Parkey returns to the role of Hedwig after winning BroadwayWorld’s Best Actor for the role in 2012 during its Boston run…. [Read More]
Intended for mature audiences, SRO Theatre Company’s The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, opened this past weekend. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas premiered on Broadway in the late 1970s and is based on the real Chicken Ranch in La… [Read More]
Long awaited and highly anticipated, Available Light Theatre just finished their opening weekend of Jane Eyre. After a successful Kickstarter campaign, many Columbus residents grew excited for another collaboration between AVLT and Daniel Elihu Kramer, the playwright of AVLT’s 2010… [Read More]
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]
Short North Stage returned to the main stage of The Garden Theater over the weekend to present Passing Strange, the final musical in their regular 2012-2013 season. Set Director Rob Kuhn has done a wonderful job transforming the stage. Short… [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]
Should your loved ones have to feel guilt during what is probably already a depressing time when they don’t want to give you the funeral you want versus the funeral they can handle? In Joe Giordano’s play She’s Dead, making… [Read More]
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