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Review: HOT STUFF at SBX Theatre
by Paul Batterson - Jan 21, 2025

To understand Shadowbox Live’s latest offering, HOT STUFF, you need to go back to Thanksgiving or, more precisely, the day after Thanksgiving. On Nov. 24 this year, families offered up the traditional fare of turkey or ham, mashed potatoes, and Aunt Clara’s green bean casserole. The day after Thanksgiving, though, you get to pick through the best parts of the meal, feast on your favorites, and leave the green bean casserole in the fridge.

Review: WILD THINGS at Shadowbox Live
by Paul Batterson - Aug 20, 2024

While not all the sketches are home runs, most offer a solid chuckle to nearly everyone. It may not be an event you can feel comfortable taking your grandparents to, but maybe you could bring a drunk Aunt Martha and Uncle Bill this time around.

Review: EVOLUTIONARIES at Shadowbox Live
by Paul Batterson - Jun 19, 2024

Under the direction of Julie Klein, the theater troupe weaves together the divergent catalogue of the two icons with a variety of singers and styles, multimedia presentations, and the storytelling of Michelle Daniels.

Review: PILLOW TALK Finds Soft Spot Among the Shadowbox Live Crowd
by Paul Batterson - Jan 9, 2024

Produced and directed by Julie Klein, PILLOW TALK provides a collection of Shadowbox Live’s best skits of the past year, hits the right notes for a variety of patrons. the two-act mixture of rock and roll and comedy opened Jan. 5 and runs through April 13 at the troupe’s stage at 503 S. Front Street in downtown Columbus.

BWW Reviews: Shadowbox Live's THE ROCKY HORROR SHOWS Does the Time Warp with Perfection
by Lisa Norris - Jun 10, 2013

If you haven't seen 'The Rocky Horror Show', there's really no way to adequately describe what you are missing, other than to say that you simply must see it at least once, or ten times, in your lifetime. If you are already a fan of the campy, transgender masterpiece by Richard O'Brien that is known as much for its cult-like audience participation as it is for its bizarre storyline and outrageous characters, then you are in for quite a treat, as Shadowbox Live brings a masterful version to the Brewery District.

BWW Reviews: Shadowbox Live Goes Down the Rabbit Hole with UNDERLAND
by Lisa Norris - Mar 4, 2013

With enough of a fan base to generate the nearly $20,000 needed to fully-fund its production in less than two weeks on its Kickstarter.com pledge site, Shadowbox Live's self-created musical, 'Underland' opened to a not-surprisingly sold-out crowd last night. The original script, created by Shadowbox Head Writer, Jimmy Mak, is inspired by 'Alice In Wonderland', but instead tells the tale of Albert Ice (Robbie Nance), a Vietnam veteran who is searching for his lost daughter in the 60's hippie culture of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury District. While it has the feel of Shadowbox's fabulous, 'Back to the Garden' in its opening scenes, this show immediately takes a much darker, mind-bending tone, and it's difficult to tell what is a drug-trip gone wrong, and what is Ice's completely warped post-traumatic stress-induced reality.

BWW Reviews: A Columbus Holiday Tradition Turns 21- Shadowbox Live’s HOLIDAY HOOPLA
by Lisa Norris - Nov 17, 2012

You know that the holiday season has officially arrived in Central Ohio when Shadowbox Live gifts us with the opening of its annual musical sketch comedy, Holiday Hoopla. Just as nutty as fruitcake, a little sassier, and so much sweeter, this is hilariously fun how has become so wildly popular that in its 21st revision, it has already sold out many nights a month ahead.

BWW Reviews: Skip the Haunted House- Come Howl at Shadowbox Live's 'Full Moon'
by Lisa Norris - Oct 6, 2012

Shadowbox Live is back with a new sketch/comedy, rock and roll production in its classic format, themed this time in a ghoulishly delightful Halloween show called 'Full Moon".

BWW Reviews: Shadowbox Live Shows Plenty of 'Razzle Dazzle' in CHICAGO
by Lisa Norris - Sep 10, 2012

It's been a Broadway favorite since it's 1975 opening, and the Academy Award winning 2012 movie version did little to detract from its fame, but if you weren't fascinated with Chicago's musical tale of sex, lies, and corruption before now, Shadowbox Live's stellar cast will definitely give you enough of the ol' "Razzle Dazzle" to make you a fan.

BWW Reviews: BEST OF SHADOWBOX LIVE 2012 is a Columbus Best Bet
by Lisa Norris - Jul 23, 2012

Approaching the 1 year anniversary of moving into their new Brewery District space, it seemed an appropriate time for Shadowbox live to roll out a calm, laidback revue of the past year. However, much like their new edgy warehouse space, the "Best of Shadowbox Live 2012" serves not to relax and reflect, but to accelerate the talent machine that is Shadowbox Live to even higher levels of comedic and musical brilliance.

BWW Reviews: Getting Addicted is Easy at Shadowbox Live's REEFER MADNESS, Sundays Now through July 8, 2012
by Lisa Norris - Apr 30, 2012

Shadowbox Live presented the completely campy REEFER MADNESS again last night, and in Julie Klein's warped little director's brain, it was pure "mockumentary" delight. REEFER MADNESS is a wacky musical adaptation of the 1936 exploitive propaganda film by the same name that became a cult classic.

Shadowbox Live Presents REEFER MADNESS, Opening 4/22
by Harmony Wheeler - Apr 13, 2012

Shadowbox Live presents the musical Reefer Madness, opening April 22nd at The Shadowbox Live Building.

WICA Announces Their January Schedule
by BWW News Desk - Jan 9, 2011

WICA announces its January Schedule.

WICA Announces Their January Schedule
by BWW News Desk - Jan 8, 2011

WICA announces its January Schedule.

WICA Announces Their January Schedule
by Kelsey Denette - Dec 22, 2010

WICA announces its January Schedule.

Shadowbox's BORN TO BE WILD Opens 3/26 At Easton Town Center
by BWW News Desk - Mar 26, 2009

Get your motor runnin' this Spring with Shadowbox's Born to be Wild, opening March 26, 2009 at their sketch comedy and rock ?n roll club at the Easton Town Center. This brand-new theme celebrates the unrelenting human spirit and our desire to work hard, play hard, and rock hard.

Shadowbox's BORN TO BE WILD Opens 3/26 At Easton Town Center
by Gabrielle Sierra - Mar 19, 2009

Get your motor runnin' this Spring with Shadowbox's Born to be Wild, opening March 26, 2009 at their sketch comedy and rock ?n roll club at the Easton Town Center. This brand-new theme celebrates the unrelenting human spirit and our desire to work hard, play hard, and rock hard.