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Review: SNS' THE PROM at Garden Theater

Broadway Musicals are often fantasies, musical representations about things that could not possibly happen. The saddest thing about Short North Stage’s production of THE PROM, which runs from March 14 through April 7 at the Garden Theater, is that it is based partly in truth.
Review: REVIEW: INTO THE WOODS at Short North Stage

What did our critic think of REVIEW: INTO THE WOODS at Short North Stage? There are two adages most people know about the theatre: 'Break a leg' and 'The show must go on.' Short North Stage experienced both as it prepared for its 19-show run of INTO THE WOODS.
Hudson Theatre Works Presents Lilian Hellman's LITTLE FOXES

Hudson Theatre Works is starting its 10th season of plays by women playwrights with “The Little Foxes,” by Lillian Hellman.
New Works In Repertory to Feature Plays by Kate Gill & Carol W. Berman

New Works in Repertory, Spring 2022, will feature three engaging works by playwrights, Kate Gill and Carol Berman.
Hudson Theatre Works to Present Eugene O'Neill Festival

“Desire Under the Elms,” Eugene O’Neill’s masterpiece of erotic desire takes a Greek tragedy and sets it on an American Gothic farmstead. The son can see that his father’s new young wife plans to push him out. His passionate hatred for her is only matched by hers for him. Blinded by passion, they are set on a collision course.
Photos: First Look at THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW at the Garden Theatre

In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler. Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named 'Rocky.' Audiences are asked to be masked for the show as well as provide proof of vaccination or negative Covid test prior to entry. The Rocky Horror Show is 90 minutes with no intermission and returns to the Garden Theater, 1187 North High St., Columbus, Ohio from Oct 15-31, 2021. Shows are Fridays and Saturdays only at 11pm with a special Halloween performance at 7pm. The bar is open and participation bags will be available. Get your seats today at www.cbusarts.com or call 614-469-0939!
BWW Review: YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN AT Garden Theater

For the second time in a year, the Short North Stage is bringing Mel Brooks' comedic musical YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN back to life. The musical opened Oct. 7 and will run through Nov. 7 at the Garden Theater (1187 North High Street in downtown Columbus).
Hudson Theatre Works Announces 2021 -2022 Season

Hudson Theatre Works will open on October 7th with Bunnies by New Jersey Playwright, Joanne Hoersch.  Bunnies tells the story of five Playboy Bunnies, who n 1973, at the New York Playboy Club, find themselves uplifted by the rise of feminism, haunted by the GoodBar murder and conflicted about their jobs as sex symbols, while they bond in humor and compassion over the course of one evening. 
New Jersey Theatre Alliance Presents Hudson Theatre Works PlayWorks Reading Of New Plays

New Jersey Theatre Alliance presents  Hudson Theatre Works reading of Closing Times, a play by Derek Murphy, on March 25th at 7:30PM.
BWW Review: ROCKY HORROR SHOW at Columbus Immersive Theater

For the show to be successful, the audience must be engaged with the performance.
Photo Coverage: First look at THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW at the Garden Theatre

In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler. Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named 'Rocky.' Socially distant and masked onstage and in the audience. The Rocky Horror Show returns to the Garden Theater, 1187 North High St., Columbus, Ohio from Oct 15-25, 2020. Get your seats today at RockyHorrorColumbus.com
BWW Review: MARK CRABTREE'S WHEN PIGS FLY at Short North Stage

Stage version of HOWARD CRABTREE'S WHEN PIGS FLY, the silence can be almost deafening.
Nina West to Guest Star in WHEN PIGS FLY at Short North Stage

Short North Stage will be presenting the Off Broadway Musical Howard Crabtree's When Pigs Fly as their second Virtual Production (following July's John & Jen). Columbus's own Nina West (Rupaul's Drag Race) will Guest Star in the musical accompanied by Short North Stage favorites Thom Warren (Broadway's Lion King) and more.
BWW Reviews: Short North Stage Brings YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN to Life

a??a??a??a??a??a??a??Consider this entry from the 'If at first you don't succeed' department. A young television writer is recruited to write a book for the musical SHINBONE ALLEY. Haven't heard of it? That's not too surprising. It lasted a little over a month and closed on Broadway after 49 performances. Undaunted, he writes the first act for another musical, ALL-AMERICAN five years later. It also flops, closing on Broadway after 80 performances.
Hudson Theatre Works Presents It's Annual 10 Minute Play Festival

Hudson Theatre Works presents two benefit performances of "Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire."
Photo Flash: TUCK EVERLASTING Premieres At Columbus Children's Theatre

If you could live for all eternity, would you? Even if you could, would you want to? That's exactly what eleven-year-old Winnie Foster asks herself after she runs away and meets the Tuck family; a family with the secret of eternal life.
BWW Reviews: HORROR SHOW Offers Both tricks and Treats for SNS audiences

If you grew up in Columbus in the 80s, the movie THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW at the Graceland Theatre was a teenage rite of passage, much like White Castle runs, midnight rounds of Putt-Putt and Little Kings Cream Ale.
Photo Coverage: Inside Evolution Theatre Company's Staged Reading THE LADY IN QUESTION

On Wednesday May 11th, 2018 Evolution Theatre Company hosted a staged reading of Charles Busch's The Lady In Question to benefit their 2018 Season. A freewheeling satire of patriotic 1940s thrillers. A glamorous concert pianist is challenged when a handsome American professor engages her aid in rescuing his mother from a Nazi prison. The reading was be held in the Schottenstein Property Group Pavilion of the Columbus Museum of Art.
Photo Coverage: First Look at Evolution Theatre Company's TRAVELING

A renowned dancer and choreographer (Mark Phillips Schwamberger) traveling towards an uncertain future is comforted by his young lover (Nick Hardin), an elite dance student. But he is haunted and challenged by the presence of a silent dancer (Tony White), seen only by him. A visit from his first love and college roommate (David Allen Vargo), a precious fun and memory-filled reunion ultimately threatens relationships and forces all to examine the fine line between the embrace and comfort of memories and the danger of living in the past, relying on illusion to avoid the future. Written by Kenneth Talberth, Directed by Dee Shepherd, Music by Russell Boiarsky, Choreography by Tony White. Performances are Thursday Saturday September 28 30 at 8 PM; Sunday October 1 at 2 PM; Wednesday Saturday October 4 7 at 8 PM. Columbus Performing Arts Center, Van Fleet Theatre, 549 Franklin Avenue, Columbus, OH 43215. For tickets or more information, visit: http://evolutiontheatre.org/ or by calling 614-233-1124.
Jared Zirilli, Pico Alexander, and Nick Imperato to Lead PANTRY BOYS Reading at the Atlantic

Pantry Boys, a new play by Daniel Sauermilch, directed by Carl Andress (The Divine Sister), and featuring Pico Alexander (Punk Rock at MCC, upcoming feature film "Home Again"), Jared Zirilli (Romance Language, Pretty Filthy with The Civilians) and Nick Imperato (Antony & Cleopatra: Infinite Lives) will be included as part of the Potomac Theater Project's (PTP/NYC) After Dark Series.

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