SECOND SERVINGS Comes to Ember Women's Theatre in February
by Stephi Wild - Jan 17, 2024
Ember Women’s Theatre will present Second Servings by Nancy Shelton Williams. Second Servings was developed as a part of eMBer's New Play Program, where the company works alongside playwrights to develop new works with table work, feedback sessions, staged readings, and ultimately a staged production.
Ember Women's Theatre Presents WHEN WE WERE YOUNG AND UNAFRAID By Sarah Treem
by Stephi Wild - Apr 21, 2023
Ember Women's Theatre will present When We Were Young and Unafriad, by Sarah Treem. With a timely look back to the women's rights on the 70's, When We Were Young and Unafriad follows women in different places in their life, with different stakes surrounding the liberation movement.
Ember Women's Theatre Presents WIT
by A.A. Cristi - May 9, 2022
Ember Women's Theatre will present “Wit,” Margaret Edson's powerfully imagined Pulitzer Prize–winning play which examines what makes life worth living through her exploration of one of exitence's unifying experiences - mortality.
Photo Coverage: First look at Ad Hoc Theatre Company Presents CHAMBER MUSIC
by Jerri Shafer - Nov 1, 2019
Eight famous women from different time periods meet as representatives of the women's ward of an asylum in 1938. Besides their usual meeting concerns, their new focus is on ways they can show their strength over the men's ward. This dark comedy in one act showcases these strong and diverse women trapped in an absurd situation.
Proceeds benefit Planned Parenthood. Chamber Music performs November 1st thru November 9th, 2019, at MadLab, 227 N 3rd St. Columbus, OH 43215.
Ember Women's Theatre Presents LOVE, LOSS, AND WHAT I WORE
by Stephi Wild - Sep 27, 2018
Ember Women's Theatre's production of Love, Loss, and What I Wore by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron ( based on the book by Ilene Beckerman ) will take place Fridays and Saturdays, November 2nd - 17th 2018, at MadLab Theatre, 227 N. 3rd St, in Columbus. Admission is $20 for all patrons. Tickets are available online at www.madlab.net.
Original Productions Theatre Marks Inaugural Opening With HOW I GOT PLUTO
by Julie Musbach - Aug 13, 2018
Forty years later, feeling shades of joy, frustration, love, regret, the class of 1970 comes together for a bittersweet high school reunion. Baby Boomers still in love, those yearning for love, those scarred by high school trauma, and those shouldering current crises form a sometimes uneasy bond in How I Got Pluto written and directed by Columbus native Dave Morgan. This inaugural opening for Original Productions Theatre will be staged September 13 - 22, 2018, at the Abbey Theater of Dublin, 5600 Post Road, Dublin, OH 43017.
Photo Coverage: First Look at Actor's Theatre of Columbus' THE TEMPEST
by Jerri Shafer - Aug 18, 2017
Our version of The Tempest attacks the assumption of American exceptionalism. We live in an era where America's supposed to be 'great again,' but that greatness is based on subjugation of disadvantaged people and exploitation of national fears. Prospero's blindness to his own sense of entitlement - over a state he abandoned and an island he exploited - is at the crux of the problems within the entire play. This production will involve incidental acoustic music and song. Performances are August 10 - September 3, 2017. Thursdays through Sundays @ 8pm. Schiller Park (German Village), Amphitheatre Stage, Columbus, Ohio. For information on donations and seat reservations, visit http://theactorstheatre.org
Photo Flash: First Look at THE TEMPEST Opening August 10
by Julie Musbach - Jul 30, 2017
This version of The Tempest attacks the assumption of American exceptionalism. We live in an era where America's supposed to be 'great again,' but that greatness is based on subjugation of disadvantaged people and exploitation of national fears. Prospero's blindness to his own sense of entitlement - over a state he abandoned and an island he exploited - is at the crux of the problems within the entire play. This production will involve incidental acoustic music and song.
Photo Coverage: First look at Curtain Players' THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
by Jerri Shafer - Sep 10, 2016
Two wealthy London bachelors each pretend to be a fictitious man called Earnest in order to win over two eligible young ladies, despite the ladies' avowed preference for that name alone - and the interference of the intimidatingly proper Lady Bracknell - in Wilde's 'trivial comedy for serious people.'
Photo Coverage: First look at Actors' Theatre of Columbus' OTHELLO
by Jerri Shafer - May 26, 2016
When the formidable and revered war general Othello falls in love with the beautiful Desdemona he marries her, and welcomes the pleasures of a domestic life. Unknown to him, his trusted officer and friend, Iago, outraged for being passed over by Othello for a promotion, engineers an insidious campaign of lies and deceit to convince Othello that his new bride has been unfaithful to him. Othello becomes consumed with suspicions of Desdemona's infidelity. Now he must wage war not only with an unseen enemy, but also his own tragic jealousy.