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Photos: First look at Aethereal Jest Arts Council's Community Theatre Triple Feature - Volume One
by Jerri Shafer - Mar 23, 2023

This production functions as a mini-theatre festival and is comprised of three one-act plays with two fifteen-minute intermissions. Co-directed by Brian A. Palmer and Bethany Schoeff, Performances run March 24 - April 2, 2023 at the Columbus Performing Arts Center, 549 Franklin Avenue, Columbus, OH 43215. For tickets or more information, visit: https://www.aetherealjest.com/community-theatre-triple-feature---volume-one.html

FUNNY GIRL, MOULIN ROUGE!, and More Set For Des Moines Performing Arts 2023-24 Season
by Stephi Wild - Mar 7, 2023

Des Moines Performing Arts has announced the 2023-24 Willis Broadway Series! Now's your chance to experience an unforgettable season of highly anticipated Broadway national tours including a few fan-favorites returning to the Des Moines Civic Center!

Pomegranate Room Presents Inaugural Audio Play Festival
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 6, 2021

Pomegranate Room will present their inaugural audio play festival, Echoes: Stories from Mythology. Five one-act audio dramas feature modern retellings of stories from Chinese, Greek, and Norse mythology and folklore. Each story 'echoes' its original with a lens reflective of the world today.

BWW Interview: Jordan Friend of OLD SOUL at 4615 Theatre Company
by Roger Catlin - Feb 23, 2021

Jordan Friend of 4615 Theatre Company talks about his 'Old Soul,'an interactive Zoom call concert and monologue with real time audience feedback

Metropolitan Virtual Playhouse Presents THE SMOKING CAR by William Dean Howells
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jul 22, 2020

Obie Award winner Metropolitan Playhouse will present a free 'screened' reading of THE SMOKING CAR, a one-act play by William Dean Howells, via live stream video, with talkback to follow, on Saturday, July 25th, 2020 at 8 PM, EST.

The Arcanists in Co-Production With Science Art Fusion Have Announced Live Comedy Game Show THE INTERNET: LIVE!!1'
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 7, 2020

The Arcanists in co-production with Science Art Fusion (ScienceAF) announce the launch of inventive live comedy game show, The Internet: LIVE!!1. In it, player-performers bring web content to life with a series of hilarious, impossible challenges inspired by memes, viral videos, and internet culture of yore, happening in the heart of Clarendon's night life at The G.O.A.T. Sports Bar.

Final Week To Vote for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Columbus Awards
by BWW - Dec 23, 2019

There's just one final week to submit votes for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Columbus Awards, brought to you by TodayTix! Vote today to make sure your favorite local theatre's achievements and performers are recognized!

December 19th Update: MUSICAL THE MUSICAL - SHADOWBOX LIVE Leads Best Musical Category in the BWW Columbus Awards Voting
by BWW Staff - Dec 19, 2019

We're heading into the final week of voting for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Columbus Awards, brought to you by TodayTix! Vote today to make sure your favorite local theatre's achievements and performers are recognized!

Just Two Weeks Left To Vote for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Columbus Awards
by BWW - Dec 16, 2019

There's just two weeks left to vote for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Columbus Awards, brought to you by TodayTix! The people have spoken nominations are set, and now you can vote to make sure your favorite local theatre's achievements and performers are recognized!

BroadwayWorld Columbus Awards Update: MUSICAL THE MUSICAL - SHADOWBOX LIVE Leads Best Musical!
by BWW Staff - Dec 9, 2019

There's just a few weeks left to make your voice heard and submit your votes for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Columbus Awards, brought to you by TodayTix! The people have spoken nominations are set, and now you can vote to make sure your favorite local theatre's achievements and performers are recognized!

December 2nd Update - Current Standings for the BWW Columbus Awards!
by BWW - Dec 2, 2019

It's December! Voting is now underway for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Columbus Awards, brought to you by TodayTix! Now you can vote to make sure your favorite local theatres and performers are recognized. Check out the first set of stats below.

First Standings - Voting Opens for the BWW Columbus Awards!
by BWW - Nov 25, 2019

Voting is NOW OPEN and the first votes are in for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Columbus Awards, brought to you by TodayTix! The nominees are set, and now you can vote to make sure your favorite local theatres and performers are recognized!

Photo Coverage: First look at Original Productions Theatre's STEAM BATH BLUES
by Jerri Shafer - Nov 6, 2019

Seven wealthy men are sitting together in a Steam Bath at the Willow Creek Country Club after a round of golf, when they start complaining about their lives: Their jobs, their companies, their homes, their wives a?" nothing is right. When, one of them says: a?oeWe could all just disappear.a?? Why not? They've paid their dues. They have the means, and, as crazy as it sounds, these men do it. They decide to just bail out. To leave. To disappear. One of them, a bank president, arranges for half their money to be secretly left for their wives. They set a time and date, hope aboard a private plane a?" and without a word to anyone a?" they are gone. And we follow them on some of their adventures. The World Premiere Musical Steam Bath Blues will perform November 7th thru November 16th at the Abbey Theater of Dublin, 5600 Post Road, Dublin, OH 43017. Tickets available online at https://www.optheater.com/.

Summer Flashback: IN THE HEIGHTS Opens on Broadway!
by Linnae Medeiros - Jun 28, 2019

No me diga! While we wait to see the Tony-winning Best Musical In the Heights up on the big screen next year, we're looking back at the show's Broadway beginnings with this special video of Lin-Manuel Miranda, Karen Olivo, Mandy Gonzalez, and more on their opening night at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. Check out all the footage!

#TBT: IN THE HEIGHTS Says Goodbye To Broadway
by Linnae Medeiros - Mar 7, 2019

Lights up in Washington Heights! The Tony-winning Best Musical In the Heights celebrates its eleventh anniversary this week, so in honor of the occasion, we're looking back at the show's closing night speech courtesy of Lin-Manuel Miranda. Check out all the footage below!

#TBT To Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway Debut in IN THE HEIGHTS
by Jeffrey Vizcaino - Dec 27, 2018

The last few weeks have been pretty epic for New York's own, Lin-Manuel Miranda! With the success and rave reviews from Mary Poppins Returns, receiving a Kennedy center honor for Hamilton and now preparing to reprise his role in Puerto Rico for the launch of the third national tour of Hamilton, it's safe to say that Miranda is on top of the world! 

Mimi Garrard & Marcus Jarrell Willis,live Dance&video, Nov. 11 At NYLA
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 7, 2018

Mimi Garrard Dance Company presents MIMI GARRARD and MARCUS JARRELL WILLIS in a program of live dance and video Sunday November 11 at 7:30 PM New York Live Arts, 219 West 19th Street Tickets: $20;  $10 for seniors; $5 for students Reservations: 212.924.0077 or www.newyorklivearts.org.

Berkeley Rep's OVATION Gala Raises $800,000
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 12, 2018

On Saturday evening, June 9, nearly 400 of the Bay Area's finest arts supporters gathered at The Ritz-Carlton San Francisco to celebrate Berkeley Rep, the Tony Award-winning theatre company known for its groundbreaking and challenging productions. Ovation: 50 Years and Glowing raised over $800,000 to support the Theatre's artistic and innovative efforts, including its educational programming and new play development.

The Chekhov Collective Presents A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
by Stephi Wild - Jan 23, 2018

The Chekhov Collective (I Take Your Hand in Mine, The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull) is proud to present a mid-winter production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare's most magical and inventive play that explores love in all its complications and contradictions.

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