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With more than 100 performances each year, the Ohio Theatre is one of the state’s busiest performing arts facilities. Its lush interior, outstanding acoustics, and state-of-the-art stage facilities have made it a favorite of leading CAPA-presented performers such as Carole King, Julie Andrews, Yo-Yo Ma, Yanni, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Kenny G, Canadian Brass, Liza Minnelli, John Denver, the ...
3 days ago · Sat • 11:00am. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey presents The Greatest Show On Earth. Schottenstein Center - Columbus, OH. See Tickets. May 11. Sat • 2:00pm. TINA - The Tina Turner Musical. Ohio Theatre - Columbus, OH.
- Only An Octave Apart
- Blindness
- Enemy of The People
- Dana H. Andis This A Room
- Assassins Andcompany
- Caroline, Or Change and Kimberly Akimbo
- Trouble in Mind
That September night, I was waiting to see the premiere of Only An Octave Apartat St. Ann’s, the converted 1860 tobacco warehouse in DUMBO. Once inside, seated among the double masked (nose slippage brought the evil eye) the cliche would be “there was electricity in the air.” And while I don’t know about the physics of how sound travels from a perf...
Two entries on the list straddled pandemic restrictions. Blindness, based on José Saramago’s novel, adapted by British playwright Simon Stephens (his adaptation of The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-Timewon a Tony in 2015), opened in April, when many people were newly vaccinated. The show had socially distanced seats spaced widely apart and t...
Another stellar production in the socially-distanced, headset-supplied, single performer category was Enemy of the People. Commissioned by Park Avenue Armory during the pandemic, the retelling of the Ibsen play, about a different sort of health crisis, was adapted by Robert Icke and starred the remarkable Ann Dowd (Aunt Lydia in the The Handmaid’s ...
In addition to venue-supplied headsets, it was also a good year for transcripts. In a brilliant pairing, the Vineyard Theater staged Dana H. andIs This a Room, both based on verbatim transcripts. Is This a Room was a gripping drama taken from FBI transcripts of the raid and arrest of Reality Winner, a high-tech security worker who, spurred by consc...
There were also two Stephen Sondheim productions made unfortunately timely by the composer’s death, at 91, in November. I found the Classic Stage Company’s production of Assassins problematic: fresh on the heels of the Alec Baldwin film set shooting, the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse and the latest school shootings, a production in which guns are p...
Sondheim is irreplaceable, but a leading contender as the dominant composer of musicals, Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home), also has two productions currently running in New York and both are outstanding. One is the third NYC revival of her collaboration with Tony Kushner, Caroline, or Change. I’ve seen all three and this crackling production is my favorit...
In 2021, the theater community took action to redress years of systemic racism, mounting more productions by creators of color. Perhaps no production embodied this more than the Roundabout’s powerful Broadway premiere Trouble in Mind. The 1955 play, by Alice Childress, a Black playwright and author who died in 1994, was headed toward Broadway but C...
- Eben Shapiro
In Columbus' Theater District, there are four large theaters, The Palace , The Ohio , The Southern and The Lincoln , and three smaller spaces bringing you everything from ballet and opera to avant-garde plays. The Wexner Center for the Arts puts on frequent dance, theater and music performances that bring in artists from around the world.
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Oct 16, 2006 · The difference between theatrical performance and film lies in the fact that whereas in the theater audiences and performers share the same space at the same time, film is the record of a performance that has already occurred elsewhere. 13 In the case of live television—a sitcom, a news program, a game show, and so forth—the performers and ...
