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Ah, Easter! A holiday filled with chocolate, eggs, the resurrection of Christ and...ancient pagan sex goddesses?! Join Gretta Goodbottom and Gilda Wabbit on this wacky musical journey through Easter traditions from modern consumerism to its ancient Sumerian roots. Dancing, singing, comedy, and a dash of good ol’ fashioned heart pull together this amazing evening. Two nights only at District West, sponsored by Maker’s Mark! Performances on April 2nd and 3rd at District West, Columbus, Ohio. The live show is sold out but to purchase tickets for the streaming show, visit: https://tinyurl.com/grettaandgilda

After a year of lockdowns, quarantines, sanitizing, immunity-boosting, and now vaccinating, we are finally ready to sing about it. Announcing Imagine Productions' Over the Top: In Poor Taste (a COVID Cabaret). Going viral soon! Tickets can be purchased on Vendini at: http://www.imaginecolumbus.org/

Monty Python's Spamalot by Eric Idle is a musical comedy adapted from the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Like the motion picture, it is a highly irreverent parody of the Arthurian legend, but it differs from the film in many ways. Performances are live and streaming March 18th thru April 3rd, 2020 at the Garden Theater, 1187 N High St, Columbus, OH 43201. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit: www.shortnorthstage.org

Based on the iconic 1985 Paramount movie which was inspired by the classic Hasbro board game. CLUE ON STAGE is a hilarious farce-meets-murder mystery. Presented by the Bishop Hartley Drama Department, you will meet six mysterious guests as they assemble for an unusual dinner party where murder and blackmail are on the menu. It’s not just a GAME anymore! On Demand March 17th through March 21st. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit: https://tinyurl.com/hcxuf6cv

The New Works Initiative is Curtain Players’ annual new play development program. Curtain Players invited three playwrights to workshop and develop new plays from the ground up. This year the new plays were presented over three nights. After the reading the author and cast presented a talkback with the theatre. These productions will be available for viewing online March 10th thru April 9th. For tickets or more information visit: http://www.curtainplayers.org/

Ten different stories delivered by idiosyncratic characters that amuse, move and frighten - always speaking from the depth of their souls. The trick might be to figure out what links them all. Maybe nothing at all—maybe everything. It’s part of the riddle that make Jane Martin’s “Talking With…” so appealing.

The Meeting is a 1987 American play by Jeff Stetson about an imaginary meeting between Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X in 1965 in a hotel in Harlem during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. The play was later televised on American Playhouse in 1989. Cast includes: Marquan Denby as MLK and Keith Queener as Malcolm X. Performances are streaming on February 12th & 13th. Free viewing via Facebook: HTTPS://www.facebook.com/EFCTSPA

Mr. Morlock is a fidgety, grouchy old fellow who doesn't like anything but money and won't let his daughter marry Joe Laconi because he's poor. So when Joe's papa, Luigi, comes over to plead his son's case, the two men start feuding and Mr. Morlock says if Mary weds Joe, it'll be over his dead body! Luigi says if they don't get married it'll be over his! When Luigi has a heart attack, the feud appears over. But Luigi gets permission from 'up there' to come back and haunt Mr. Morlock and continue haunting him until he gives the kids his blessing. Mr. Morlock is frenzied! Luigi's ghost, visible only to Morlock, kicks him off the couch, pulls the covers off him, kicks him in the seat, flirts with his secretary, and cavorts around in a fashion that would put most ghosts to shame. Poor Mr. Morlock, the entire family thinks he's lost his few remaining marbles. In his despair, he accidentally takes too many sleeping pills. Then it happens. He, too, kicks the bucket. But Mr. Morlock refuses to leave earth until things are settled to his satisfaction, and of course, Luigi says he will not rest in peace until Mary and Joe are married. Unfortunately, life in Mr. Morlock's home goes on as if nothing happened and for the first time ever, Mr. Morlock realizes his mistakes and begs for another chance. Performances run February 5 thru the 21st, 2021 at Curtain Players, 5691 Harlem Road, Galena, Ohio 43021. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit: http://curtainplayers.org

A Better & Nobler Man, written by Sheldon Gleisser and directed by Michael Herring, is the story of Chester A. Arthur, James Garfield’s Vice President. Arthur became the 21st President of the United States, an office he never wanted, when Charles Guiteau assassinated James Garfield in 1881. Live Stream performance on Friday, January 22nd at 7:00 PM. More info at www.redherring.info Video On-Demand January 24th through April 30th. Tickets https://www.showtix4u.com/events/17740

The Hilliard Arts Council will present Talley’s Folly as a virtual production available for viewing from November 13th at 7:00am through November 15th at 11:30pm. Lanford Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play takes place in a deserted Victorian boathouse on the Talley place in Lebanon, Missouri in 1944. Matt Friedman, an accountant from St. Louis, has arrived to plead his love to Sally Talley, the susceptible but uncertain daughter of the family. Bookish, erudite, totally honest, and delightfully funny, Matt refuses to accept Sally's rebuffs and her fears that her family would never approve of their marriage. For more information about the show and to purchase tickets, visit https://www.showtix4u.com/event-details/41995

Kate Hamill's playful adaptation of Jane Austen's beloved novel follows the fortunes (and misfortunes) of the Dashwood sisters. Sense and Sensibility examines our reactions, both reasonable and ridiculous, to societal pressures. When reputation is everything, how do you follow your heart? Presented 'Drive-In' style, the play will be projected live onto a screen outside the playhouse while the actors perform inside. Performances run from October 23rd thru November 8th, 2020 at Curtain Players, 5691 Harlem Road, Galena, Ohio 43021. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit: http://curtainplayers.org

Thank you for those who came to the show this weekend and for being a part of our family as we all try to #SaveTheArts. Performances were October 18th, 2020 in Dublin, Ohio. For more information about New Vision or how to donate, visit: http://www.newvisiondanceco.org/

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

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Dr. Jekyll is desperately seeking a cure for madness. So desperate, in fact, that he’s willing to test is potion on himself. We all know how that works out for him. But you will be surprised by the twists and turns in this hilarious farce based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s iconic novella. Show opens Oct 9th and runs until the 18th. In-person performances at 3723 S. High St. Columbus, Ohio. Tickets for virtual and in-person performances available at https://redherring.secure.force.com/ticket/

After months of anticipation with the global pandemic causing the cancellation of their spring show and the hault of performers all around the country to do what they love in a public setting, New Vision Dance Company was so excited to produce and host a Cabaret featuring dance pieces performed by company members as well as vocal performances by guest artists to provide fellow community members with a safe space to perform after such a long break. The event required masks to be worn by both performers and audience members, was socially distanced and held outdoors in a space generously provided by Phil LaSusa in Westerville. Performances were September 26, 2020 in Westerville, Ohio.  For more information about New Vision or how to donate, visit:  http://www.newvisiondanceco.org/

Based on the classic novel which inspired the 1955 movie starring Fred Astaire—Daddy Long Legs is the vivid account of a young orphan named Jerusha Abbott and a mysterious benefactor who gives her an opportunity to attend college, requiring that she write to him monthly, even though he will not respond. Her letters to him paint a moving portrait of her former life in the orphanage and the development of her mind and spirit. What: Drive In Movie Experience & On Demand Online Streaming.  When: October 16-18, @ 8PM for Drive-In Experience.  October 16-18, @Anytime for On Demand Online Streaming - Start anytime 10/16-10/18, 48hrs to watch.  Where: 400 West Rich, Columbus, OH 43215.  Ticket Prices: $20 per vehicle OR $10 per streaming device.  Box Office: https://www.showtix4u.com/events/Daddy   *Enter the code 'Daddy2020' for presale streaming tickets.*   Box Office Email: DLLBoxOffice@gmail.com  Facebook Event: https://fb.me/e/17lGMWkre

SOMETHING TO VOTE FOR is a modern morality play, written in 1911 but has profound resonance for today. At the turn of the 20th century, children were dying at an alarming rate from Dysentery, Diphtheria, and Tuberculosis. The source of those diseases was traced back to bacteria infested milk. At the time, the American Dairy industry was unregulated and sanitation practices were careless and irresponsible. At the same time, the Anti-Women’s Suffrage movement was gaining momentum and it looked like women were never going to get the vote. It is with that backdrop that Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote SOMETHING TO VOTE FOR. Once again, Red Herring sets themselves apart from other productions, by providing a LIVE STREAMED stage reading of this play. Encore broadcasts will be happening on Friday, Sept 25 and Sunday, Sept 27 - both at 8:00 PM. Tickets can be purchased online at: https://tinyurl.com/y4vl4a3v. For more information about Red Herring or to donate, visit http://www.redherring.info/

Presented 'Drive-In' style, the play will be projected live onto a screen outside the playhouse while the actors perform inside. Please note the special 8:30 p.m. start for all shows. A limited number of seats will be available inside the playhouse. Performances run September 11th thru the 26th, 2020 at Curtain Players, 5691 Harlem Road, Galena, Ohio 43021. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit: http://curtainplayers.org

Seamlessly blending the personal and the political, Grounded tells the story of a hot-rod F16 fighter pilot whose unexpected pregnancy ends her career in the sky. Repurposed to flying remote-controlled drones in the Middle East from an air-conditioned trailer near Vegas, the Pilot struggles through surreal twelve-hour shifts far from the battlefield, hunting terrorists by day and being a wife and mother by night. A tour de force play for one actress, Grounded flies from the heights of lyricism to the shallows of workaday existence, targeting our assumptions about war, family, and the power of storytelling. Directed by Nancy Shelton Williams and starring Carolyn Demanelis, the production will be live streamed on August 16th @ 7:00 pm and video broadcast on August 21st & 22nd. For tickets please visit: https://tinyurl.com/y59pf6g4. More information about Red Herring and how to donate, visit: http://www.redherring.info/

Into the Woods is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. The musical intertwines the plots of several Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault fairy tales, exploring the consequences of the characters' wishes and quests.