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BIG FISH is a new Broadway musical featuring music and lyrics by Tony nominee Andrew Lippa (The Addams Family, The Wild Party) and a new book by esteemed screenwriter John August (Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory).

A musical based on the 1968 film of the same name. Caractacus Potts and his two children Jeremy and Jemima join up with Truly Scrumptious aboard Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to rescue Grandpa Potts from the nasty Baron Bomburst.

Set in New York City in 1922, Thoroughly Modern Millie tells the story of young Millie Dillmount from Kansas who comes to New York in search of a new life for herself. Her grand plan is to find a job as a secretary for a wealthy man and then marry him. However, her plan goes completely awry. The owner of her dingy hotel kidnaps young girls to sell to the Far East; her wealthy boss is slow in proposing marriage; and the man she actually falls in love with does not have a dime to his name -or so he tells her.

Roundtown Players is proud to present 'Footloose: The Musical' this summer! This show is an adaptation of the hit 80's movie about a teenager who moves from Chicago to a small farming town that has banned dancing and rock and roll music. He hopes to shake up the town and its strict rules, much to the dismay of the local Reverend.

'Temperamentals' was a code word for homosexuals in the early 1950s, part of a created language of secret words that gay men used to communicate. The Temperamentals tells the story of two men - the communist Harry Hay and the Viennese refugee and designer Rudi Gernreich - as they fall in love while building the first gay rights organization along with Chuck Rowland, Bob Hull, and Dale Jennings, in the pre-Stonewall United States. It is a true story. This production is lovingly dedicated to the memory of Barbara Sokol.

Nineteen local Columbus Theater's gathered on Monday June 29th, 2015 to perform and support a great cause-Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Special Host Nina West introduced performances from many of the region's theater companies, including CATCO, Columbus Children's Theatre, Columbus Entertainment Productions 4 Charity, Curtain Players, Emerald City Players, Imagine Productions, King Avenue Players, Little Theatre Off Broadway, Otterbein Dept. of Theatre & Dance, Pickerington Community Theatre, Pleasure Guild of Nationwide Children's Hospital, Short North Stage, Shots in the Dark, SNAP! Performance Productions, Vaud-Villities, Warehouse Theatre Company, Weathervane Playhouse, Westerville Civic Theatre, Worthington Community Theatre.

Linda Roth returns for another memorable cabaret. Linda's appearances in Follies, Sunset Boulevard, The Great One and as the spirited Trudy in last year's Christmas at Lazarus, make her a favorite performer at Short North Stage. So have her several cabarets, most recently 'The Apple Doesn't Fall' with Johnny Steiner and her daughter Allison. We are delighted to welcome her back as she takes her audience through an evening of some of her most embarrassing moments. Maybe This Time she can redeem herself! Don't miss Linda (and some special guests) for what is sure to be evening filled with hilarity and great singing!

Join Warehouse Theatre Columbus in a rousing tribute to the American musical theatre master composer Stephen Sondheim.

Columbus Moving Company presents GLASS, a touching and dynamic tale of the fragility of life and the will to do more than simply survive. With inspiration from Justin Richards, The Glass Princess, and in collaboration with MaD Arts Group. GLASS, is the story of Princess Clio, a young girl who is poisoned and sleeps through decades of civilizations while only experiencing life through dreams in a glass stasis bed. Local composer Kevin Estes has created an original dramatic sound score written in four movements. The music includes a glass waterfall, tuned wine glasses, and an instrument made from 29 glass bottles created by Estes himself that will all be used live in performance. This unique collaboration brings movement and music together to create a stunning portrayal of youthful innocence, despair, and the will to survive the darkness of eternal rest.

Set in 1999 or so in Stony Bridge Lakes, a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, BEAUTIFUL CUL DE SAC follows two families as they interact, intermingle, and intercourse their way through suburban life. This is a hilarious new musical that tackles themes of family, love, sex, and art.

Actors' Theatre of Columbus' season opens with the premiere of local playwright Vidas Barzdukas' Captain Blood. This story follows the adventures of Dr. Peter Blood who is convicted of treason for tending to the wounds of a nobleman during a rebellion against King James II in England and is sentenced to slavery on the island of Barbados. Once there, Blood finds love, escapes from slavery, and falls in with pirates, not knowing that his new career will take him back to the plantation and to the woman he left behind.

What better way to celebrate the Tony Awards than with your fellow theatre nerds! A special free event, Imagine Productions hosted the First Annual Tony Awards Watch Party on Sunday, June 7, at Wall Street Night Club.

The Fantasticks tells the story of neighboring families who stage a feud to contrive a marriage between their children. All does not go well in this comic conspiracy, and each character must come to terms with reality of their actions in the light of day. This classic musical featuring songs such as Try to Remember, They Were You, and Soon It's Gonna Rain has been delighting audiences for 50 years!

Friends and fans gathered to hear Matt Slaybaugh and Available Light Company Members announce next year's exciting season and hear all the surprises that are in store for AVLT's 10th Anniversary year!

Set in late-19th century Germany, the angsty rock musical adaptation of the seminal play tells the story of teenagers discovering the inner and outer tumult of teenage sexuality. Book and lyrics by Steven Sater, music by Duncan Sheik, based on the play by Frank Wedekind.

YANK! explores what it means to be a man, and what it is to fall in love and struggle to survive in a time and place where the odds are stacked against you. Suffused with songs (swing, big band, boogie-woogie) it explores what stories get told in wartime, and how WWII became the great catalyst in bringing gay men and women together. While all the characters in Yank! are fictional, all of the situations and viewpoints come directly from memoirs and oral histories of gay (and straight) service members who took part in WWII.

It's 1929. Two ambitious visionaries race against each other to invent a device called 'television.' Separated by two thousand miles, each knows that if he stops working, even for a moment, the other will gain the edge. Who will unlock the key to the greatest innovation of the 20th century: the ruthless media mogul, or the self-taught Idaho farm boy? The answer comes to compelling life in The Farnsworth Invention, the play from Aaron Sorkin, creator of The West Wing.

When Ugly hatches, the other animals are quick to notice that he doesn't look like any of his darling duckling siblings. His journey of self-discovery teaches them tolerance and ultimately celebrates the fact that being different is not so bad.

Step into the enchanted world of Broadway's modern classic, Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, based on the Academy-Award winning animated feature. You will be transported to the heart of provincial life in a lovely French town. When Maurice becomes lost in the woods on the way to the fair, he seeks shelter in an old castle, but the master of the castle is a horrible beast who takes him captive. Maurice's daughter, Belle, must then give up her freedom to save his life. Belle's taming of the unfortunate Beast and his ultimate transformation back into a handsome prince enthralled Broadway audiences for over 13 years. This 'tale as old as time' is filled with hope and lessons of kindness.

Xanadu follows the journey of a magical and beautiful Greek muse, Kira, who descends from the heavens of Mt. Olympus to Venice Beach, California in 1980 on a quest to inspire a struggling artist, Sonny, to achieve the greatest artistic creation of all time - the first ROLLER DISCO! (Hey, it's 1980!) But, when Kira falls into forbidden love with the mortal Sonny, her jealous sisters take advantage of the situation and chaos abounds.