Richard Sanford

2 days ago | columbusunderground.com | Richard Sanford

Gallery Players closes its 2024-25 season with a spectacular, audacious production of Peter Shaffer’s Tony-winning hit Amadeus, directed by Matt Hermiz.

1 week ago | columbusunderground.com | Richard Sanford

Short North Stage caps a season of beautifully executed examples of the spectrum of Broadway shows including recent Broadway hits (The Prom), biography (Jersey Boys), jukebox musicals/revues of foundational songwriters (Ain’t Misbehavin’), thorny psychology (Nine), and sold-out revivals of their earlier acclaimed productions (Rocky Horror, A Chorus Line) with a gleeful, boisterous production of Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison (music and lyrics) and Bob Martin and Don McKellar’s (book) love...

1 week ago | columbusunderground.com | Richard Sanford

This weekend, Imagine Productions opened a delightful production of Adam Schlesinger (music), David Javerbaum (lyrics), Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan’s (book) musical adaptation of John Waters’ love letter to ’50s Baltimore and the cross-pollination of musical styles of the period, Cry-Baby, directed by Caira Goldstein.

2 weeks ago | columbusunderground.com | Richard Sanford

Since premiering in Chicago in 2001 and transferring to Off-Broadway the following year, Jason Robert Brown’s two-hander, The Last Five Years, has enamored audiences. The Contemporary closes its season with a production under the helm of director Lenny Leibowitz.

3 weeks ago | columbusunderground.com | Richard Sanford

Opera Columbus closes out their 2024-25 season – centered around the theme of Love is a Battlefield – this weekend with a charming, quick-witted version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro (libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte based on the play by Pierre Beaumarchais) directed by Bruno Baker, with music direction by Casey Robards.