Fall Arts Guide: Where and when you can enjoy the artsy side of the capital city this season
MUSIC
Columbus Symphony Orchestra
Sep. 25
Renee Fleming in concert
Fleming, renowned internationally for her sumptuous voice and impeccable artistry, joins the orchestra for classical and popular favorites, in a one-night concert sure to be a sellout.
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Pro Musica
Oct. 10
Opening Night
Composer/bassist Xavier Foley and pianist Eunice Kim join the orchestra for Foley’s “For Justice and Peace”, a modern dialogue about slavery’s history in the United States.
Jazz Arts Group
Oct. 14
Gershwin, Berlin & Beyond
Get your feet tapping to celebrated tunes by some of America’s most renowned songwriters, with up-and-coming guest artists Patrick Bartley, Jr. (saxophone) and Lena Seikaly (vocalist).
Columbus Symphony Orchestra
Oct 22-23
Masterworks 1: Brahms & Dvořák
Up-and-coming superstar Stefan Jackiw joins the orchestra for Brahms’ Violin Concerto, while Jessie Montgomery’s “Banner” shows off multi-cultural nuance.
Jazz Arts Group
Oct. 28
Chris Coles’ Nine Lives Project
Saxophonist Chris Coles combines music, spoken word, and movement into a powerful meditation on the 2015 Charleston Church shooting, in this one-night-only musical reflection on social justice.
Pro Musica
Nov. 6-7
Subscription Concert 2
Creative Partner and violinist Vadim Gluzman leads and performs with the orchestra alongside 20-year-old violinist Julian Rhee for Alfred Schnittke’s Concerto Grosso No. 1.
Columbus Symphony Orchestra
November 12-13
Masterworks 2: Variations on Romanticism
Claire Huangci takes on Liszt’s extraordinary Piano Concerto No. 2, while Brahms’ Symphony No. 2 is sure to captivate with its lush, pastoral beauty.
Opera Project Columbus
November 19-21
To See Again the Stars
Be moved by operatic arias of sentiment, drama, prayers, and joy, accompanied by orchestra.
DANCE & THEATER
Short North Stage
Sep. 2-19
Noises Off
A manic menagerie of itinerant actors, rehearsing a flop and later trapped in its shabby tour, suffers through a disastrous dress rehearsal, amorous rivalries, despair, intrigue, and an errant herring. It’s been called the funniest farce ever written.
Evolution Theatre Company
Sep. 8-11
A Crane Takes Flight
Dayton Edward Willison stars in the world premiere of Columbus playwright Mark Schwamberger’s one-person play based on the works, writings and letters of influential poet Hart Crane.
Red Herring Theatre
Through Sep. 12
The Children
Three former nuclear power station colleagues wrestle with the ghosts of their past and struggle make peace with their demons, after the plant they worked at suffers an earthquake, tsunami, and meltdown.
Red Herring Theatre
Sep. 30-Oct. 17
These Shining Lives
In 1928, four women who contracted radium poison while painting watch faces mustered the courage, hired an attorney, and fought back against their dismissal after they became too sick to work.
Evolution Theatre Company
Oct. 7-16
The Story of My Life
Two lifelong, small-town friends are reunited in one’s mind, after the other’s death, as he struggles to write a eulogy and recounts the many turns their lives took.
Short North Stage
Oct. 7-Nov. 7
Young Frankenstein
This musical adaptation of Mel Brooks’ classic movie comedy follows Frederick Frankenstein, his hunchbacked sidekick Igor, and the voluptuous lab assistant Inga, as they create a monster for this century. When the monster escapes, hilarity abounds.
Contemporary American Theatre Company
Oct. 28 – Nov. 14
Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play
A post-apocalyptic tale of survival, compassion, and the enduring power of The Simpsons explores the need for community and storytelling in a world where everything familiar has disappeared.
Red Herring Theatre
Nov. 4-21
The Thanksgiving Play
No cow is sacred in this wickedly funny, satirical comedy about Thanksgiving, one of America’s most cherished holidays.
Shadowbox Live
Through Nov. 13
Let’s Get It On: Live Edition
This all-new, original sketch comedy and rock ‘n’ roll show demonstrates how love and laughter are the perfect couple!
Shadowbox Live
Through Nov. 14
Leather and Lace: A Musical Tribute to the Women of Rock-n-Roll
A rocking celebration of hard-working, hard-playing and women of rock ‘n’ roll, featuring music from Heart, Alanis Morrisette, Aretha Franklin, Melissa Etheridge, and more.
Broadway in Columbus
Nov. 16-21
Hadestown
This acclaimed new musical weaves two mythic tales together—that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone—in a haunting and hopeful theatrical experience where a song can change your life.
Contemporary American Theatre Company
Nov. 27 – Dec. 12
Herschel and the Hanukkah Goblins
Using wit, wisdom, and humor, legendary folk hero Hershel of Ostropol outsmarts the goblins, allowing the villagers to celebrate Hanukkah once again.
FINE ART
Lindsay Gallery
Sep. 12 – Oct. 30
Joey Monsoon
11 of Monsoon’s works, including his largest painting ever, explore time apart, time together, time stretched and time lost, with figures becoming whole in the layers of occurrence.
934 Gallery
Through Sep. 18
Gridlock
Elizabeth Nelson’s grids of black and white plexiglass, plastic, and other media explore how breaking things down can result in an inability to move on—gridlock.
Wexner Center for the Arts
Sep. 18, 2021 – Jan. 2, 2022
Jacqueline Humphries: jHΩ1:)
Don’t miss the first large-scale museum exhibition of Humphries’ paintings. Her recent work, full of emoticons, emoji, CAPTCHA, and ASCII code, highlights the importance of digital communications and online culture
Columbus College of Art & Design, Beeler Gallery
through Nov. 6
Bianca Beck, Tamara Gonzales, Christina Forrer
As we consider being close to others again after COVID-19’s dramatic strike, questions arise: Where do I stand? Where is it safe? Where is it appropriate? Twenty-four works are gathered to help us think about these questions and consider the space around and between our bodies.
Columbus Museum of Art
through Nov. 8
Partially Buried: Land-Based Art in Ohio, 1970 to Now
Artists approach Ohio’s landscape as a site and as a subject, challenging traditional representations of the state’s history and cultural legacy, and confronting unanswered questions around land use and preservation.
Columbus Museum of Art
through Nov. 8
A Primer on the Commons
For many, it has been a year of intense suffering, public grief, and outrage. This exhibition explores—and critically exposes—the systems that enclose, confine, and disempower us, and proposes the commons as a space of refuge, solidarity, and collective liberation in times of crisis.
Columbus Museum of Art
Nov. 12, 2021 – Feb. 6, 2022
Through Vincent’s Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources
More than fifteen signature paintings and drawings by Van Gogh himself will be juxtaposed with more than 100 works of art that fed his voracious imagination, firmly connecting his art to its late 19th-century context.
Columbus Museum of Art
through Apr. 24, 2022
Nina Katchadourian: To Feel Something That Was Not of Our World
The Robertson family, cast adrift in a lifeboat and dinghy for 38 days in 1972, is the subject of Katchadourian’s personal-museological exhibition of videos, sculptures, paper models, photographs, drawings, text message exchanges, and excerpts from nearly 50 hours of audio recordings.
Columbus Museum of Art
through May 22, 2022
Present Generations: Creating the Scantland
Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art With vivid paintings as well as photographic and sculptural installations, these works of creative exuberance comprise the first wave of promised gifts that will inaugurate the Columbus Museum of Art’s Scantland Collection.
Brandt-Roberts Galleries
Sep. 4-26
Mark Gingerich: Columbus Illuminated
A solo exhibition by the Ohio-based contemporary impressionist, known for his plein-air paintings that record the play of light upon scene.
FILM & LIT
Thurber House
Sep 7 – Nov. 30
Adult and Youth Writing Workshops
Get first-hand experience with literature through virtual workshops for adults and youth grades 9-12. Writers of all experience levels are welcome.
Wexner Center for the Arts
Oct. 8 – Dec. 31
Cinetracts ’20
Wexner Center Film/Video curators invited artists to capture “the zeitgeist in your own backyard.” This online exhibition of short films includes portraits of specific times and places, as well as reflections on how the present is inextricably linked to the past.
Ohioana Library
Oct. 14
Ohioana Book Awards
Love literature? Get your ticket to the prestigious Ohioana Book Awards ceremony, honoring books from Ohio authors or about Ohio.
Drexel Theatre
Oct. 21
Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World
Gramercy Books joins the Drexel Theatre to present author Wil Haygood, in an evening of conversation and film that explores Black filmmaking in Hollywood.
Grandview Theater
Oct. 2
Clay Zombies feature film theatrical premiere
Featuring a wealth of Ohio talent, this midnight movie premiere has gratuitous clay violence and comedy in full force!
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