Powered by Max Banner Ads Available Light Theatre continues its 2011-12 season with the regional premiere of Sleeper, an epic political thriller by David Ian Lee of New York City, February 16-25, 2012 at the Columbus Performing Arts Center’s Van Fleet Theater. Never looking away from the wreckage, this smartly chilling drama takes you straight to the front line of the fraught battleground... 

By Romeo San Vicente HOUDINI IS HAPPENING WITH HUGH Hugh Jackman can’t stay away from Broadway. The part-time Real Steel/Wolverine tough guy is, apparently, incapable of curing his song-and-dance lust. So now that The Boy From Oz is a distant memory and he’s finished up with Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway, he needs a new reason to belt out the big numbers for matinee audiences. Enter Houdini, in... 

Joan Rivers Takes Off the Face: Legendary Comedian on her ‘Other’ Self, Gay Crushes and Going Lesbian Again with Babs by Chris Azzopardi Joan Rivers has never been one to question her actions. But today, she’s doing just that: “I’m listening to Katy Perry and I don’t know why.” Besides being a firework herself, Rivers has little in common with the ubiquitous pop tart. There’s this,... 

Challenging Notions of Dis/Ability Art by Erin Hoppe The 2012 Accessible Expressions Ohio (AEO) exhibit may be the most diverse art show you see this year. The work is mischievous, clever, thought-provoking, beautiful and whimsical. The 78 artists involved tell their stories through camera lenses, watercolor, tempera, pencil, metal and more. But until you know the stories or backgrounds of the artists... 

Anxiety and Relationships by Mackenzie Worrall “Most people probably daydream about winning an Academy Award, but I spend a lot of time imagining my funeral or how I’d look in a body cast. I don’t even get scared. I just like to imagine them, all these potential emergencies.” (Holding Still For As Long As Possible, Zoe Whittall, Anansi, 312 pages, $18.95 paperback) Less and less often do I... 

by Leigh Lotocki Artists Jessica Larva, Aimee Sones and John Javins will open your eyes and rouse curiosity about how power works in your life.  Their exhibition at the OSU Urban Arts Space called ‘Tracing Lines’ brings into focus the real presence and impact of power lines, cell phone towers, electrical plants and turbines that we depend on, but try to forget. Carefully collecting sculptures,... 

By Jay Weitz, Program Annotator, Chamber Music Columbus Listen to cellist David Finckel talk music for just a few moments and you can’t help but get caught up in his enthusiasm. “Great music is the sound of life itself and, God knows, life is filled with everything.  That’s what makes it interesting.  That’s what makes it a human experience, and music is no different.”  That’s Finckel... 

By:  Justin Luna Organization:  OSU Urban Arts Space As of this past June, I was no longer the Gallery Director of ROY G BIV Gallery for Emerging Artists.  I spent two and half years doing everything I could to keep our nonprofit arts space alive (constantly promoting and installing our monthly exhibitions, soliciting donations and memberships, fundraiser planning, amongst a whirlwind of other... 

Featuring Artists from Upper Arlington and Beyond By Lynette Santoro-Au Venus of Tinkerbell by John Donnelly Sure, you could spend 2012 ignoring your resolutions, breaking them or honoring them, but what fun would that be? You could lament your credit card bill or start yet another diet, but who really wants to burden themselves with that? How about getting up and out and exposing yourself to some... 

Denis the Menace: Getting Down to Earth with One of the Scariest Men on Television By Chris Azzopardi Meeting Denis O’Hare should be scary as hell. But today, in the back of homo-hotspot Saint Felix in West Hollywood on his day off, O’Hare doesn’t project the eeriness he does as a horny True Blood vamp and mysteriously deformed man who just suffocated a potential homebuyer on American Horror...