Halloween in Columbus

Check out the 2009 Halloween Guide I created for Metromix.com by clicking the photo below.

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Inside look: TerrorFest opening night

New haunted attraction puts you in the middle of your scariest horror film We took a test run through one of Columbus’ best new and improved haunted attractions, TerrorFest (formerly House of Nightmares), for its soft opening Spet. 24. Owners Dave Treisch, a locally based haunted house entrepreneur, and Steve Kopelman, owner of HauntedHouse.com, have [...]

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TerrorFest prepares to take over Columbus

New haunted house could be this year’s coolest attraction When it comes to haunted houses in Columbus, there’s a new bull in town, and it’s not afraid of the competition. The Brewery District’s House of Nightmares is getting the Hollywood treatment and transforming into The TerrorFest for this year’s Halloween season. And the owners say [...]

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Highball Halloween ups the ante

Festival plans massive upgrade for second go-round Highball Halloween took over the Short North Arts District with a vengeance last year. Thousands of people packed High Street for the inaugural event that ultimately changed the game as far as local Halloween entertainment is concerned. Focused on fashion and masquerade, last year’s Highball Halloween featured a [...]

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Review: ‘Killadelphia: mixtape of a city’

Local theater company’s one-man show is among the best of the year There’s been some pretty amazing theater coming through Columbus so far this year, from Broadway glitz (“The Color Purple“) to local sublime (CATCO’s “Blackbird“). But, somehow, Sean Christopher Lewis and Available Light Theatre Company’s one-man show, “Killadelphia,” has left every other production behind. [...]

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Review: ‘Back to the Garden’

New Shadowbox musical rocks with old-school intensity Shadowbox has done it again. That’s really the only way to describe what happened Sept. 20 at Shadowbox Cabaret during the opening-night performance of “Woodstock: Back to the Garden.” Shadowbox has tackled original (2008′s “Tabloid the Musical”) and classic (“Hair,” “Jesus Christ Superstar”) musicals before, but “Woodstock” has [...]

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Shadowbox heads ‘Back to the Garden’

New musical pays tribute to festival’s original lineup Forty years ago a musical revolution rocked the nation, and people are still reminiscing about it today. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair changed the fabric of America’s pop culture and came to define a generation. So when Columbus’ own Shadowbox Cabaret announced it was planning its [...]

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Review: ‘A Doll’s House’

Civic Theater production is a fitting tribute to iconic playwright The Columbus Civic Theater‘s motto is to “present theater that everyone should see before they die.” It’s an education, of sorts. That motto certainly works regarding their latest production, Henrik Ibsen’s manifesto on feminism, “A Doll’s House.” The show is a visual masterpiece that features [...]

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Review: Shadowbox’s ‘Bad to the Bone’

Easton cabaret offers another brilliant night of sketch comedy and rock ‘n’ roll In a tribute to all things spooky, Shadowbox Cabaret has successfully stuffed their latest show, “Bad to the Bone,” with an extra dose of Halloween fare. Opening Sept. 4 at their Easton Town Center theater, the show runs throughout the holiday’s “season” [...]

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Civic Theater presents ‘A Doll’s House’

Upstart troupe presents Ibsen’s classic play this weekend When it comes to starting a new business, the first year is often the toughest. That goes double for an artistic intuition, especially during a recession. But it seems as though the Columbus Civic Theater is facing those challenges in stride as it prepares to present Henrik [...]

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