BREAD AND CIRCUS PRESENTS "THE LION IN WINTER"

THE LION IN WINTER will be performed Friday, May 12, Saturday, May 13, Friday, May 19, and Saturday, May 20, at 8PM, with a matinee at 2:30PM Sunday, May 14. NOTE: ALL MOTHERS WILL BE ADMITTED FOR HALF PRICE AT OUR MAY 14 (MOTHER’S DAY) MATINEE! All performances are at the Tripleforce Artistic Center, 3979 Parkway Lane in Hilliard (I 270 Cemetery Road exit). Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for students and seniors. Please visit www.bctco.org for credit card reservations or call 614-470-4895 for cash/check. Sorry, no credit cards at the box office.

Bread and Circus Theatre Company concludes its ninth season with James Goldman’s wonderful, acid-tongued look at one of England’s most fascinating royal families. THE LION IN WINTER is the tale of one holiday family get-together that is anything but congenial. The highly dysfunctional group includes King Henry II; his regal wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, whom he has kept imprisoned for ten years; France’s boy king Philip, son of Eleanor’s former spouse Louis; Henry’s mistress, Alais; and his three thoroughly rotten sons, Richard the Lionhearted, Geoffrey, and Bad Prince John (of later Magna Charta and Robin Hood fame). Even spiders get tangled in the webs woven by these first-class intriguers! One of Broadway’s best and a real treat for everyone. Some language may be unsuitable for children under ten.

Thurber House Evenings with Authors presents best-selling novelist Elizabeth Strout

Columbus, Ohio — Thurber House will wrap up its winter/spring Evenings with Authors season with Elizabeth Strout at 7:30 p.m. on Mon., April 24, at the Columbus Performing Arts Center, 549 Franklin Ave.

Like Anita Shreve and Elizabeth Berg, Strout has mastered the art of writing an emotionally-charged story that seems quiet on the surface but is complex underneath. Her first best-selling novel, Amy and Isabelle, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize. She will read from her new novel, Abide with Me, which follows a recent widower and his family from grief to breakdown to recovery in a small Maine town in the 1950s. A book signing will follow the reading.

Tickets are $15 purchased ahead, $18 at the door, with discounts for students and seniors. For more information, or to purchase tickets, call 614-464-1032 or go to www.thurberhouse.org.

Swing Into Spring, May 5, benefits Jazz Arts Group

Plan now to join your Columbus Jazz Orchestra as we “Swing into Spring”
with the second annual Swingin’ Soiree, benefiting the Jazz Arts Group!
This year’s event will take place Friday, May 5 at the beautiful Scioto
Country Club.

The fun kicks-off with a cocktail reception and Silent Auction at 6:30,
followed by dinner at 7:30 and an evening of good food, good friends
and great music! Beginning at 8:30, you can dance to the sounds
of the Columbus Jazz Orchestra, under the direction of Artistic Director
Byron Stripling, and enjoy some of your favorite tunes.

“This is our one, major fundraiser for the Jazz Arts Group,” remarked Bob
Breithaupt, JAG Executive Director. “Support of this year’s Swingin’
Soiree will not only assist JAG in producing one of the most energetic
performing schedules in central Ohio, it will also extend the reach of our
many education and community service programs, such as Jazz for Kids,
All that Jazz and the American Jazz Experience. It’s a great way for our
friends to help us in our mission and have a great time, too!”

Honorary Chairs for this year’s event are Andy and Eleanor Geiger, with
Donna Buckley serving as Chair of the event’s Steering Committee.

Admission is $200 per person, with reserved tables of ten available for
$2000. A portion of each ticket is tax deductible. Phone reservations
may be made by calling Kevin Greenwood, JAG Director of Development
at 614-294-5200, ext. 102. or send email