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Ohio Theatre
The Ohio Theatre is one of downtown's oldest theatres. Home to The Columbus Symphony Orchestra, BalletMet, and The Broadway Series, as well as more than 100 CAPA events each year, including music from all genres and corners of the world, dance, theater, comedy, children's entertainment, and the time-honored Summer Movie Series, it is known as the Official Theatre of the State of Ohio, and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1977.

A historic restored movie palace which serves as the leading performing arts center in Columbus, Ohio, is the Ohio Theatre. Located in downtown Columbus on the site of the old Columbus City Hall, the Ohio Theatre is the states busiest performing arts facility.

It hosts more than 100 CAPA shows a year, touring artists, and a variety of performances by the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, BalletMet, and Fifth Third Bank Broadway in Columbus.

Designed by the Scottish-born architect, Thomas W. Lamb, Ohio Theatre opened in 1928 as a Loew's movie house that was a 2,779-seat Spanish-Baroque masterpiece that had its own orchestra and theatre organ. Live stage shows touring on the Loews circuit also found a home on the Ohio stage.

Many top performers graced Ohio's stage, including Milton Berle, Ray Bolger, Cab Calloway, Buddy Ebsen, Martha Raye, Jean Harlow, Ginger Rogers, Kate Smith, and a young M.C. with a violin named Jack Benny during the heyday of vaudeville.

The decoration and furnishing of the theatre was done by Anne Dornan, who was one of the first women to graduate from the Columbia School of Architecture. Dornan traveled around the world to select art and furnishings and approximately $1,000,000 was spent on art and furnishing, which was probably more than the cost of the building itself!

The theatre that once thrived as movie house, however, like many other grand theatres of the past, the Ohio Theatre also headed for demolition. In 1969, the citizens of central Ohio mounted a Save the Ohio campaign, raising over 2 million dollars in less than a year in an unprecedented effort.

The newly formed Columbus Association for the Performing Arts (CAPA) subsequently purchased and renovated the Ohio Theatre, creating a home for Columbus' performing arts institutions that is the busiest performing arts facility in Ohio.

Today, the Ohio Theatre's lush interior, 21 foot high chandelier, excellent acoustics, and state-of-the-art stage facilities have made it a favorite of leading CAPA-sponsored performers including Carole King, Julie Andrews, Yo-Yo Ma, Yanni, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Kenny G. Canadian Brass, Liza Minnelli, John Denver, Kodo Drummers of Japan, the Boston Pops, Garrison Keillor, Lyle Lovett, Itzhak Perlman, and Dan Fogelberg.

The facility is a year round host to events which are diverse in nature, such as, classical music to modern dance, yearly family traditions to hot concerts, and so on.

The worlds best artists come to the Ohio Theatre. If you want to witness it all for yourself, then quickly book your tickets for its upcoming events and have the Ohio Theatre experience!