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White words in a red box at top saying Writing to Save a Life, another red box at bottom left saying The Louis Till File and a black and white head shot of a young black ham in a hat and suit
04 February 2018

Surely one of the most shocking murders of the modern day freedom movement was that of Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi, on August 28, 1955. The fourteen-year-old Chicago native was engaging in a time-honored tradition in the black,...

Middle aged white man with balding head wearing a blousy tie-front white shirt with tight shiny dark pants with a woman dancing sideways wearing a red bikini top and low-rider black pants and others dancing behind
29 January 2018

It’s been nearly nine years since Shadowbox Live time-traveled to the 1960s with Back to the Garden. The music-filled re-creation of the Woodstock Festival was such a success that the troupe has restaged it multiple times in multiple...

On the left a black man facing right in a white shirt and tie looking at a woman his hands in front of him with fingers clasped like he's praying and the white woman with long brown hair to the left is looking up at him with arms folded wearing a pick shirt. They are standing in front of a window looking over a nighttime city scene
03 January 2018

Like the title character Jessica Chastain portrayed in last year’s Miss Sloane, the woman she plays in Molly’s Game is driven by fierce ambition and copious amounts of pharmaceuticals. Though the current film is a...

A man with chin length curly brown hair looking intense sitting down with old fashioned clothes from the 30s and an older gray haired man in black with a black top hat leaning over his shoulder saying something in his ear, bookshelves in the background
06 December 2017

Theater troupes and filmmakers persist in telling and retelling A Christmas Carol year after year. And why not? Charles Dickens’s ghostly morality tale makes a moving case for redemption and generosity, the respective hallmarks...

Paintings hanging on a white wall that are very large one on top of the other and of very colorful scenes
02 November 2017

Upon entering the OSU Urban Art Space, you are greeted with a biography of Dr. Frank Hale and other culturally relevant icons.


Frank Hale worked at OSU from 1971-98. He was a...

Four women staring up at something above them, standing in front of an elaborately decorated doorway
31 October 2017

A balcony collapses in a synagogue and sparks a women’s uprising in the first offering of the 2017 Columbus Jewish Film Festival. Despite venturing into the hazardous intersection of religion and gender politics, The Women’s...

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