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Jerri Shafer

Jerri has loved taking photos all her life and was always the one in the family who took everyone’s picture. After her daughter was born, Jerri started scrapbooking and she became interested in taking better pictures for her scrapbooks. Then after her daughter started an interest in musical theatre, Jerri started taking pictures of the shows and developed a love for musical theatre as well. She has been seen snapping pics at many theatres around Columbus and surrounding areas. Jerri's bucket list before she moves on from this world is to shoot a show on Broadway!  So if you can assist with this quest....  To see more of Jerri’s work, visit http://jams.smugmug.com






Photos: First look at Hilliard Arts Council's CRIMES OF THE HEART
Photos: First look at Hilliard Arts Council's CRIMES OF THE HEART
April 12, 2024

Crimes of the Heart is a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play by American playwright Beth Henley.  The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital.

Photos: First look at Bruce Jacklin & Company's THE WILD WOMEN OF WINEDALE
Photos: First look at Bruce Jacklin & Company's THE WILD WOMEN OF WINEDALE
April 11, 2024

This joyful and exuberant, yet ultimately touching, comedy focuses on three women at crossroads in their lives—the Wild sisters of Winedale, Virginia. Fanny and Willa and their frustratingly quirky sister-in-law Johnnie Faye.

Photos: First look at Olentangy Orange High School Orangelight Productions presents SISTER ACT
Photos: First look at Olentangy Orange High School Orangelight Productions presents SISTER ACT
April 10, 2024

Sister Act, a feel-good musical comedy smash based on the hit 1992 film. Set in 1977, disco diva, Deloris Van Cartier, witnesses a murder, and is put in protective custody in the one place the cops are sure she won't be found: a convent!

Photos: First look at Worthington Community Theatre After Dark Presents SPRING AWAKENING
Photos: First look at Worthington Community Theatre After Dark Presents SPRING AWAKENING
April 5, 2024

Join WCT in Germany, 1891 in a world where the grown-ups hold all the cards, and a group of students navigate teenage self-discovery and coming of age anxiety in a powerful celebration of youth and rebellion. Spring Awakening explores the journey from adolescence to adulthood with a poignancy and passion that is illuminating and unforgettable. This musical is an electrifying fusion of morality, sexuality and rock and roll that is sure to exhilarate audiences!

Photos: First look at Gallery Players' THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
Photos: First look at Gallery Players' THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
April 5, 2024

Anne Frank emerges from history a living, lyrical, intensely gifted young girl, who confronts her rapidly changing life and the increasing horror of her time with astonishing honesty, wit, and determination. An impassioned drama about the lives of eight people hiding from the Nazis in a concealed storage attic, THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK captures the claustrophobic realities of their daily existence—their fear, their hope, their laughter, their grief.

Photos: First look at Original Productions Theatre's VAN GOGH'S IN THE ATTIC
Photos: First look at Original Productions Theatre's VAN GOGH'S IN THE ATTIC
April 4, 2024

A world premiere, break-neck comedy by Irish playwright and Abbey Theater favorite Sean Cooney set on the south coast of Ireland in the 1980s. Feral MacAdoo, suffering from a dissociative fugue after a bombing attack in Dublin, now believes he is the painter Vincent Van Gogh.

Photos: First look at The Room Upstairs Theatre's THE TRAIL TO OREGON!
Photos: First look at The Room Upstairs Theatre's THE TRAIL TO OREGON!
April 2, 2024

The Trail to Oregon is Based off the 90’s video game “The Oregon Trail” following a family as they make their way from Missouri to Oregon in 1848. From starvation to bandits to dysentery, the family endures all of these challenges in hopes of a better life in Oregon.

Photos: First look at Performing Arts Creative Ensemble's CHAPTER TWO By Neil Simon
Photos: First look at Performing Arts Creative Ensemble's CHAPTER TWO By Neil Simon
March 28, 2024

Recent widower George Schneider, is encouraged by his younger brother Leo to start dating again. This sends George into even more depression after a series of bad matches. Then Leo comes up with Jennie Malone, and she's a keeper.

Photos: First look at Naomi & Gretta present DAYLIGHT SAVE THE WORLD
Photos: First look at Naomi & Gretta present DAYLIGHT SAVE THE WORLD
March 8, 2024

This Bond-esque story pits Naomi and Gretta in a battle for time itself.  Featuring a live band, vocals, and always more laughs than you can handle. 

Photos: First look at Little Theatre Off Broadway's THE PSYCHIC, A MURDER MYSTERY OF SORTS
Photos: First look at Little Theatre Off Broadway's THE PSYCHIC, A MURDER MYSTERY OF SORTS
March 7, 2024

The Psychic follows the chaotic life of Adam Webster, a down-on-his-luck writer, who has put a sign in his apartment window, in desperation, to make the rent: 'Psychic Readings $25.' The sign soon draws the interest of the lovely and conflicted Laura, her shady husband, Roy, Roy's mistress, Rita, a gangster named Johnny Bubbles, and ace Detective Norris Coslow.

Photos: Inside New Vision Dance Company's UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL vol. 7
Photos: Inside New Vision Dance Company's UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL vol. 7
March 3, 2024

'UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL vol. 7”, is a contemporary program of intimate choreography both created and performed by the company. This is the 7th annual presentation of an evening of solo works and small dance pieces.

Photos: First look at Hilliard Arts Council's DISNEY'S FINDING NEMO, JUNIOR
Photos: First look at Hilliard Arts Council's DISNEY'S FINDING NEMO, JUNIOR
March 1, 2024

Disney’s Finding Nemo JR. is a musical adaptation of the beloved 2003 Pixar movie Finding Nemo, with new music by award-winning songwriting team Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez.

Photos: First look at Gallery Players' THE PRODUCERS
Photos: First look at Gallery Players' THE PRODUCERS
February 29, 2024

The plot is simple: a down-on-his-luck Broadway producer and his mild-mannered accountant come up with a scheme to produce the most notorious flop in history, thereby bilking their backers (all “little old ladies”) out of millions of dollars.

Photos: First look at Rise Up Art Alliance's FORBIDDEN BROADWAY'S GREATEST HITS
Photos: First look at Rise Up Art Alliance's FORBIDDEN BROADWAY'S GREATEST HITS
February 22, 2024

Get ready to laugh until your face hurts—Forbidden Broadway is coming to Lancaster!  In this legendary, iconic, and comic Off-Broadway hit musical revue, Broadway’s greatest musical legends meet Broadway’s greatest satirist in this hilarious, loving, and endlessly entertaining tribute to some of the theatre’s greatest stars and songwriters.

Photos: First look at Dublin Jerome High School Drama Club's THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Photos: First look at Dublin Jerome High School Drama Club's THE SOUND OF MUSIC
February 21, 2024

The inspirational story, based on the memoir of Maria Augusta Trapp, follows an ebullient postulate who serves as governess to the seven children of the imperious Captain von Trapp, bringing music and joy to the household. Get a first look at the production!

Photos: First Look at New Herring Productions' THE NIGHT BEFORE THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
Photos: First Look at New Herring Productions' THE NIGHT BEFORE THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
February 20, 2024

New Herring Productions will present THE NIGHT BEFORE THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, opening this week. Check out all new photos from the show here!

Photos: First look at Imagine Productions' THE ADDAMS FAMILY
Photos: First look at Imagine Productions' THE ADDAMS FAMILY
February 16, 2024

The Addams Family, a comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family, features an original story and it’s every father’s nightmare: Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family– a man her parents have never met. And if that wasn’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before– keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his parents. Performances run Feb. 16, 17, 23, 24, @ 7:30pm and Feb. 18, 25, @ 2pm at Columbus Performing Arts Center, Van Fleet Theatre, 549 Franklin Ave, Columbus, Ohio 43125. For tickets or more information, visit: https://www.imaginecolumbus.org/

Photos: First look at New Herring Productions' LOVE LETTERS
Photos: First look at New Herring Productions' LOVE LETTERS
February 15, 2024

Experience the timeless romance of 'Love Letters' by A. R. Gurney. Follow the enduring connection between Andrew and Melissa through the art of letter writing, as their lives unfold over 50 years. A captivating, heartwarming tale of love, friendship, and the power of the written word. Don't miss this unforgettable theatrical experience!

Photos: First look at Original Productions Theatre's THE FACEBOOK EFFECT
Photos: First look at Original Productions Theatre's THE FACEBOOK EFFECT
February 7, 2024

When the popularity of Facebook expanded to include adults, Dana, an empty nester in her 50s, started posting what she hoped friends and family would perceive as the perfection of her life and marriage to her husband, Mike. Unfortunately, Dana’s worst fears are realized when the truth about her failing marriage and personal life is exposed on the social media site. Both Dana and Mike are forced to re-evaluate their lives in hopes of saving themselves and their marriage. ​ A world premiere play by Dublin, Ohio, playwright Lauren Wilkens, Directed by Matt Hermiz, Cast: Dana - Kim Garrison Hopcraft, Mike - Mark Schuliger, Beth - Alyssa Ryan, George - Benjamin Gullett. Performances run February 8 - 10 & 15 - 17 at 7:30 pm and February 11 & 17 at 1:30 pm at the Abbey Theater of Dublin, 5600 Post Road, Dublin, OH 43017. Tickets and Information by calling 614-943-1776 or https://www.optheatre.org/



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