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47 events from Friday, October 16 to Thursday, October 22, 2026. Free: 5. Busiest venues: Wexner Center for the Arts, A&R Music Bar, Columbus Museum of Art.

Friday, October 16, 2026

Visual arts
until Jan 3

Tavares Strachan: The Day Tomorrow Began (CMA at The Pizzuti)

Columbus Museum of Art · Downtown
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jun 27

Word/Play: Abstracting Language

Columbus Museum of Art · Downtown
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Dec 13

Group f.64 and Its Influence: Experiments in Modernist Photography

Columbus Museum of Art · Downtown
- Visual arts
Music
until Nov 14

Screamers: A Nightmare-Fueled Sketch Comedy and Music Experience

Shadowbox Live · Brewery District
- Music
- Comedy
Tickets
Music
until Nov 15

Speak of the Devil: A Haunting Rock Experience

Shadowbox Live · Brewery District
- Music
- Cabaret
- Rock
Tickets
Visual arts
until Feb 7

Clare Rojas: Returning

Columbus Museum of Art · Downtown
- Visual arts
Music
until Oct 18

Sweeney Todd

Garden Theater · Short North
- Music
- Theatre
Tickets
Visual arts
until Oct 31

Leonard Pongo: Tales from the Source (2024), The Box

Wexner Center for the Arts · University District
- Visual arts
Free Tickets
Visual arts
until Feb 14

Sammy Baloji: When Extraction Becomes Form It Speaks in Borrowed Tongues

Wexner Center for the Arts · University District
- Visual arts
Free Tickets
Visual arts
until Jan 24

sweat variant (Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born): where you go full, volume 5

Wexner Center for the Arts · University District
- Visual arts
Free Tickets
Visual arts
until Feb 14

Temitayo Ogunbiyi: You will have revelations along felled branches and longer roots/routes

Wexner Center for the Arts · University District
- Visual arts
Free Tickets
Music
until Oct 16

NFF26: Horror Comedy Shorts A - 10/15/26 @ 10:00 pm

Gateway Film Center · Short North
- Music
$20 Tickets
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Music
until Oct 16

Primetime (2026) - 10/15/26 @ 10:00 pm

Gateway Film Center · Short North
- Music
$13.50 Tickets
Dance
11 AM

Senior Dress Rehearsal: Marilyn

Riffe Center Theatre Complex · Downtown
- Dance
Tickets
Music
7 PM

Nirvani – a Nirvana Tribute Experience at Woodlands Tavern

Woodlands Tavern · Grandview Heights
- Music
$25.89 Tickets
Music
Time not announced

Dana and Alden: Papa's Boat Tour

Dana and Alden · Alex Amen

A&R Music Bar · Downtown
- Music
Tickets
Dance
until Oct 24

Marilyn

Riffe Center Theatre Complex · Downtown
- Dance
Tickets
Music
Time not announced

Niko Moon: Back To My Roots Tour

Niko Moon · Blake Proehl

KEMBA Live! · Arena District
- Music
Tickets
Visual arts
until Mar 21

Queer Constellations: Photographs from the Aronowitz Family Collection

Columbus Museum of Art · Downtown
- Visual arts

Saturday, October 17, 2026

Music
6 PM

twenty one pilots

Ohio Stadium
- Music
Sold out
Music
7:30 PM

A Taste of Ireland - The Irish Music and Dance Sensation

Palace Theatre · Downtown
- Music
- Dance
- Dance
Tickets
Music
9 PM

Gentlemens Club – LEBOOM!

Skully's Music Diner · Short North
- Music
Tickets
Music
Time not announced

Death Cab for Cutie

Ohio Stadium
- Music
Sold out Tickets
Music
Time not announced

Mozart’s Great Mass

Southern Theatre · Downtown
- Music
Tickets
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Music
Time not announced

Paris Paloma Pre-Show Happy Hour

A&R Music Bar · Downtown
- Music
Tickets
Music
Time not announced

Paris Paloma: The Fatal Flaw Tour

Paris Paloma · Susannah Joffe

KEMBA Live! · Arena District
- Music
Tickets

Sunday, October 18, 2026

Music
7 PM

OCT (On Company Time) w/ Lewky

Skully's Music Diner · Short North
- Music
$31.98 Tickets
Music
Time not announced

Lilyisthatyou: The Flowers Have Feelings Tour

Lilyisthatyou · James the Seventh

A&R Music Bar · Downtown
- Music
Tickets
Music
Time not announced

Mozart’s Great Mass

Southern Theatre · Downtown
- Music
Tickets

Monday, October 19, 2026

Music
7 PM

True Loves w/ M Ross Perkins at Woodlands Tavern

Woodlands Tavern · Grandview Heights
- Music
$25.89 Tickets
Music
Time not announced

Holywatr: Deo Gratias Tour

Newport Music Hall · University District
- Music
Tickets

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Cinema
7 PM

Nadja (Michael Almereyda, 1994)

Wexner Center for the Arts · University District
- Cinema
Tickets
Dance
7 PM

sweat variant: adaku, part 2

Wexner Center for the Arts · University District
- Dance
Tickets
Music
7 PM

WOLPH at Woodlands Tavern

Woodlands Tavern · Grandview Heights
- Music
$19.73 Tickets
Music
7:30 PM

Vitamin String Quartet & Girl Named Tom: THE CRAZY ORDINARY WORLD TOUR

Southern Theatre · Downtown
- Music
Tickets
Music
Time not announced

RED LEATHER – TAHOE TOUR

Red Leather · The Romance · Northern Lights

A&R Music Bar · Downtown
- Music
Tickets
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Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Other
7 PM

CAPA Haunts the Palace

Palace Theatre · Downtown
Tickets
Music
7 PM

Oh He Dead at Woodlands Tavern

Woodlands Tavern · Grandview Heights
- Music
$25.89 Tickets
Music
7:30 PM

PRAYERS No Tengo Calma Tour 2026 ft. DEVORA and CHRIZ AMAYA

Skully's Music Diner · Short North
- Music
Tickets
Music
Time not announced

Porch Light

Hotel Fiction

A&R Music Bar · Downtown
- Music
Tickets

Thursday, October 22, 2026

Cinema
7 PM

Free Sunset Movie - The Craft

Columbus Commons · Downtown
- Cinema
Free
Music
7 PM

MJT w/ Shapes at Woodlands Tavern

Woodlands Tavern · Grandview Heights
- Music
$15.63 Tickets
Other
8 PM

Hokus Pokus Live! - Canceled

Southern Theatre · Downtown
Tickets
Music
9 PM

Blade Rave

Skully's Music Diner · Short North
- Music
- Rave
Tickets
Music
Time not announced

Silly Goose – The "Set It Off" Tour

Silly Goose · Cheem · Muttlee

A&R Music Bar · Downtown
- Music
Tickets
Other
until Oct 31

The Rocky Horror Show

Garden Theater · Short North
Tickets
Cinema
until Oct 26

Unorthodocs 2026

Wexner Center for the Arts · University District
- Cinema
Tickets

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