I Will Make You Orphans
Featuring:
Sean Christopher Lewis –
Matt Slaybaugh – Director
Schedule:
Friday, January 30th @ 7:00pm
Saturday, January 31st @ 7:00pm
Sunday, February 1st @ 3:00pm
Pay What You Want available at the door on Friday, January 30.
Get tickets and more info from the Wexner Center for the Arts →
ABOUT THIS PLAY
– Margaret Quamme, Columbus Dispatch
– Richard Sanford, Screen of Distance
If there was a rule about music in place, John Cage found a way to break or at least tease it, posing fundamental questions about the relationships between art and “real life.”
AVLT celebrates the Cage era with a theatrical mixtape – just think of it as 38 Short Plays About John Cage – reflecting the renegade life and controversial ideas of the 20th century’s most influential experimental composer.
READ MORE
Toured to Adirondack Theatre Festival, Keuka College, Johnson State College, Galapagos Art Space, Hyde Park, Uno Fest. of Solo Performance, and Center for Independent Artists.

Columbus Underground: Available Light Revives ‘John Cage 101′ for the Wexner Center of the Arts’ Robert Rauschenberg Centenary Celebration
Columbus Underground: Columbus Makes Art Presents – Matt Slaybaugh on Devising and Experimenting with New Theater Works









Photos from 2026 by Kyle Long.









Photos from 2013, by Matt Slaybaugh and Dave Wallingford.