About Us

SRO is a semi-professional theatre company committed to artistic excellence, wholesome educational and intergenerational family entertainment and community service. The company offers main-stage productions, touring shows and outreach and education programs.

The mission of SRO is to create and enhance positive images of aging which enrich the lives of others and contribute to the richness of the community.  To celebrate our values, ingenuity, creativity and productivity and dispel myths about aging and to sculpt intergenerational friendship, understanding and compassion in families, communities and cultures.
 
Located in Columbus, Ohio, SRO was established in 1984, and incorporated as a non-profit 501C3 corporation in 1989.  The name was changed from Grandparents Living Theatre to (SRO Senior Repertory of Ohio) Theatre Company in 1999.  The company has been a pioneer leader in senior theatre nationally and internationally for 26 years and introduced Deaf Theatre to Columbus audiences in 2003 with the bilingual adaptation of the musical, The Fantasticks.

The company develops original and revives existing productions and achieves the highest level of artistry by blending professional, semi-professional and amateur performers who live in Ohio. The company adheres to a policy of color-blind casting and makes performances accessible to people with hearing impairments and other physical challenges.

                                               Honors and Awards

Featured on Peter Jennings’ World News Tonight

Represented The United States at 1st International Senior Theatre Festival – Cologne, Germany

Headliner - National Council on Aging Conference in Washington, DC 

Columbus Mayor named week of April 25th 1994 as Grandparents Living Theatre Week.
 
Opening Performance, National Senior Theatre Festival – Orlando, FL

Invited to perform at Disney Institute.

SRO Signature show, I Was Young…Now I’m Wonderful, made into a PBS Special which  won 2 Emmy Awards, the Central Education Network Award & Mature Media  Awards as “Best Video in the Health Service Field”
 
Pathfinder  Award for “Outstanding Creative Contribution” – World Congress on the Family

Dr. Linda T. Pope Award – Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging

Central Ohio Theatre Roundtable Harold Awards for Driving Miss Daisy – “Show that Made a Difference” - 
Co-host  of International Senior Theatre Festival – “A Company that Made a  Difference”
 
Community Service Award for Leadership in Outreach to the Community – Senior League of America

Received the Central Ohio Theatre Roundtable Award of Excellence in Musical Direction awarded to Musical Director, Nancy S. Nocks, and for Musical Ensemble for the production A Grand Night for Singing.

Awarded a Theatre Roundtable Award for Outstanding 2009 Production with its production of Tuesdays with Morrie
 
Awarded  a Citation from the Central Ohio Theatre Critics Circle for Sondheim’s Follies in Concert  presented in 2010.
 
 
                                                  Touring Shows

I Was Young…Now I’m Wonderful!

SRO’s Stars & Stripes Canteen

WGLT – Golden Days of Radio

Underground Railroad – From Slave Ship to Freedom

Check out a description of each show and how to book a performance!  Touring shows
                              
                                                                  
                                                  Outreach and Education Programs


Artists - in - Schools 

Celebration Ensemble

Poetry*Prose Ensemble

Women’s Choral Ensemble

Check out a description for each program!  Outreach and Education Programs