MANSFIELD — Director Frank Darabont doesn’t think people ever needed to have served time in prison in order to relate to his iconic “Shawshank Redemption” film. “The movie really does kind of play like a Rorschach test for people and they project their own life difficulties into that movie,” the 65-year-old director said Friday afternoon […]
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Return to Shawshank: Clancy Brown to participate in 30th anniversary at OSR
MANSFIELD — Clancy Brown will have a chance to see three decades of improvement when he returns to Shawshank State Prison. The 65-year-old Ohio native, who portrayed Capt. Byron Hadley in the “Shawshank Redemption,” will return to the Ohio State Reformatory in August for the first time since the iconic movie was filmed here in […]
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Hope & redemption: The enduring 30-year bond between OSR and Shawshank
MANSFIELD — The former Ohio State Reformatory and the “Shawshank Redemption” movie have had a three-decade-long symbiotic relationship. One would not exist without the other. Ultimately, both found redemption within one another. More on that below. That unique relationship that will be renewed and refreshed Aug. 9 to 11 when movie lovers from around the […]
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2024 Inkcarceration to feature Shinedown, Godsmack & Breaking Benjamin
MANSFIELD — One of America’s most unique events — Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival — returns to historic Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield for its sixth year, July 19, 20 and 21 with a music lineup packed with top rock acts, more than 115 tattoo artists and haunted attractions. Following three consecutive years of sellouts, […]
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Bucyrus Little Theatre presents Stephen King’s “Misery”
BUCYRUS –Director Scott Painter is set to transport audiences to the humble Colorado home of unstable super-fan Annie Wilkes Oct. 7-8, and 13 to 15, when Bucyrus Little Theater and Spreng Capital Management, Inc. present the theatrical production of “Misery,” written by William Goldman and based on the novel by Stephen King. Tickets for this […]