WCLV Arts Calendar
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Akron Art Museum
Current shows at the Akron Art Museum include Oliver Jeffers: 15 Years of Picturing Books, and William Richards: The Vastness Beyond Vision. Both shows will be on view through July 27th. The Akron Art Museum will present She Said, She Said: Contemporary Women Artists, a new exhibition that opens in the Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries on Saturday, March 22nd and will run through Sunday, August 10th.
Baldwin Wallace Bach Festival
Baldwin Wallace University and Playhouse Square join to present [title of show] as the 18th Annual Collaboration Musical. [title of show] will run for one weekend only, with performances on April 25th through 27th at the Helen Theatre at Playhouse Square.
Beck Center
At Lakewood's Beck Center you can see Jose Gonzales's Under a Baseball Sky, playing in the Studio Theater through May 4th. 216-521-2540
BlueWater Chamber Orchestra
The Cleveland Chamber Choir's 10th Anniversary Season will conclude on Saturday evening, May 17th, when the Chamber Choir joins the BlueWater Chamber Orchestra for a concert called I Believe. The concert will include Margaret Bonds’ Credo, a setting of a text by W.E.B. DuBois. The program will also include Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor. The Choir will also partner with the music program at Cleveland School of the Arts.
The Cleveland Chamber Choi r and BlueWater Chamber Orchestra will be at Trinity Cathedra in Downtown Cleveland on Saturday evening, May 17th.
Bop Stop
Coming to the Bop Stop,
Cleveland Ballet
Cleveland Ballet will present Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet with Serge Prokofiev's music in performances at Playhouse Square on May 16th and 17th.
Cleveland Chamber Choir
The Cleveland Chamber Choir's 10th Anniversary Season will conclude on Saturday evening, May 17th, when the Chamber Choir joins the BlueWater Chamber Orchestra for a concert called I Believe. The concert will include Margaret Bonds’ Credo, a setting of a text by W.E.B. DuBois. The program will also include Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor. The Choir will also partner with the music program at Cleveland School of the Arts.
The Cleveland Chamber Choi r and BlueWater Chamber Orchestra will be at Trinity Cathedra in Downtown Cleveland on Saturday evening, May 17th.
Cleveland Chamber Music Society
Cleveland Chamber Music Society, celebrating 75 years, will present the Jerusalem String Quartet in a series of concerts from April 21st through the 30th performing a complete cycle of all of the String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich at the Cleveland Museum of Art. There will also be master classes open to the public and a screening at the Museum of the 1964 film version of Hamlet, for which Shostakovich wrote the music.
Cleveland Cinematheque
Cleveland Cinematheque will feature the new 4K restorations of Compensation, Charles Burnett’s The Annihilation of Fish starring Lynn Redgrave and James Earl Jones; and Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 953 thriller The Wages of Fear. Cleveland premieres include the Italian box office hit There’s Still Tomorrow and Belgian Oscar entry Julie Keeps Quiet.
Cleveland Institute of Music
CIM Opera Theater's season finale will be two performances of Mozart's Don Giovanni at Playhouse Square 's Mimi Ohio Theater on Wednesday and Friday evenings, April 23rd and 25th. 216-241-6000
Cleveland Jazz Orchestra
On Sunday afternoon, April 27, the Hudson Library and Historical Society will present an afternoon of music from the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra's Little Big Band. Paul Ferguson leads the group in a Jazz Appreciation Month concert.
On Friday evening, May 9th, and Saturday evening, May 10th, the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a concert called Past, Present and Future, honoring the legacy of Roland Paolucci, Jack Schantz, Sean Jones. The Friday concert will be at the Maltz Performing Arts Center in University Circle. On Saturday, the band will be at BLUjazz in Akron.
And on Sunday afternoon, May 11th, the CJO will be joined by Helen Welch at the Music Box for a special Mother's Day concert called Mom's the Word.
Cleveland Museum of Art
At the Cleveland Museum of Art in Gallery 115 is Creation, Birth, and Rebirth, continuing until July 27th. It explores some of the fundamental moments in the sacred narratives of the medieval world: the creation of the universe, the birth of its gods and its humans, and visions of the end of life conceived as a new beginning.
Cleveland Orchestra
Guest Conductor Bernard Labadie will lead the Cleveland Orchestra, Chorus and Soloists in Bach's Easter Oratorio and Magnificat April 17th, 18th and 19th.
O:n Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, April 24th through 26th, Kazuki Yamada will be the Cleveland Orchestra's Guest Conductor. The program those evenings will feature pianist Francesco Piemontesi as soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 25. Edward Elgar's Symphony No. 1 will also be on the program.
There's a special Family Concert on Sunday afternoon, April 27th. The Enchantment Theatre Company joins The Cleveland Orchestra for Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade. Daniel Reith, conducts and Landis Smith, will be the narrator
The Cleveland Orchestra will present pianist Evgeny Kissin in recital in music by Bach, Chopin, and Shostakovich. That concert will take place on Wednesday evening, May 7th at Severance Music Center.
Cleveland Opera
The Cleveland Opera and the Cleveland Women's Orchestra will join forces for perform Pietro Mascagni's one-act opera Zanetto on Sunday afternoon, May 4th, at the Tudor Arms Hotel Grand Ballroom on Carnegie Avenue in Cleveland. 216-816-1411
Cleveland Philharmonic
The Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra's next concert will feature Schumacher Competition winner James Carson performing Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1. The concert will also include Dvořák Symphony 5. There are two performances, on Saturday evening, May 3rd at Westlake Performing Arts Center, and Sunday afternoon, May 4th at Cleveland State's Waetjen Auditorium.
Cleveland Play House
Cleveland Play House will present Alan Ayckbourn's Season's Greetings, performed by the Cleveland Play House-Case Western Reserve MFA Graduate Class of 2026 through April 25th in The Helen at Playhouse Square.
Cleveland Play House will stage the musical Fiddler on the Roof from April 26th through May 25 in the Allen Theater.
Cleveland Public Library
Cleveland Public Library will celebrate 100 years of the downtown Main Library on Saturday, May 10th. This birthday is an Alice in Wonderland-inspired garden party. All are welcome.
Cleveland Public Theatre
Cleveland Public Theatre will present DanceWorks 2025, its annual showcase of contemporary dance running April 17th through May 17th. Five weekends of dance performances will take place in Cleveland Public Theatre’s James Levine Theatre. Styles of dance this year include modern, South African, African American “stepping,” magical realism-inspired, and more. Ohio Contemporary Ballet will have An Evening in Spain April 17th through 19th. Inlet Dance Theater's program is In Response April 24th through 26th. May 1st through 3rd will showcase Blakk Jakk Dance Collective's Rhythms of Heritage. May 8th through 10, you can see Ajai Dance Collective with Again and Again. The series will conclude with a double bill, Christina Lindhout and Artists with Our Knees Hurt and the Blissed Out Human Collective performing Unravel.
Convergence-continuum
Convergence-continuum theater, a company which produces alternative/experimental theater work by living playwrights, begins its 2025 season with The Squirrels by Robert Askins. The Squirrels runs Thursday through Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons through April 19th at Convergence-continuum’s Liminis Theater on Scranton Road in the historic Tremont neighborhood.
216-687-0074.
Divinity Lutheran Church
At Divinity Lutheran Church in Parma Heights, as part of Divinity Lutheran's Arts in Action Concert Series, the next concert will feature the Duo Balalaika in a free concert on Sunday afternoon, April 27th. The concert will also be streamed live.
Euclid Symphony
The Euclid Symphony Orchestra's next concert is called Big Band Sounds on Sunday afternoon June 1st at
Shore Cultural Centre Auditorium. The program will feature swing and jazz-inspired orchestral favorites.
Good Shepherd Christian Church
Good Shepherd Christian Church will have a Good Friday Blues and Lamentations Concert on Friday evening, April 18th. The Church is in Shepard Road in Macedonia. 330-467-5644
Great Lakes Theater
The backstage farce Noises Off will be next on the Great Lakes schedule, with performances at the Hanna Theater April 25th through May 18th.
The Higgler
At Disciples Christian Church in Cleveland Heights, there'll be two performances of Margi Griebling-Haigh's chamber Opera The Higgler on Saturday and Sunday, June 7th and 8th.
Lake Erie Wind Quintet
The Lake Erie Wind Quintet is shaking things up with Just the Three of Us, a special performance featuring only three of the ensemble’s five members. The concert will feature a diverse program of classical and popular trios on Sunday afternoon, May 4th, at Brookpark United Methodist Church on Smith Road in Cleveland.
Les Delices
The next set of concerts by Les Délices will present The Mermaid. Folk music performer Seán Dagher will join Les Délices for an original concert of pirate ballads, sea shanties, and raucous fiddle tunes Friday through Sunday, April 25th through 27th, in Akron, Cleveland Heights, and Rocky River.
Lorain County Community College Civic Orchestra
The Civic Orchestra of Lorain County Community College will perform on Saturday evening, April 26th in the Hoke Theater. Dan Shell will conduct that program, which will include The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams with Andrea Belding as soloist, music by Bizet and Copland, and the premiere of William Rayer's Cave Dwellers.
Maltz Museum
The Maltz Museum is presenting Degenerate: Hitler’s War on Modern Art, with nearly 100 original works by renowned artists labeled “degenerate” by the Nazi party, including Picasso, Chagall, Kandinsky and more.
It's on view through April 20th.
Master Singers Chorale
Master Singers Chorale of Northeast Ohio, directed by Marc Weagraff, will give two performances of a program that will feature Luigi Cherubini's Requiem in C Minor and Haydn's Te Deum in C. The first performance takes place on Sunday afternoon, April 27th at St. Noel Church in Willoughby Hills. The second performance will be on Saturday afternoon, May 17th at Bath Church on Bath Road
Medina Community Band
The Medina Community Band will present its Spring Concert on Sunday afternoon, May 4th, in the Community Room of the Western in Medina. The program will include music from both The Wizard of Oz and Wicked, as weel as Dmitri Shostakovich and John Williams.
Music at Bath
The Music at Bath concert series will present the Singers Companye Chamber Choir on Sunday, April 27th. And on Sunday, May 18th you can hear Italian folk music performed by the group Alla Boara
National Center for Choreography Akron
The National Center for Choreography-Akron will present an artist talk and film screening of the Loïe Fuller documentary , in partnership with the Nightlight Cinema, on on Tuesday evening, April 15th. And on the following night, April 16th , at the Cummings Center, it's Dancing Conversation: Generational Exchange. You are invited to a conversation with 55-year-old and better artists Donald Byrd, Dianne McIntyre, and Donna Uchizono with early to mid-career artists Nia Amina-Minor, Tiffany Rae-Fisher, and Kristel Baldoz to reflect on and discuss longevity in dance.
Nightlight Cinema
The Nightlight is a non-profit arthouse cinema, located in Downtown Akron. It has been making indie films available since 2014. The schedule will include On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, Eephus and The Penguin Lessons.
No Exit
No Exit welcomes internationally renowned pianist Geoffrey Burleson in evening of new music. The program, which spans a 100 years of avant-garde music, includes works by George Antheil, Rob Paterson, Gerald Strang, Vincent Persichetti, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Herbie Nichols, Neil Rolnick and Frank Zappa.
Performances are Friday evening, May 2nd at The Bop Stop and Saturday evening, May 3rd at Heights Arts.
Ohio Contemporary Ballet
Ohio Contemporary Ballet will return to E. J. Thomas Hall on Friday evening, April 25th for a program honoring Heinz Poll. The evening will celebrate the legacy of Heinz Poll, a choreographer whose influence is still felt. The performance pays tribute to Poll's brilliance and will feature dancers who share deep connections to his work and Akron. The program assemble by Dr. Margaret Carlson, Producing Artistic Director of Ohio Contemporary Ballet, will showcase the panorama of his choreographic style. In addition to his signature work Bolero, the program will feature the revival of two works unseen since his passing: Planes/Configurations (1990) and Light Breeze (1984).
Piano Cleveland
Piano Cleveland has announced its musical lineup for the continuing series, Piano Cleveland Live. The series will include a half-dozen free public performances, including three evening performances at Cleveland pubs and three lunchtime concerts at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Concerts will include Cleveland International Piano Competition Semi-Finalist Zhu Wang on Tuesday, April 15th at Noon at the Ames Family Atrium, Cleveland Museum of Art.
Playhouse Square
Individual tickets are now available for the touring company of the Tony-Award winning Kimberley Akimbo, which will make its Cleveland premiere at Playhouse Square July 15th through August 3rd
Radio on the Lake Theater
Northeast Ohio's only professional theater company dedicated to the audio arts, announces a new live radio play series. The Audio Gallery Series at Negative Space will spotlight classic and contemporary audio drama with actors and sound effects artists bringing the scripts to life. This summer, the company will focus on science fiction, with performances of The Time Machine, The Day The Earth Stood Still and War of the Worlds. The plays will be performed at the Negative Space Art Gallery, located at 3820 Superior Avenue, 2nd Floor, in Cleveland's Asia Town district.
Resonance Project
The next program in the series presented by the Resonance Project is called In the Face of Silence. Violinist Ann Yu, cellist Sarah Tindall and pianist Irwin Shung perform music by Prokofiev and Shostakovich on Friday evening, May 2nd.
Rocky River Chamber Music Society
The Rocky River Chamber Music Society's final concert of the season on Monday evening, May 5th, will feature the Cleveland Orchestra's Principal Horn, Nathaniel Silberschlag and friends in chamber music with horn, including the Horn Trio by Johannes Brahms. The concert will be performed at West Shore Unitarian Church and will also be streamed live.
Saint Barnabas Episcopal
At Saint Barnabas Episcopal in Bay Village, harpsichordist Walker Whitehouse and Friends will present a program of music from the 17th and 18th centuries, including pieces by Bach, Corelli and others. The concert takes place on Thursday evening, May 1st at 5:30.
Shaw Festival
The Shaw Festival's season begins in April, and will include productions of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, Anything Goes and Wait Until Dark, all in the Festival Theater.
Talespinner Children's Theater
Talespinner Children’s Theater will present the world premiere of Ista and Her Garden, a new play for
children ages 1 through 8 written by Cleveland playwright Samantha Cocco, with original music by Eric
Utsler. This family-friendly production will take place May 17th through 26th, with showtimes in the morning and early afternoon at Talespinner’s home at 78th Street Studios on Cleveland's West Side.
Trinity Lutheran Church
The Wednesday Noontime Music Near the Market continues at Trinity Lutheran Church on Lorain Road at West 30th Street.
Tuesday Musical
On Tuesday evening, April 22, Tuesday Musical’s Akron Concert Series will feature the full brass and percussion sections of The Cleveland Orchestra led by the Orchestra’s principal trumpet, Michael Sachs. Tuesday Musical has commissioned composer Peter Boyer to create and conduct the world premiere of Festive Fanfare (For Akron's Bicentennial) to open the Akron Bicentennial Concert. The program will also include Percy Grainger's Lincolnshire Posy and Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition.
West Shore Chorale
The spring concert by the West Shore Chorale will include Beethoven's Fantasy for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra and Mozart's Great Mass in c minor, K. 427. Artistic Director Michael Lisi will conduct the concert on Sunday evening, May 4th at Avon Lake High School’s Performing Arts Center.
Weathervane Playhouse
Akron's Weathervane Playhouse will continue its 90th season with Frederick Knott's thriller Dial M for Murder., a tale of deception, betrayal, and deadly consequences. The show runs April 24th through May 1818th. 330-836-2626
Wit's Folly
The next concert pair by Wit's Folly will be called Party of Four: An Evening of String Quartets, with favorite pieces from Wit's Folly's first two seasons. The two performances will take place on Saturday, evening May 10th at Praxis Fiber Workshop on Waterloo Road in Cleveland, and on Sunday evening, May 11th at Our Lady of Angels on Rocky River Drive in Rocky River