WCLV Arts Calendar
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Akron Art Museum
Current shows at the Akron Art Museum you can see the exhibit called GLow: Neon and Light through February 9th next year. The exhibits Zeerak Ahmed: Mother, I Am Compelled to Leave and Where We Live: Photographs of Human Spaces continue through December 29th.
Akron Black Artist Guild
The Akron Black Artist Guild, in collaboration with Akron Soul Train Gallery, host the Outlined in Black' Exhibition, which opens Friday, October 11th and will be on display until November 9th.
Akron Symphony
On Saturday evening, October 19th, the Akron Symphony Orchestra and Chorus will perform Gustav Holst's suite The Planets, at Akron's E. J. Thomas Hall. The program will also include music of Ives, Liszt and Iranian-American composer Gity Razaz - a new piece called Methuselah (In Chains of Time), a piece inspired by a nearly 5000 year old Bristlecone Pine.
American Guild of Organists
In collaboration with the Cleveland Composers Guild, American Guild of Organists Cleveland Chapter will present new music by Northeast Ohio composers, including Matthew Saunders, James Wilding, Lorenzo Salvagni,
Stephen Stanziano and Jennifer Connor. The concert will take place on Sunday afternoon, October 20th, on the 64-rank E.M. Skinner Organ of Helen Rockwell Morley Memorial Music Hall in Painesville.
Apollo's Fire
Apollo's Fire will perform Bach's Brandenburg Concertos Numbers, 2, 3 4 and 6 in a series of five concerts from Friday October 18th through Tuesday October 22nd. Venues range from Cleveland Heights to Akron to Rocky River.
Baldwin Wallace University
The Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Performing Arts will present Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde October 2nd through 6th in the Kleist Center for Art and Drama Black Box theatre.
The Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Performing Arts Opera program will stage Handel’s Radamisto, reimagined as an ancient conflict that is reignited by descendants of the Armenian and Thracian Empires in a battle for control of post-apocalyptic New York City. The opera will be performed in the Helen Theatre at Playhouse Square from October 11th through 13th.
Beck Center
Lakewood's Beck Center is presenting Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys in the Senney Theater at Beck through October 6th.
BlueWater Chamber Orchestra
The next concert by the BlueWater Chamber Orchestra on Saturday evening, October 5th at the Church of the Covenant, will include I Dream a World by Andre Thomas, Freedom's Plow by Rollo Dilworth, David Bieenbender's River of Time for Trumpet and Orchestra as well as Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The Biedenbrender and Beethoven pieces, along with music of Mendelssohn, will also be performed on Sunday afternoon, October 6th, as part of the concert series at St. Noel Church in Willoughby.
Bop Stop
The Bop Stop the will be celebrating its tenth anniversary in October with trombonist John Fedchock observing J. J. Johnson's Centennial on October 17th, an anniversary party and jam session on Friday, October 18th, including Hubb's Groove with a tribute to the Brecker Brothers, and on Saturday, October 19th, the Bop Stop Big Band premiering new works.
Chagrin Documentary Film Festival
The Fifteenth Chagrin Documentary Film Festival will take place October 1st through 6th. The Festival takes place at a variety of locations in Chagrin Falls, and will feature 66 films from 32 countries, and will include World and United States premieres.
CityMusic Cleveland
The first program in CitiyMusic Cleveland's Orchestral Series will feature Eliesha Nelson as soloist in Margaret Brouwer's Viola Concerto. The concert will also feature Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 and Brahms/ Serenade No. 2. There'll be four performances October 24th through 27th at locations from Willoughby Hills, Cleveland Heights and Cleveland.
Clague Playhouse
Clague Playhouse will open its 97th season with Ken Ludwig's Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood through Sunday October 6th.
Cleveland Botanical Garden
Cleveland Botanical Garden will celebrate autumn with pumpkins, plant displays and colorful fall foliage. The Botanical Garden has fall activities for all ages throughout September and October.
Cleveland Chamber Choir
You can hear a program called Meditations and Mysticism, the next pair of concerts from the Cleveland Chamber Choir on Saturday evening, October 26th at Trinity Cathedral in Downtown Cleveland, and Sunday afternoon, October 27th, at First Lutheran Church on West 5th Street in Lorain. The program will include music of Hildegard of Bingen, Benjamin Britten and Philip Glass.
Cleveland Chamber Music Society
The Cleveland Chamber Music Society continues it's 75th anniversary season with the Imani Winds with pianist Michelle Caan , at Disciples Christian Church in Cleveland Heights, with a pre-concert lecture by Eric Kisch on Tuesday evening, October 15th.
Cleveland Cinematheque
At the Cleveland Cinemateque, the Premiere Showcase in September and October will feature sixteen new international films by Quentin Dupieux, Brett Story, Alexandr Sokurov and others. There'll be 23 different programs in the Second Look series. And in October there'll be eight films in the Horror Season, ranging from Cemetery Man to Young Frankenstein.
Cleveland Composers Guild
In collaboration with the Cleveland Composers Guild, American Guild of Organists Cleveland Chapter will present new music by Northeast Ohio composers, including Matthew Saunders, James Wilding, Lorenzo Salvagni,
Stephen Stanziano and Jennifer Connor. The concert will take place on Sunday afternoon, October 20th, on the 64-rank E.M. Skinner Organ of Helen Rockwell Morley Memorial Music Hall in Painesville.
Cleveland Latino International Film Festival
LatinUs Theater Company will present the first-ever Cleveland Latino International Film Festival, showcasing films that celebrate the richness and diversity of Latino culture. This inaugural event will take place at the Pivot Center for Art, Dance, and Expression' LatinUs Black-box theater in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood. Reservations are required for this free event, running October 11th, 12th and 13th.
Cleveland Museum of Art
Two monumental figurative sculptures by Native American sculptor Rose B. Simpson will soon be installed in the Ames Family Atrium at the Cleveland Museum of Art . Rose B. Simpson: Strata, commissioned specifically for the museum’s space, consists of two 25-foot-tall sculptures constructed from the artist’s signature clay medium, in addition to metalwork, porous concrete, and cast bronze. The exhibit is in the Ames Family Atrium and will continue through next April 13th.
Picturing the Border is a new exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art. It features more than four dozen photographs, showing that Latinx, Chicano/a, and Mexican photographers have significantly rethought what defines citizenship, nationality, family, migration, and the border beyond traditional frameworks. The exhibition in the Mark Schwartz and Bettina Katz Photography Gallery will be on view through January 5.
A new free exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art in Gallery 115 is Creation, Birth, and Rebirth, continuing until July 27th next year. 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 Museum of Natural History
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History and the Cleveland Institute of Music have joined forces to present a series of free recitals at noon every Thursday and Friday through November. in the museum's newly renovated visitor hall. The series will highlight the piano but in November will also feature other larger ensembles.
Cleveland Orchestra
On Tuesday evening, September 24th, as part of the Recital Series, pianist Pavel Kolesnikov will perform Bach's Goldberg Variations in Reinberger Chamber Hall.
Daniel Harding conducts the Cleveland Orchestra in music of Haydn, Schumann and George Walker on October 3rd, 4th and 5th. On October 10th, 12th and 13th, Esa-Pekka Salonen will lead the Cleveland Orchestra in his Cello Concerto with soloist Senja Rummukainen making her Cleveland Orchestra debut That program will also include music by Ravel and Sibelius. And on that Friday evening, October 11th, Spanish pianist Gregorio Benítez will present excerpts from Messiaen's "Catalogue d’oiseaux." The following week, October 17th, 18th and 19th, Klaus Mäkelä leads the Cleveland Orchestra,
mezzo0soprao Jennifer Johnston, the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and Cleveland Orchestra Children’s Chorus in Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 3.
Cleveland Philharmonic
The Cleveland Philharmonic will begin its 87th season with performances on Saturday evening, October 19 at the Westlake Performing Arts Center and Sunday afternoon, October 20th, at Cleveland State University's Waetjen Auditorium The program will include The Oak by Florence Price, the Sixth Symphony by Sibelius and Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2.
Divinity Lutheran Arts and Action Concerts
The Arts and Action Concert Series at Divinity Lutheran Church in Parma Heights will feature violinist Steven Tavani, Assistant Concertmaster of in recital on Saturday evening, October 26th. The free program will feature the three Violin Sonatas by Johannes Brahms.
Dobama Theater
Dobama Theater presents POTUS, the groundbreaking comedy about the women in charge of the man in charge of the free world. When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven women he relies on most risk everything to keep the Commander-in-Chief out of trouble.
The show runs October 4th through 27th.
Dunham Tavern
At Dunham Tavern, the Lantern Theater Company will present two performances of Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, October 19th and 20th through storytelling and song.
Early Music America
The 2024 Early Music America Summit will take place on the campus of Case Western Reserve University October 20th through 22nd. Members of the early-music community from North and South America be featured in presentations, performances and workshops. There will be several featured performances by Les Delices, Apollo's Fire, and the annual Emerging Artists concert, as well as a half-dozen free concerts.
Great Lakes Theater
Great Lakes Theater begins its 63rd season with a rotating repertory of Steven Sondheim’s musical Into the Woods and Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream on stage at the Hanna Theatre, Playhouse Square through November 10th.
Hale Farm and Village
Hale Farm and Village will celebrate fall with its Annual Harvest Festival, the weekends of October 5th & 6th and the 12th & 13th, from 10 AM to 5 PM. The Festival will showcase autumn and the traditions of 19th-century farm life in the heart of the Cuyahoga Valley.
Heights Chamber Orchestra
The first concert of the new season for the Heights Chamber Orchestra will be led by newly-appointed Music Director Travis Jürgens on Sunday afternoon, October 13th at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights. Kevin Jones, will be the soloist in the Guilmant Symphony No. 1 for Organ and Orchestra. The concert will also include music by Debussy, Clementi and Arvo Pärt Heightschamberorchestra.org
Lake Erie Wind Quintet
The Lake Erie Wind Quintet invites you to an afternoon of Halloween-themed music with a concert called Dead Serious on Sunday afternoon, October 20th at Lakewood Presbyterian Church. Costumes are optional.
LatinUS Theater Company
LatinUs Theater Company will present the first-ever Cleveland Latino International Film Festival, showcasing films that celebrate the richness and diversity of Latino culture. This inaugural event will take place at the Pivot Center for Art, Dance, and Expression' LatinUs Black-box theater in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood. Reservations are required for this free event, running October 11th, 12th and 13th.
Les Delices
The new concert season for Les Délices will begin with Moonlit Mozart, an all-Mozart instrumental program featuring North America's most illustrious period woodwind players. They'll perform selections from The Magic Flute and as well as the Serenade in C minor for winds. Performances take place October 3rd, 5th and 6th in Akron, Cleveland Heights and Rocky River.
And Les Délices will present a program called Arcadian Dreams, featuring
soprano Hannah De Priest, in a concert featuring music for soprano and chamber ensemble with pieces by Handel, Corelli, Rameau and Domenico Scarlatti on Sunday evening, October 20th in Harkness Chapel on the Case Western Reserve campus.
Magical Theatre Company
Barberton's Magical Theatre Company is presenting Tuck Everlasting, the story of a the Tuck family, blessed - or doomed - with eternal life. It's playing October 11th through 20th. And the Magical Theatre Company will also present Ghosts of the Magic City, a ghost walk through downtown Barberton,
October 24th through 30th.
New Place Players
The Off-Broadway New Place Players will perform The Masque of Night, a one-hour adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, that's been called "a delicious bite-sized confection of romance and tragedy." Performances take place at Akron's Rubber City Theater September 20th through 29th. There'll also be a special performance at the Gervasi Vineyard in Canton on Thursday evening, October 3rd.
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 The Red Shoes, Touch, Didi and Sing Sing.
No Exit New Music
No Exit New Music Ensemble will begin its 16th concert season with a three-performance series Thursday through Saturday, October 17th, 18th and 19th, at Cleveland State University, Arts Collinwood, and SPACES. The ensemble will be joined by special guest violinist Mari Sato in performing world premiere works by Josef Marek and No Exit’s own Katy La Favre, James Praznik and Timothy Beyer. The program will also include pieces by Hannah
Kendall and Arthur Hernandez.
Oberlin College
Oberlin College will feature an evening of traditional Afghan music with a free program called Art of the Afghan Rubâb and Tabla on Sunday evening, October 6th in Finney Chapel.
Playhouse Square
At Playhouse Square in October, its Strictly Gershwin, music of
George and Ira Gershwin performed by the Tulsa Ballet, Cleveland Ballet,
Cleveland Pops Orchestra and tap dancers. The show will run October 3rd through the 6th.
The Remember Balloons
Akron-based choreographer/director Dominic Moore-Dunson and composer Theron Brown will present a low tech cabaret-style sneak preview of their new work The Remember Balloons, which will be gong on a seven-city tour. It was inspired by the award-winning children's book of the same name. The preview takes place on Saturday evening, October 12th at The Bath Church on West Bath Road.
Renaissance Theater
In Mansfield, The Renaissance Theatre has four performances of South Pacific October 4th through the 13th.
Saint James Church Lakewood
The concert series at Saint James Catholic Church in Lakewood will feature pianist Jakob Aumiller in a program that will include music of Beethoven, Rachmaninoff and Schumann on Sunday afternoon, October 6th.
Saint James Episcopal Church
St James Episcopal Church in Painesville, as part of its bicentennial celebration, has rescheduled an organ concert by Bryan Mitnaul's. The concert will take place on Sunday afternoon, October 13th.
Silver Lining Players
In Akron, the Silver Lining Players, in conjunction with Makeshift Theater, will perfom the 1938 Radio Play War of the Worlds, originally broadcast by CBS’s Mercury Theatre of the Air on Halloween Eve 1938. THere'll be four Saturday and Sunday matinee performances on October 12th, 13th, 19th and 20 at the Oriana House Training Center on Carroll Street in Akron.
Singers' Club
The Singers' Club of Cleveland will begins its new season on Friday evening, October 4th, with a program called In Grand Cathedrals. The concert takes place on Friday evening, October 4th, at First Baptist Church on Fairmount Boulevard in Cleveland Heights. 216 - 556 - 4405
Talespinner Chidren's Theater
Talespinner Children's Theater will present Polkadots: The Cool Kids Musical by Melvin Tunstall III, with music by Greg Borowsky and music, lyrics, and original concept by Douglas Lyons at the Rainey Institute through October 6th.
Tri-C Metro
Tri-C will present pianist/composer Amina Figarova’s “Suite for Africa” with her sextet and the Matsiko World Orphan Choir (from Liberia) on Wednesday evening, October 16th at 7:30 at Tri-C Metro Auditorium. Students from the Tri-C JazzFest Academy will open.
Tri-C West
Soprano Minkyeoung Kim and pianist Joshua Fadenholz will perform a recital on Saturday October 12th at 4pm at the Tri-C Western Campus Theater in Parma. The program will feature Korean Folk Songs and works by Puccini, Donizetti, Chopin and Joshua Fadenholz.
Trinity Lutheran Church
The Wednesday Noontime Music Near the Market continues at Trinity Lutheran Church on Lorain Road at West 30th Street. Wednesdays . Florence Mustric plays “Simply perfect,” music by composers ranging from Pachelbel to Mendelssohn and Grigny to Demessieux October 2nd and 9th.
Trobar
On Friday and Saturday evenings, October 25th and 26th, Cleveland-based medieval music ensemble Trobár will present A Room of Her Own: Christine de Pizan’s Defense of Women. The multimedia show will feature music and
artwork from 15th-century France alongside excerpts from Christine de Pizan’s proto-feminist writings performed by Cleveland-based theater artist Chris Szajber. The October 25th performance is at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, while on the 26th, it's at Inlet Dance Theatre
Tuesday Musical
The opening concert of the season for Akron's Tuesday Musical will feature singer and pianist Michael Feinstein, joined by the Carnegie Hall Big Band, celebrating the music of Tony Bennett on Tuesday evening, October 22nd at Akron’s EJ Thomas Hall.
Valley Art Center
Valley Art Center will present and exhibition titled "In Touch: A Hands-On Exhibition," running through October 23. The show invites visitors to not just view art but to experience it through touch, sound, and movement. Every artwork in this exhibition is meant to be felt, worn, listened to, or even entered into, offering an immersive art encounter.
Weathervane Playhouse
Weathervane Playhouse continues its 90th season with the musical Cabaret. Performances run October 3rd through 20th, Thursdays through Sundays.
Westshore Arts Council
The Westshore Arts Council will present students from the Oberlin Opera Theater in excerpts from Cinderella at Westlake Porter Public Library on Monday evening, October 7th. 440 - 554 - 7522
Wit's Folly
Wit's Folly is a Northeast Ohio based chamber ensemble focusing on chamber music from the late 18th and early 19th centuries performed on historic instruments. The group's next program is called Salon Espanol, Spanish Chamber Music from the Enlightenment. It will be performed twice - on Saturday evening, October 19th at St Noel Church in Willoughby Hills, and on Sunday afternoon, October 20 at The Bath Church, UCC, in Bath.
Wolf's Gallery
Wolf's Gallery has an exhibit celebrating the Cleveland School and featuring the collection of the late Albert Wasserman, with more than 100 works including oil paintings, watercolors, ceramic works, and bronze and glass sculpture available. The show begins Friday, October 4th and will continue through November 30th.