From May through September, Lock 3, in downtown Akron plays host to Akron’s biggest festivals, a weekly farmers market, a large number of community events and the City of Akron’s official 4th of July fireworks display. But also, music fans, it features a seemingly unending season of live music – lots of it free. And it [...]
South Main Street was bustling in the Akron Civic Theatre the other night. The theater, a Knight Arts grantee, knows how to throw a party, especially when the aim is to thank supporters of all kinds for all the help that they have given to the arts presentation group. At a recent event, the theater [...]
If you go to see Coach House Theatre’s latest farce, Ken Ludwig’s “The Fox on the Fairway,” hang in there. Stay through the second act, cause that’s where most of the fun is. Farces aren’t great brainteasers, although in this case, you may have to ponder how three couples (two already or formerly married and [...]
Patrick Barlow went for the gusto when he decided to script a play based on the famous Alfred Hitchcock film “The 39 Steps,” which was itself taken from an earlier novel. The result is a frantic, fun, zany spoof that Weathervane Playhouse, a Knight Arts grantee, plays fully for the many laughs the plot [...]
Good theater is the kind where you leave with your mind reeling with ideas about what you’ve just seen – thinking about it and figuring it out. That’s what you have to look forward to if you go to see New World Performance Laboratory’s “Gilgamesh: He Who Knew Everything” at the Balch Street Theatre. NWPL [...]
DANCECleveland, a Knight Arts grantee, has announced its stellar season for the upcoming year. And guess what: the season will kick off with a performance in the Akron area. Opening the season on October 5 at E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall will be BalletX, Philadelphia’s premier contemporary ballet company, which features a roster of world-class [...]
At juried art shows, you rarely if ever get a rationale for why the judges of the particular event selected the works they did for awards and prizes. The same can be said for “Brushstrokes—Here and Now,” which is the name for the 80th anniversary Women’s Art League of Akron exhibit on display at Summit [...]
DANCECleveland, a Knight Arts grantee, is taking a collaborative leap next week and will make another step in its ongoing effort to bring the finest in contemporary dance troupes to the area. The noted dance presenter will be working with the Cleveland Play House for the first time ever as part of the latter organization’s [...]
What goes around comes around. When that statement applies to Ballet Theatre of Ohio and its upcoming performance of artistic director Christine Meneer’s “Cinderella” at the Akron Civic Theatre, a Knight Arts grantee, that’s a good thing. BTO has four major ballets that it rotates over four years, according to Meneer – “Coppelia,” “Sleeping Beauty,” [...]
In a recent crossword puzzle, a clue was “lively art,” and the answer was “Op Art.” Here’s another clue – whose art helped inspire the term Op Art? The answer is Julian Stanczak. Some 20 or so of his works are on display at the Akron Art Museum, a Knight Arts grantee, in an exhibition [...]
