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WCLV Arts Calendar

If your organization is planning an event you would like us to consider adding to the WCLV Arts Calendar, submit detailed information to John Simna via email.

Akron Art Museum
Current shows at the Akron Art Museum, include Barbra Stanczak: Spirit and Matter and Amanda D. King: Locusts, both on exhibit through February 4th, and Landjam, through May 12th.

Akron Symphony Orchestra
Trumpeter Mary Elizabeth Bowden will be the soloist with the Akron Symphony Orchestra on Saturday evening, April 6th at Akron's E. J. Thomas Hall. She'll perform Clarice Assad’s trumpet concerto Bohemian Queen, written for her and comssioned by a consortium including the Akron Symphony. The work celebrates the surrealist painter Gertrude Abercrombie, called “the queen of the bohemian artists. The program also includes music of Vaughan Williams and Tchaikovsky, and pieces Jessie Montgomery, Jennifer Hidgon and Julia Perry’s.

Apollo's Fire
¡Hispania! A Voyage from Spain to the Americas is the title of the next concert series presented by Apollo's Fire with four performances March 20th through 23rd in Cleveland, Cleveland Heights and Akron. Members of Apollo's Fire will be joined by Puerto Rican soprano Sophia Burgos and flamenco guitarist Jeremías García.

Baldwin Wallace Bach Festival
Baldwin Wallace University will present the ninety-second annual Bach FestivalFriday, April 12 through Sunday, April 14th in B-W’s Kulas Musical Arts Building. The weekend will feature artistic director and conductor Doctor Dirk Garner, the Baroque band ACRONYM, the premiere of a work by BW Composer-in-Residence Doctor Clint Needham, titled B-W-V: Cleveland's Bach Choir, and the B-W Festival Choir and Orchestra.

Baldwin Wallace University
Baldwin Wallace University will present Written in the Starson Tuesday, March 26th. Author Kevin Keating will discuss humanity’s narrative roots of space exploration, from cave paintings to Buzz Lightyear.

Arts Renaissance Tremont
The Cleveland Orchestra's Principal Cellist Mark Kosower and pianist Tatiana Lokhina will be featured in the next concert presented by Arts Renaissance Tremont. The program on Sunday afternoon, March 24th will take place at Saint Wendelin Church near the West Side Market, and will include music by Enescu and Tchaikovsky. The concert will also include and Schubert's C Major String Quintet with the Cavani String Quartet joining Mark Kosower.

BluJazz
Akron's BluJazz will feature vocalist Kathy Kosins on Saturday evening, March 23rd.

Bop Stop
At the Bop Stop On Thursday, March 21st, you can hear the Bop Stop Jazz Unit, and on Friday, March Friday, March 22nd, the Canadian Jazz Collective

Canton Museum of Art
Aa the Canton Museum of Art A New Deal: Artists of the WPA, also from the Canton Museum Collection continues through March 24th. Coming soon, its A Material World: Janice Jakielski's Impossible Objects, running April 23rd through July 28.

Clague Playhouse
The 96th season at the Clague Playhouse in Westlake will feature the jukebox musical The Marvelous Wonderettes from March 22nd through April 14th.

Cleveland Cinematheque
New films this week include the new Vietnamese film Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell. , and a repeat screening of Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves. There will be new restorations of Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr., which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s 2001 romance Amélie.
John Ford’s Cavalry Trilogy as well as one other Ford western, and three comedies by the team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker are coming to the Cleveland Cinemateque, in February. And the Cinemateque will continue to offer an array of other classics and first-run films, including some of the best-reviewed movies of 2023.

Cleveland Classical Guitar Society
Brazilian vocalist, guitarist and bassist Badi Assad, the remarkable Brazilian artist, defies music genres with her voice, guitar, and percussion talents. She’s known for singing while playing guitar and bass and using mouth percussion to create unique percussive sounds. She'll be at the Maltz Performing Arts Center on Saturday evening, April 13th.

Cleveland Institute of Music
Guest Conductor JoAnn Falletta will lead the CIM Orchestrain Maurice Ravel's orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, as well as music by Prokofiev and Rimsky Korsakov. The concert is at Kulas Auditorium at the Cleveland Institute of Music on Thursday evening, March 28th. Free seating passes are required for the concert, which will also be live streamed.

Cleveland International Piano Competition
The Cleveland International Piano Competition is presenting a series of Lunchtime Concerts in the Ames Family Atrium at the Cleveland Museum of Art. You can hear CIPC Winners from its history in special noontime performances. On Tuesday, March 19th, it's Piano Cleveland President Yaron Kohlberg, CIPC 2017 Second Prize Winner. Antonio Pompa-Baldi, the 1999 First Prize Winner, will perform on Tuesday, April 16th.

Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art is presenting a series of programs, exhibitions, and performing arts events to honor the contributions of Black artists. The Museum will showcase the work of Black artists in a variety of genres and mediums, including recent acquisitions of works by Amy Sherald, Emma Amos, and Yinka Shonibare

Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art's newest exhibition is titled Into the Seven Jeweled Mountain: An Immersive Experience,a digital experience with animation inspired by a 19th-century folding screen depicting the Korean mountain’s scenery. The CMA’s exhibition will be on view September 29.

Cleveland Orchestra
Guest Conductor Dalia Stasevsky will lead Cleveland Orchestra concerts of March 21sst, 22nd and 23rd, with music by Einojuhani Rautavaara, Julia Perry and Jean Sibelius.

Cleveland Pops
The Cleveland Pops will present a program of Broadway favorites with the Pops on Friday evening, April 12th, as Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center. Broadway vocalists will join the Pops to perform selections from Broadway hits, including Wicked, Book of Mormon, MJ The Musical, Hairspray, The Lion King, Mamma Mia, Rent, The Wiz, Phantom of the Opera and more.
216-765-7677

Cleveland Public Theater
Cleveland Public Theater will present Requiem by Israeli playwright Hanoch Levin. Requiem considers the question of life and death with poetry, frankness, and humor. It's on stage through April 6th.

First Lutheran Church Lorain
The First Music series at First Lutheran Church in Lorain will present Dietrich Buxtehde' s cycle of seven cantatas called Membra Jesu Nostri, performed by members of Schola Cantorum Lorain, with a baroque ensemble directed by Mark Edwards, on Sunday afternoon, March 24th at First Lutheran Church in Lorain. And on Sunday afternoon, April 21st., there'll be a program called Abendmusik, with several Bach Cantatas, including numbers 32 and 166, with members of Schola Cantorum Lorain, directed by Mark Edwards, with the Oberlin Baroque Ensemble

Franklin Circle Church
Bach At Leipzig is a farcical consideration of the events in 1722 when Bach was among the candidates auditioning for the prestigious position of Organist for the Thomaskirche. The play by Ithmar Moses is being staged by Seat of the Pants Productions at Franklin Circle Church on Fulton Road in Cleveland weekends March 22nd through April 7th.

Good Shepherd Christian Church
Good Shepherd Christian Church in Twinsburg will host a Blues and Lamentations Concert on Friday evening, March 29 . Jennifer Cochran will join the Gateway Band for a unique and deeply spiritual telling of the Passion Story through spirituals, jazz, poetry, and silence. 330-467-5644

Great Lakes Theater
Great Lakes Theater has Shakespeare’s comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor on stage at the Hanna Theatre in Playhouse Square March 22nd through April 7th. 216-241-6000.

GroundWorks Dance Theater
In celebration of its 25th Anniversary Season, GroundWorks DanceTheaterwill collaborate with pianist Theron Brown's Trio in the world premiere of "LIMIT (LESS). " set to original music by Theron Brown played live. There'll be one performance in Akron on Saturday afternoon, March 16th at House Three-Thirty, and two performances in Cleveland on the evenings of March 22nd and 23rd at Pomp Parties at the Twist Drill Building on Lakeside Avenue in Cleveland.

Karamu House
Karamu House, the nation’s oldest Black producing theatre, continues its mainstage season with the world premiere of It Happened in Atlanta, written by Cleveland playwright Michael Oatman and directed by Tony F. Sias.
It Happened in Atlanta will be performed at Karamu’s Cleveland Foundation Jelliffe Theatre through March 30th.

Nightlight Cinema
The Nightlight is a non-profit arthouse cinema, located in Downtown Akron. It has been making indie films available since 2014. Upcoming films include Origin, The Zone of Interest and The Sweet East. And there'll be Oscar-Nominated Shorts, including Animation, Live and Documentary films.

Ohio Light Opera
Ohio Light Opera will celebrate its 45th Festival Season at the College of Wooster beginning June 8th. The season opens June 8th with Frank Loesser’s Guys and Dolls. The season will also include Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music, Noel Gay’s Me and My Girl, Gilbert and Sullivan’s, The Gondoliers and more. Six productions will play in repertory. 330-263-2345

Trinity Lutheran Church
The Wednesday Noontime Music Near the Market continues at Trinity Lutheran Churchon Lorain Road at West 30th Street. On March 20th and 27th, Robert Myers will play music for Passion Week.

Tuesday Musical
Akron’s Tuesday Musical will bring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, led by trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, to E. J. Thomas Hall on Saturday evening, April 20th. 330-761-3460

Weathervane Playhouse
Akron's Weathervane Playhouse is bringing Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida to the stage through March 17th. 330-836-2626