The buzz is building. Documentary director Megumi Sasaki, who initially did a small, award-winning 2009 film documentary about art collectors Herb and Dorothy Vogel, launched into a full-scale film about the much-heralded couple. Sasaki is ready to premiere the work,“Doug and Dorothy 50×50,” in New York City on September 13 before sending it out across […]

You have to hand it to co-artistic directors James Slowiak and Jairo Cuesta and their productions in the Balch Street Theatre. Their plays take on current and troubling social issues, the darker side of human behavior, or the kind of strange actions that result in dark humor. Those qualities simply make their efforts all the […]

The title of the art exhibition “Well-Guarded & Institutionalized” is a good one, for it takes on special meaning. The display is of works by Akron Art Museum staff – guards mostly, as the title suggests, but also preparators, installers and other staff. So the organization’s members are putting themselves on display in the first […]

This will sound like heresy, but Shakespeare needed an editor when he wrote his “Cymbeline.” It’s a convoluted play that repeats the Celtic/Briton history, underlining it (several times, it seemed in watching it) along with repeated chronologies of how all the characters were going to get/or had already gotten to where they were to be, […]

Logo, “Tuning In.” Photo courtesy of The University of Akron A musical in the making. That’s what’s going on at The University of Akron, as artists and students there collaborate with some stellar and visionary partners. The musical comedy “Tuning In” is being developed – from the ground up – for its historic opening for […]