Apollo’s Fire will be bringing its classy and artistic brand of period music and performances to the Akron area once more for its beginning concert tour of the season. Four singers (Nell Snaidas, soprano; Jeffrey Strauss, baritone; Karim Sulayman, tenor haut-contre; and Oliver Mercer, tenor) will join four virtuoso string players, along with lutes and […]

It’s the 50th anniversary of the studio glass movement in the United States. I love finding out things like that for some reason. It gets even more special to think that it pretty much began in Toledo, Ohio with three ceramics professors in a workshop at the Toledo Museum of Art. To make the event […]

You have to give anyone credit for doing a one-person show. It’s just you and the audience, and everything — everything — depends on you being everpresent for the hour and a half or more that you’re on the stage. It would help, I’d wager, if you only had to be yourself, or your image if you’re […]

The new kid on the theater block, None Too Fragile, is making its presence known through a combination of cool ambiance and intense drama. The fledgling company has set up shop by creating a 40-seat black box theater within Pub Bricco, an established and frequented restaurant/bar located in the Merriman Valley. Theatergoers can stop in […]

Great looks and great voice, Thomas Hampson seems to have it all, as concertgoers will discover when the famous baritone appears in E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall for Tuesday Musical, a Knight Arts grantee. Long applauded for his opera roles, singled out for his recording works with Grammy Awards and others, and heralded as a […]

The play, “The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” is a weird kind of “whodunit,” since it’s not clear in the performing of it that a crime – like a murder – has actually been committed. But Weathervane Playhouse, a Knight Arts grantee, takes its audience by hand through this baffling play and brings it to neat […]

The Cuyahoga Valley Frackers, an Akron-based acoustic quartet that plays area clubs regularly, are taking their show on the road. They are heading northward through the Valley and will appear this Saturday night, October 6 at The Barking Spider Tavern. If you are a fan, here’s the chance to see the group in a different […]

Actors’ Summit, a Knight Arts grantee, got good news. It will be part of the National New Play Network’s 33rd Rolling World Premiere — an event that champions the development, production and continued life of new plays. What’s even cooler is that the work, “Manning Up” by Sean Christopher Lewis, will be developed by the […]

Verb Ballets has strong Akron connections, which will be even more robust when the contemporary ballet group puts on choreographer Richard Dickinson’s “Carmen: Story of Passion” at the Akron Civic Theatre, a Knight Arts grantee. The list is long for local involvement. Out of the nine-person company four are from Akron (Ryan De Alexandro, Ashley Cohen, Stepanie […]

Take in photographer Deborah Pinter’s flower series exhibit, called “Luminous Florals,” and combine a nice fall outing with a satisfying art experience. Pinter’s flower studies are on view at the Hines Hill campus (the administration building) in the John F. Seiberling Gallery near the Boston Store in Peninsula district. What looks to be an old […]

DANCECleveland, a Knight Arts grantee, and The University of Akron have got a good thing going for the dance world. For five years now, the two groups have collaborated to bring outstanding dance companies to the Akron area for performances and to hold special master classes for university students. This year brings a big dance […]