I’m beginning to be a big big fan of the plays that Weathervane Playhouse, a Knight Arts grantee, is putting on in its intimate 48-seat Dietz Theater. The current production, Amy Herzog’s “4000 Miles” and the brilliant cast selected by director Fred Gloor, has sown up that conviction. It is definitely one worth seeing. Herzog […]

It always feels tricky to write about a movie house, even a wonderful independent film-centered one like Nightlight Cinema, a Knight Arts grantee. The films turn over regularly, so it’s not like a single event or a three-week stint of a play. Now and then, though, a reminder about a quality arts organization and the […]

It’s always a great thing when GroundWorks DanceTheater, a Knight Arts grantee, comes to Akron on one of their recurrent visits to perform for local audiences. And in the fall of the year, it is a couple of performances at the Main Library in Downtown. This year, the troupe will be bringing first a work […]

The first production ever by the talented group of actors and play bringers at None Too Fragile was “On an Average Day,” John Kolvenbach’s deeply riveting and psychologically chilling drama about two emotionally fraught brothers. The play, which is currently being performed at the theater’s spot in Pub Bricco, is coming for a one-night-only performance […]

Alan Ayckbourn’s swinging ’60s British comedy had what seemed like a slow start in the first act during opening night of “Relatively Speaking” at Weathervane Playhouse (a Knight Arts grantee), but then Act II came along in the nick of time. The problem wasn’t with the acting. Adam C. Alderson as Greg and Tris Bolinger […]

Sean Grennan’s “Making God Laugh” is a hoot as presented by Actors’ Summit, a Knight Arts grantee. It’s the company’s season opener, and it’s a great one to begin with – funny, cleverly written, a wonderful mixture of laughable incidents that have serious undertones that ultimately get worked out in the plot, and some gifted […]

If you’re looking for a great evening out, go see Coach House Theatre’s production of “Over the River and through the Woods.” Joe DiPietro’s comedy comes across as charming, and with the right touches of poignancy, to make you leave the theater happy you went, praising what you saw, and feeling the kind of warm […]

Rita Dove, Pulitzer-prize winning poet. Photo courtesy of Akron Civic Theatre Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry (1987); former United States Poet Laureate (1993-1995); and National Humanities Medal recipient (1996) from then President Clinton – these are a very few of the awards bestowed on Akron’s own Rita Dove. She is returning to Akron at the […]