GroundWorks’ Akron premiere of the new dance CoDa was an experience in emotional contrasts Friday evening at Akron’s Main Library, ranging from fierce and foreboding to jaunty and humorous.
2012 Blossom Festival Calendar
2012 Blossom Festival July 3, 8 p.m. — The Cleveland Orchestra, Jahja Ling, conductor. America the Beautiful. Program includes Gershwin: An American in Paris; Tchaikovsky: “1812” Overture. Fireworks, weather permitting. July 4, 8 p.m. — Blossom Festival Band, Loras John Schissel, conductor. Salute to America. Patriotic holiday favorites, including a salute to the U.S. Armed…
Blossom Festival aims for boomers, kids
The Cleveland Orchestra, announcing its 2012 Blossom Festival season, will offer everything from the Beatles to Beethoven this summer. In the pops realm, the orchestra will present Billboard chart toppers of the ’60s with conductor Jack Everly July 22. The program, titled And the Beat Goes On! Music of the Baby Boomers, will celebrate the…
Gospel Meets Symphony to feature LeGrair brothers
For the three brothers who have been singing since they were each babies, it came naturally to create thrilling harmonies together along with a 200-voice choir at a recent rehearsal for Gospel Meets Symphony. “I know that you don’t feel your best. Hold on. Be strong. God’s not forgotten you,” middle brother Emmanuel “Manny” LeGrair,…
Canton native comes home in ‘Memphis’
In the musical Memphis, Canton native Bill Parry plays a man caught in the middle of volatile race relations in the segregated 1950s. As Memphis radio station owner Mr. Simmons, he’s both the main person that DJ Huey Calhoun butts heads with, and the one who ultimately opens doors for both the DJ and the…
GroundWorks, choreographer Koresh develop new work during UA visit
February 18, 2012 Leave a Comment Filed under: Arts & Culture, Dance, Featured, Featured 2, Kerry Clawson
On a cold January day, five dancers from GroundWorks Dance-Theater met with choreographer Ronen “Roni” Koresh in Akron to create a new section of a world premiere dance Koresh was making for the Cleveland company.
Stage notes: New World, Miller South collaborate on program
Genre-bending FUZE! series returns to Akron Art Museum Friday
Tuesday Musical Association and the Akron Art Museum are set to kick off their fourth season of cutting-edge, genre-crossing performances with the FUZE! series, which will begin at 6:30 p.m. Friday with the Calder Quartet and Iva Bittova.
Stage notes: Newly commissioned piece honors UA’s Larry Snider
Mark and Sandy Auburn, who have watched Larry Snider serve as an inspiration to hundreds of percussion students at the University of Akron over the last several decades, have decided now’s the time to spread the love.
Stage notes: ‘Color Purple’ comes to E.J. Thomas
Washington, D.C., native Ashley Ware has landed exactly where she wanted to be — playing Celie in The Color Purple, The Musical about Love.
Theater review: ‘And Then There Were None’ at Coach House
Director Nancy Cates and her cast of 11 are having great fun enacting murders nightly with Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None at Coach House Theatre.
Stage Notes: Dance company brings dreamlike work to Ohio
Avshalom Pollak says it’s difficult to define dance, in particular the off-kilter work Oyster, a signature work of the Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak Dance Company.
Theater review: ‘Bully’ showcases actor’s talents
Bully: An Adventure With Teddy Roosevelt is a tour de force for actor Neil Thackaberry, who sweeps the audience along through this historic figure’s adventures in a one-man show at Actors’ Summit. From his opening moments dramatizing one of Roosevelt’s vigorous walking expeditions, to his enactment of Roosevelt’s twilight years as the former president dreams…
Details: ‘Bully, An Adventure with Teddy Roosevelt’
Details Play: Bully, An Adventure With Teddy Roosevelt When: Through Feb. 5, 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays Where: Actors’ Summit, Greystone Hall, 103 S. High St., Akron Onstage: Neil Thackaberry Offstage: Jerome Alden, playwright; Peter Voinovich, director; Anna Bose, stage manager; Rory Wohl, set design; MaryJo Alexander, costumes/props; Kevin Rutan, lighting; Daniel Taylor, sound;…
