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Cleveland Orchestra 2012-13 season announced

The Cleveland Orchestra has announced its 2012-13 season at Severance Hall. All programs and artists are subject to change. Subscriptions go on sale Monday and start at $124 for a four-concert package. Call the Subscription Office at 216-231-1111 or 800-686-1141 or see www.cleveland?orchestra.com. Tickets to individual performances go on sale in August.

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Organist Olivera will perform at Canton church

Argentinean-born organist Hector Olivera will perform a concert at 3 p.m. April 15 at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Canton.

Argentinean-born organist Hector Olivera will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Canton in a program that he says will range from Bach to Gershwin.

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Art notes: New installation at JWT Action offices

Mark Soppeland and students from the University of Akron’s Mary Schiller Myers School of Art will put the finishing touches on The Shopper Dreams, an art installation commissioned by the advertising agency JWT Action for its Akron headquarters, 388 S. Main St., Suite 410, at 3 p.m. today.

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Akron Symphony prepares one-night performance of ‘Titanic: The Musical’

Actors Jonathan Tisevich (left) and James Pence work on blocking a scene for Titanic: The Musical. (Ed Suba Jr./Akron Beacon Journal)

As the world marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, the Akron Symphony Orchestra will pay homage to those who were aboard the doomed ship with a single performance of Titanic: The Musical on Saturday.

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New Yorker art editor to reveal spiked comics

Francoise Mouly, the New Yorker art editor who is responsible for the magazine’s provocative covers, will present Covers Uncovered, a free lecture at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Stage Door of E.J. Thomas Hall, 198 Hill St., on the University of Akron campus.

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Neil Patrick Harris to host his 3rd Tony Awards

Neil Patrick Harris arrives at the 54th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. Producers of the Tony Awards show announced Tuesday, April 3, 2012 that Harris, the star of the sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" and a stage veteran, will be back for his third turn hosting the Tony Awards on June 10. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Mark Kennedy AP Drama Writer NEW YORK: Neil Patrick Harris will be back for his third turn hosting the Tony Awards. Producers of the show announced Tuesday that the star of the sitcom How I Met Your Mother and a stage veteran would be back at Manhattan’s Beacon Theatre for the ceremony honoring Broadway’s best.…

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Review: John Sokol exhibit at Summit Artspace

Mnemosyne's Diary, 2012, coffee and ink on Bristol, 17 x 14" (John Sokol/ Digital Images for Box Gallery Show)

John Sokol is one of Akron’s treasures.

He’s an exquisite artist and poet, a deft short story writer, a highly literate and deeply learned man who is so underappreciated in this town it sometimes takes my breath away. The time has come to do a retrospective of his work.

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YEPAW does the Wiz

Cara Culver (center) sings as the character Evilene as she and members of the Youth Excellence Performing Arts Workshop rehearse for their upcoming benefit performance of The Wiz at the Akron Civic Theatre. (Ed Suba Jr./Akron Beacon Journal)

Nearly 60 enthusiastic teens will help audience members “ease on down the road” Saturday, ushering them into the fantasy world of The Wiz in two performances of the musical at the Akron Civic Theatre.

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Art notes

The deadline to apply is March 31 for the Akron Arts Expo. The 33rd annual event will be held July 28-29 at Hardesty Park, 1615 W. Market St.

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Review: ‘A Moon for the Misbegotten’ at Coach House

Terry Burgler and Lara Knox in "A Moon for the Misbegotten" at Coach House Theatre. (Photos by Nancy Cates)

Longing, guilt and forgiveness take center stage in an emotionally charged production of Eugene O’Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten at Coach House Theatre.

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‘Book of Mormon,’ ‘War Horse’ highlight PlayhouseSquare’s 2012-13 season

The Book of Mormon — the biggest, most blasphemous hit on Broadway — will make its way to PlayhouseSquare for a three-week engagement as the centerpiece of the 2012-2013 season, the performing arts center announced Tuesday.

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Art review: ‘Fresh & Springy’ at Summit Artspace

Summit Artspace Gallery Show titled "Fresh & Springy" Title: Awake, Thou Wintery Earth Artist: Carol Klingel Medium: acrylic & thread

Back toward the end of the 20th century, women finally got a firm toehold in the art world.

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Akron Art Museum auctioning photograph to raise money for acquisitions

Christie’s is proud to offer an acclaimed masterpiece by Cindy Sherman consigned by the Akron Art Museum, Ohio. All proceeds from the sale will be directed to the museum’s acquisition fund to allow for future strategic purchases that will augment the core of the Akron Art Museum’s strong Contemporary collection. Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #96 is recognized as an icon within her career to date. Another example of this image was sold at Christie’s in May 2011 for $3,890,500, which represents not only a world auction record for Sherman, but also a world record price for any photograph at the time. The work from the Akron Art Museum is a vintage print in excellent condition and will have a pre-sale estimate of $2,800,000-$3,800,000.

It’s nice to have an extra masterpiece or two in the house.

Such is the enviable position the Akron Art Museum found itself in when the new retrospective of Cindy Sherman photographs at the Museum of Modern Art in New York jelled nicely with a record price fetched by her work at auction last year.

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Art Notes: Portrait Drop-In Day at Akron Art Museum

Would you like to have a family portrait? The Akron Art Museum at 1 S. High St. would like to help you on Family Portrait Drop-In Day, from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday.

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Stage notes: Barbershop harmony; jazz, piano and dance at UA

The Derbytown Chorus of the Akron Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society will take audiences on a musical journey through the Old West with its 65th annual show, How the West Was Sung, at 7:30 p.m. March 30 and 31 at Cuyahoga Falls High School, 2300 Fourth St.

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