Arts Calendar

If your organization is planning an event you would like us to consider adding to the WCLV Arts Calendar, submit detailed information to John Simna via email.

Akron Civic Theater

Rock musician Neil Zaza presents One Dark Night – A Rock Symphony, combining rock and classical in arrangements of Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart and more, and with guest appearances by Verb Ballets, at the Akron Civic Theater on Saturday evening, October 19^th. 330-253-2488

Akron Symphony

The Akron Symphony’s next concert is Symphonic Shakespeare will feature music by Shostakovich and Walton, as well as Ethel Smyth’s overture The Wreckers. Music Director Christopher Wilkins conducts the program o Saturday evening, October 19^th, at Akron’s E. J. Thomas Hall. 330-535-8131

Apollo's Fire

Echoes of Venice is the title of the next set of concerts by Apollo’s Fire. They’ll perform music of Gabrieli, Monteverdi, Praetorius and Schuetz in Bath, Cleveland, Shaker Heights and Avon Lake in programs from Thursday, October 17^th, through Sunday, October 20^th. 216-320-0012

Baldwin Wallace University

At Baldwin Wallace, the Department of Theater and Dance presents The Last Days of Judas Iscariot in the Black Box Theater at the Kleist Center Wednesday through Saturday, October 23^rd through the 26^th. 440-826-2240

Beck Center Studio Theater

At Beck Center in Lakewood, the Studio Theater will present Carson McCullers’s The Member of the Wedding October 4^th through November 3^rd.

CityMusic Cleveland

CItyMusic Cleveland opens its new season with a program called Between Two Giants. New Music Director Amit Peled leads music of Mozart, Bruch, Montgomery and Haydn, and will also be the cello soloist in Max Bruch’s Kol Nidrei. There’ll be performances in four different locations from Thursday, October 17^th, through Sunday, October 20^th.

Cleveland Ballet

Cleveland Ballet, resident ballet company of Playhouse Square, opens its season with Carmen, set to Bizet’s music, at the Mimi Ohio Theater on Friday and Saturday evenings, October 18^th and 19^th. 216-241-6000

Cleveland Chamber Music Society

The Cleveland Chamber Music Society’s concert series will bring the Jerusalem Quartet to Plymouth Church of Shaker Heights on Tuesday evening, October 22^nd. The ensemble will perform quartets by Mozart, Korngold and Shostakovich. 216-291-2777

Cleveland Institute of Music

The Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland Institute of Art and Hale Farm and Village have collaborated for a production of Philip Glass’s 1984 opera The Juniper Tree. There’ll be three performances at CIM’s Mixon Hall Thursday, Friday and Saturday, October 31^st, November 1^st and 2^nd. 216-795-3211

Cleveland Orchestra

Guest Conductor Klaus Maekaela will lead the Cleveland Orchestra in three performances on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, October 17^th, 18^th and 19^th. Augustin Hadelich will make his Severance Hal debut in Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2. 216-231-1111

Cleveland Philharmonic

The Cleveland Philharmonic’s season-opening concert will feature Odin Rathnam as soloist in the Saint-Saens Violin Concerto No. 3. The Orchestra will also perform Robert Schumann’s Rhenish Symphony. They’ll play on Saturday evening, October 19^th, at Cleveland State University’s Waejten Auditorium, and Sunday afternoon, October 20^th, at West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church in Rocky River.

Cleveland Public Theater

Cleveland Public Theater presents Cleveland’s own variety circus theater, Pinch and Squeal’s Wizbang for two nights, Friday and Saturday, October 25^th and 26^th, in the James Levin Theater in the Gordon Square Arts District. 216-631-2727 ext 501

Cleveland Public Theater

Cleveland Public Theater will present the world premiere of Rastus and Hattie by Lisa Langford, October 5^th through the 26^th. 216-631-2727 ext 501

Divinity Lutheran Church

The Divinity Arts and Action concert series at Divinity Lutheran Church in Parma Heights will feature music for organ, piano, trombone, bassoon, percussion and bagpipes – in various combinations – by Bach, Colgrass, Pratt, Handel and others, on Saturday evening, October 19^th. 440-845-2060

Dobama Theater

Dobama Theater presents a new play by Will Eno titled Wakey, Wakey. It opens October 18^th and continues through November 10^th.

Friends of the Cleveland Orchestra

Friends of the Cleveland Orchestra will host an event called Bluegrass ‘n Blue Jeans. Five members of the Cleveland Orchestra will perform as the Cleveland Bluegrass Orchestra at the Bop Stop on Sunday, October 20^th. 216-408-0450

Great Lakes Theater

Great Lakes Theater has two shows playing at the Hanna – Julius Caesar continues through November 3^rd, and The Music Man ends November 10^th.

Heritage Chorale

Reverend William Brewer leads the 17^th annual Anniversary Concert by the Heritage Chorale with spirituals, anthems, hymns and gospels at Christ Episcopal Church on Warrensville Center Road in Shaker Heights on Sunday afternoon, October 20^th. 216-751-3083

Karamu House

Karamu House has the regional premiere of Paradise Blue by Dominique Morisseau. It runs September 26^th through October 20^th. 216-795-7077

Karamu House Film Series

The film series at Karamu House will feature the biographical drama Lady Sings the Blues with Diana Ross and Billy Dee Williams on Monday afternoon, October 21^st. 216-795-7077

Rocky River Presbyterian

Violinist Mary Beth Ions and Friends perform Musica Latina as part of the Artist Concert Series at Rocky River Presbyterian Church on Detroit Road on Sunday afternoon, October 20^th. 440-333-2888

Saint John Cathedral.

Matthew Robertson will direct The Thirteen Chamber Choir as part of the Helen D. Schubert Concert Series at St. John Cathedral on Wednesday evening, October 23^rd. The program is called Tallis Through the Looking Glass, with music by Britten, Purcell, Monk, and others.

St. Paul's Episcopal Church

The Fall Celebration of Music at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights will feature Erik Suter in a program of French music on Friday evening, October 18^th; Steven Plank will play organ music of the seventeenth century on Saturday afternoon, the 19^th, and Karel Paukert and narrator John Orlock will perform Petr Eben’s Labyrinth of the World and Paradise of the Heart on Sunday afternoon, the 20^th.

Trinity Cathedral

The Wednesday Noontime Brownbag Concerts at Trinity Cathedral in downtown Cleveland will feature vocalists Kristine and Kira on October 23^rd. 216-281-1700

True North

True North Cultural Arts celebrates the fortieth anniversary of Sweeny Todd with a concert performance for one night only at Stocker Center on Saturday evening, October 26^th. 440-355-4040

Tuesday Musical

Akron’s Tuesday Musical’s next concert combines the Dover and Escher String Quartets for a program called October Octets. This disability-inclusive concert takes place at E. J. Thomas Hall on Wednesday evening, October 30^th. 330-761-3460