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.
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
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;…
Stage notes: Akron Symphony showcases local soloists
The Akron Symphony Orchestra will celebrate its own and go a step further with its concert World Class Begins at Home at 8 p.m. Saturday. The concert will not only showcase soloists Jody Guinn on harp, Cynthia Warren on English horn, Scott Johnston on trumpet, Zachary Collins on viola and Michael DeBruyn on cello, but…
Theater review: Sins of parents at forefront of ‘Yellowman’
Playwright Dael Orlandersmith’s words create mesmerizing poetry in the drama Yellowman at Weathervane, where actors Nichole Strong and Marc Jackson deftly bring to life a world of terrible brutality punctuated by grace notes of beauty.
Details: ‘Yellowman’
Details Drama: Yellowman When: Continuing through Jan. 28, 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays, 2:30 and 8 p.m. Saturdays, 2:30 p.m. Sundays Where: Weathervane Community Playhouse, 1301 Weathervane Lane, Akron Onstage: Nichole Strong, Marc Jackson Offstage: Dael Orlandersmith, playwright; Jennifer Kay Jeter, director/sound designer; Danielle Terlonge, stage manager; Ryan Durfee, lighting; Todd Dieringer, props; Jasen…
Baldwin-Wallace graduate lets down his ‘Hair’
Steel Burkhardt became a member of the “tribe” in 2007, and we’re not talking about the Indians.
Interesting strands of ‘Hair’
• The anti-war musical Hair elicited violent reactions around the world, from Sydney, Australia, to Cleveland. In April 1971 in Cleveland, a bomb was thrown at the Hanna Theater where the tour was playing, bouncing off the marquee and shattering windows. • The company also experienced tragedy in Cleveland: During the same tour stop, four…
Theater review: ‘It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play’
Nothing beats a live performance, and at Weathervane Playhouse, audiences get a double dose of that with It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play. The show, set in 1946 at the fictional Akron radio station WAKY, fulfills director Bob Belfance and playwright Joe Landry’s primary goal of allowing audiences to make vivid use of…