WCLV 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 Art Museum
At the Akron Art Museum On exhibit through January 25th, you can see Ordinary Miracles: Robert Glenn Ketchum’s Photographs of Cuyahoga Valley National Park. ALso on exhibit is Myrlande Constant, one of Haiti’s most prominent contemporary artists. She works in the tradition of drapo (literally meaning “flags”), a style of art created with fabric, embroidery, sequins, and beads depicting symbols, stories, and spirits from the Vodou religion.
Akron Symphonic WInds
The Akron Symphonic Winds will present a series of holiday concerts throughout Northeast Ohio. The WInds will perform as part of the Grand Opening of the Celestia Theatre in Wadsworth on Tuesday evening, December 9. On Sunday afternoon, December 14th, the group will perform at Brush High School. for a beautiful holiday concert featuring the ASW. On Monday evening, December, they'll play a side by side concert with the Coventry High School Band, and on Tuesday evening, the 16th, they'll be part of the City of Green Holiday concert at The Chapel, Green Campus, featuring the Akron Symphonic Winds, with prelude music and sing along led by the Green 8th Grade Chorus.
Akron Symphony
The Akron Symphony has several events on its schedule. The Akron Symphony, Chorus and Soloists will perform the first part of Handel's Messiah, as well as music of Julia Perry, Haydn and Handel on Saturday evening, November 15th at E. J. Thomas Hall. Then on Tuesday evening, December 2nd, Gospel Meets Symphony Meets Metro RTA And the Akron Symphony's annual Holiday Pops Concert is at E. J. Thomas Hall on Friday evening, December 12th.
Baldwin Wallace University
The Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Performing Arts will present Nine to Five: The Musical, with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton, through November 23rd at B-W’s Kleist Center.
The Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Performing Arts will present B-W’s Motet Choir, joined by the B-W Symphony Orchestra, featuring composer-in-residence Clint Needham’s Cantata and other works, on Sunday afternoon, November 23
Beck Center
Coming to Lakewood's Beck Center is The SpongeBob Musical, based on the animated series by Stephen Hillenburg, with music by David Bowie and Panic! At the Disco. December 5th through January 4th.
Also at the Beck Center is a new staging of the Nutcracker Ballet. Performances will be held in the Music and Creative Arts Therapies Building Oatey Recital Hall, beginning with Sensory-Friendly shows on Friday, December 5, 2025 . To reserve tickets, email Kelsey Heichel at kheichel@beckcenter.org. Public performances run from December 6 through December 14. 216-521-2540
BlueWater Chamber Orchestra
The BlueWater Chamber Orchestra's next concert will feature violinist David McCarroll as the soloist in Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D. The program will also include Margaret Brouwer's The Art of Sailing at Dawn and Aaron Copland's Music for the Theatre. There'll be two performances, on Saturday, November 22nd at the Church of the Covenant in Cleveland, and on Sunday afternoon, November 23rd as part of the Rocky River Presbyterian Church Artist Series in Rocky River. 440-781-6215
Bop Stop
Coming to the Bop Stop, On Tuesday the 18th, it's Outlab: Experiments in Improvised Music.
Cathedral of Saint John
The Cathedral of Saint John in Downtown Cleveland will present a Festival Choir Concert on Friday evening, November 21st. Dr. Horst Buchholz, director of music for the Archdiocese of Detroit, and Dr. Thomas Fielding, director of music, Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist will lead the program which features
the professional St. John Cathedral Choir and Schola Cantorum Detroit in the Messe Solenelle by Louis Vierne and Symphonie Romane by Charles-Marie Widor, featuring the cathedral’s newly restored Holtkamp organ.
Cleveland Cello Society
The Cleveland Cello Society will present its Scholarship Winners’ Recital on Sunday afternoon, November 30th at the Judson Manor Ballroom in University Circle.
Cleveland Cinematheque
Cleveland Cinematheque in the Peter B. Lewis Theater, they’ve added a screening of the new documentary The Librarians, which focuses on recent book bans sweeping the US. Other new films include Sierra Falconer’s feature debut Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake), and Bhutanese lama and filmmaker Khyentse Norbu’s Hema Hema: Sing Me A Song While I Wait. There's also a new 4K restoration of Ardak Amirkulov’s hypnotic epic The Fall of Otrar. The Body’s Night series will continue with Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void shown from a 35mm print. And they Architectural Affect series continues with Wim Wenders’ award-winning Perfect Days, which will be followed by a Film Club discussion lead by film scholar Linda Ehrlich.
Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art and FRONT International present New Work: Amanda D. King, Charmaine Spencer, Erykah Townsend, Antwoine Washington, the capstone exhibition of the FRONT 2022 Art Futures Fellows. The exhibition is on view at the CMA’s Transformer Station through December 27th.
The Cleveland Museum of Art is currently presenting its exclusive exhibition, Renaissance to Runway: The Enduring Italian Houses, showing connection between modern fashion and Renaissance art. The exhibit is on view through February 1st.
Cleveland Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska will lead the Cleveland Orchestra November 20th through 23 in a program that will include
La Noche de los Mayas by Silvestre Revueltas and Dvorak's New World Symphony.
November 28th through 30th, Petr Popelka will be the Orchestra's Guest Conductor. Yua Wang will be the soloist in two concertos, Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand and Gyorgy Ligeti's Piano Concerto. The concerts will conclude with Ravel's orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.
Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra
The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, under the direction of principal conductor James Feddeck, will perform a suite from Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet and Cesar Franck’s Symphony in D Minor on Friday evening, November 21st.
Dobama Theater
Dobama Theater will feature an adaptation by Greg Banks of J .R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, The Hobbit opens December 4th and will run through January 4th. 216-932-3396
Euclid Symphony Orchestra
The Euclid Symphony Orchestra's annual Holiday Pops Concert will take place on Sunday afternoon, December 7th at Shore Cultural Centre Auditorium on East 222nd Street in Euclid. The Orchestra will be joined by musicians and dancers from the Superior School for the Performing Arts of the East Cleveland City School District in performing music from the Nutcracker, Sleigh Ride, Polar Express and more.
Great Lakes Theater
Great Lakes Theater will present the 37th anniversary production of A Christmas Carol, at the Mimi Ohio Theatre in Playhouse Square. A Christmas Carol runs November 28 through December 21st.
Heights Chamber Orchestra
Pianist Anna Audenis will perform Beethoven’s Piano Concert No. 3 with the Heights Chamber Orchestra on Sunday afternoon, November 23rd. The concert will also include César Franck’s Symphony in D Minor. The concert will be held at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights.
Lake Erie Wind Quintet
The Lake Erie Wind Quintet will presents Deck the Halls with Horns and Oboes, A Festive Holiday Celebration, on Sunday afternoon, December 7th, at United Methodist Church of Brookpark on Smith Road
Les Delices
Les Delices will present to family-friendly programs in November. Wild Things is a traditional concert featuring instrumental selections and sung versions of Aesop's fables performed by soprano Elena Mullins Bailey. It will be performed on Friday evening, November 21st in Rocky River, as well as part of the Music from the Western Reserve series. And Les Delices will also give two performances of The Aesop Project on Saturday, November 22nd, in the morning in Cleveland and in the afternoon in Akron.
Les Délices will present Noel, Noel, a candlelit concert of Christmas carols and festive baroque music featuring soprano Elena Mullins Bailey December 5th, 6th, and 7th in Akron, Cleveland Heights and Rocky River.
Maltz Museum
The Maltz Museum will presenting El Sueno Americano - The American Dream, an exhibition on the migrant experience at the U.S./Mexico border. The exhibit will feature works by photographer Tom Kiefer and artist Elizabeth Z. Pineda. It will continue through February 26th.
Master Singers Chorale
Master Singers Chorale of Northeast Ohio will perform a program of 18th Century Italian music for the Christmas season on Sunday afternoon, December 7th at Bethel Lutheran Church in Middleburg Heights, conducted with string orchestra by Artistic Director Dr. Marc Weagraff. Featured soloists are mezzo-soprano Kimberly Lauritsen and soprano Gloree Nell Wood. The program will include Antonio Vivaldi 1715 setting of the Gloria, Francesco Durante's Magnificat (formerly attributed to Pergolesi) and Giacomo Puccini Senior's Magnificat, of 1763.
MUSIC
Musical Upcoming Stars in the Classics (M.U.S.i.C.) will present an evening of classical music and dance The program will include instrumental selections by Mozart, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky as well as vocal pieces by Verdi,
Lerner and Loewe and Jule Styne and performances by dancers from the Ohio Contemporary Ballet.
The concert will take place on Friday evening, December 12th in the atrium of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
It's free, but reservations are requested.
Music at Bath
On Sunday, November 23rd, the Music at Bath Concert Series will feature the Singers Companye Chamber Choir. The wide-ranging program will include music by Cecilia McDowall, Dolly Parton, Taylor Scott Davis, Annie Lennox, Michael John Trotta, Irving Berlin, Henry Mancini and Carly Simon.
Musical Theater Project
The Musical Theater Project will present its annual Christmas Cabaret, featuring classic songs for the season. There'll be four performances - two at Stocker Arts Center on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon, December 12TH and 13TH , and two with Dinner and the show at Edwins on Sunday and Monday, December
14th and 15th.
Nightlight Cinema
The Nightlight is a non-profit arthouse cinema, located in Downtown Akron. Current screenings include Train Dreams, 2025 Sundance Institute Indigenous Film Tour, Rental Family and Little Amélie Or The Character Of Rain
Oberlin College
The Oberlin Artist Recital Series will present the Danish String Quartet in concert at Finney Chapel on Friday evening, November 21st in Finney Chapel. The Quartet's program will include Igor Stravinsky's Three Pieces for String Quartet, the Suite from There Will Be Blood by Jonny Greenwood, Beethoven's String Quartet No. 16 in F, and arrangements and compositions by the Danish String Quartet.
The Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College will present Picturing Paris: Monet and the Modern City. The exhibit will feature Monet’s early cityscapes of Paris as it emerges as a modern metropolis. The show is on view through December 23
Patriots Symphonic Band
The Patriots Symphonic Band will perform its winter concert on Sunday afternoon, December 14th at Lorain County Community College's Stocker Auditorium.
Radio on the Lake Theater
Radio on the Lake Theatre, Northeast Ohio's only professional theater company exclusively dedicated to the audio arts, announces the start of its new live radio play series. The Audio Gallery Series at Negative Space will spotlight classic and contemporary audio drama with actors and sound effects artists bringing great stories to life. On December 4th, it's Charles Dickens' Tale of Two Cities.
All performances will be at the Negative Space Art Gallery
Resonance Project
The next program to be presented by the Resonance Project takes place on Friday evening, November 21st at Forest Hills Church. The concert is called Homeland and will feature the Cleveland Orchestra’s Assistant Concertmaster Stephani Tavani and Principal Keyboardist Dan Overly.
Song Recital Project
The Song Recital Project will present program of vocal works inspired by Don Quixote, performed by baritone Jason Fuh and pianist Betty Meyers. The program will include excerpts from Jules Massenet’s opera Don Quichotte, songs by Maurice Ravel and Jacques Ibert composed for G. W. Pabst’s 1933 film Don Quichotte, and selections from Mitch Leigh’s musical Man of La Mancha . The program is part of the Chamber Music in the Atrium series at the Cleveland Museum of Art on Tuesday, December 2nd at Noon.
Symphony West
Symphony West will present its holiday concert on Friday evening, December 19th, Baldwin Wallace’s Gamble Auditorium. The program will include traditional holiday favorites and some rarely heard items such as the Christmas Overture by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
Trinity Lutheran Church
The Wednesday Noontime Music Near the Market continues at Trinity Lutheran Church on Lorain Road at West 30th Street. On November 19th and 26th, Robert Myers will perform a program called Ending the liturgical year and giving thanks. On Wednesday, December 3rd, Florence Mustric will plays Sonorities of the Season, music for Advent and Christmas by Bach, Brahms, Pachelbel, and others. And on Wednesdays December 10th and 24th, Robert Myers plays Music for Christmas, selections by J.S. Bach, Louis D’Aquin, Gordon Young, and others
Tuesday Musical Akron
Tuesday Musical’s Akron Concert Series will continue with French Baroque specialists Les Arts Florisants
performing Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, with violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte on Tuesday evening, November 18th.
Also part of Tuesday Musical's series is the vocal group Cantus. The ensemble will present The Velveteen Rabbit and The Polar Express, alongside a romp through The Nutcracker and other time-honored carols and new classics. It will take place the Sunday afternoon after Thanksgiving, November 30th, at E. J. Thomas Hall.
Video Game Symphony
On Saturday evening, November 22nd at the Akron Civic Center, You can hear a program by the Video Game Symphony Orchestra There'll be music from Super Mario Brothers, The Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy and more.
Western Reserve Chorale
The Western Reserve Chorale will present its 34th Annual Holiday Concert, called Harpy Holidays: Music of the Season for Harp & Chorus. The featured work will be Camille Saint-Saëns’ Christmas Oratorio an intimate and tender setting of the nativity, directed by David Gilson. The Chorale will be joined by five vocal soloists with organ, harp and string quartet. There'll also be four settings of carols by Jackson Berkey, as well as music by Herbert Fromm and Yoni Fogelman. The free concert will take place on Sunday afternoon, December 7th at First Baptist Church on Fairmount Boulevard.
Wolfs Gallery
Wolfs Gallery is presenting the works of Cleveland-born artist August Frederick Biehle in an exhibit titled Reckoning with Modernism. The show will be on view through December 30th.
Workshop Players
Amherst's Workshop Players present the comedy Christmas Belles, about a beauty pageant in Fayro, Texas. It's playing November 20th through December 7th.