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 Symphony
The Akron Symphony has several events on its schedule. The Akron Youth Symphony will perform its Fall Concert on Sunday afternoon, November 9th at Tallmadge High School. 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.
Apollo's Fire
Apollo’s Fire and Artistic Director Jeannette Sorrell premiere a new program based on Mozart's Requiem, but one reflecting today’s society as well. Jeannette Sorrell interweaves the movements of Mozart’s unfinished Requiem with selections from related spiritual works by three living Black composers. There are two performances, at St. Bernard Catholic Church in Akron on Friday evening, November 7th, and on Saturday evening, November 8th at Severance Music Center in Cleveland.
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, from November 13th through 23rd at B-W’s Kleist Center.
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, Brent Kirby and Friends take the stage on Wednesday, November 5th, followed by Sammy DeLeon with Jackie Warren on Friday, the 7th.
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.
Church of the Covenant
The Church of the Covenant in University Circle is presenting a weekly series of Tuesday Noon Organ Concerts. Organist Owen Metz will perform on November 4th.
Cinematic Symphony Orchestra
On Tuesday evening, November 11th, the Cinematic Symphony Orchestra will take the stage at Severance Music Center with a Veterans Day program titled Heroes in Harmony, featuring music from Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, Glory, Gettysburg, The Patriot, Platoon, Forrest Gump, Pearl Harbor and more.
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 Chamber Music Society
The Cleveland Chamber Music Society's next concert will feature the Takács Quartet on Tuesday evening, November 11th at Disciples Christian Church in Cleveland Heights.
Cleveland Institute of Music
At CIM's newly-renovated Kulas Hall, the Opera Theater Department will present the double-bill of Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica on Friday evening, November 7th and Sunday afternoon, November 9th.
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,
Cleveland Orchestra
Cleveland Repertory Orchestra
The Cleveland Repertory Orchestra's first concert of the season is called Spiritual Landscapes, and will feature music of Adolphus Hailstork, Florence Price and Antonin Dvorak. The concert will take place on Saturday evening, November 8th at Federated Church on Bell Street in Chagrin Falls. The concert is free, but ticket reservations are requested in advance.
Cleveland State University
Cleveland State University's Theatre and Dance season will open its Fall 2025 season with Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. Performances will be held November 6th through 9th in the Allen Theatre Mainstage at Playhouse Square.
Cuyahoga Community College Classical Piano Series
Tri-C’s Classical Piano Series welcomes Young Steinway Artist Elliot Wuu in the first concert of the 2025-26 season on Sunday afternoon, November 16th at Tri-C’s Metro Auditorium. His program will include pieces by Debussy, Beethoven, and Rachmaninoff. THe cocnert is free, but tickets are required.
First Baptist Church
Pianists Betty Meyers and Jarred Sorauf will present music for two pianos, and music for piano and organ, with works by Eugenie Rocherolle, William Byrd, Pietro Mascagni, Gioachino Rossini, Beryl Rubinstein, and Pyotr Tchaikovsky. That concert will take place on Sunday afternoon, November 16th, at First Baptist Church on Fairmount Boulevard.
Great Lakes Theater
Great Lakes Theater's next show is Dial M for Murder. Performances will run through November 9th in the Hanna Theater in Playhouse Square. 216-241-6000.
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.
Lorain County Community College
At Lorain County Community College's Stocker Arts Center you can see a program called Cello Stories: A Life Under Broadway, with Mairi Dorman-Phaneuf exploring life as a Broadway musician on Saturday, November 8th, in the College's Cirigliano Studio Theatre.
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.
Massillon Museum
On Thursday evening, November 6th, The Massillon Museum's Rhythms Concert Series will present Youngstown native singer-songwriter and novelist J. D. Eicher in concert, with singer Josee McGee as the opening act.
Medina Community Band
The Medina Community Band will present a Veterans Day concert on Wednesday evening, November 5th, at the St. Ambrose Parish's Hilkert Hall in, Brunswick. The program will include music by Rossano Galante, Harold Walter, marches by John Philip Sousa Robert Jager and Henry Fillmore.
Movement Project
The Movement Project’s Cleveland Dance Fest will celebrate its tenth anniversary, November 7th through 9th at Playhouse Square. It's a connection between artists and audiences through dance from Northeast Ohio
and beyond.
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 next program will be It’s Time for a Love Song, featuring love songs that are up-tempo, jazzy and comical with a selection of screen classics. Sheri Gross will be the host, and Nancy Maier the music Director, with vocalists Joe Monaghan and Jill Hayman. The concert will take place at First Baptist Church on Sunday afternoon, November 9th.
Nightlight Cinema
The Nightlight is a non-profit arthouse cinema, located in Downtown Akron. It has been making indie films available since 2014. The schedule includes Familiar Touch, Daniela Forever, the 1996 Japanese musical Shall We Dance, Granite Rapids and Evil Puddle.
Oberlin College
Oberlin Opera will perform Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George’s "L’amant anonyme", the tale of a two-sided love triangle, at Hall Auditorium November 6th through the 9th
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
Playhouse Square - Black Violin
On Saturday evening, November 15th, Playhouse Square will present the duo Black Violin’s Full Circle Tour. It's where classical meets hip-hop. Black Violin combines jazz, hip-hop, and funk with modern classical.
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 21sat Forest Hills Church. The concert is called Homeland and will feature the Cleveland Orchestra’s Assistant Concertmaster Stephani Tavani and Principal Keyboardist Dan Overly. i
Trinity Lutheran Church
The Wednesday Noontime Music Near the Market continues at Trinity Lutheran Church on Lorain Road at West 30th Street. On November 5th and 12, Florence Mustric will present a program called Out of This World.
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.
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.