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
on Thursday evening, February 12th, the Akron Symphonic Winds will perform a Love Concert at the Wadsworth Celestia Theatre, with Don DiSantis and the Akron Symphonic Winds Big Band performing music of Frank Sinatra, along with other hits from the Swing Era. Thy'll also perform that concert on Saturday, Feb. 14th, 2:30-3:30pm in the Charles F. Brush Auditorium in Lyndhurst.

Apollo's Fire
Cleveland's Baroque Orchestra Apollo’s Fire has a program called Winter Sparks featuring music of Bach, Vivaldi, and Friends. It's a small ensemble program that will include Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 2 featuring flutist Kathie Stewart, Marais’ Sonnerie de Sainte Geneviève du Mont featuring cellist HyunKun Cho and a Vivaldi oboe concerto featuring Debra Nagy. The Northeast Oho performances will take place on         Thursday, January 29 at First United Methodist Church in Cuyahoga Falls., Friday the 30th at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights, Federated Church in Chagrin Falls on the 31st and on February 1st at Rocky River Presbyterian Church.  (216) 320-0012 or (800) 314-2535

Baldwin Wallace Conservatory
Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Performing Arts will present two chamber operas A. E. Reverie, a composed by Kamala Sankaram; Rise pays tribute to the little-known Portrait Monument in Washington, D.C. Performances will take place in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Gartner Auditorium January 30th and February 1.

Beck Center
Lakewood's Beck Center for the Arts in collaboration with Oberlin College and the Conservatory Music Theater Program will present the Tony-award winning musical Spring Awakening with by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater running February 13th through March 1st.

Bop Stop
Coming to the Bop Stop, you can hear Christine Tassan and Les Imposteures on the 30th, in February Olivia van Goor will be on stage on Feburary 14th, organist Pat Bianchi and saxophonist Troy Roberts on the 22nd, vocalist Helen Welch on the 27th. and Nik Bartsch's Roni in March.

Chagrin Valley Little Theater
Chagrin Valley Little Theatre will stage Ken Ludwig’s Shakespeare in Hollywood. The show is set in the 1930’s. Oberon and Puck, are transported to the Hollywood set of resultilng in chaos, The show starts January 23rd and continues through February 8th.

Chopin Ohio
Pianist Kevin Kenner will join the Callisto Quartet for a program featuring Chopin’s concert works arranged for piano and chamber ensemble. The concert will take place on Saturday evening, January 24th at Harkness Chapel at Case Western Reserve University, and will include chamber versions of the Piano Concerto No. 1, Krakowiak and the Andante Spianato.

Clague Playhouse
Coming to Clague Playhouse is Maytag Virgin by southern regionalist Audrey Cefaly. It's at Clague January 30th through February 14th. 440-331-0403

Cleveland Chamber Choir
The Cleveland Chamber Choir has two different programs coming up. They'll perform Madness & Melancholy on Wednesday, January 21st at noon at Trinity Cathedral in Downtown Cleveland. And the Choir also has a concert called Love in Bloom, to be performed at several different venues in Northeast ohio. They'll include music by Benjamin Britten, Tōru Takemitsu, Eric Whitacre and Morten Lauridsen in concerts February 6th, 7th and 8th in Cleveland, Kent and Ashtabula.

Cleveland Chamber Music Society
The Cleveland Chamber Music Society's next program will feature baritone Quinn Kelsey with pianist Craig Ketter performing songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gerald Finzi and Aaron Copland. The recital will take place on Tuesday evening, February 3rd at Disciples Christian Church in Cleveland Heights.

Cleveland Cinematheque
Current offerings at the Cleveland Cinematheque in the Peter B. Lewis Theater, include an additional screening of Golden Globe winner The Secret Agent, Brazil’s submission for this year’s Oscars. Silent film accompanist Jeff Rapsis and the Cleveland Silent Film Festival will take part in a 35mm screening of the W.C. Fields comedy So’s Your Old Man with a special introduction by Fields’ granddaughter Dr. Harriet Fields.  The Japanese anti-samurai masterpiece Harakiri also shows from a 35mm print. The Just Because You're Paranoid... series will include a 4K restoration of Jacob’s Ladder as well as Mike De Leon’s Filipino cinema landmark, Kisapmata also in a new 4K restoration. New films include the Cleveland premieres of Cactus Pears and Daughter’s Daughter.

Cleveland Institute of Music
On Wednesday and Tghursday evenings, February 11th and 12th, CIM Opera Theater will stage a production of Judith Weir’s Blond Eckbert.  It's a chamber opera, written in 1993, based on a story by the 19th century German poet and novelist Ludwig Tieck.

Cleveland Jazz Orchestra
Cleveland Jazz Orchestra and the Musical Theater Project will join forces to explore Music of Hoagy Carmichael and featuring vocalists Erin Kufel Keckan, Michael Shirtz, and Evelyn Wright Saturday January 24th at the Maltz Performing Arts Center.

Cleveland Museum of Art
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

Cleveland Public Theater
Cleveland Public Theatre’s Test Flight, the Theater's new play development program, will take place January 29 the through February 14, including three weekends of double bills. The schedule will feature Uhaulin’
and Parrot Play January 29th through 31st, Perigon: A Birth Story and Boxed: A Dance Theatre ShowFebruary 5th through 7th, The Exit Door presented by Teatro Público de Cleveland and The Wolf الذيب with
Masrah Cleveland Al-Arabi مسرح كليفلاند العربي Februayr 12th through 14th,

Divinity Lutheran Church
The Divinity Arts and Action concert series at Divinity Lutheran Church in Parma Heights will present its first concert of the new year. That concert takes place on Sunday afternoon, February 8th in the DIvinity Sanctuary. The program will feature Cleveland Orchestra members Elayna Duitman, violin, and Carolyn Warner, piano, performing an all French program. which will include violin sonatas of Poulenc and Faure as well asArthur Hartmann’s transcription of Debussy’s Girl With the Flaxen Hair.

Dobama Theater
Coming to Dobama Theater is the Cleveland premiere of The Heart Sellers by Lloyd Suh, winner of the 2024 Steinberg/American Theater Critics Assocation New Play Award. The show wil play January 29th through February 22nd. 216-932-3396

Euclid Symphony Orchestra
The next concert by the Euclid Symphony Orchestra will celebrate Black History Month with a concert is called Spiritual Echoes 2026: A Black History Celebration Concert. The Orchestra will be joined by Euclid Symphony Orchestra Chorus, for music by Beethoven, Brahms and Stravinsky as well as two popular tenor arias, Nessun Dorma and Ole Sole Mio and contemporary gospel works It takes place on Saturday evening, February 28th at First Baptist Church of Greater Cleveland on Fairmount Boulevard in Shaker Heights.

Great Lakes Theater
Great Lakes Theater is staging The Heart of Robin Hood at the Hanna Theater in Playhouse Square February 6th through 22nd. 216 - 453-4457

Lake Erie Wind Quintet
In February and March, the Lake Erie Wind Quintet will give two performances of Quintets II: Major Works of the Quintet Literature. The concerts will take place on Sunday afternoon, February 22nd at United Methodist Church of Brookpark, and again on Sunday, March 8th at United Methodist Church of Macedonia.
The program will highlight major works of the wind quintet repertoire by Giuseppe Cambini, Amy Beach, Maurice Ravel, Joseph Haydn, and Darius Milhaud

LatinUa Theater
LatinUs Theater Company will perform Vuela Alto, Mamá, (Spar High, Mama), a comedy about two sisters who reunite at their mother's wake. It will be staged by LatinUs Theater at the Pivot Center from February 20th through March 15th. It will be performed in Spanish, with super titles in English projected on the screen.

Les Delices
The next production by Les Délices is called La Diosa, a celebration of Latin American mysticism and folklore with Grammy-winning soprano Estelí Gomez. There'll be Baroque music from Latin America and the World Premiere of Soy la Diosa, based on Nicaraguan legends. Performances of 'La Diosa' will take place Satureday and Sunday, February 2th in Cleveland Heights and March 1st at Cleveland's Pivot Center.

Maltz Museum
The Maltz Museum will present 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.

McKinley Museum
In Canton, the McKinley Presidential Library and Museum will present The Woman Behind the Lens, an exhibition showcasing Frances Benjamin Johnston’s work across multiple genres including the American Presidency. Opening February 12th.

Music at Bath Concert Series
On Sunday afternoon, February 1st, the Music at Bath Concert Series will present The (blank) Experiment: Avant-garde Chamber Ensemble. Pronounced “The Blank Experiment,” flexible instrumentation ensemble is based in the midwest. With more than 30 commissions, the ensemble is committed to expanding the repertoire for mixed chamber ensembles 330-666-3520

Musical Theater Project
The Musical Theater Project and the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra will join forces to explore Stardust: Music of Hoagy Carmichael and featuring vocalists Erin Kufel Keckan, Michael Shirtz, and Evelyn Wright Saturday January 24th at Maltz Performing Arts Center.

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.

No Exit
In February, No Exit will present two performances of a progam featuring the Ligament Duo with music for voice and bass. They'll be playing new music by Zac Fick-Cambria, Ruby Fulton, James Dillon’, Amy Beth
Kirsten and Katherine Balch. Those performances take place on Friday evening, February 6th at Ludwig Recital Hal at Kent State University, and at Praxis Fiber Workshop on Saturday evening, February 7th.

Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble
Oberlin graduate violinist Jennifer Koh will join the will join the Contemporary Music Ensemble and conductor Timothy Weiss at Gartner Auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Art on Friday evening, January 23rd. The free program will include Olly Wilson's song cycle Of Visions and Truth, the premiere of Oberlin Associate Professor of Composition Jesse Jones' Ennead and Courtney Bryan's Syzygy. The program is free, but tickets are required.

The Oberlin College Artist Recital Series will feature the American Brass Quintet on Friday evening, February 20th in Finney Chapel

Resonance Project
THe next concert to be presented by The Resoance Project is Qin and Strings: A Century of Chinese Music, on Saturday evening, February 7th, at Forest Hill Church, in celebration of the Chinese New Year.
Violinist Ann Yu and pianist Irwin Shung will perform works spanning the past century.

Stocker Center
Stocker Arts Center will present Broadway’s Leading Men—six Northeast Ohio performers celebrating iconic male roles and songs from classics such as Guys and Dolls to such current fare as Hamilton, on Saturday,
January 24th in the Stocker Arts Center at Lorain County Community College.

Stocker Arts Center will feature the British coal theatrical quartet The Barricade Boys with a show called Broadway Party, with music ranging from Les Miserables to The Jersey Boys. That's on Wednesday evening, February 4th.

On Thursday, February 5th, Stocker Center will feature Eloise Coopersmith in her one-woman show called My (Unauthorized) Hallmark Movie.

Theater in the Circle
The next production of Theatre in the Circle, a Judson Resident Theatre, will be a production called Some Enchanted Evening – The Songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein, presented February 6th, 7th and 8th in the Judson Manor Ballroom. 440-247-1359

Trinity Lutheran Church
The Wednesday Noontime Music Near the Market continues at Trinity Lutheran Church on Lorain Road at West 30th Street. Wednesdays January 21st and 28th, Robert Myers will play Music of the Neo-Baroque, selections by Paul Hindemith and Flor Peeters. And on Wednesdays February 4th and11th, Florence Mustric will play Earliest Bach is the Latest, music by the young Bach, starting with the newly-attributed (as of November 2025) pieces that are his earliest compositions , as well as other early works, including the perennial favorite Toccata and Fugue in D minor.

Tuesday Musical
Boston Brass and 2024 Grammy-winner Imani Winds will join forces for Tuesday Musical’s Akron Concert Series at E. J. Thomas Hall on Tuesday evening, February 10th, to showcase their jointly commissioned music by Cuban-American trumpeter legend Arturo Sandoval. The program will also include works by Bach, Astor Piazzolla, Paquito D’Rivera , Lalo Schifrin and others. 330-761-3460

Workshop Players
In Amherst, the Workshop Players will stage Bernard Slade's Same Time Next Year by Bernard Slade. Performances take place February 5th through15th. 440-634-0472.