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
Current shows at the Akron Art Museum include Oliver Jeffers: 15 Years of Picturing Books, and William Richards: The Vastness Beyond Vision. Both shows will be on view through July 27th. The Akron Art Museum will present She Said, She Said: Contemporary Women Artists, a new exhibition in the Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries will run through Sunday, August 10th.
Beck Center
At Lakewood's Beck Center you can see Jose Gonzales's Under a Baseball Sky, playing in the Studio Theater through May 4th. 216-521-2540
BlueWater Chamber Orchestra
The Cleveland Chamber Choir's 10th Anniversary Season will conclude on Saturday evening, May 17th, when the Chamber Choir joins the BlueWater Chamber Orchestra for a concert called I Believe. The concert will include Margaret Bonds’ Credo, a setting of a text by W.E.B. DuBois. The program will also include Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor. The Choir will also partner with the music program at Cleveland School of the Arts.
The Cleveland Chamber Choi r and BlueWater Chamber Orchestra will be at Trinity Cathedra in Downtown Cleveland on Saturday evening, May 17th.
Bop Stop
Coming to the Bop Stop,
Church of the Covenant
The Church of the Covenant in University Circle will have an afternoon concert of choral and organ music on Sunday, May 4th. The concert includes organ music by Percy Whitlock and Franz Liszt as well as Antonin Dvorak’s Mass in D.
Clague Playhouse
Clague Playhouse presents The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee May 16th June 8th. 440-331-0403
Cleveland Ballet
Cleveland Ballet will present Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet with Serge Prokofiev's music in performances at Playhouse Square on May 16th and 17th.
Cleveland Chamber Choir
The Cleveland Chamber Choir's 10th Anniversary Season will conclude on Saturday evening, May 17th, when the Chamber Choir joins the BlueWater Chamber Orchestra for a concert called I Believe. The concert will include Margaret Bonds’ Credo, a setting of a text by W.E.B. DuBois. The program will also include Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor. The Choir will also partner with the music program at Cleveland School of the Arts.
The Cleveland Chamber Choir and BlueWater Chamber Orchestra will be at Trinity Cathedral in Downtown Cleveland on Saturday evening, May 17th.
Cleveland Chamber Music Society
Cleveland Chamber Music Society, celebrating 75 years, will present the Jerusalem String Quartet in a series of concerts from April 21st through the 30th performing a complete cycle of all of the String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich at the Cleveland Museum of Art. There will also be master classes open to the public and a screening at the Museum of the 1964 film version of Hamlet, for which Shostakovich wrote the music.
Cleveland Cinematheque
Cleveland Cinematheque will feature filmmaker Pawo Choyning Dorji for a Q&A after a screening of his film The Monk and the Gun as part of the Buddhism Goes to the Movies series. There are new films including Viêt and Nam, and the Irish film That They May Face The Rising Sun as well as a new restoration of Lino Brocka’s Bona starring Nora Aunor. The following weekend we will welcome Ivan Dixon’s daughter Nomathandé Dixon, Aseelah Shareef from Karamu House, and filmmaker Robert Banks for a panel discussion featuring after a screening of the new 4K restoration of The Spook Who Sat By the Door.
Cleveland Composers Guild
On Sunday afternoon, May 18th the Cleveland Composers Guild will present Creativity: Learning Through Experience at The Music Settlement in Cleveland. Yong musicians from across Northeast Ohio will perform works specially written for them There will be music by Sebastian Birch, Jennifer Conner, Cara Haxo, Iand others.
Cleveland Jazz Orchestra
On Friday evening, May 9th, and Saturday evening, May 10th, the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a concert called Past, Present and Future, honoring the legacy of Roland Paolucci, Jack Schantz, Sean Jones. The Friday concert will be at the Maltz Performing Arts Center in University Circle. On Saturday, the band will be at BLUjazz in Akron.
And on Sunday afternoon, May 11th, the CJO will be joined by Helen Welch at the Music Box for a special Mother's Day concert called Mom's the Word.
Cleveland Museum of Art
At the Cleveland Museum of Art in Gallery 115 is Creation, Birth, and Rebirth, continuing until July 27th. It explores some of the fundamental moments in the sacred narratives of the medieval world: the creation of the universe, the birth of its gods and its humans, and visions of the end of life conceived as a new beginning.
Cleveland Orchestra
The Cleveland Orchestra will present pianist Evgeny Kissin in recital in music by Bach, Chopin, and Shostakovich. That concert will take place on Wednesday evening, May 7th at Severance Music Center.
Music Director Franz Welser-Most will conduct Mozart’s Symphony Number 40 and Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No. 4, as well as the world premiere of a new work by the Orchestra’s composer-in-residence, Allison Loggins-Hull May 8th through 10th.
The Cleveland Orchestra's Mandel Opera and Humanities Festival, the Orchestra will present Janacek's Jenufa May 17th, 22nd and 25, as well as Poulenc's La Voix Humaine with music of Rach and Richard Strauss May 23rd and 24th.
Cleveland Opera
The Cleveland Opera and the Cleveland Women's Orchestra will join forces for perform Pietro Mascagni's one-act opera Zanetto on Sunday afternoon, May 4th, at the Tudor Arms Hotel Grand Ballroom on Carnegie Avenue in Cleveland. 216-816-1411
Cleveland Philharmonic
The Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra's next concert will feature Schumacher Competition winner James Carson performing Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1. The concert will also include Dvořák Symphony 5. There are two performances, on Saturday evening, May 3rd at Westlake Performing Arts Center, and Sunday afternoon, May 4th at Cleveland State's Waetjen Auditorium.
Cleveland Play House
Cleveland Play House will stage the musical Fiddler on the Roof from April 26th through May 25 in the Allen Theater.
Cleveland Public Library
Cleveland Public Library will celebrate 100 years of the downtown Main Library on Saturday, May 10th. This birthday is an Alice in Wonderland-inspired garden party. All are welcome.
Cleveland Public Theatre
Cleveland Public Theatre will present DanceWorks 2025, its annual showcase of contemporary dance running through May 17th. Five weekends of dance performances will take place in Cleveland Public Theatre’s James Levine Theatre. Styles of dance this year include modern, South African, African American “stepping,” magical realism-inspired, and more. May 1st through 3rd will showcase Blakk Jakk Dance Collective's Rhythms of Heritage. May 8th through 10, you can see Ajai Dance Collective with Again and Again. The series will conclude with a double bill, Christina Lindhout and Artists with Our Knees Hurt and the Blissed Out Human Collective performing Unravel.
The second part of Cleveland Public Theater's annual New Play Development series, Test Flight, will take place
May 22nd through June 7th. Plays will include Unhinged: A Burlesque Play on Modern Dating Struggles, the telenovela-flavored Grandez and Future-Never Land, a “sci-fi rap opera” to compositions by Saint-Saens & Debussy.
Euclid Symphony
The Euclid Symphony Orchestra's next concert is called Big Band Sounds on Sunday afternoon June 1st at
Shore Cultural Centre Auditorium. The program will feature swing and jazz-inspired orchestral favorites.
Federated Church Family Life Center
In Chagrin Falls, the Federated Church's Performing Arts Series will feature Sammy de Leon and His Orchestra in an evening of Salsa at the Family Life Center on Chillicothe Road, on Saturday evening, May 17th. 440-247-6490 ext 120.
Great Lakes Theater
The backstage farce Noises Off will be next on the Great Lakes schedule, with performances at the Hanna Theater through May 18th.
Heights Chamber Orchestra
The last concert of the season by the Heights Chamber Orchestra will feature Dr. Konrad Kowal as soloist in the Brahms Violin Concerto. That concert takes place on Sunday afternoon, May 11th at Communion of Saints, St. Ann’s Church in Cleveland Heights. Guest Conductor Dean Buck will lead the orchestra in Schubert’s Fierrabras Overture and Sibelius’s Finlandia.
The Higgler
At Disciples Christian Church in Cleveland Heights, there'll be two performances of Margi Griebling-Haigh's chamber Opera The Higgler on Saturday and Sunday, June 7th and 8th.
Karamu House
Karamu House, the nation's oldest producing Black theatre, is presenting Choir Boy, the coming-of-age drama by Academy Award-winning writer, Tarell Alvin McCraney. The production will run from through May 18th
216-795-7077
Lake Erie Wind Quintet
The Lake Erie Wind Quintet is shaking things up with Just the Three of Us, a special performance featuring only three of the ensemble’s five members. The concert will feature a diverse program of classical and popular trios on Sunday afternoon, May 4th, at Brookpark United Methodist Church on Smith Road in Cleveland.
Lithuanian Song Festival
On June 29th, Cleveland will host an international Lithuanian Song Festival. There will be 1,500 singers and more than 100 dancers performing at Cleveland Public Auditorium.
Master Singers Chorale
Master Singers Chorale of Northeast Ohio, directed by Marc Weagraff, will perform Luigi Cherubini's Requiem in C Minor and Haydn's Te Deum in C on Saturday afternoon, May 17th at Bath Church on Bath Road
Medina Community Band
The Medina Community Band will present its Spring Concert on Sunday afternoon, May 4th, in the Community Room of the Western in Medina. The program will include music from both The Wizard of Oz and Wicked, as weel as Dmitri Shostakovich and John Williams.
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 will include On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, Eephus and The Penguin Lessons.
No Exit
No Exit welcomes internationally renowned pianist Geoffrey Burleson in evening of new music. The program, which spans a 100 years of avant-garde music, includes works by George Antheil, Rob Paterson, Gerald Strang, Vincent Persichetti, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Herbie Nichols, Neil Rolnick and Frank Zappa.
Performances are Friday evening, May 2nd at The Bop Stop and Saturday evening, May 3rd at Heights Arts.
Oberlin Artist Recital Series
The next Oberlin Artist Recital Series concert will feature Third Coast Percussion with violinist and composer Jessie Montgomery on Wednesday evening, April 30th in Finney Chapel.
Playhouse Square
Individual tickets are now available for the touring company of the Tony-Award winning Kimberley Akimbo, which will make its Cleveland premiere at Playhouse Square July 15th through August 3rd
Radio on the Lake Theater
Northeast Ohio's only professional theater company dedicated to the audio arts, announces a 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 the scripts to life. This summer, the company will focus on science fiction, with performances of The Time Machine, The Day The Earth Stood Still and War of the Worlds. The plays will be performed at the Negative Space Art Gallery, located at 3820 Superior Avenue, 2nd Floor, in Cleveland's Asia Town district.
Resonance Project
The next program in the series presented by the Resonance Project is called In the Face of Silence. Violinist Ann Yu, cellist Sarah Tindall and pianist Irwin Shung perform music by Prokofiev and Shostakovich on Friday evening, May 2nd.
Rocky River Chamber Music Society
The Rocky River Chamber Music Society's final concert of the season on Monday evening, May 5th, will feature the Cleveland Orchestra's Principal Horn, Nathaniel Silberschlag and friends in chamber music with horn, including the Horn Trio by Johannes Brahms. The concert will be performed at West Shore Unitarian Church and will also be streamed live.
Saint Barnabas Episcopal
At Saint Barnabas Episcopal in Bay Village, harpsichordist Walker Whitehouse and Friends will present a program of music from the 17th and 18th centuries, including pieces by Bach, Corelli and others. The concert takes place on Thursday evening, May 1st at 5:30.
Saint James Church Lakewood
There'll be a Festival of Sacred Music on Sunday afternoon May 4th at Saint James Church in Lakewood. Participating ensembles will include the Cathedral Choir of St. John the Evangelist, the Early Music Singers of Case Western Reserve University, the Now Chorale from Oberlin and the Musica Sacra Chamber Choir. Music will range from Palestrina and Monteverdi to Chloe Arnold and and Arvo Paert.
Saint Paul's Episcopal Church
On Monday, evening, May 5th at Saint Paul's Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights, the Sollertinsky Piano Trio, made up of Cleveland Institute of Music students Jack Naglick, piano, Jeremy Foster, violin, and Peter O’Malley, cello, will perform a recital in the sanctuary of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, featuring Beethoven’s “Archduke” Trio and Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 2. 843-998-5868.
Shaw Festival
The Shaw Festival's season is underway and will include productions of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, Anything Goes and Wait Until Dark, all in the Festival Theater.
Talespinner Children's Theater
Talespinner Children’s Theater will present the world premiere of Ista and Her Garden, a new play for
children ages 1 through 8 written by Cleveland playwright Samantha Cocco, with original music by Eric
Utsler. This family-friendly production will take place May 17th through 26th, with showtimes in the morning and early afternoon at Talespinner’s home at 78th Street Studios on Cleveland's West Side.
Trinity Lutheran Church
The Wednesday Noontime Music Near the Market continues at Trinity Lutheran Church on Lorain Road at West 30th Street.
Tuesday Musical
First- and second-place winners of Tuesday Musical's 2025 Scholarship Competition will compete again in the Final Round/Winners Concert on Sunday afternoon, May 4th at Guzzetta Recital Hall
West Shore Chorale
The spring concert by the West Shore Chorale will include Beethoven's Fantasy for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra and Mozart's Great Mass in c minor, K. 427. Artistic Director Michael Lisi will conduct the concert on Sunday evening, May 4th at Avon Lake High School’s Performing Arts Center.
Weathervane Playhouse
Akron's Weathervane Playhouse will continue its 90th season with Frederick Knott's thriller Dial M for Murder., a tale of deception, betrayal, and deadly consequences. The show runs through May 1818th. 330-836-2626
Wit's Folly
The next concert pair by Wit's Folly will be called Party of Four: An Evening of String Quartets, with favorite pieces from Wit's Folly's first two seasons. The two performances will take place on Saturday, evening May 10th at Praxis Fiber Workshop on Waterloo Road in Cleveland, and on Sunday evening, May 11th at Our Lady of Angels on Rocky River Drive in Cleveland