The News Herald (Willoughby, OH)
Happenings
Here is a brief rundown of some coming entertainment options in Northeast Ohio. Make submissions for consideration via email to entertainment@news-herald.com. You must include a phone number and/or web address for publication. Art Cleveland Museum of Art: 11150 East Blvd., presents “Who RU2 Day: Mass Media and the Fine Art Print,” through March 24; “Charles Burchfield: The Ohio Landscapes, 1915-1920,” through May 5; “Raul de Nieves: Fina,” through April 28 (at Transformer Station); “Color and Comfort: Swedish Modern Design,” through Feb. 9, 2020; “Beyond Truth: Photography After the Shutter,” through May 26 Call 216-421-7340 or visit www.clevelandart.org.
Gallery One: 7003 Center St., Mentor, presents th 25th “Masterworks in Miniature,” featuring “a host of elebrated artists from around the world” contributing original paintings and sculptures no larger than 9 inches by 12 inches, May 10 through 25. Call 440-2551200 or visit galleryone.com. Lakeland Community College’s Gallery at Lakeland: 7700 Clocktower Drive, Kirtland, presents “from WOMAN XII ... Created by women, of women and about women,” through March 29 (artist reception 3:30 to 5 p.m. March 24). Call 440-525-7029 or visit www.lakelandcc.edu/gallery. Penitentiary Glen Nature Center: 8668 KirtlandChardon Road, Kirtland, presents Lake Metroparks spring art show, “Ebb & Flow,” focusing on the “Magic of Water,” March 9 through May 12. Call 440256-1404 or visit lakemetroparks.com.
Auditions Rabbit Run Community
Arts Association: 49 Park St., Madison, will hold auditions for its 2019 summer season — “Forever Plaid” (running May 31 through June 15), with roles available for four men ages 18 to 35, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. March 22 and 3 to 6 p.m. March 23; “A Chorus Line” (running June 21 through July 6), with roles for men and women 18 to 45, 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. March 9 and 6 to 9 p.m. March 10; “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Jr.” (youth production, running July 11 through 13), with roles available for males and females 7 to 17, 3 to 6 p.m. March 16 and 1 to 5 p.m. March 17; “Mamma Mia!” (running July 19 through Aug. 10), with roles for me and women 16 to 55, 3 to 6 p.m. March 30 and 1 to 5 p.m. March 31; “My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra” (running Aug. 16 through 31), with roles available for men and two women 18 to 50, 3 to 6 p.m. March 30 and 1 to 5 p.m. March 31 (the same time as the “Mamma Mia” auditions. Call 440-428-5913 or visit RabbitRunOnline.org.
Comedy Cleveland Improv: 1148 Main Ave., Cleveland, presents Jordan Rock, March 7 through 10;. Call 216-6964677 or visit ClevelandImprov.com. Hard Rock Rocksino at Northfield Park: 10777 Northfield Road, Northfield, presents Jim Jefferies, March 9. Call 216-383-1124 or visit beachlandballroom. com.
Grog Shop: 2785 Euclid Heights Blvd., presents Maggie Rose, March 8; The Expendables Blackout Winter Tour featuring Ballyhoo,” March 9; B. Jones and more, March 10; The Messthetics, March 11; Grandson, March 13; All Them Witches, March 14. Call 216-321-5588 or visit www.grogshop.gs. Hard Rock Rocksino at Northfield Park: 10777 Northfield Road, Northfield, presents an evening with Marie and The Osmonds, March 14; Clint Black, March 16. Call 330-908-7625 or
visit www.hrrocksinonorthfieldpark.com.
House of Blues: 308 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, presents Who’s Bad (Michael Jackson tribute), March 8; The Sound of Animals Fighting, Planes Mistaken for Stars, Lorelei K, March 9; Moneybagg Yo, March 10; A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, Don Q, Trap Manny, March 13. Call 216241-5555 or visit hob.com/ cleveland. Kent Stage: 175 E. Main St., Kent, presents Lonestar, March 8; The Prince Project, March 9; Tab Benoit, March 13. Call 330-677-5005 or visit www.kentstage.org. Masonic Auditorium: 3615 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, hosting concerts presented
Wedding” — and featuring pairs of virtuoso soloists squaring off in dueling quadruple-concertos of Vivaldi, as well as the Brandenburg Concerto no. 3. Telemann’s Funeral Cantata for a Dead Canary, delivered by singer-actor Jeffrey Strauss — aul’s Church Episcopal in Cleveland Heights, 4 p.m. March 10 at Rocky River Presbyterian Church. Call 216-320-0012 or 800314-2535, or visit www. apollosfire.org. CityMusic Cleveland: presents “Wide Horizons Concert,” featuring the world premiere of CityMusic Music Director Avner Dorman’s violin concerto “Still” and more, 7:30 p.m. March 13 at St. Jerome Church, 15000 Lake Shore Boulevard, Cleveland, 7:30 p.m. March 14 at Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center, 1855 Ansel Road, Cleveland, 7:30 p.m. March 15 at Lakewood Congregational Church, 1375 W. Clifton, 8 p.m. March 16 at Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus, 3649 E. 65th St., Cleveland, and 4 p.m. March 17 at St. Noel Church, 35200 Chardon Road, Willoughby Hills. Call 216-321-8273 or visit www. citymusiccleveland.org. Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra: presents concerts
featuring music by Korngold and Neilsen, 7:30 p.m. March 9 at Westlake Perfoming Arts Center, 27830 Hilliard Blvd., and 3 p.m. March 10 at Tri-C Western Campus Theatre, 11000 W. Pleasant Valley Road, Parma. Call 216556-1800, or visit www. clevephil.org. Lakeland Community
College: 7700 Clocktower Drive, Kirtland, presents the The Lakeland Civic Orchestra, “Of Paradise and Light,” featuring “Palladio” by Karl Jenkins, ““Of Paradise and Light” by Augusta Read Thomas, Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor by Camille Saint-Saens and Sympony No. 1 (Afro-American) by William Grant Still; 47th annual Lakeland Jazz Festival, March 15 throug 17, featuring “John Coltrane Remembered,” featuring the Ralph Moore Quartet, 8 p.m. March 16, “Big Band Matinee,” featuring the Lakeland Civic Jazz Orchestra and the Duquesne University Jazz Ensemble, 4 p.m. March 17; Lakeland Jazz Impact, 2 p.m. April 7 at the Bop Stop at the Music Settlement, 2920 Detroit Ave., Cleveland. Call 440-375-7225 or visit lakelandcc.edu/arts.
Les Delices: a group performing music from the French Baroque, presents a series of performances at six branch locations of the Cleveland Public Library — 4 p.m. March 13 at theLangston
Hughes Branch, 10200 Superior Ave., 1 p.m. March 14 at theCarnegie West Branch, 1900 Fulton Road, and 4 p.m. March 14 at the Jefferson Branch. Visit lesdelices.org. The Musical Theater Project: Cleveland, presents “It’s a Bird ... It’s a Plane ... It’s Superman in Concert,” 2 p.m. April 14 at Kent State University and 7:30 p.m. April 15 at The Breen Center for the Performing Arts in Cleveland. Call 216-5299411 or visit MusicalTheaterProject.org. Parks Lake Metroparks Farmpark: 8800 Chardon Road, Kirtland, presents “Quilts
2019,” 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday through March 10. Call 440256-2158, 440-256-2122, 800-366-3276 or visit lakemetroparks.com. West Woods Nature Center: 9465 Kinsman Road, Russell Township, presents “discARTed Recycled Art Exhibition,” featuring “functional, decorative and youth-made art made of discarted/found materials,” through April 15. Call 440-286-9516 or visit geaugaparkdistrict.org. Theater Blank Canvas Theatre: 1305 W. 78th St., Suite 211, Cleveland, presents “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” through March 16; “Art,” April 5 through 20; “Little Miss Sunshine: A Road Musical,” May 17 through June 1; “The Toxic Avenger,” July 12 through 27; “Lobby Hero,” Aug. 23 through Sept. 7; “The Who’s Tommy” (benefit concert), Sept. 13 and 14; “Evil Dead,” Oct. 18 through Nov. 2; “Yippee KiYah Merry Christmas: A Die Hard Musical Parody,” Dec. 6 through 21. Call 440-9410458 or visit BlankCanvasTheatre.com. Chagrin Valley Little Theatre: 40 River St., Chagrin Falls, presents “Dead Certain,” a psynological thriller by Marcus Lloyd, March 8 through 23 in CVLT’s River Street Playhouse; “Mamma Mia!,” 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. on select Sundays March 22 through April 13. Call 440247-8955 or visit cvlt.org. Cleveland Play House: Performing at Playhouse Square, presents presents “Hay Fever,” through March 9 in the Helen Theatre Call 216-241-6000 or visit clevelandplayhouse.com. Cleveland Public Theatre: 6415 Detroit Ave., Cleveland, presents Test Flight 2019, a series that showcases new work on its way to full prodcution, March 21 through
April 20; “Found in Flight,” an original play by the Global Teen Performance Project, March 14 and 15; “Gloria,” by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, March 23 through April 13. Call 216-631-2727 or visit www.cptonline.org.
Dobama Theatre: 2340 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, presents “The Nether,” by Jennifer Haley, March 8 through 31. Call 216-932-3396 or visit www.dobama.org. Gate Mills Players: present “The Thin Man,” 7:30 p.m. March 8 and 9 and 2 p.m. March 10 at the Gates Mills Community House, 1460 River Road, present. Call 440-973-6569 or visit GatesMillsPlayers.com.
Great Lakes Theater: at the Hanna Theatre at Playhouse Square in Cleveland, presents “Witness for the Prosecution,” by Agatha Christie, through March 10. Call 216-241-6000 or visit www.greatlakestheater.org.
Playhouse Square: Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, presents “Flanagan’s Wake,” through April 27; “School of Rock,” through March 24sit www. playhousesquare.com.
Misc.
Avant-Garde Art & Craft Shows: presents the
first West Geauga Spring Avant-Guarde Art & Craft Show, during the 66th annual Kiwanis Club of West Geauga’s Pancake Breakfast, March 17 at West Geauga High School in Chester Township. Visit www.AvantGardeShows. com. Cleveland History Center of the Western Reserve
Historical Society: 10825 East Blvd., Cleveland, presents “RADwood: Cleveland Goes Rad, celebrating the 1980s and 1990s car culture and the lifestyles during those decades, through March 24 in the Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum. Visit wrhs.org. Cleveland Museum of
Natural History: 1 Wade Oval Drive, University Circle, presents “Built to Survive: Biomechanics” an exhibit about”fascinating marvels of natural engineering as it reveals how evolution is Earth’s greatest inventor,” through April 28; “Andy Warhol’s Endangered Species,” a complete set of Warhol’s silkscreen pieces capturing some of nature’s most iconic endangered species,” through March 10. Call 216-231-1177, 800317-9155, or visit www. cmnh.org. Great Lakes Science Center: 601 Erieside Ave., Cleveland, presents “Vroom! A Car Adventure,: exploring the science, technology, engineering and math tat
makes them go, March 15 through Sept. 2. Call 216694-2000 or visit www. greatscience.com. Hard Rock Rocksino At Northfield Park: 10777 Northfield Road, Northfield, presents Michael Carbonaro, March 8 visit www.hrrocksinonorthfieldpark.com. Maltz Museum of Jewish
Heritage: 2929 Richmond Road, Beachwood, presents “Israel: Then & Now,” a new exhibition that “tells the story of a people with no home, rejected across the globe for religious beliefs finding hope in a land they can make their own,” through March 12. Call 216593-0575 or visit www. MaltzJewishMuseum.org.
“The Office” Charity Bar Crawl: to benefit the CA Special Wish Foundation Cleveland Chapter and featuring drink specials and a scavenger hunt related to “The Office,” will be noon to 5 p.m. March 9 at bars in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood. Visit tinyurl.com/ ASWOfficeCrawl. Wizard World Comic Con
Cleveland: featuring appearances by “Aquaman” star Jason Momoa, “Smallville” stars Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum, Sean Astin, Chad Michael Murray, Holly Marie Combs and more, will be March 8 through 10 at Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland. Visit wizardworld.com/ comiccon/cleveland.