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. 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. Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Cleveland: 11400 Euclid Ave., presents an opening-night celebration for tis 50th Anniversary Exhibitions, “Lee Mingwei: You Are Not a Stranger, Sunrise” and “Abe Frajndlich: Portraits of Our Early Years,” 5 to 7 p.m. member preview, with a gallery talk by Mingwei at 7 and DJ and party at 8 p.m.; open house to celebrate MoCA now being free, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 16. Call 216-421-8671 or visit mocacleveland.org. Penitentiary Glen Nature Center: 8668 KirtlandChardon Road, Kirtland, presents Lake Metroparks spring art show, “Ebb & Flow: The Magic of Water,” 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; “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 Tony Roberts, March 14 through 16; “Dolph Ziggler & Sarah Tiana Show,” March 20; Antoine Scott, March 21; Lil Rel, March 22 through 24. Call 216-696-4677 or visit ClevelandImprov.com. Hilarities 4th Street Theatre: 2025 E. Fourth St., Cleveland, presents Amanda Seales, March 14 through 16; Mike Head, March 20; Matt Braunger, March 21 through 23. Call 216-736-4242 or visit www.pickwickandfrolic.com/shows/hilarities4th-street-theatre. MGM Northfield Park (formerly Hard Rock Rocksino): 10777 Northfield Road, Northfield, presents Carrot Top, May 16; Larry the Cable Guy, April 6; Jo Koy, April 12; Randy Rainbow, June 22; David Feherty, June 29; Wayne Brady, Aug. 17; Ken Jeong, Sept. 13; Dane Cook, Oct. 18. Call 330-908-7625 or visit www.hrrocksinonorthfieldpark.com. Playhouse Square: 1501 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, presents Steven Wright, March 22. Call 216-241-6000, or visit playhousesquare.com.
Concerts
Agora Theatre & Ballroom: 5000 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, presents Mushroomhead, Hellzapoppin, March 16. Visit clevelandagora.com.
Akron Civic Theater: 182 S. Main St., presents “An Intimate Evening of Songs and Stories With Graham Nash,” March 16. Call 330253-2488 or visit www. akroncivic.com.
Beachland Ballroom: 15711 Waterloo Road, Cleveland, presents The Tossers, March 15;Into the Blue: Grateful Dead Revival, March 15; Joe Russo’s Almost Dead After Show with Sharwahl, Psychic Relic, Raspberry Jackson, Land of Panda, March 16; Jahman Braham, Stimpy’s Revenge, March 17; ISLAND, March 20; Albert Cummings, March 21. Call 216-321-5588 or visit www.grogshop.gs. Canton Palace Theatre: 605 Market Ave. N., presents Tesla, April 25. Call 330-454-8172 or visit cantonpalacetheatre.org.
Goodyear Theater: 1201 E. Market St., Akron, presents Pop Evil, April 19. Call 330690-2307 or visit goodyeartheater.com.
Grog Shop: 2785 Euclid Heights Blvd., presents VHS Collection, Captain Kidd, March 15; The Akr Band, The Dave Smeltz Project, March 16; Mollo Rilla, Dark Water Rebellion, March 17; Kyle Kinane, March 18; Max Frost, Mikey Mike, March 19; Chip Tha Ripper, March 20; Assault, Subdivision Zero, Emerald Rage, March 21. Call 216-321-5588 or visit www.grogshop.gs.
House of Blues: 308 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, presents Yonder Mountain String Band, Fireside Collective, March 15; Jonathan McReynolds, March 16; 15th annual St. Patrick’s Day Party, March 17; We Three, March 21. Call 216241-5555 or visit hob.com/ cleveland. Kent Stage: 175 E. Main St., Kent, presents Blackberry Smoke, March 17; Skerryvore, March 21. Call 330677-5005 or visit www. kentstage.org. Masonic Auditorium: 3615 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, hosting concerts presented by Live Nation, presents Joe Russo’s Almost Dead
(Grateful Dead tribute), March 16. Visit LiveNation. com. MGM Northfield Park (formerly Hard Rock Rocksino): 10777 Northfield Road, Northfield, presents Clint Black, March 16. Call 330-908-7625 or visit www.hrrocksinonorthfieldpark.com. Music Box Supper Club: 1148 Main Ave., Cleveland, presents Angela Perley, Thor Platter, Weener (Weezer tribute), March 15; Sinatra Night with Michael Sonata, March 15; Glass Harp, May 16; Into the St. Patrick’s Day Mystic with NItebridge & Colin Dussault, March 17; Stephen Kellogg, March 20; First Offenders, March 21. Call 216-242-1250 or visit www.musicboxcle.com.
Nighttown: 12387 Cedar Road, Cleveland Heights, presents Moises Borges, March 15; New Blue of Yale, March 18; John Richmond Quintet, “Celebrating Duke Ellington,” March 19; Take 6, March 21. Call 216-7950550 or visit nighttowncleveland.com. Playhouse Square: 1501 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, presents The Musical Box premieres Cleveland Blues Festival, featuring Sir Chalres Jones, Pokey Bear, Shirley Brown, March 15. Call 216-241-6000 or visit PlayhouseSquare.org. Quicken Loans Arena: 1 Center Court, Cleveland, presents KISS, March 17; Kelly Clarkson, March 21; Ariana Grande, March 28. Call 216-420-2200 or visit TheQArena.com. Wolstein Center: 2000 Prospect Ave., presents Winter Jam 2019, featuring Newsboys United, Danny Gokey, Mandisa, Rend Collective, March 31. Call 877468-4946 or visit wolsteincenter.com.
Film
Cleveland International
Film Festival: presents the 43rd CIFF, March 27 to April 7 at Tower City Cinemas. Call 216-623-3456 or visit www.clevelandfilm.org.
Music
Chagrin Valley Little Theatre: 40 River St., Chagrin Falls, presents Jake Boland, Irish songs and stories, 7 p.m. March 15. Call 440247-8955 or visit www.cvlt.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 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. Lakeland Community College: 7700 Clocktower Drive, Kirtland, presents 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. Call 440-375-7225 or visit www.lakelandcc.edu/arts.
Parks
Lake Metroparks Farm-
park: 8800 Chardon Road, Kirtland, presents Maple Sugaring Weekend, March 16 and 17. Call 440-2562158, 440-256-2122 or 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. Call 440-9410458 or visit BlankCanvasTheatre.com.
Cleveland Play House: Performing at Playhouse Square, presents presents “Tiny Houses,” March 23 through April 14. Call 216241-6000 or visit www. clevelandplayhouse.com.
Cleveland Public Theatre: 6415 Detroit Ave., Cleveland, presents “Found in Flight,” an original play by the Global Teen Performance Project, March 14 and 15; Test Flight 2019, a series that showcases new work on its way to full prodcution, March 21 through April 20. Call 216-631-2727 or visit www. cptonline.org.
Dobama Theatre: 2340 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, presents “The Nether,” by Jennifer Haley, through March 31. Call 216932-3396 or visit www. dobama.org.
Geauga Theater: 101 Water St., Chardon, presents “The Curious Savage,” a family comedy, through March 24. Call 440-286-2255 or visit www.geaugatheater.org.
Great Lakes Theater: at the Hanna Theatre at Playhouse Square in Cleveland, presents “The Taming of the Shrew,” March 29 through April 14. Call 216-241-6000 or visit www.greatlakestheater.org. Playhouse Square: Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, presents
Talespinner Children’s Theatre: 5209 Detroit Ave., Cleveland, presents “About a Ghoul (a Taleof Morocco),” by David Hansen, through March 31. Visit talespinnerchildrenstheatre.org or call 216-264-9680.
Misc.
Avant-Garde Art & Craft Shows: presents the first West Geauga Spring AvantGuarde 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.
Beyond the Book Jacket Author Series: at various branches of the Cuyahoga County Public Library, presents Greg Iles (“Spandau Phoenix,”” Cemetery Road”), 2 p.m. March 17, ParmaSnow Branch; Barbara Marlowe, 2 p.m. March 20, Beachwood Branch. Visit beyondbookjackets.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. Call 216231-1177, 800-317-9155, or visit www.cmnh.org.
Fabulous 50’s + 60’s
Fundraiser Dinner: to benefit the UMC Land Fund and featuring music by Downtown, will be March 23 at First United Methodist Church of Middlefield, 14999 S. State St. Ave. Call 440-632-0480. 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.
KidShow: an event that’s “anything and everything about kids” and features free enterrtainment, activieies, exhibit booths and prizes, will be 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. March 23 and noon to 5 p.m. March 24 at Great Lakes Mall, 7850 Mentor Ave., Mentor. Call 440-9741198 or visit KidShowInfo. com.
Playhouse Square: Cleveland, presents “Becoming: An Intimate Conversation With Michelle Obama,” March 16. Call 216-2416000 or visit www.playhousesquare.org.
Summit Racing Equipment I-X Piston Powered Auto-Rama: will be March 15 through 17 at the I-X Center in Cleveland. Visit pistonpowershow.com.
Visible Voice Books: 2258 Professor St., Cleveland, presents poetry with Lee Chilcote, Cathy Barber, E. F. Schraeder, Annie Hadley Holden, Mimi Plevin-Foust, March 15; author and speaker Nancy Christie, March 16; Brandon Grimm, book launch for “As I Walk,” March 16. Call 216-9610084 or visit visiblevoicebooks.com.
“School of Rock,” through March 24; “Flanagan’s Wake,” through April 27; “The Phantom of the Opera,” April 3 through 20. Call 216-241-6000 or visit www.playhousesquare.com.