The May Festival was expanding. Actually, “expanding” is too limited a description. It is undergoing a change as momentous as anything it has experienced in decades.
“This Time Tomorrow” is a four-day festival featuring more than two dozen presentations by 11 artists. “My hope is that this is something that will feed the cultural ecology of the city,” said founder Drew Klein of the CAC.
His charge is a sprawling one: to revitalize and broaden the reach of the College-Conservatory of Music, to integrate it more deeply with the community and with the rest of the University of Cincinnati. In short, new dean Stanley Romanstein
has been asked to bring CCM into the 21st century, by any means necessary.
At first, it seemed like a pipe dream. It was 2012, and Madcap Puppets engineered the purchase of a former telephone switching station in Westwood…
This is a story about light. Light and Cincinnati. Not streetlights or traffic signals. Not neon light. Specifically, this is about light as inspiration.
We checked with the managing director and three honorary co-chairs to get an understanding of the event’s place in our community’s arts and culture scene.
Must-see of Cincinnati’s dance and theater scene this fall, courtesy of David Lyman. Featuring Playhouse in the Park, Cincinnati Ballet and beyond.
“At a certain point, when I was younger, I kind of lost interest,” Coleman said. He pauses for a moment, then rephrases. “Not ‘lost interest,’ but I was leading a double life as a … as a kid, as a skateboarder and as a miscreant, and they had to pull me back from that and say, ‘Enough of the skateboarding.’ ”
It sounds like the opening line of a joke: A cellist, a tattoo artist and a dramaturge meet in a bar. … Though a bar was not the scene, the group of artists collaborating on concert:nova’s world premiere production of “The Bradbury Tattoos, a Rock Opera” is a wildly disparate group.
Cincinnati Opera and Pink Floyd as artistic collaborators? “Strange bedfellows” hardly begins to describe it. Perhaps “preposterous” is a better word. But this July, Cincinnati Opera will present “Another Brick in the Wall,” based on Pink Floyd’s iconic 1979 “The Wall.”
