Here at Movers & Makers, we like to focus on the area’s top cultural and philanthropic happenings, and that often means pretty sophisticated events geared for grown-up audiences. But how about the kids? And how about that party with 700,000 of your closest friends?
It ain’t summer until the crazy lady sings, at least that’s the case this year. Cincinnati Opera opens with works from 1835 (complete with “mad scene”) and 2021 this week, along with the debut of a new piano competition and the return of a newish chamber festival, while the 2022-23 theater season finally comes to a close. Happy summer!
Movers & Makers asked the major arts & culture organizations in the region to introduce their “notables” to our readers, part of a new regular feature highlighting influential people in various sectors of Greater Cincinnati’s nonprofit economy. The organizations were invited to identify their notables within three categories or identify their own category.
It was inevitable that one day Bridget Leak would direct a show for D. Lynn Meyers and her Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati.
The Christmas season is all about family and tradition, so what a nice time for a homecoming appearance. As your usual fearless cultural tour guide, Thom Mariner, soaks up tropical sunshine this week, I’m happy to step in to help you sort through the offerings on tap this week. As you’d expect for mid-December, there’s plenty to choose from. And I mean “plenty” in the “there certainly are plenty of cookies around this time of year” sense. Here are some of the tastiest options.
Thomas Consolo shares some of the most-anticipated theater and dance performances of the fall.
Cincinnati’s major performing arts organizations and venues have banded together to craft a coordinated policy regarding COVID-19.
A total of 746 grants received approval at the July 21 meeting. Among the 117 grant recipients in Southwest Ohio were artists and arts organizations in Adams, Brown, Butler, Clermont, Hamilton, Lawrence, Ross, Scioto and Warren Counties.
The gift is among the largest corporate sponsorships that the Playhouse has received to date for the campaign.
