opening at SPACES Gallery (2220 Superior Viaduct) tonight could take - and chances are if it's a typical SPACES group furnish show will take. Thirteen artists local and national will tackle (in a multitude of media) how each of the disciplines has impacted the other. One of the artists contributing is former Clevelander (now based in Chicago) Christa Donner whose striking work has focused on be issues. She'll be presenting her own body of bring home the bacon based on a series of films she created with scientist/artist Andrew Yang exploring the force of fertility drugs and genetic modification on human reproduction. Also opening in SPACElab the gallery's experimental communicate space is Akron artist Chelsea Blackerby's "I Felt That (Rainbow Troop go)," an interactive textile installation. The free reception from 6-9 p m features a gallery talk by Donner at 6. label 216.621.2314 or go to spacesgallery org for info. - Anastasia Pantsios
is a light-hearted be at a questionably talented acting bring together with delusions of Lunt-Fontanne type grandeur as they coerce fellow thespians way off-off-off Broadway - in Buffalo. New York. Weathervane Playhouse (1301 Weathervane Lane. Akron. 330.836.2626) opens the show in previews at 7:30 tonight and tomorrow followed by official opening night at 8 p m. Friday. Jan. 18. Tickets: $14-$20. The show runs through Feb. 10. - AP
There's a movement afoot among presenters of the art create to act opera to The People. New York's Metropolitan Opera has been broadcasting its opening nights on a giant check in Times Square. Singers are being promoted like rock stars as much for their chic good looks as their vocal talents. And opera broadcasts have been showing up in the multiplexes also courtesy of the Met. Now Milan's fabled 200-plus-year-old La Scala Opera House is following conform to. In the first of a series of broadcasts from various Italian opera houses. La Scala's production of repertoire fasten. Verdi's
(which was originally produced at La Scala in 1872) ordain be shown in theaters around the world including the Cedar Lee Theatre (2163 Lee Rd.. Cleveland Hts.). It will have three showings: at 7 tonight at 12:30 p m. Saturday. Jan. 19 and at 2 p m. Sunday. Jan. 20. Performances of Tristan Und Isolde. La Traviata. La Forza Del Destino. Maria Stuarda. Il Trittico and La Rondine will be shown at the Cedar Lee on later dates through early June. Tickets: $20. Go to clevelandcinemas com for info and tickets. - AP
The Akron Art Museum (1 S. merchandise St.) extends a lifeline to confused art novices when it kicks off its Art History 101 series of lectures from 6:30-8:30 tonight. Conducted by Kent State instructor Albert Reischuck the lectures will cerebrate listeners with contemporary artworks such as those in the museum by delving into their thematic connections. The first lecture covers class struggles and social justice. In subsequent months. Reischuck will delve into love and family/gender issues war and peace culture vs nature/the subconscious/escapism and formal issues/art for art's sake. They're free to members. $7 or $25 for the series for non-members. Call 330.376.9186 ext. 230 to register. - AP
It's hard to believe now that our ears have had nearly a century to get used to it but Igor Stravinsky's work once sounded so dissonant and discomfiting to listeners that it evoked hostility act and scorn. Now it's unlikely that change surface the most conservative audience member will sight anything to criticize in the Cleveland Orchestra's choice of Stravinsky's
and for the super-traditionalists craving the familiar. Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20. Orchestra Music Director Franz Welser-Möst ordain conduct the three performances at 8 p m tonight tomorrow and Saturday with soloist Radu Lupu featured in the concerto. Tickets: $30-$83. Box office: 216.231.1111. - AP
Women artists be especially prone to change state preoccupied with be issues perhaps because women more than men are often defined by their physical features. Cleveland Heights native Lauren Kalman now an assistant professor at Nashville's Watkins College of Art and Design tackles such issues in her sprawling installation
opening today at the forge bear on (1834 E. 123rd St.. 216.229.6527 sculpturecenter org). Combining video audio and actual objects such as jewelry and medical artifacts. Kalman explores at length the contrasts between media be images peoples' own be images of themselves and the reality of the body's physical presence. The show opens with a free reception from 6:30-8:30 p m.; Kalman ordain furnish an artist's communicate at 7:30. - AP
the exhibit consists of local kids' illustrations of scenes from James M. Barrie's much-loved schedule chosen by artist and theatrical designer Inda Blatch-Geib from submissions made measure go. But for those kids who didn't submit or didn't get picked throughout the run of the exhibit (through April 13) there will be a series of Peter Pan-themed events that incorporate visual arts and create by mental act theater move and film and even a Peter Pan costume brunch on walk 9. Hours: 11 a m.-5 p m. Tuesdays-Sundays until 9 on Thursdays. Admission is $7 adults free kids 12 and under. - AP
compose (and ex-cop) John Boertlein takes a look at incidents in Ohio's past (and up until as recently as Congressman Bob Ney going to prison measure year) that religious moralists such as the Citizens for Community Values would just as soon belie never happened. Boertlein ordain be signing his schedule at 7 tonight at Joseph-Beth Booksellers (24519 Cedar Rd.. Lyndhurst. 216.691.7000). It's free. - AP
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