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All-City Musical presents Disney’s Newsies: the Broadway Musical

Akron Civic Theatre 182 S Main St, Akron, OH, United States

Disney’s Newsies, based on the 1992 motion picture, features a score by eight-time Academy Award® winner Alan Menken and Jack Feldman and a book by four-time Tony Award® winner Harvey Fierstein. Newsies is inspired by the real-life Newsboy Strike of 1899, when newsboy Kid Blink led a band of orphan and runaway “newsies” on a […]

Dearest Enemy Production presented by Akron-Summit County Public Library

Goodyear Theater 1201 E. Market St., Akron, United States

Celebrate Akron’s Bicentennial with a rare revival of the only Broadway musical that premiered right here in Akron 100 years ago, Dearest Enemy. The first musical comedy score by the famous team of Rodgers & Hart, this romantic comedy takes place in 1776, during the American Revolution, when Mary Lindley Murray detained British troops in […]

Akron Art Museum – Downtown@Dusk: Wishgarden

Akron Art Museum 1 South High Street, Akron, OH, United States

The Downtown @ Dusk concert series will return to the Bud and Susie Rogers Garden for its 41st season. This year’s series will take place on Thursdays with four concerts from Thursday, July 10 through Thursday, July 31. Each week, watch as local performers light up the Downtown@Dusk stage with their musical talents from 6:30–8:30 […]

Akron Art Museum – Downtown@Dusk: 15 60 75 Numbers Band

Akron Art Museum 1 South High Street, Akron, OH, United States

The Downtown @ Dusk concert series will return to the Bud and Susie Rogers Garden for its 41st season. This year’s series will take place on Thursdays with four concerts from Thursday, July 10 through Thursday, July 31. Each week, watch as local performers light up the Downtown@Dusk stage with their musical talents from 6:30–8:30 […]

Akron Art Museum – Downtown@Dusk: The Surfrajettes

Akron Art Museum 1 South High Street, Akron, OH, United States

The Downtown @ Dusk concert series will return to the Bud and Susie Rogers Garden for its 41st season. This year’s series will take place on Thursdays with four concerts from Thursday, July 10 through Thursday, July 31. Each week, watch as local performers light up the Downtown@Dusk stage with their musical talents from 6:30–8:30 […]

Akron Art Museum – Downtown@Dusk: Benny Lava & The Guavas

Akron Art Museum 1 South High Street, Akron, OH, United States

The Downtown @ Dusk concert series will return to the Bud and Susie Rogers Garden for its 41st season. This year’s series will take place on Thursdays with four concerts from Thursday, July 10 through Thursday, July 31. Each week, watch as local performers light up the Downtown@Dusk stage with their musical talents from 6:30–8:30 […]

Akron Art Museum: Heinz Poll x Pilobolus @ Play

Akron Art Museum 1 South High Street, Akron, OH, United States

Come dressed “to play” for this interactive dance performance event. Dancers will perform sections of Pilobolus’s works and will offer audience members a chance to explore movement in playful ways. Customized for all levels of mobility, the event is designed to build community and reawaken the senses; seats will also be available for observation only, […]

MTP presents Rock of Ages

Knight Stage at The Civic 182 S Main St., Akron, OH, United States

Show dates and times vary. Please see venue for details. Rock of Ages Presented by The Millennial Theatre Project It’s the tail end of the big, bad 1980s in Hollywood, and the party has been raging hard. Aqua Net, Lycra, lace and liquor flow freely at one of the Sunset Strip’s last legendary venues, a […]