Press releases and announcements from Ohio's arts organizations
Eight graduating actors from the CWRU/Cleveland Play House MFA Acting Program will perform at the Roe Green Theatre on April 30, 2026, before traveling to New York for industry showcases.
Read moreThe Sculpture Center opened two exhibitions April 10: Gary Sczerbaniewicz’s ‘Cloud of Unknowing’ and Ling-lin Ku’s ‘Morning After,’ both running through June 6, 2026.
Read moreThe Cleveland Museum of Art is showing the first exhibition dedicated to the creative exchange between Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot, on view through July 5, 2026.
Read morePlayhouse Square has named Akron Children’s as the presenting sponsor of its Children’s Theater Series, bringing together arts and healthcare organizations in Northeast Ohio.
Read moreArtsWave and 3CDC have launched Streets Alive, a paid busking program bringing live performances to Court Street Plaza, Imagination Alley, and Ziegler Park through October 2026.
Read moreThe 2026 Columbus Arts Festival will feature 230-plus artists from 32 states and two countries at the Columbus riverfront June 12-14, including 19 Emerging Festival Artists from central Ohio.
Read moreThe Taft Museum of Art is celebrating twin anniversaries in 2026, with painter Ayana Ross serving as the current Duncanson Artist-in-Residence and her exhibition on view through July 26.
Read moreAkron Art Museum hosts the only Midwest stop of a Kent Monkman retrospective, on view April 11 through August 17, 2026, featuring works examining colonial histories and Indigenous experiences.
Read moreGreat Lakes Theater presents Kate Hamill’s ‘Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson — Apt. 2B’ at the Hanna Theatre, April 24–May 10, 2026, closing its 64th season.
Read moreThe Cleveland Pops Orchestra has unveiled its 2026-27 season lineup, featuring six concerts at Severance Music Center in the ensemble’s 30th anniversary year.
Read moreThe Columbus Symphony unveiled its 2026-27 season, highlighted by a Carnegie Hall return in October and a year of milestone programming marking the orchestra’s 75th anniversary.
Read moreThe Columbus Symphony unveiled its 75th anniversary season, anchored by a Carnegie Hall return and the world premiere of a new orchestral work by Gregory Spears.
Read moreThe Columbus Symphony unveiled a 75th anniversary season featuring the orchestra’s first Carnegie Hall performance in 25 years, world premiere commissions, and a new K-6 digital education platform.
Read moreThe Cleveland Museum of Art opened two major spring shows: a comprehensive Martin Puryear retrospective and a presentation of rare Pahari paintings from a dispersed eighteenth-century Ramayana series.
Read moreDayton Philharmonic musicians and the American Federation of Musicians issued statements calling the DPAA’s 2026-27 programming cuts a devastating blow to livelihoods and cultural life.
Read morePlayhouse Square announced a seven-show 2026-27 KeyBank Broadway Series, with Cleveland serving as the national tour launch city for the new musical ‘Death Becomes Her.’
Read moreThe Dayton Performing Arts Alliance unveiled its 2026-27 season featuring Dayton Philharmonic, Opera, and Ballet collaborations, opening with a full-company West Side Story in September.
Read moreThe Cincinnati Art Museum presents Art in Bloom 2026, a four-day celebration featuring more than 60 floral designers interpreting works from the permanent collection.
Read moreThe Cleveland Orchestra announced its 2026 summer season with highlights including an America 250 tribute, Idina Menzel, a Harry Potter film concert, and conductor Franz Welser-Möst’s final season.
Read moreKnow Theatre of Cincinnati has announced its Season 29 lineup, featuring a world premiere musical, two regional premieres, and the 24th Cincinnati Fringe Festival.
Read moreCincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s 2026-27 season will include a world premiere by playwright Theresa Rebeck and launch the inaugural Made in Cincy: New Works Festival for Cincinnati-area writers.
Read moreCincinnati Opera is holding open casting calls for supernumerary roles in its 2026 Summer Festival productions at Cincinnati Music Hall, running June 18 through August 2.
Read moreCincinnati Opera is holding open casting sessions on April 22 and April 25 for adult volunteers to fill non-singing supernumerary roles in its 2026 Summer Festival productions.
Read moreThe Akron Art Museum presents a comprehensive survey of Cree artist Kent Monkman’s monumental paintings confronting colonial narratives, on view through August 17.
Read moreThe Akron Art Museum is the only Midwest venue for a major touring survey of Cree artist Kent Monkman’s work, on view April 11 through August 17, 2026.
Read moreThe Cincinnati Art Museum opens a retrospective on designer Elizabeth Hawes, featuring more than 50 garments from her pioneering 1928-1940 fashion house.
Read moreCincinnati Opera and CCM will present a public preview of O’Keeffe: Kiss the Sky, a new opera-ballet by Christopher Tin commissioned by Washington National Opera, on March 31 at Cincinnati Ballet.
Read moreCincinnati Opera and CCM previewed O’Keeffe: Kiss the Sky, a new opera-ballet commissioned by Washington National Opera, featuring music by GRAMMY-winner Christopher Tin.
Read moreThe Cleveland Orchestra announced appointments in its violin and viola sections, including a new first associate concertmaster and associate concertmaster, as Music Director Franz Welser-Möst prepares for his final season.
Read moreKaramu House presents Jubilee, Tazewell Thompson’s production about the Fisk Jubilee Singers, featuring more than 40 a cappella spirituals, running March 26–April 19, 2026.
Read moreThe Toledo Museum of Art is reorganizing its entire permanent collection from geographic groupings into a chronological arrangement, with a full reopening planned for late 2027.
Read moreThe Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra announced its 2026-27 season, anchored by Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and a fifth summer of Brady Block Parties in Greater Cincinnati neighborhoods.
Read moreThe Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra announced its 2026-27 season under Music Director Cristian Măcelaru, featuring world and U.S. premieres and an opening residency with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
Read moreArtsWave awarded 60,726 to 30 arts projects across the Cincinnati region through its Catalyzing Impact grant program, selected from 93 applications.
Read moreColumbus’s King Arts Complex has named Corey Favor, former senior director at Orange Barrel Media, as its new president and CEO, beginning April 8, 2026.
Read moreToledo Opera has announced its 2026-2027 season, featuring two major productions: Giuseppe Verdi’s “Aida” and Gilbert & Sullivan’s “H.M.S. Pinafore.” The season, beginning in October 2026, will present “Aida” for the first time in over a decade, alongside the company’s first Gilbert & Sullivan operetta in more than twenty years. “Aida” will explore themes of love, duty, and sacrifice in ancient Egypt, while “H.M.S. Pinafore” promises nautical fun and comic hijinks. Subscriptions and single tickets will go on sale March 2, 2026, offering audiences a chance to experience both grand opera and comic operetta.
Read moreThe Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown is showing Sam Gilliam’s ‘Mars at Angles,’ a 232-by-186-inch abstract painting rediscovered in the museum’s basement after roughly 30 years in storage.
Read moreThe Wexner Center for the Arts launched five exhibitions in February 2026, featuring works by Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Hew Locke, Eric N. Mack, Naeem Mohaiemen, and Vitória Cribb.
Read moreGreat Lakes Theater has unveiled its 65th anniversary season, a six-show lineup running September 2026 through May 2027 at Cleveland’s Hanna and Mimi Ohio Theatres.
Read moremoCa Cleveland launched its 2026 winter season with four interconnected exhibitions exploring ecology, Indigenous memory, racial history, and climate futures.
Read moreThe National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is set to host five diverse programs in February 2026 to honor Black History Month. The programming aligns with the 100th anniversary of Negro History Week and will feature a range of events including lectures, film screenings, performances, and workshops. A key event is the free Fifth Third Community Day on February 15, which will include a presentation by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black and other academics. Other scheduled activities include a look at Black independent cinema, a talent showcase, a family history workshop, and a documentary screening.
Read moreThe Cleveland Museum of Art is organizing a juried group exhibition for Northeast Ohio artists at its Transformer Station location, opening July 9 and running through November 22, 2026.
Read moreHeights Arts in Cleveland Heights presented ‘Consider Fires,’ a group show on fire as metaphor curated by Gina Washington, alongside ‘Spotlight: Josh Chefitz,’ running through March 15, 2026.
Read moreHeights Arts will present two new exhibitions beginning January 6, 2026, titled “Consider Fires” and “Spotlight: Josh Chefitz.” The exhibitions delve into the multifaceted nature of fire, exploring themes of destruction, transformation, memory, and healing. “Consider Fires” features local Northeast Ohio artists interpreting these concepts through diverse artistic mediums. The “Spotlight” exhibition highlights the work of artist Josh Chefitz, whose mixed media pieces focus on memory as a pathway to personal growth. Both shows run until March 15, 2026, with an opening reception on January 16th and a special artist and poet event on February 19th.
Read moreThe Greater Columbus Arts Council and Columbus Museum of Art selected multimedia artist April Sunami as the 2026 Aminah Robinson Artist Fellow, awarding a three-month studio residency and a $15,000 prize.
Read moreThe Cleveland Museum of Art announced a full slate of exhibitions for its 110th anniversary year, featuring Andrew Wyeth, Martin Puryear, and the first major show dedicated to Manet and Morisot.
Read moreThe Wexner Center for the Arts is presenting the U.S. debut of Naeem Mohaiemen’s three-channel film that contrasts the memorialization of the 1970 Kent State shootings with the lesser-known Jackson State killings.
Read moreThe Wexner Center for the Arts is hosting the Midwest debut of the most comprehensive exhibition to date of Guyanese British artist Hew Locke’s work, through May 24, 2026.
Read moreThe Wexner Center for the Arts presents five simultaneous spring exhibitions including Ximena Garrido-Lecca’s Seedings, alongside works by Hew Locke, Naeem Mohaiemen, Vitória Cribb, and Eric N. Mack.
Read moreThe Cincinnati Museum Center is launching its winter lineup of cooking classes at the Cr(eat)e Culinary Studio, inviting participants of all ages to explore global flavors and culinary science. Registration for the new classes opens on November 4, 2025. The offerings include hands-on sessions for homeschoolers, families, and adults, with diverse menus ranging from Asian street food to Mediterranean feasts. These programs aim to foster culinary skills, expand palates, and provide an engaging learning experience.
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