Arts & Culture

The write stuff

Joseph Schafer

November brings “thirty days and nights of literary abandon,” according to the organization promoting National Novel Writing Month.

Tip your waiter

Joseph Schafer

Edmund Lingan's been a busy boy.

“The Addams Family,” with their whimsically-spooky theme song and ghoulish skewering of middle American values, has delighted audiences for decades as a comic strip, numerous films, television adaptations and now as a 2010 musical coming to the Valentine Theatre for one night only.

Poison Tongues

TCP Contributor

Old maids poisoning lonely old men with homemade wine, a brother convinced he’s Teddy Roosevelt and alcohol-fueled plastic surgery: these are just a few of the overarching quirks in the darkly-comedic play “Arsenic and Old Lace,” presented by the Toledo Repertoire Theater this month.

Gotta EAT

Joseph Schafer

Eating disorders, often written off as solely a problem of young women, terrorize many Americans of all ages, genders and races each day. Linda Daugherty’s play EAT (It’s Not About Food) will bring light to these so-called invisible illnesses through a mix of comedy and drama.

Damefight

Megan Aherne

Jeffrey Albright, the director and a member of the board for The Village Players, saw Lettice and Lovage on Broadway starring its original vehicle, Dame Maggie Smith in the early 1990s.

They're Back

Jan Thomas

Just on the cusp of Halloween, comes the Latino holiday celebrating Dia de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead.)

Five More

Jan Thomas

he TMA’s collection of 30,000 plus exceptional works of art, now has five more outstanding pieces. Three of the works purchased through the generosity of the Apollo Society,

East Meets West at the TMA

Jan Thomas

If you’ve been to the Toledo Museum of Art recently you certainly noticed a distinct Asian theme.

The devil is in the details

TCP Contributor

The production, titled “For the Devil Tells Me So,” is the brainchild of Glacity Theater Collective’s Assistant Artistic Director Megan Aherne, who wrote the script with colleague Sean Koogan.

A monumental occasion

Joseph Schafer

On December 18, George Clooney will release the historical drama film Monument Men.

Shock jock therapy

Joseph Schafer

For the theater connoisseur the tastiest morsel on The Toledo Reps’ plate is probably the Edgy Rep Reading, a staged reading intended for mature audiences.

Stripping? Foxy

Joseph Schafer

Alright, so the films aren’t nearly as sexy as the tagline suggests, but you’re reading aren’t you?

Defining “Undefined”

Jan Thomas

Bringing together the work of two well-known, seasoned artists who work in different mediums is a successful recipe.

Buggie art

Jan Thomas

Levis Commons is crawling with bugs—Big Bugs!

Beastly art

Jan Thomas

Yikes! River House Arts is getting wild this Halloween season.

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