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Installment No. 4 in Cleveland videographer Geoff Short's ongoing docu-series about a year in the life of Baldwin-Wallace College's acclaimed musical theater program.  Full story »

Doug Elkins and Friends gave "Fraulein Maria," the choreographer's affectionate ode to "The Sound of Music," its local debut Friday at the Hanna Theatre under the auspices of DanceCleveland, which had the good sense to import what has become the New York company's calling card.  Full story »

JOURNEYS If your vision of Sweden is boxy old Volvos and the dank interiors of Ingmar Bergman movies, you might want to visit the exhibit "17 Swedish Designers" in the Cleveland Institute of Art's Reinberger Galleries. The show, a U.S. premiere, includes an array of products, furniture, textiles and graphic works by designers who've exhibited previously at Stockholm's Galerie Pascale... Full story »

Five new recordings featuring artists in or associated with the Cleveland Orchestra disprove the notion that classical recording is no longer a vibrant practice. Full story »

Urban ruins have fascinated artists for centuries. This makes it no surprise to see that Cleveland photographer Donald Black Jr. has found artistic opportunity in the tsunami of residential foreclosures that has inundated Cleveland in the past decade.  Full story »

What's the best seat in the house? Depends on how you look at it. It isn't always the most expensive one, and it's not always in the front. To help you spend your concert- and event-going money wisely, we asked our critics to share their views on what's the best seat for your bucks at area venues for a Friday magazine cover story that ran in the summer. As promised, we're adding to it periodically throughout the year. Full story »

It's a very good rendition of a very popular Broadway show that aspires to be very arty but leaves this critic very unimpressed with its aesthetic building blocks. Full story »

"Going Rogue" is prickly, starkly ideological and at times quite funny. Political memoir as a genre can resemble a graduation speech -- safe, padded, with a tendency toward the trite. Palin's book has its preachy stretches, but it can be moving, too, sometimes hitting both notes on the same page Full story »

Any number of features on the Cleveland Orchestra’s program this weekend at Severance Hall could have served as the main attraction: a world premiere, a conductor’s debut, an orchestral showpiece. But it's Alisa Weilerstein, a cellist and native of Cleveland, who steals the show with Dvorak’s Cello Concerto.  Full story »

The interim director will speak on "Museums and Women" at Trinity Commons at Trinity Cathedral.  Full story »

Martina Filjak, first-prize winner of the 2009 Cleveland International Piano Competition, gives a concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, previewing her New York recital debut, at Cleveland Institute of Music, 11021 East Blvd., Cleveland.  Full story »

The winner of 15 major awards including the Grammy and three Tony Awards, is "Broadway's biggest blockbuster" (so says The New York Times). The show is currently on tour in Cleveland, with performances at PlayhouseSquare's State Theatre. Full story »

In his new collection of stories, Sherman Alexie take up fathers and sons, men and their women, and the way identity fragments around politics. Expect to enjoy his light touch on tough subjects.  Full story »

T.J. Stiles' biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, "The First Tycoon," is the nonfiction winner and Keith Waldrop's "Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy" wins for poetry.  Full story »