Theater
Broadway in Cincinnati
Aronoff Center's Procter & Gamble Hall, 650 Walnut St., Downtown, 513-241-SHOW
42nd Street: Sept. 10-22
Les Miserables: Oct. 1-6
The Producers: Oct. 22-Nov. 10
Cats: Nov. 19-24
Contact: Dec. 17-29
The Children's Theatre
513-569-8080
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Nov. 15-17 (Taft Theatre, Downtown)
The Fantastic Toy Shoppe: Dec. 20-22, 27-29 (College of Mount St. Joseph, Delhi)
Cincinnati Music Theatre
Aronoff Center's Jarson-Kaplan Theatre, 650 Walnut St., Downtown, 513-977-4157
The Sound of Music: Nov. 8-10, 13-16
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
962 Mount Adams Drive, Mount Adams, 513-421-3888
Ah, Wilderness!: Sept. 3-Oct. 4 (Marx Theater)
Havana Is Waiting: Sept. 21-Oct. 20 (Thompson Shelterhouse)
A Flea in Her Ear: Oct. 20-Nov. 22 (Marx Theatre)
The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged): Nov. 9-Dec. 31 (Thompson Shelterhouse)
A Christmas Carol: Dec. 4-30 (Marx Theatre)
Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival
719 Race St., Downtown, 513-381-BARD
Romeo & Juliet: Sept. 12-Oct. 13
Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train: Oct. 24-Nov. 17
The Gimmick: Oct. 27-Nov. 12
Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol: Nov. 29-Dec. 29
Cincinnati Young People's Theatre
Covedale Performing Arts Center, 4990 Glenway Ave., Covedale, 513-241-6550
A Christmas Carol: Dec. 18-29
College-Conservatory of Music
University of Cincinnati, Clifton Heights, 513-556-4183
Promenade: Oct. 24-26 (Cohen Family Studio Theater)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Oct. 31-Nov. 3 (Patricia Corbett Theater)
Antigone: Nov. 14-16 (Cohen Family Studio Theater)
The Boys from Syracuse: Nov. 21-24 (Corbett Auditorium)
Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati
1127 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-421-3555
The Guys: Sept. 4-22
Underneath the Lintel/Bed Among the Lentils: Oct. 9-27
The Credeaux Canvas: Oct. 30-Nov. 2 (Off-Center/On-Stage Series)
The Frog Princess: Dec. 4-29
Falcon Productions
Westwood Town Hall, Montana and Harrison avenues, Westwood, 513-481-9042
The Rocky Horror Show: Sept. 6-7, 13-14, 20-21
If Theatre Collective
Aronoff Center's Fifth Third Bank Theatre, Seventh and Main streets, Downtown, 513-321-0763
Lebensraum: Nov. 14-17, 21-24
The Know Theatre Tribe
Gabriel's Corner, 1425 Sycamore St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-300-KNOW
In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe: Oct. 11-12, 18-19, 25-26
LaComedia Dinner Theatre
765 W. Central Ave., Springboro, 937-746-4554 or 800-677-9505
Godspell: Sept. 5-Nov. 3
It's a Wonderful Life at LaComedia: Nov. 7-Dec. 29
Miami University Theater
Gates-Abegglen Theatre, Center for the Performing Arts, Oxford, 513-529-3200
Execution of Justice: Oct. 3-5, 10-12
Anowa: Oct. 30-Nov. 3
Six Characters in Search of an Author: Nov. 20-24
New Edgecliff Theatre
The Artery, 913 Monmouth St., Newport, 513-763-3844
Santaland Diaries: Dec. 5-22
Northern Kentucky University Theater
Fine Arts Center, Highland Heights, 859-572-5464
Man of La Mancha: Sept. 26-29, Oct. 1-6 (Corbett Theatre)
Baby with the Bathwater: Oct. 24-27, 29-Nov. 3 (Black Box Theatre)
Twelfth Night: Nov. 21-24, Dec. 3-8 (Corbett Theatre)
Ovation Theatre Co.
Aronoff Center's Jarson-Kaplan Theatre, 650 Walnut St., Downtown, 513-241-SHOW
The Two Towers: Oct. 25-27, 31-Nov. 2
Queen City Off Broadway
Upstairs at Carol's, 825 Main St., Downtown, 513-289-6589
12 Angry Men: Sept. 13-14, 20-21
Rising Phoenix Theatre Co.
Temple Arts Center, 4 N. Main St., Middletown, 513-705-4131
Little Shop of Horrors: Sept. 12-15, 19-22
Of Mice and Men: Oct. 24-27, 31-Nov. 3
Taking Christmas to the Troops: Dec. 6-8, 12-15, 19-21
Shadowbox Cabaret
Newport on the Levee, Newport, 859-957-ROCK
Best of Shadowbox: Sept. 1-14
Freak Show: Sept. 18-Nov. 30
Holiday Hoopla: Dec. 4-31
Showboat Majestic
Public Landing, Downtown, 513-241-6550
Children of Eden: Sept. 11-29
Frostbite Follies!: Dec. 5-15
Stage First
Aronoff Center's Fifth Third Bank Theater, Seventh and Main streets, Downtown, 513-241-SHOW
Richard II: Oct. 17-27
University of Cincinnati-Clermont College Theater
4200 Clermont College Drive, Batavia, 513-732-5281
Play A Didjeridoo Blue: Oct. 25-26
One Appalachian Christmas: Dec. 19-20
Classical Music
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra
513-723-1182
Spring Preview Concert: Sept. 15 (Seasongood Pavilion, Eden Park)
Wagner, Françaix, Kodály and Mendelssohn: Sept. 29 (CCM's Corbett Auditorium)
Wagner, Françaix, Kodály and Mendelssohn: Sept. 30 (NKU's Greaves Concert Hall)
Ives, Saint-Saéns and Beethoven: Oct. 20 (CCM's Corbett Auditorium)
Ives, Saint-Saéns and Beethoven: Oct. 21 (NKU's Greaves Concert Hall)
Copland, Mozart, Carter and Beethoven: Nov. 17 (Memorial Hall, Over-the-Rhine)
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
Music Hall, 1241 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-381-3300
Garrison Keillor: Sept. 6-8
Martin Short: Oct. 6
America: Oct. 18-20
Rhapsody in Blue & Rags 'n' Blues: Nov. 10
Happy Holidays from the Pops: Dec. 13-15
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Music Hall, 1241 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-381-3300
Paavo Järvi conducts Brahms, Beethoven and Dvoràk: Sept. 13-14
Paavo Järvi conducts Sumera, Beethoven and Neilsen: Sept. 20-21
Paavo Järvi conducts Mozart, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky: Sept. 27-28
John Adams conducts Copland, Adams, Verdi and Respighi: Oct. 4-5
Robert Spano conducts Sibelius, Elgar and Rachmaninoff: Oct. 11-12
Paavo Järvi conducts Strauss, Bartók, Tubin and Strauss: Oct. 25-26
Paavo Järvi conducts Janácek, Bartók and Brahms: Nov. 2-3
Paavo Järvi conducts Ravel, Rachmaninoff and Sibelius: Nov. 8-9
Paavo Järvi conducts Prokofiev and Ravel: Nov. 14-16
Robert Porco conducts Bach and Poulenc: Nov. 22-23
James DePreist conducts Menotti, Liszt and Shostakovich: Dec. 6-7
College-Conservatory of Music
University of Cincinnati, Clifton Heights, 513-556-4183
Philharmonia Orchestra: Oct. 15 (Corbett Auditorium)
Concert Orchestra: Oct. 17 (Corbett Auditorium)
Concert Orchestra: Oct. 31 (Corbett Auditorium)
Starling Chamber Orchestra: Nov. 3 (Robert J. Werner Recital Hall)
Philharmonia Orchestra: Nov. 7 (Corbett Auditorium)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Chamber Choir and Chorale: Nov. 24 (St. Peter in Chains Cathedral)
Concert Orchestra: Nov. 25 (Corbett Auditorium)
Feast of Carols: Dec. 7-8 (Corbett Auditorium)
Kentucky Symphony Orchestra
859-431-6216
Feels Like the First Time: Oct. 11-12 (NKU's Greaves Concert Hall)
Swinging Sound of Silents: Nov. 16-17 (Madison Theater, Covington)
Vocal Arts
Cincinnati Men's Chorus
Aronoff Center's Jarson-Kaplan Theater, 650 Walnut St., Downtown, 513-542-2626
An Animated Christmas: Dec. 7-8
MUSE: Cincinnati Women's Choir
513-221-1118
Greater Cincinnati Community Shares Fest: Sept. 14 (House of Joy, College Hill)
We Are A Village: Nov. 16-17 (St. John Unitarian Church, Clifton)
Vocal Arts Ensemble
513-559-0000
Cathedral Concert: Oct. 13 (Cathedral Basilica, Covington)
Holiday Concert: Dec. 13 (St. Boniface Church, Northside); Dec. 14 (Anthenaeum of Ohio, Mount Washington); Dec. 15 (St. Barnabas Church, Montgomery)
Dance
ballet tech ohio
513-683-6860
Dances on the Rocks/Nuada (The Legend of Silver Arm): Oct. 1, 4 and 5 (Aronoff Center)
Cincinnati Ballet
Aronoff Center's Procter and Gamble Hall, 650 Walnut St., Downtown, 513-621-5219
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Festival: Oct. 18-19
Sleeping Beauty: Nov. 15-17
The Nutcracker: Dec. 18-28 (Music Hall)
College-Conservatory of Music
University of Cincinnati, Clifton Heights, 513-556-4183
Giselle: Dec. 6-8 (Patricia Corbett Theater)
Contemporary Dance Theater
Aronoff Center's Jarson-Kaplan Theater, 650 Walnut St., Downtown, 513-591-2557
Mother/Child, with Maureen Fleming: Sept. 27-28
Pilobolus Dance Theatre: Nov. 19-20
Visual Arts/Galleries
Art Academy of Cincinnati's Chidlaw Gallery
951 Eden Park Drive, Mount Adams, 513-562-8777
Proposed and Delivered: Sept. 11-15
Sabbatical Exhibition: Gary Gaffney and Mark Thomas: Oct. 18-Nov. 17
AAC Student Juried Exhibition: Nov. 22-Jan. 3
Base Art Gallery
1225 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-721-BASE
My Country: Through Sept. 23
Transcendental Travels: Sept. 27-Oct. 21
See Saw: Oct. 25-Nov. 25
Guava Jelly: Nov. 29-Dec. 23
Carnegie Center for the Arts
1028 Scott Blvd., Covington, 859-491-2030
installations + performances: Sept. 6-Oct. 11
Works by Marta Hewett, Thomas Condon, Barry Wilson and Cheryl Wassenaar: Oct. 25-Nov. 22
Closson's Studio at Hyde Park
3515 Michigan Ave., Hyde Park, 513-871-6673.
Signs of Late Summer: Aug. 31-Oct. 5
College of Mount St. Joseph's Studio San Giuseppe Gallery
5701 Delhi Road, Delhi, 513-244-4203
Works by Darrell W. Brothers: Sept. 8-29
Design Consortium
2012 Madison Road, O' Bryonville, 513-321-1800
Photography of Jeanine M. Steele: Sept. 20-Oct. 20
Enjoy the Arts/START Gallery
1338 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-621-4700
Recent Work by Tom Mitts: Sept. 27-Oct. 18
Mixed Media Constructions by Jeff Casto: Oct. 25-Nov. 23
Behind the Scenes to On the Wall: Nov. 30-Jan. 24
Foundation Gallery
200 W. Fourth St., Downtown, 513-241-2880
Voices From Visions: Through Sept. 30
KZF Gallery
655 Eden Park Drive, Seventh floor, Walnut Hills, 513-621-6211
More Than Meets the Eye: Through Oct. 31
Malton Gallery
2703 Observatory Ave., Hyde Park, 513-321-8614
New Grand: Sept. 21-Oct. 15
We Dream in Color: Oct. 19-Nov. 11
Trail Mix silent auction: Nov. 16-Dec. 14
Miami University's Hiestand Galleries
School of Fine Arts, North Gallery, Oxford, 513-529-1883
Miami Department of Art Faculty Biennial Exhibition and Visual Investigations: Through Sept. 20
Hyper Fictions: Sept. 26-Nov. 8
Woven Harmony: Oct. 1-25
Dimensions: Oct. 28-Nov. 15
Passage: Dec. 17-Jan. 31
Miller Gallery
2715 Erie Ave., Hyde Park, 513-871-4420
An American Tradition: Painters of the Hudson Valley: Sept. 20-Oct. 12
Northern Kentucky University Art Gallery
Fine Arts Center, Highland Heights, 859-572-5148
Storytellers: Through Sept. 20
Risch Gallery
118 N. Ft. Thomas Ave., Fort Thomas, 859-441-3838
Fine Art Prints by Northern Kentucky University Printmakers: Sept. 6-30
Paintings by Andrew Eckerle: Oct. 5-31
Linda Schwartz Gallery
315 W. Fourth St., Downtown, 513-241-4202
Unending River and High See Air AH: Sept. 14-Oct. 19
Frank Hermann and Richard Wearn: Oct. 26-Nov. 27
Small Works III: Red: Dec. 7-21
Carl Solway Gallery
424 Findlay St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-621-0069
Frank Stella: Illustrations after El Lissitzky's Had Gadya: Sept. 17-Nov. 1
The Photographic Edge: Nov. 11-Dec. 24
SSNOVA
2260 Central Pkwy., Brighton, 513-929-9463
Proposed and Delivered: Sept. 11
Take a Seat at the Table: Sept. 14
IOVAE Presents Sudden Infant, Noumena, Keenan Lawler: Sept. 15
Massive -- sculptures and installations: Sept. 21-Oct. 5
Collaborative collage paintings by Victor Strunk and Tim Schwallie: Oct. 11
Style Without Substance: DIVA Night: Oct. 12
Underneath Cincinnati/Cincinnati Film Society: Oct. 27
Suzanna Terrill Gallery
1315 Main St., Over-the-Rhine, 513-665-4500
Robert Knipschild: Works on Paper: Sept. 7-28
Kaddish -- 09/11/01: Sept. 11
Jane A. Cash: Sculpture/Paintings: Oct. 5-31
Gary G. Gaffney: Collages: Nov. 12-30
Gallery Artists & Friends: small works of all kind: Dec. 4-28
Treadway Gallery
2029 Madison Road, Hyde Park, 513-321-6742
American Art Pottery Exhibition and Sale: Through Oct. 19
University of Cincinnati-Clermont College's Art Gallery
4200 Clermont College Drive, Batavia, 513-732-5281
Works by Joel Blazer and Margo Meyers: Sept. 4-28
Works by Christine Hayward Goetz: Oct. 2-30
Contemporary Fiber and Quilt Artists: Nov. 4-30
UC Student Show: Dec. 2-13
Perceptions of Home: Dec. 16-Jan. 16
Warsaw Project Space
3116 Warsaw Ave., Price Hill, 513-652-2349
One Is Too Many, a Hundred Not Enough: Sept. 6-28
Paintings by David Flynn: Oct. 11-Nov. 2
Familiar Boundaries: Paintings by Chris Hennig: Nov. 8-30
Installation by Sarah Mulhauser: Dec. 7-28
Patricia Weiner Gallery
9393 Montgomery Road, Montgomery, 513-791-7717
The North of Ireland: Sept. 8-Sept. 28
Holiday Exhibition: Dec. 7-Jan. 2
Weston Art Gallery
650 Walnut St, Downtown, 513-977-4165
Beauty and the Beholder: Sept. 13-Nov. 10
I Morti: Video Installation by Charles Woodman: Sept. 13-Nov. 10
Desire, Tunnel & Wheelchair: Video Installation by Gagik Aroutiunian: Sept. 13-Nov. 10
InterMedia: 2002: Nov. 1-3
Theories of Public Space, Site-Specific Installation by Don Harvey: Nov. 22-Jan. 18
Connections: Nov. 22-Jan. 18
Xavier University's Art Gallery
3800 Victory Pkwy., Evanston, 513-745-3811
Craft Guild of Greater Cincinnati Annual Exhibit: Through Sept. 13
York Street Café's Third Floor Gallery
738 York St., Newport, 859-261-9675.
The Nature of Beauty: Through Sept. 2
Visual Arts/Museums
Cincinnati Art Museum
953 Eden Park Drive, Mount Adams, 513-721-ARTS
Weegee's World: Life, Death and the Human Drama: Through Sept. 15
Museum Within a Museum: Treasures from the Taft at the Cincinnati Art Museum: Through Jan. 31
The Golden Age of Costume and Set Design for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, 1938-1944: Oct. 10-Jan. 12
A Window on the Past: Early Native American Dress from the John Painter Collection: Oct. 19-March 30
Uncommon Legacies: Native American Art from the Peabody-Essex Museum: Oct. 19-Jan. 5
Contemporary Arts Center
115 E. Fifth St., Downtown, 513-345-8400
Loop: Back to the Beginning: Sept. 7-Jan. 5
Miami University Art Museum
801 S. Patterson Ave., Oxford, 513-529-2232
Disney Cels: Through Oct. 20
Focus Series 1: Kate Kern, Lynda Lowe, Georgiana Nehl: Through Oct. 6
Captured Moments: The Cincinnati School: Through March 23
Thirty Years of Rock 'n' Roll: Photographs by Larry Hulst: Through Oct. 13
Wired: Art that Moves: Oct. 22-Jan. 22
Collage!: Nov. 1-Jan. 26
Romance and Solitude: American Prints 1900-1941: Nov. 5-Feb. 2
Taft Museum of Art
316 Pike St., Downtown, 513-241-0343
Closed for renovation through 2003
Theatre IV's The Song of Mulan: Sept. 28 (The Artery Theatre, Newport)
Club 316's Jazz and Java: Oct. 4 (Verdin Bell and Clock Museum, Over-the-Rhine)
Turner's Human Landscape lecture: Oct. 23 (Cincinnati Art Museum Lecture Hall, Mount Adams)
Duncanson Artist-in-Residence opening reception: Nov. 6 (Frank White Gallery and Frame Shop, Wyoming)
Duncanson Artist-in-Residence performance: Nov. 14 (Memorial Hall, Over-the-Rhine)
Artful Evening: Masters of the Taft: Rembrandt: Nov. 20 (Corryville Library, Corryville)
Events
Cincinnati Film Society
Cincinnati Art Museum Auditorium, Mount Adams, 513-251-6060
From the Ashes: Cinematic Responses to Sept. 11: Sept. 4, 11, 18 and 25
Flight, Fight, Freeze!: Instincts for Healthy Living: Oct. 5-6
Meyerson Hall, Hebrew Union College, 3101 Clifton Ave., Clifton, 513-221-3222
Dance theater in the round; choreography by Fanchon Shur, music by Bonia Shur
Cincinnati International Film Festival
513-379-6462
Opening Night Reception: Oct. 3 (20th Century Theater, Oakley)
Festival films: Oct. 4-10 (Esquire Theare, Clifton, and 20th Century Theatre, Oakley)
Awards Gala: Oct. 11 (Hilton Netherland Plaza Hotel, Downtown)
Cincinnati Entertainment Awards: Nov. 25
Old St. George, 42 Calhoun St., Clifton Heights, 513-665-4700
Sixth annual celebration of local music and theater
The Canadian Brass: Dec. 6
Aronoff Center's Procter and Gamble Hall, 650 Walnut St., Downtown, 513-241-SHOW
Boys Choir of Harlem: Dec. 11
Aronoff Center's Procter and Gamble Hall, 650 Walnut St., Downtown, 513-241-SHOW
The Irish Tenors' Christmas Spectacular: Dec. 12
Aronoff Center's Procter and Gamble Hall, 650 Walnut St., Downtown, 513-241-SHOW
Featuring Ronan Tynan, Anthony Kearns and Finbar Wright