46 stories by "Steven Litt"
Historic Karamu House marks the latest stage in a 3-year turnaround from fiscal and administrative problems by completing the $1.8 million renovation of its Jelliffe Theatre.
Raymond Bobgan, executive artistic director of the Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT), with its 2018 Homer C. Wadsworth Award
Five Northeast Ohio visual arts leaders released a joint letter decrying Trump's plan to kill the national endowments for the arts and humanities.
President Trump's budget proposal to wipe out the national endowments for the arts and humanities, though expected, sends a shock through Cleveland cultural institutions.
Public Square has launched its new website and announced a more detailed schedule of events through September 30.
Playhouse Square finished and unveils a spectacular re-creation of the long-lost lobby of the Ohio Theatre, which burned in 1964 and whose charred remains were covered for years behind drywa…
A first look inside the construction fences at the nearly finished Public Square renovation shows that the $50 million project should live up to its billing as a terrific new unified civic s…
Carrie Carpenter, formerly a senior vice president at Citizens Bank, has been named the new president and executive director of the Gordon Square Arts District.
Cleveland lawyer and musician Mark Avsec and artist and activist Gwendolyn Garth have been appointed to serve on the five-member board of Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.
The board of Cuyahoga Arts and Culture distributed $1.65 million in special project grants to 152 organizations in the county at its Monday meeting in Olmsted Falls.
Playhouse Square has become the biggest individual donor to the Issue 8 campaign to renew the county cigarette tax that supports Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.
The new state budget holds good and bad news for local arts funding in Cuyahoga County. Arts funding will increase statewide, but a new state cigarette tax could eat into arts revenues creat…
The Greater Cleveland Partnership endorsed renewal of Cuyahoga County's cigarette tax for the arts, hours ahead of County Council's scheduled vote to put the renewal on the fall ballot.
Jane Chu, the 11th chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts, described her ethnic Chinese and Midwest roots Wednesday to an appreciative audience at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
The latest annual report from Cuyahoga Arts and Culture touts the organization's accomplishments hours ahead of a vote by its board on whether a cigarette tax for the arts should be renewed.
Should a 10-year, 30-cents-a-pack tax on cigarettes for the arts in Cuyahoga County be placed on the November ballot for renewal? A critical debate over the future of the arts in the county …
Indians CEO and Chairman Paul Dolan joined the leadership of a campaign to renew Cuyahoga County's cigarette tax for arts and culture because he views it as a way to stimulate growth of the …
The Cleveland Institute of Art is nearing completion of a six-year, $75 million expansion and renovation that will unify its operations in University Circle for the first time since 1976.
The new Near West Theatre nears completion in the Gordon Square Arts District of Cleveland's Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood after conclusion of a $30 million campaign aimed at creating a West…
Cuyahoga Arts and Culture announced nearly $27.2 million in operating and special project grants to local arts organizations for 2015-16 in one of the nation's largest local public-funding p…
Cuyahoga County's cigarette tax for the arts plays an increasing role in the financial stability of cultural organizations as other government sources dry up, a new report says.
Cuyahoga Arts and Culture is moving toward renewing individual artist fellowships, but with budget cuts and new requirements that artists show how their work benefits county residents.
Cleveland's Gordon Square Arts District has completed a $30 million campaign that has transformed a West Side neighborhood into a mecca for the arts. Now it's planning for an encore with a m…
Cuyahoga County may resume giving $20,000 grants to individual artists in 2015, but only after giving the program a thorough re-evaluation, the leader of the county's arts funding agency sai…
Cleveland's cultural organizations pulled in nearly one third of the $9.36 million in Ohio Arts Council grants announced on Monday, and nearly 11 percent of the statewide total went to five …