The City Club of Cleveland will hold a free public forum on July 24 on the suspension of individual Creative Workforce Fellowship grants in Cuyahoga County.
A $9 million gift from Sherwin-Williams CEO Chris Connor and family has given a big boost to Playhouse Square's newly announced $100 million capital campaign, the theater district said Frida…
Despite an aesthetic approach that veers toward kitsch and glitz, the new outdoor chandelier at Playhouse Square and other streetscape improvements work beautifully to frame Cleveland's thea…
PlayhouseSquare and its contractors subjected the district's new outdoor chandelier - scheduled for a ceremonial lighting on Friday - to numerous tests during its design and fabrication to m…
Rebirth: The revival of Playhouse Square's theaters helped save downtown Cleveland and launched a national movement to preserve historic silent movie palaces and vaudeville houses.
PlayhouseSquare will light its new chandelier -- a symbolic centerpiece -- on Friday, May 2, in a rain-or-shine ceremony intended to highlight $16 million worth of new outdoor amenities, gat…
Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, one of the biggest local public arts funding agencies in the U.S., distributed more than $16 million in 2013, supporting programs that reached millions and employe…
Ray Shepardson, widely credited as the citizen activist who spearheaded the preservation of the Playhouse Square theaters in Cleveland in the 1970s, died Monday in Wheaton, Ill., at age 70.
A new survey suggests that the arts are popular and highly supported in Cuyahoga County - good news for arts supporters and their organizations.
GE Lighting, based at Nela Park in East Cleveland, will sponsor the new PlayhouseSquare chandelier and light the giant decorative element with high-tech fixtures that will have to stand up t…
A ruling in federal bankruptcy court in Detroit on Tuesday moves the city closer toward selling artworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts, a step that could cripple one of America's greate…
Cuyahoga Arts & Culture awarded nearly $1.9 million for small-scale special projects undertaken by 139 organizations across the county. The grants are in addition to $13.7 million in ann…
Shaker Heights residents Julia and Larry Pollock have donated $1 million to the Cleveland Museum of Art's capital campaign. In recognition, the museum is naming its Focus Gallery for the Pol…
A respected national arts leader, Jason Schupbach, praised Cleveland's efforts at "creative-placemaking" during a two-day visit Thursday and Friday to see programs in Detroit-Shore…
It's easy to have qualms about some aspects of the new amenities, lighting and outdoor digital displays planned for PlayhouseSquare in downtown Cleveland, but a giant outdoor chandelier coul…
With the $16 million project designed by Barnycz Group of Baltimore, PlayhouseSquare aims finally to give itself a dash of 24/7 vitality that has eluded the theater district until now.
The arts are doing fine financially in Cuyahoga County, but new data raises concerns for the future.
Scrappy theater will move from St. Patrick Church hall, its home for 35 years, to a new facility off West 67th street in Cleveland's blossing west-side arts district.
Forty years of historic preservation and renovation in Cleveland's downtown theater complex have made the city a recognized leader in design for the performing arts
The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority has come forward with a credible, well-conceived plan to rethink and rebuild critical pieces of infrastructure on the lakefront and along the riv…
It's critical, Steve Litt says, to push for stronger design performance from ODOT as the agency looks ahead to remake other sections of the Inner Belt highway system, in which three intersta…