Rubber City Theatre (formerly Rubber City Shakespeare) will kick off its 2017-2018 season with Pippin, the classic musical by Stephen Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson, opening Aug. 11 and running until Aug. 27. Producing Artistic Director, Dane CT Leasure, Music Director, Sharon Alberson and Choreographer Kevin Lambes are joined by a talented team of designers and actors from … [Read more...]
Chuck Ayers – A Photographic Memory of May 4 – That One Time Downtown (Video)
Artist and illustrator Chuck Ayers was a part-time employee at the Akron Beacon Journal and a cartoonist at the the Daily Kent Stater when the tragic May 4 shootings occurred. He happened to be taking photos on campus that day for a photography class, and one particular photograph came back to him many years later. The events of May 4 are still as fresh in his mind as the … [Read more...]