arts

Painting as therapy, for artist and viewer.

The first couple rounds of the Easton comedy club’s re-occurring talent search for those with fledgling comedic chops can be excruciating.

Playwright Philip J. Hickman brings knights, ladies and adventure to the free outdoor theater Actors’ Theatre series

Feeling all Memorial Day-ey? This concert by the Central Ohio Symphony Orchestra that pays homage to American history is sure to suffice.

Understanding color’s role in art seems like it would be intuitive. Red, passion! Grey, turmoil! Green, serenity! But those are just the basics, dear Watson. And sometimes even those rules aren’t true.

Sorry, no DeLorean here, but the 10 Ohio artists with work in this Ohio Arts Council exhibit do plenty of technique time travelling.

Don’t let last year’s gang-related gunfire just outside the Asian Festival scare you. There’s so much cool art at this annual festival of all things Asian — from Chinese folk dance to Indian bollymoves.

In her 1847 novel “Jane Eyre,” Charlotte Brontë addresses her “reader” directly time and again, telling us what to think or not to think, summoning our support, chastising us. So it makes eminent sense that in adapting the novel for Available Light Theatre, Daniel Elihu Kramer puts a handful of those readers directly on the stage to remember encountering the novel and to respond with its personal impact.

The car that Otis Oswald owns has been in my peripheral vision for the past six months.

The author of “Girl with a Pearl Earring” and “The Last Runaway” talked to Alive about how she researches historical fiction.

Bortmas talks about why capturing, in a frame, the spirit of another artist is so intriguing to him.

Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer were engaged for 40 years before they married in 2007 in Toronto. Death did them part two years later. After Spyer’s passing, Windsor was charged thousands in inheritance taxes because the U.S. did not recognize their lesbian marriage.