Area Arts Events: 06-12-14

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Casino hosting Johnson & Krieger Doors tribute
TOLEDO – The Hollywood Concert Series keeps rolling with two upcoming concerts on the front lawn
overlooking the Maumee River.
• Jamey Johnson, acclaimed as "one of the greatest country singers of our time" by the
Washington Post, Saturday at 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $40.
His latest recording, "Living for a Song: A Tribute to Hank Cochran," earned a glowing
four-star review from Rolling Stone. Johnson has been called "the next link in the chain: extending
from Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard to Waylon Jennings."
• Robby Krieger’s Jam Kitchen, led by the legendary guitarist from the Doors, will perform a free show
June 19 at 8 p.m. Robby Krieger’s Jam Kitchen will present the classic music of Rock and Roll Hall of
Famers the Doors. The all-star band includes bass player Arthur Barrow and keyboardist Tommy Mars, both
of whom have performed alongside Frank Zappa, horn player Larry Klimas, who has performed with Neil
Diamond, WAR and Chicago, and drummer Tom Brechtlein, who has worked with jazz greats Chick Corea and Al
Di Meola.
Information and tickets are available at: www.hollywoodcasinotoledo.com/HCS.
Players’ ‘Nunsense’ honored
The Black Swamp Players’ production of "Nunsense" won four awards this weekend at the Northwest
Regional Ohio Community Theatre Association Festival in Oregon.
The February musical production received honors for:

Merit in Acting for the cast.

Merit in directing for Guy Zimmerman.

Excellence in Acting for Melissa Kidder, who played Sister Amnesia.

Excellence in Acting for Deb Shaffer, who played Sister Mary Hubert.
The state OCTA conference will be held on Labor Day weekend at the French Quarter Holiday Inn in
Perrysburg.
Lionface Productions collects four awards at OCTA conclave
Lionface Productions, an independent theater troupe based in Bowling Green, received four awards this
weekend at the Northwest Regional Ohio Community Theatre Association conference in Oregon.
Lionface submitted its one act play "Based On A True Story" by Allie Levine for consideration.

Winning awards were:
• Brigid Randolph, Merit in Acting.
• Scott Stechshulte, Excellence in Acting.
• Joel Paine, Merit in Directing.
• Entire cast, Excellence in Ensemble.
Writers offered support
PERRYSBURG – No Mic Night, the monthly author support group co-sponsored by Way Public Library and PRIZM
Creative Community, will be held June 19 from 7 to 9 p.m.
Guest facilitator Thomas Barden, professor emeritus of English at the University of Toledo and adjunct
professor at Lourdes University.
No Mic Night is offered the third Thursday of each month at the library, 101 E. Indiana Ave.
Free improvisors in Toledo
TOLEDO – The free improvisation WREST will perform Sunday at 9 p.m. at the Robinwood Concert House, 2564
Robinwood Ave.
The band features: saxophonist Jack Wright, a Pennsylvania resident once called the "Johnny
Appleseed of Free Improvisation"; bassist Evan Lipson, from Chattanooga, Tennessee where, the
venue’s publicity states, "he is scheming to actualize an all-in-one dystopian tiki lounge,
performance space, mystical grotto, and occult ritual chamber; and percussionist Ben Bennett, of
Columbus, who "plays an evolving pile of frame drums, pre-tuned drum heads, metal things, tubes,
and other objects that can be combined and recombined."
Tickets are $5.
Toledo troupe casting ‘Quartet’
TOLEDO – The Village Players will hold auditions for "Quartet" Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. Monday
from 7 to 9 p.m. at the theater at 2740 Upton Ave.
All of auditions are cold-reads.
The comedy by Ronald Harwood calls for two men and two women to play performers in a home for retired
opera singers.
"Quartet," directed by Jeffery Albright, will be staged weekends Sept. 5 through Sept. 20.

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