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Performing Arts

Sharon Van Etten
with Shearwater


Feb 14
Performance Space
STANDING-ONLY SHOW


"A beautifully formed, sonically engaging work.… The result is something universal…eminently listenable, and awash with memorable lines, songs, emotion."–Drowned in Sound on Van Etten's epi

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Photos: Dusdin Condren

Donny McCaslin Group


Feb 23
Performance Space

“Fiercely contemporary and exploratory, though not so abstract as to be inaccessible.… The man digs into the material, no question, and never runs out of ideas—or passion.”—JazzTimes

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Vijay Iyer Prasanna Nitin Mitta
Tirtha


Mar 3
Performance Space

Tirtha is a triumph; it is a high-water mark in hearing the constantly evolving discussion between jazz and Indian music.”—All Music

> MORE INFO on Vijay Iyer    Prasanna    Nitin Mitta<br><i>Tirtha</i>
Photo: Joze Pozrl

Andrew Bird

with Eugene Mirman


Mar 20
Southern Theatre

“Bird has developed a finesse for off-kilter pop....shaping songs that are catchier, by their own terms, than most of Top 40 radio.”—The Onion’s A.V. Club

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The Great Flood
A Film by Bill Morrison
Music composed and performed by Bill Frisell
With Ron Miles, Tony Scherr, Kenny Wollesen


Mar 31
Thurber Theatre at Drake Center

"Creatively restless, Frisell is best suited for exploring vast territory and responding with imaginative integrity."–Billboard

> MORE INFO on <i>The Great Flood</i><br>A Film by Bill Morrison<br>Music composed and performed by Bill Frisell<br>With Ron Miles, Tony Scherr, Kenny Wollesen
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Film/Video

CALL FOR ENTRIES

OHIO SHORTS

OHIO SHORTS

Submit your work for the Wexner Center's annual Ohio Shorts showcase. The deadline for entries is Friday, March 23, 2012.

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VIDEO

FOR FAMILIES

FOR FAMILIES

Nearly Lear

Watch a preview for this "frisky, funny, vaudevillian gloss on a great play," here in March.

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