Theater
Heroes In Color: BLADE
Athena Cinema 20 S. Court St., Athens, OH, United StatesSay hello to Blade. He’s equal parts human and vampire, with all the supernatural attributes of his blood-thirsty brethren but with none of their vulnerabilities. This makes him the ultimate vampire hunter! It’s a good thing too, because Los Angeles is set to become ground zero for the onset of war between the fanged and... Read More
The Met: Live in HD: Bizet’s CARMEN
Ohio University The Ridges Auditorium Building 23, Athens, OH, United StatesAcclaimed English director Carrie Cracknell brings a vital new production of one of opera’s most enduringly powerful works, reinvigorating the classic story with a staging that moves the action to the modern day and finds at the heart of the drama issues that could not be more relevant today: gendered violence, abusive labor structures, and... Read More
A Reading of the Play, Free Man of Color, by Charles Smith
Templeton Blackburn Memorial Alumni Auditorium 33 University Terrace, Athens, OH, United StatesFree Man of Color, by OHIO Distinguished Professor of Playwriting Emeritus Charles Smith, is the story of John Newton Templeton, a formerly enslaved African American who graduated from Ohio University fifty years before the end of slavery. In the process, Templeton unexpectedly taught the president of the university the true meaning of education. Emancipated after... Read More
Heroes In Color: EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
Athena Cinema 20 S. Court St., Athens, OH, United StatesMichelle Yeoh stars as “Evelyn Quan Wang” in this genre-blendingly wild cinematic ride written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. One minute, Evelyn is a normal Chinese-American immigrant eking out an underwhelming existence running a laundromat with her husband; the next minute, she’s zipping thru parallel dimensions trying to save the multiverse and... Read More
We Love Broadway Cabaret
Stuart's Opera House 52 Public Square, Nelsonville, OH, United StatesJoin the thespians from the Nelsonville-York Drama Club, on Friday, February 16th, where they will bring a taste of Broadway to the Opera House as they raise money to go to the real Broadway in March. “Be Our Guest” and enjoy a delicious meal while you are being served and entertained by our talented thespians.... Read More
Sustainability Series: CHASING ICE
Athena Cinema 20 S. Court St., Athens, OH, United StatesIn 2007, photojournalist James Balog and a team of researchers, climate scientists, engineers, and mountaineers, founded the EIS (Extreme Ice Survey) to study and document the climatic phenomenon of melting ice in the Earth’s seas and glaciers. Balog figured (correctly) that there was no better way to alert people to the effects of global warming... Read More
Heroes In Color: SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE
Athena Cinema 20 S. Court St., Athens, OH, United StatesAfter reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, Miles Morales, is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse’s very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and... Read More
Classics & Cocktails: JACKIE BROWN
Athena Cinema 20 S. Court St., Athens, OH, United StatesOur Classics & Cocktails series wraps up with the 1997 Quentin Tarantino classic JACKIE BROWN on February 23rd at 7pm. We’ll be pairing the film with a fun specialty cocktail called the Jackie’s Rum Punch in honor of Elmore Leonard’s novel Rum Punch. Made with Pineapple Rum, orange, lime, ginger, sugar, tiki bitters, allspice dram, Skadi’s... Read More
Heroes In Color: THE LAST DRAGON
Athena Cinema 20 S. Court St., Athens, OH, United StatesLeroy “Bruce Leeroy” Green embarks on a quest through the gritty streets of New York to complete his training and gain the level of martial arts mastery that will make him a true black belt like his hero Bruce Lee. When Sho’nuff, the self-proclaimed “Shogun of Harlem”, catches wind of Leroy’s abilities, he challenges the... Read More
OU School of Film Winter Showcase
Athena Cinema 20 S. Court St., Athens, OH, United StatesOHIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF FILM PRESENTS A WINTER SHOWCASE FEATURING NINE 2ND YEAR, EXPERIMENTAL AND SOPHOMORE SHORT FILMS The screening will take place at the Athena Cinema on March 1, 2024, at 7pm and is free to the public thanks to sponsorships from Arts for Ohio and the Ohio Arts Council. The films are directed by... Read More