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Lake Erie College and The Fine Arts Association have joined in partnership to increase engagement in arts education, expand opportunities for students to participate in music ensemble opportunities, bolster students in college readiness through the Read More

The Theatre Department at Lake Erie College will present an evening of short plays, collectively called “The Man Who Couldn't Dance and other Love Stories.” Four scripts are being presented, with a large ensemble cast and a team of Read More

The Lake Erie College Department of Theatre and LytHouse will present the popular dark comedy “Next to Normal” throughout the month of December. This rock musical follows a heavy though thoughtful and endearing story of a family as they Read More

The Theatre Department at Lake Erie College will present the popular and hilarious I Hate Hamlet written by Paul Rudnick. This play tells the story of Andrew Rally, an actor reluctant to play Hamlet until the ghost of John Barrymore, the famous Read More

Lake Erie College’s Spring Musical Arts Concert will take place on Sunday, April 28, 2019 at 4 p.m. in the Paul S. Weaver Auditorium of the Helen Rockwell Morley Memorial Music Building. The performance will feature the LEC Chorus directed Read More

The Theatre Department at Lake Erie College will present an exciting avant-garde performance based upon the writings of William Shakespeare entitled Hamletmachine. The script is by famed East German writer Heiner Muller and will be directed by Read More

Dr. Francesco Binda and Lauren M. Feola of Lake Erie College’s Music Department will present a lecture recital of rare art songs. The event will take place Friday, March 29, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. in the Helen Rockwell Morley Memorial Music Read More

Lake Erie College will host its annual spring Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) student showcase from Thursday, April 11, 2019 through Saturday, May 11, 2019 in B.K. Smith Gallery in Royce Hall for the Fine and Performing Arts. The opening reception for Read More

On Saturday, February 23, Lake Erie College’s Department of Music will present a Skinner organ concert by internationally renowned organist Todd Wilson, LEC’s organist-in-residence. The concert will take place in the Helen Rockwell Read More

Fans of gothic horror will want to stumble into this house of murderers. Next month, the Lake Erie College Department of Theatre will present “Murder by Poe,” a thriller written by Ohio native Jeffrey Hatcher and based upon the writings Read More

Community members will soon embark on their own comedy adventures at Morley Library with Lake Erie College’s resident jokester and head of comedy studies. Associate Professor of Theatre Jerry Jaffe, PhD, will lead a comedy workshop at Read More

The Lake Erie College Department of Theatre will present a Solo Show Festival September 27-30, 2018 in the C.K. Rickel Theater of Royce Hall for the Fine and Performing Arts. Solo headliners include playwright Eric Jaffe (New York), Read More

The Lake Erie College Department of Theatre will hold open auditions for its fall production of “Murder by Poe,” a terrifying Edgar Alan Poe mystery mashup by Jeffrey Hatcher. Associate Professor of Theatre and Director Jerry Jaffe, Read More

Assistant Professor of Visual Communication and Graphic Design Anthony Ezzo worked with the Geneva-on-the-Lake Police Department to create their entry video for the viral lip sync challenge. In a video posted to Facebook on August 4, 2018, officers Read More

Community members may arrange to audition this summer for the Lake Erie College Chorus, a component of the College’s expanding music department. The chorus’s first rehearsal of the fall semester will be held Monday, August 20 from 7 Read More

For over 40 years, the Lyric Theater reigned the weekend ‘moving picture’ scene in tiny Fairport Harbor, Ohio. It shut down in 1962 and fell into disrepair, joining the village’s many empty storefronts. As theatre director at Read More

Lake Erie College’s Spring Musical Arts Concert on Sunday, April 22, 2018 will feature the LEC Chorus directed by Mary Crow, vocal students directed by Lauren Feola ’04, piano students directed by Sanni Tenkku Kearns, and LEC Read More

Three faculty members from the School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences presented recently at the Popular Culture Association (PCA) 48th National Conference, which took place March 28-31, 2018 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Drs. Jennifer Read More

Assistant Professor of English Adam Stier, PhD, and Associate Professor of Special Education Katie Krammer, PhD, will judge the Morley Library Poetry Slam on Thursday, April 26, 2018 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in support of Northeast Ohio’s Read More

Lake Erie College will host its annual spring Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) student showcase and multimedia student exhibition from Thursday, April 12, 2018 through Friday, May 13, 2018 in B.K. Smith Gallery in Royce Hall for the Fine and Performing Read More

The critically-acclaimed Joe Augustine Trio will perform a concert on Sunday, April 29, 2018 at 2:30 p.m. in C.K. Rickel Theater of the Royce Hall for the Fine and Performing Arts. Master jazz pianist and composer, Steinway artist and LEC Read More

The Lake Erie College Department of Theatre will present its spring production, “Sexual Perversity in Chicago” by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet, beginning April 12 and ending April 15, 2018 in the C.K. Rickel Theater in Read More

Christina Baker Kline, author of the bestselling novel “Orphan Train,” will serve as keynote speaker for the inaugural Northcoast Writers’ Showcase Saturday, April 28, 2018 at Lake Erie College. Kline’s keynote will cap a Read More

Lake Erie College is pleased to announce a Master Class lecture by internationally acclaimed jazz pianist and LEC Artist-in-Residence Joe Augustine will take place at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, April 11, 2018. A leading exemplar of jazz piano, Mr. Read More

The Department of Theatre presents an evening with primetime television actor and co-creator of “Celebrity Deathmatch” Sean Lynch as well as “Saturday Night Live” (SNL) contributing writer Mark Riccadonna. LEC will welcome Read More

Lake Erie College’s Department of Music will present a Skinner organ concert by internationally renowned organist Todd Wilson, LEC’s organist-in-residence. Wilson will perform on the restored 1927 E.M. Skinner pipe organ, Opus 647, in Read More

Auditions will be held at 6 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 12 and Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018 for roles in the Lake Erie College Department of Theatre’s upcoming spring production of “Sexual Perversity in Chicago,” a play by David Read More

A Reiki clinic will be open for weekly, 30-minute Reiki sessions conducted by Dr. Katharine Delavan, dean of the School of Education and Professional Studies, and Dr. John Spiesman, director of the Student Success Center at LEC, beginning Wednesday, Read More

Next spring, Feb. 9 through Mar. 4, Lake Erie College will host performances of “Quilters,” an upcoming musical to be produced by the Rabbit Run Community Arts Association’s (RRCAA) Rabbit Run Theater. Appointment-only auditions Read More

On Thursday, November 16, the Lake Erie College Fine Arts department will open its doors for the Fall Student Exhibition, displaying previews of Bachelor of Fine Arts student capstones and other original student artwork, including sculpture, Read More

Instructed by noted founder, director and lead choreographer of ELEVĀTED dance crew Howard Washington ’08, LEC dance students will perform “Music Box” in a dance showcase on Friday Dec. 1, culminating the course Dance in Its Read More

Welcoming the season with song, LEC’s annual Christmas Vespers program will take place on Sunday, Dec. 3 at 4:30 p.m. in the Paul S. Weaver Memorial Auditorium of Helen Rockwell Morley Memorial Music Building. Featured performers will include Read More

The Lake Erie College Department of Theater’s November production of “The Jungle Book” will showcase a young cast and lead actor Tom Visel, in addition to the mask artistry of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Robin Heinrich Read More

Quire Cleveland will perform “Music of Henry Purcell” on Thursday, October 5, capping a long season of the Arts at Lake Erie College. Directed by Ross W. Duffin, the choral group’s selection of masterpieces has been described as Read More

Acting auditions will take place for the Lake Erie College Department of Theatre’s upcoming fall play “The Jungle Book” on Tuesday, Sept. 26 and Wednesday, Sept. 27 at 5 p.m. All LEC students, faculty, staff and community actors Read More

Multiple Harvey and Eisner Award-winning comic book writer Mark Waid will visit Lake Erie College to speak on “Why Superman Matters” on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017. Over a prolific 30-year career, Waid has written the widest variety of Read More

As part of an ongoing Arts revitalization at Lake Erie College, internationally renowned organist Todd Wilson has been named the College’s Organist-in-Residence. In early 2016, Wilson performed at Lake Erie College to celebrate the 10th Read More

The Lake Erie College Theatre department will present a previously unnamed weekend of monologues titled “‘My Dear Wife…’: Letters from the Union Army” Sept. 8-9 at 7:30 p.m. and Sept. 10 at 2:00 p.m. “As a Read More

Earlier this month, Lake Erie College junior Soren Jaffe placed 2nd at the American Go Association’s (AGA) 33rd annual U.S. Go Congress tournament. The events took place August 5 - 12, 2017 in San Diego, Calif. Jaffe was defeated in his first Read More

The Lake Erie College Theatre department is seeking students, staff, faculty, and members of the community to perform in a weekend production of short monologues taking place Sept. 8, 9 and 10. “This is an opportunity for aspiring actors to Read More

Lake Erie College invites students, alumni and friends to attend a rescheduled performance by the Joe Augustine Trio on Thursday, September 14, 2017 at 8:00 p.m. It will take place in the C.K. Rickel Theater in Royce Hall for the Fine and Read More

Rising Lake Erie College junior Soren Jaffe is set to compete at the American Go Association’s (AGA) 33rd annual U.S. Go Congress tournament in San Diego, Calif. August 5 - 12, 2017. There, the biggest annual US go tournament will attract Read More

Calling all Lake Erie College student and alumni photographers! Do you have an image of campus or from your time at Lake Erie that captures your experience as a member of the LEC community? The National Alumni Board invites you to submit your Read More

At Lake Erie College, Dr. Jennifer Swartz-Levine is known for her love of superheroes. Whether by way of a unique pin on her jacket or a lecture topic in the Learning Community she instructs about Superman’s influence on the changing landscape Read More

The Lake Erie College Music Department will present its annual Spring Musical Arts Concert on Sunday, April 23 at 4:00 p.m. in the Helen Rockwell Morley Memorial Music Building on the College’s campus. This concert will include performances Read More

Rabbit Run Theater, in Madison, Ohio, and Lake Erie College close the 2016-17 Studio Series: Extraordinary Circumstances season with David Auburn’s compelling drama “Proof.” Winner of three Tony Awards, including Best Play, Read More

Lake Erie College will host its annual spring Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) student showcase and multi-media student exhibition from April 6 through the end of the semester in the B.K. Smith Gallery in Royce Hall for the Fine and Performing Arts. The Read More

On Saturday, April 8, 2017, Cleveland Institute of Music students David von Behren and Garrett Law will perform a special concert of organ music on the Carol Lewis Morris ’67 Restored Skinner Organ at Lake Erie College. The concert will take Read More

Click here for the Plain Dealer's coverage of our comedy studies minor.  The curriculum at Lake Erie College is about to get a whole lot funnier. Starting this semester, students can minor in comedy studies, a new offering within the Read More

Rabbit Run Theater, in Madison, Ohio, and Lake Erie College open the third production of the 2016-17 Studio Series: Extraordinary Circumstances season with “Songs for a New World.” This musical revue with music and lyrics by Jason Read More