Rep staging Silverstein plays
PERRYSBURG – The Toledo Rep will present "An Adult Evening Of Shel Silverstein" Saturday at 8
p.m. at the Owens Community College Center for the Fine and Performing Arts, off Oregon Road in
Perrysburg Township.
Directed by Jeffrey J. Albright, the show is part of the troupe’s Edgy Readings series.
In the darkly comic world of Shel Silverstein, a world where nothing is as it seems and where the most
innocent conversation can turn menacing in an instant. The seven imaginative plays in this collection
range widely in content. The plays include "One Tennis Shoe," "Bus Stop,"
"Going Once," "The Best Daddy"," The Lifeboat Is Sinking," "Buy One
Get One Free" and "Wash And Dry."
A reception will be held at 7:30 p.m.
Museum hosts Literati party
TOLEDO – The Toledo Museum of Art will host a party Literati! on Friday, from 6:30 from 9:30 p.m. in the
museum’s former Art in Glass Gallery.
The social event celebrates the museum’s fall exhibitions, three of which highlight the powerful
connection between art and literature, imagery and words. Partygoers are encouraged to come costumed as
their favorite fictional character and be part of bringing "lit" to life.
Throughout the evening there will be hands-on activities, photo booths, food and a cash bar. The event is
free for members of the museum. Non-members can purchase tickets for $20 by calling (419) 255-8000 x
7448.
Exhibitions now on display or opening soon at the Museum include:
¥ Chihuly Toledo! through Nov. 29, Glass Pavilion. Rarely seen sketches and early works by the famed
glass artist drawn from the Museum’s own collection make up this special exhibit.
¥ Storybook Stars: Award-Winning Illustrations from the Mazza Collection, opening Friday and continuing
through Jan. 31, Works on Paper Galleries. The exhibit features 75 illustrations from artists who have
won major awards for their work in children’s books. Most works, which include illustrations by Maurice
Sendak, Eric Carle, Arnold Lobel and Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), are from the Mazza Museum at the
University of Findlay.
¥ LitGraphic: The World of the Graphic Novel through Jan. 3 in the Canaday Gallery. The traveling exhibit
contains 146 artworks by 24 contemporary graphic novelists and historic practitioners.
Pyramid secret focus of talk
TOLEDO – Robert Brier, an avid Egyptologist and one of the world’s foremost authorities on mummies, will
discuss a radical new theory of how the pyramid was built and the recently discovered evidence that
supports the theory Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the Little Theater at the Toledo Museum of Art.
"The Secret of the Great Pyramid" is the first in a series of presentations being co-sponsored
by the Archaeological Institute of America-Toledo Society and the museum.
The Friday evening presentation at the Museum will focus on Brier’s explorations of the Great Pyramid
with French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin, a venture that also became the subject of a recent National
Geographic television special as well as a new book.
The next presentation in the series, the Annual Kurt Luckner Lecture, is "Miles Up the Nile."
Oct. 23 at 7:30 p.m. with Carolyn M. Putney, the Museum’s interim deputy director and director of
collections and Asian art, and Richard H. Putney, professor of art history at the University of Toledo.
