Tickets on sale now for Tri-C Performing Arts’ 2024-2025 season

CLEVELAND, OH – The upcoming Cuyahoga Community College Performing Arts season will feature a wide array of jazz and dance performances from artists around the world.

Tickets are on sale for all six shows that will run from October 2024 through April 2025. Free parking is available in lot 5 for the shows taking place on Cuyahoga Community College’s (Tri-C) campus.

The 2024-2025 shows include:

Amina Figarova Sextet and the Matsiko World Orphan Choir

Oct. 16 at 7:30 p.m.

Tri-C Metropolitan Campus Auditorium

Tickets: $35

Azerbaijani pianist and composer Amina Figarova and her sextet will be joined by the Matsiko World Orphan Choir, an ensemble of at-risk Liberian children.

Hélène Simoneau Danse (presented in partnership with DANCECleveland)

Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m.

Mimi Ohio Theatre (Playhouse Square)

Tickets: $10 to $60 via Playhouse Square

The French-Canadian choreographer is coming to Cleveland for a performance that explores themes of identity, sexuality, romance and the world around us.

John Beasley’s MONK’estra

Nov. 16 at 7:30 p.m.

Tri-C Metropolitan Campus Auditorium

Tickets: $35

MONK’estra is a smashing big band that captures the spirit of Thelonious Monk’s singular music in fresh arrangements flavored with contemporary sounds, ranging from Afro-Cuban rhythms to hip-hop.

Matthew Whitaker

Feb. 8, 2025, at 7:30 p.m.

Simon and Rose Mandel Theatre

Tickets: $35

Matthew Whitaker started playing keyboard at age 3, and by 13, he became the youngest artist to be endorsed by Hammond in its 80-plus-year history. He studied at the Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School in New York City, the only community music school for the blind and visually impaired in the U.S.

The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra, directed by Scotty Barnhart

March 26, 2025, at 7:30 p.m.

Tri-C Metropolitan Campus Auditorium

Tickets: $45 general admission, $75 premium seats

In its 90-year history, the Count Basie Orchestra has won 18 Grammy Awards, performed for kings, queens and other world royalty, appeared in several movies and television shows and played every major jazz festival and concert hall in the world.

Raphael Xavier: Skiff (presented in partnership with DANCECleveland)

April 12, 2025, at 7:30 p.m., and April 13, 2025, at 2 p.m.

Tri-C John P. Murphy Foundation Theatre

Tickets: $25 and $45 via DANCECleveland

Raphael Xavier will perform Skiff, an hour-long work features guest artists including some of Northeast Ohio’s own dancers. The unique piece explores the aging body, race, privilege and power while encouraging conversations of identity, legacy and lineage. The work is contextualized through the lens of Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea.

Tickets for all shows are on sale now. For more information, visit the Tri-C Performing Arts Series webpage or call 216-987-4444.

This story was written with the assistance of AI.