Friends, Artists Remember Wheeling Playwright Tom StobartDaniel Flatley August 28, 2020Editor’s note: Two memorials are scheduled for Tom Stobart. The first is at 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 30, via Towngate...
Pick Your Perfect Valentine’s Day Date NightJessica Broverman February 7, 2020alentine’s Day rolls around every year — whether you want it to or not — and it’ll be here before...
‘Wheeling Reads: One Book, One Community’ Kicks Off With LectureProvided February 2, 2020Oglebay Institute’s Towngate Theater and the Wheeling Arts and Cultural Commission will host the kickoff event for Wheeling Reads: One...
Towngate Actors Let Down Their Hair in ‘Rapunzel’Provided January 26, 2020Oglebay Institute continues its tradition of bringing beloved fairytales to life with an imaginative production of “Rapunzel,” to be staged...
OLD CHURCHES, NEW LIFE (Part 1): Framed for the ArtsAlex Panas December 30, 2019Writer’s note: When thinking of Wheeling’s scenery, it’s hard to turn a corner without marveling at one of the city’s...
Touching and Inspirational Musical ‘The Littlest Angel’ on Towngate StageProvided December 1, 2019The classic Christmas story of a little angel who is transformed from a celestial pest to the toast of the...
‘Alice in Wonderland’ Enchants Young and Old at TowngateProvided October 5, 2019The story of “Alice in Wonderland” was penned more than 150 years ago, yet this engaging fantasy of a young...
Beloved Halloween Classic ‘Hocus Pocus’ on Towngate Big Screen Provided September 28, 2019The Sanderson sisters are being resurrected again. Halloween favorite “Hocus Pocus” is showing on the Towngate Theatre big screen on...
Towngate Theatre Opens 51st Season With Pulitzer Prize-Winning DramaProvided September 16, 2019Oglebay Institute’s Towngate Theatre opens its 51st season of community theater with Paul Zindel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “The Effect of...
Ananga Martin Band Album Release Party at TowngateProvided August 11, 2019Live music returns to Oglebay Institute’s Towngate Theatre, and first up is the Ananga Martin Band at 8 p.m. Saturday,...
All the World’s a Stage to Karla Boos’ Quantum TheatreLaura Lynn Brown February 22, 2019Long before Karla Boos had any idea of founding a theater company, she got her start as a young actress...
Wee Asked Kris Kringle AKA Robert GaudioPhyllis Sigal December 24, 2018WEEasked some simple questions — and your neighbors, friends, co-workers, acquaintances, even some strangers, answered. Get to know them a...
‘Sweat’ Equity Pays Off for Wheeling NativePhyllis Sigal November 23, 2018 Wheeling native Michelle Duffy certainly has invested “sweat equity” into her career, which has thus far spanned close to three decades...
Hollywood Success for ‘Hometown Girl’Phyllis Sigal September 21, 2018Editor’s note: Wheeling has cultivated a number of men and women who are outstanding in their chosen fields — the...
Towngate Opens Season With ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’Provided September 17, 2018Oglebay Institute’s Towngate Theatre opens its 50th season of community theater with the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play “The...
Towngate 50th Season Dedicated to Hal O’LearyMisty Klug August 28, 2018Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder once said, “I regard the theater as the greatest of all art forms,...
Wee Asked Butch MaxwellPhyllis Sigal August 6, 2018WEEasked some simple questions — and your neighbors, friends, co-workers, acquaintances, maybe some strangers, answered. Get to know them a...
Parcel Players to Stage ‘Sir Not-So-Brave’Provided July 29, 2018Oglebay Institute’s Parcel Players will stage “Sir Not-So-Brave,” an original play by Wheeling native Zachary Michael. It will be staged...
Stride Pianist to Bring Chaplin’s ‘Silent’ Films to Life at TowngateProvided June 9, 2018Stride piano player Tom Roberts, joined by Mary Beth Malek on clarinet, brings his celebrated “Charlie Chaplin Silent Picture Show”...
‘August: Osage County’ on Towngate StageProvided May 9, 2018Oglebay Institute’s Towngate Theatre closes its 2017-18 season with the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning “August: Osage County” by Tracy...
Film Documents Relationship Between Art and GardensProvided April 1, 2018Long considered spaces for expressing color, light and atmosphere, the garden has occupied the creative minds of some of the...
Perils of War Real for Women, TooSteve Novotney March 14, 2018They come home, too, except for, of course, more than 500 of the 280,000 women who have been deployed to...
Cast Assembled for ‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’Provided March 10, 2018The curtain opens on Towngate Theatre’s production of the dark, comic play, “The Cripple of Inishmaan,” on Friday, March 16....
Weelunk Video on Roney’s Point Debuts Nov. 23Steve Novotney November 12, 2016You had to know where it was to navigate the way there that very first time because it’s located some distance...
Towngate Stages A Full Season of EntertainmentMisty Klug September 5, 2016Lineup includes Theater, Music, Film, Poetry, Impov and More! Oglebay Institute’s Towngate Theater has announced its 2016-17 season and...
Local Film Premiere Set For TowngateBill Hanna February 25, 2016The Towngate Theatre will feature the world premiere of “The Static,” a locally written, filmed, produced, and directed film, on...
