Cuyahoga Falls, OH – The 2023 Summer season at Porthouse Theatre continues! "The Prom" will have its regional debut, right here at Porthouse Theatre. This show explores the golden rule, "love thy neighbor." "The Prom" opens July 22 and runs through August 6, 2023, with a preview performance taking place on July 21. Based on a book written by Bob Martin and Chad Beguelin, lyrics by Chad Beguelin and music by Matthew Sklar, "The Prom" follows four Broadway stars who are in desperate need of a new stage. When they hear that there’s controversy around a small-...

July Safety Month Topic The Kent State Department of Environmental Health and Safety continues to bring you safety related information each month.  As always ,  for questions or concerns, about safety on campus  please contact our office for assistance.    Please go to our website for more information.   During the summer months, the biggest safety related topic is heat safety.   However, there are several other safety issues in the summer that will be addressed in this article.  These include heat safety, safety in the sun, inse...

Kent State University’s Glauser School of Music held the inaugural Roy Minoff Composition Competition in spring 2023 with judging completed in June. Max Grafe, D.M.A., of Lawrenceville, New Jersey, has been selected as the winner of the 2023 Roy Minoff Composition Competition.  The goal of this competition is to support the creation of a significant new work that will receive its world premiere at Kent State by School of Music faculty in the fall of 2024. Grafe, the winning composer, will attend the world premiere of his new work and give a lecture on his music.  "I'm incre...

The Kigali Genocide Memorial in Kigali, Rwanda, could easily be mistaken for a botanical garden: groves of palm trees, a rose garden and abundant blooming flowers and tropical plants form a lush landscape accentuated by fountains, sculptures, and the soft, joyful melodies of African songbirds.  At its center, however, large concrete expanses of graves tell the story of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi, when more than 1 million members of the Tutsi tribe were murdered in a 100-day span by the government-backed Hutu tribe. More than 250,000 of those victims are laid to rest beneath th...