Planning a night at the theater? Check out Penguin Rep’s latest production, Miracle on South Division Street! The Buffalo-set comedy follows the Nowak family, proud caretakers of a backyard shrine commemorating the day the Blessed Mother allegedly appeared in Grandpa’s barbershop. When a late-in-life confession upends the story behind that “miracle,” the Nowaks’ sense of […]

Saxophonist, composer and educator Jordan VanHemert has four critically acclaimed releases to his credit, and a fifth on the way in early 2024 (featuring Terell Stafford, producer Michael Dease, Helen Sung, Rodney Whitaker and Lewis Nash). Born in Korea and raised in Michigan, VanHemert makes music rooted in the jazz tradition and guided by a […]