ONU Freed Center 2021-22 schedule
Ohio Northern University invites you to "be our guest" as they present the Freed Center for the Performing Arts' 30-year anniversary season and celebrate ONU's sesquicentennial. They are excited to celebrate these milestones with a mix of programming that includes some of the first theatre productions to be performed in the Freed Center and some favorites from over the years:
- Beauty and the Beast (Oct. 2-3 and 14-17), directed and choreographed by Matt Simpkins, BFA ’03
- The ONU Bands including Band-O-Rama (Oct. 31), the Symphonic Band and Spring Band Festival (May 1)
- The return of The ONU Holiday Spectacular (Nov. 18-20 in Ada and Dec. 3-5 in Lima)
- The ONU Dance Company featuring special guest Inlet Dance Theatre (Feb. 5-6)
- Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (Feb. 19-27), credited as the first play to be produced in the Freed Center
- A revival of 42nd Street (April 9-10 and 21-24), the first musical to be produced in the Freed Center, with alumna Amanda Fannon-Wischmeyer, BFA ’11, as choreographer
Stories Posted This Week
Thursday, June 11, 2026
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Tuesday, June 9, 2026
- Local students on ONU's Spring 2026 Dean's List
- Obituary for Kimberlee Ann Rayl
- NWS heat advisory for June 10
- Ada Gators open swim season at Bluffton
- Letter: Invitation to identify Day of Caring projects
- Randall L. “Randy” Clark worked for Cole Motor Sales
- AACC member mixer at Old Route 69 Brewery
- 5-acre refuge for pollinators and purple martins
- Local teen documents Ohio sightings of steam locomotive Big Boy
- United Women in Faith Ice Cream Social
- Ada Library to host Realm of the Reptile