Applause is an Emmy award-winning locally produced TV show that celebrates artists and cultural groups around Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. Each week this on-air arts magazine broadcasts a fresh half-hour of features, performances, on-location reports, and interviews from the studios of WVIZ/PBS ideastream. Special thanks to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College for the use of their Steinway Piano on Around Noon/Applause.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

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Two time academy award winner Tom Hanks comes back to Cleveland - BACK to support the group that gave him his BIG break – the Great Lakes Theatre Company. While in town recently Hanks sat down with NPR’s Scott Simon for an episode of WVIZ/PBS ideastream’s “Backstage With,”…and here’s some of that conversation….

While Tom Hanks has played a number of unforgettable roles, one that hits close to northeast Ohio is his portrayal of NASA astronaut James Lovell, who was born in Cleveland. In the film “APOLLO 13,” Lovell and crew never made it to the moon, but throughout the Apollo Space Program six space craft did. And now plans are underway to return man to the Moon by two-thousand – twenty. And you can get a glimpse of NASA’s next generation of spacecraft at the Great Lakes Science Center.

Print making is one of the world’s oldest art forms. And thanks to a dedicated group of art lovers, Cleveland has one of the oldest print clubs in the country. For the past 90 years the Print Club of Cleveland sought out the works of masters and emerging artists in an effort to enhance the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

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Production of Applause on WVIZ/PBS is made possible by grants from:

The Cleveland Foundation
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United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland, Inc.

The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this program with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.