5 issues to do in NEO: Maple syrup enjoyable, Alonzo Bodden humor and extra

Syrup with a aspect of historical past

Satisfy your candy tooth whilst you find out about maple syrup manufacturing at Hale Farm & Village. After a pancake brunch, see tapping demonstrations and sap boiling on the grounds of the historical past museum inside Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Hale Farm’s Maple Sugar Festival continues Saturdays and Sundays in March, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Topical comedy

Alonzo Bodden repeatedly is on the panel of NPR’s humous information quiz present “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!” He brings his comical tackle present occasions to Cleveland for two nights at Hilarities 4th Street Theatre Downtown on Friday and Saturday. And for those who dig jazz, you’ll get pleasure from that he not too long ago recorded a particular with Grammy Award-winning bassist Christian McBride.

‘Woman Behind the Lens’

Frances Benjamin Johnston is within the highlight greater than a century after she skilled in Paris and arrange a photograph studio in Washington, D.C. The McKinley Presidential Library & Museum in Canton honors this trailblazing photographer and her work capturing 4 U.S. presidents in addition to Southern life. “The Woman Behind the Lens: Frances Benjamin Johnston and the American Presidency” is on view by May 31.

Millennial nostalgia

Former classmates pre-game on a porch earlier than their highschool reunion popping out of the pandemic in “The Comeuppance.” The darkish comedy faucets into the nervous power of reuniting as these millennials should face the previous and future. It’s additionally a play about adults for adults – there’s a content material advisory for audiences. Catch a efficiency now by April 4 at Dobama Theatre in Cleveland Heights.

Create with clay

Instead of dinner and a film, spend Friday night time making an attempt your hand – actually – at one thing new. Wheelhouse Studio in Medina hosts a workshop for beginners in making a pot for a plant. Learn learn how to roll, easy, slip and rating within the warehouse from 6-8 p.m. The consultants will end the pot with a glaze of your alternative and a plant from their neighbor, Gift Mill Run. Registration is required.