Tantrum Theater is presenting its first annual Tantrum Theater Summer Festival over the next two weekends. A news release describes the week as “a theater-focused, multi-disciplinary event…, featuring world-renowned artists at venues located on the Ohio University campus.”

The annual Athens Community Arts & Music Festival promises a variety of attractions at various venues in uptown Athens this Saturday.

Athens-based Ohio music and art collective Aquabear Legion will be celebrating 15 years with the release of two compilations.

The second big uptown festival of the summer takes place this Saturday when thousands of community members and visitors converge on North Court Street for the 15th annual Boogie on the Bricks.

An annual celebration of underground rock ’n roll rolls out its 23rd year with bands from Athens to Japan this Thursday through Saturday at the Union Bar in Athens.

The Fur Peace Ranch is offering up one of its biggest weekends of the year on Saturday, with its annual Arts and Minds Festival.

Ohio Valley Summer Theater’s 2019 offering brings “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” to an area stage for the very first time, at Ohio University’s Forum Theater.

The Athena Cinema is inviting audiences to stay cool and make a positive impact in Athens this summer through its annual “Beat the Heat $2 Days fundraiser for Southeast Ohio Youth Mentoring (formerly Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Athens).

One of the biggest events of Athens’ summer calendar arrives on Saturday with a celebration of the life of the late Ivan Faske, operator of the legendary uptown Athens bar Swanky’s.

Thursday evening, June 13, the Dairy Barn Arts Center is set to host its last event in the spring series “Spoken & Heard, Poetry of Departure and Relevance.” 

For their last show of the season, ABC Players will present “Burlesque Humor Revisited” – described colorfully in a news release as “the fast-paced, naughty romp through the jokes, puns, slow burns and double takes that 20th century American comedians cut their teeth on.”