Winner of the Rosenthal New Play Prize last year at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Angus MacLachlan's The Dead Eye Boy has been nominated for the American Theatre Critics Association's New Play Award. Only 20 plays are nominated nationally out of hundreds of plays seen each year by ACTA critics across the country.

Artists represented in the exhibition include Issa Freij, Amit Geron, Yehoshua Glotman, Noel Jabbour, Adi Nes, Naomi Tereza Salmon, Tamir Sher, Osama Silwadi, Sharon Ya'ari, Lee Yanor and Khaled Zighari. A full-color catalog of the exhibition will be available.

Aspirations: Toward a Future in the Middle East will travel to Buenos Aires, Argentina; Santiago, Chile; Havana, Cuba; and Monterrey, Mexico; and will continue its United States tour beginning in Chicago in mid-2002.

Aspirations is produced by the Ohio Arts Council's International Program in partnership with Arts Midwest and with the support of the Illinois Arts Council and the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cultural and Scientific Relations Department and Office of Cultural Affairs in the United States, Consulate General of Israel, New York.

The Riffe Gallery, operated by the Ohio Arts Council, showcases the work of Ohio's artists and curators and the collections of the state's museums and galleries. For information or to schedule a tour call the Riffe Gallery at 614/644-9624.