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Akron Extra Blog: The local company is taking up residence at the University of Akron. Plus, Bounce Innovation Hub chief Doug Weintraub is honored for his work with an important group of local investors, and Leadership Ohio turns to the Akron area for many of its new fellows.

Anton Chekhov is most famous for his dramas, including "The Seagull." Western Reserve Playhouse, which produced that show virtually in October, is now jumping into the turn-of-the-century playwrights comedies with the three shorts "On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco," "The Bear" and "The Swan Song." The night of Russian comedic sketches, dubbed "Fragments of Farce," will run at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Stories about human foibles include a man whose speech about the evils of tobacco turn...