Articles About Yellow Springs Kids Playhouse

• Yellow Springs Kids Playhouse to take final bow

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 26, 2022

  

  After 27 years, the curtains are closing on one of the village’s longest-running and most beloved theater companies. Earlier this month, the Yellow Springs Kids Playhouse announced that the youth theater company is dissolving.

• Yellow Springs Kids Playhouse now casting ‘The Time Machine’

  By Jessica ThomasJuly 31, 2021

  

  Celebrating its 27th year, the Yellow Springs Kids Playhouse will explore a world decimated by climate change in its performance of “The Time Machine,” by H.G. Wells. The show is currently being cast and will premiere this fall.

• Coming soon to a street near you— YSKP’s traveling puppet show

  By YS News StaffJanuary 27, 2021

  

  The Traveling Tabletop Theater, or TTT, is a mobile puppet theater complete with a stage, a sound system and even seating for a few dozen spectators, which will be touring the streets of Yellow Springs later this year.

• ‘The Timeline Show’— Exhibition tells story of Yellow Springs theater

  By Lauren ShowsOctober 6, 2020

  

  History tells a different story about Yellow Springs — one about a town that’s had a long, sometimes fraught, but always loving relationship with the theater. That story is being shared with the community by the YS Arts Council, the Arts and Culture Commission and the YS Historical Society in “The Timeline Show,” which opens at the Bryan Center on Jan. 18.

• YSKP brings back the old West

  By Reilly DixonJuly 11, 2019

  

  “Bonanza Valley!” is anything but the typical “cowboys and Indians” narrative. Instead, the YSKP play retells the story of the Western frontier in a way that explores and challenges “Old West” traditions of property, power and gender. It runs through Sunday.

• A singer’s path, at the Little Art

  By Audrey HackettSeptember 28, 2017

  

  Acclaimed tenor Martin Bakari still calls Yellow Springs home, though he’s lived in New York for the past five years, and Boston for six years before that.

• YSKP’s animals to save the farm

  By Megan BachmanJuly 16, 2015

  

  YSKP’s 21st original musical, “The Farm,” is inspired by the events of the Whitehall Farm auction and George Orwell’s “Animal Farm.” The play asks the question — can the wild animals, farm animals and human kids work together to save their beloved farm from developers?

• Animals, kids and spirits save farm in YSKP show

  By Megan BachmanJuly 8, 2015

  

  The Yellow Springs Kids Playhouse retells the 1999 Whitehall Farm auction using animals, land spirits and human characters.

• ‘Godzilla’ takes to the stage with a comic twist

  By Megan BachmanFebruary 6, 2014

  

  A 500-foot fire-breathing monster rises from the sea and tromps around with no regard for human life.
  That’s the gist the plot of an upcoming local production, only this time, GODZILLA! is a clever comedy with pop music.