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• All You Need is Love

  By Aaron ZaremskyJuly 11, 2010

  

  Yellow Springers participated in Sufi dancing before the YSKP show this Saturday.

• Puppets, Persian poetry, and change

  By Megan BachmanJuly 8, 2010

  

  In its 16th year, YS Kids Playhouse continues to produce innovative youth theater for adults and children alike. Its latest musical, The Conference of Birds, explores themes of transformation and self-realization through a 12th-century desert fable.

• Recession knocks local nonprofits

  By Lauren HeatonAugust 6, 2009

  Almost a full year after the national economic seizure, nonprofit organizations in the village are feeling the squeeze in their budgets. The crash affected most markedly the heftily endowed, and it hurt most cruelly the service-oriented groups. While contraction to reduce expenditures is an option, many local nonprofits are choosing to maintain or expand their programs in hopes of riding out a temporary financial slump.

• YS Kids Playhouse spotlights Bond, parkour movement

  By Brooke BryanJuly 9, 2009

  YS Kids Playhouse kicks off its summer programming beginning Thursday at 7:30 p.m. with the opening show of A Price to Pay: Before Bond Became 007. Running for two consecutive weeks, Thursday through Sunday, the production, written by YSKP alum Daniel Malarkey, tells the story of the teenage James Bond and how he earned his lucky 007.

• YSKP, the whole year ’round

  By Susan GartnerMay 7, 2009

  

  Even with the loss of its Antioch Theater space last year, YS Kids Playhouse continues to build community through contemporary theater. Displaying its characteristic “the show must go on!” spirit and resourcefulness, the local arts organization has every intention to fulfill its mission of not only providing theater arts and arts education opportunities for Yellow Springs and surrounding communities, but to expand its programming year-round.

• Nonstop, YSKP seek space

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 11, 2008

  Village Planning Commission held a lengthy public hearing on Monday, Sept. 8, to consider whether to permit the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute to use the home at 113 East Davis Street for administrative office space.

• Grown up kids give back at YSKP

  By Susan GartnerJuly 17, 2008

  

  The room is filled with shouts and “ooofs!” and the sound of punches making contact. One young girl tries to strangle a boy twice her size while a boy who has just been kicked in the stomach, groans and rolls over onto his side. A girl two feet away aims a powerful punch at another boy’s jaw.

• YSKP to bring life to ‘Frankenstein’

  By Susan GartnerJune 19, 2008

  

  Fans of Mary Shelley’s original work, Frankenstein, written in 1818, must have been horrified to watch Hollywood hook its profit-seeking electrodes up to her carefully constructed philosophical essay, then zap 42 celluloid creations into life.

• ‘Velveteen Rabbit’ comes alive at MLS

  By Virgil HerveyFebruary 28, 2008

  

  You thought YS Kids Playhouse events only took place in the summer? Think again! YSKP is moving into the schools. On March 6–9, third through sixth graders at Mills Lawn School will perform Mary Kay Clark’s original theatrical adaptation of the children’s story, The Velveteen Rabbit…