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• YSKP summer season on

  By Lauren HeatonApril 28, 2011

  

  At the YS Kids Playhouse gala on Saturday night at its new home on the Antioch College campus, the playhouse announced that it would indeed have a summer season this year.

• YSKP pulls for summer season

  By Lauren HeatonMarch 24, 2011

  

  Every summer for the past 15 years, YS Kids Playhouse, the little theater that could, has put on at least one musical and often two original productions. But what if suddenly there wasn’t a YSKP summer season?

• School’s 5-year forecast in red

  By Lauren HeatonOctober 28, 2010

  The current school district budget picture, as presented by district Treasurer Dawn Weller at the school board’s Oct. 14 meeting, shows that expenditures are increasing at a greater rate than revenues, and the local district will begin running a negative cash balance at the beginning of the 2013 school year.

• YSKP is no longer just for kids

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 9, 2010

  

  At the height of a YS Kids Playhouse production, when every member of the cast has gathered together at fever pitch to dance and belt out an ardent musical message, there can be a yearning, or even a fleeting sense of jealousy, that kids get to do all the fun stuff. But this fall, adults can have fun too, when YSKP opens up four new dance classes to people of all ages.

• YSKP invites adults to join the fun

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 6, 2010

  

  YS Kids Playhouse is widening its scope this fall by opening up some of its youth dance classes to adults who want to boogie too.

• YS Kids Playhouse ‘Oceans’ moves to the power of dreams

  By Lauren HeatonJuly 22, 2010

  

  At a YS Kids Playhouse rehearsal last week in the Presbyterian Church, the cast members of the newest show, Oceans of Notions (Lakes of Mistakes), were laughing hysterically as they ran through the passageways of Westminster Hall.

• 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.