Articles About YSHS Theatre Arts Association

• YSHS One Acts for stunts, funnies

  By Matt MindeMay 8, 2014

  

  Whatever the One Acts are to local audiences, the one rule of the student-led theater production is there are no rules, and what happens each night depends on the mood of the actors and the alignment of the stars.

• Love, calypso beat in YSHS musical

  By Anisa KlineApril 11, 2013

  If you’re interested in the Caribbean, calypso music or star-crossed lovers, this year’s high school musical should appeal to you. The musical, Once on this Island, will be performed at Mills Lawn on April 12, 13, 14, 19, 20 and 21, with Friday and Saturday showings beginning at 8 p.m. and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m.

• YSHSTAA’s Curtain Warmer­— Keeping theater alive for the kids

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 19, 2012

  

  Performing in theater helps students feel a part of a team, learn to memorize lines and organize information, respect deadlines, develop empathy and build self esteem. And above all, it’s fun.

• A swinging spring musical at YSHS — Grease opens Friday

  By Megan BachmanApril 11, 2012

  

  Yellow Springs High School students are eager to play their rebellious teenage counterparts at the fictitious Rydell High School in this year’s spring musical, Grease.

• YSHS presents ‘Last Night of Ballyhoo’

  By Lauren HeatonNovember 17, 2011

  

  No one ever talks about Jews in Atlanta, even the Jews in Atlanta. That’s why Alfred Uhlry’s romantic comedy about a small Jewish community living in the capital of the South in 1939 opens with a Christmas tree.

• YSHS kids ready to rock ‘Chicago’

  By Megan BachmanMay 5, 2011

  

  If any high school could perform the edgy, somewhat risqué musical Chicago, it’s Yellow Springs. The show’s vaudevillian song and dance numbers are difficult, its despicable characters challenging — but for the talented group of young actors, it’s simply fun.

• VIDEO: A sneak peek of YSHS’s Chicago

  By Megan BachmanApril 27, 2011

  

  The Yellow Springs High School drama club will open its spring musical, Chicago, this weekend. See a video sneak peek after the jump.

• Music, dance to honor YSHS theater

  By Kelsey CundiffFebruary 10, 2011

  The YSHS theater program has inspired Lauren Westendorf and Donovan Berends, so the duo is holding a musical review featuring songs from Broadway musicals to raise money for the program as their senior project.

• Wilde and witty

  By Diane ChiddisterNovember 11, 2010

  

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• Group keeps theater arts going

  By Megan BachmanOctober 21, 2010

  

  When a new pit orchestra conductor was needed three weeks before the opening of last spring’s high school musical, the Yellow Springs High School Theatre Arts Association, or YSHSTAA, scrambled to find one. When concerns about censorship of student-written plays arose…