Articles About YSKP

• 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 focus on feisty Alice

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanJune 30, 2016

  

  On a hot summer day last week, the Antioch Amphitheater was filled with kids singing and dancing in the midday sun. If someone missed their cue, the actors went back to their starting places and began the musical number anew. The temperature was in the upper 80s, and the day’s rehearsal was just getting started.

• YSKP’s 2016 summer season debuts ’Alice, Although’

  By YS News StaffJune 23, 2016

  

  YSKP’s 22nd summer musical begins Thursday, June 23 with the debut performance of “Alice, Although,” which tells the story of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Teddy Roosevelt and rule-breaking Washington VIP.

• 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?

• Whitehall Farm inspires fun, play

  By Megan BachmanMay 14, 2015

  

  After more than two centuries, the historic Whitehall Farm has many stories to tell. But it’s the story about how a small town raised more than one million dollars in six weeks to purchase and preserve the farm in 1999 that continues to inspire both villagers and a local land trust whose early work was defined by it.

• Foundry Theater hard stage to share

  By Lauren HeatonApril 23, 2015

  

  Since Foundry Theater reopened last summer after its first renovation since the 1980s, the black box at Antioch College has been busy.

• YSKP leadership changes

  By Megan BachmanJuly 17, 2014

  

  As this summer’s Yellow Springs Kids Playhouse original musical, “Superhuman Happiness” explores the gods and goddesses of ancient myth, a titan of local children’s theater, YSKP artistic director John Fleming, makes his dramatic exit from the nonprofit youth theater company he founded in 1995.

• ‘Superhuman Happiness’ at YSKP

  By Megan BachmanJuly 10, 2014

  

  Everything changes, nothing perishes.

  So writes Roman poet Ovid in his magnum opus “Metamorphoses,” from which the new Yellow Springs Kids Playhouse original musical “Superhuman Happiness” is adapted.

• ‘Superhuman Happiness’ at YSKP

  By Megan BachmanJuly 8, 2014

  

  Yellow Springs Kids Playhouse explores the theme of transformation in its new original music, “Superhuman Happiness,” an adaptation of Roman poet Ovid’s magnum opus “Metamorphoses.”