Articles About kids theater

• 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.

• YSHS, McKinney theater— ‘Bigfoot’ takes to the stage

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 26, 2019

  

  “The Bigfoot Letters” is a comedy presented by McKinney Middle School and Yellow Springs High School for four performances, Thursday–Saturday, Sept. 26–28, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, Sept. 29, at 2 p.m. All performances will be held at the Foundry Theater at Antioch College.

• 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.

• Antioch School kids tell Bill Mullins’ story

  By Carol SimmonsFebruary 23, 2017

  

  A recent theatrical storytelling residency at the Antioch School became an opportunity to learn and share a story from their own community history via the medium of live theater.

• Antioch School to present ‘Alice’

  By Megan BachmanMay 7, 2015

  

  A children’s book that started as an improvised story to entertain a 10-year-old girl on a row boat named Alice is being staged by children of the Antioch School.

• Nonstop fun at Nonstop fundraiser

  By Aaron ZaremskyDecember 19, 2010

  

  The Nonstop Institution hosted a fundraising gala last night with a diverse lineup of acts.

• An ‘Uncle Vanya’ that kids can get

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 2, 2010

  In 1979 a writer and teacher named Phillip Lopate decided to have his fifth- and sixth-grade students at PS 75 in New York City stage a production of Uncle Vanya on Broadway. Thirty years later, one of those students, Sasha Waters Freyer, has made a film, Chekhov for Children.

• Wilde and witty

  By Diane ChiddisterNovember 11, 2010

  

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• 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.

• 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…