Articles About theater

• ‘The Language of Dolls’ to be staged at Foundry Theater

  By Lauren ShowsOctober 18, 2024

  

  “The Language of Dolls” will be performed Friday and Saturday, Oct. 18 and 19, at 7 p.m.; and Sunday, Oct. 20, at 2 p.m. Tickets are $20 for general admission and $5 for youth and Antioch College students.

• YS Schools present: Dark, lighthearted ‘Addams Family’ musical

  By Lauren ShowsApril 24, 2024

  

  The young thespians of YS High and McKinney Middle schools are gearing up for their annual spring musical — a performance that promises to be creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky.

• Mad River Theater Works to debut March on Washington play

  By Lauren ShowsJanuary 11, 2024

  

  A new play by Mad River Theater Works, or MRTW, “Keep Marching: The Road to the March on Washington,” aims to delve deeper into the grassroots history of the historic event.

• Eye of the beholder

  By YS News StaffOctober 6, 2023

  

  YSHS students performed “She Kills Monsters” at Mills Lawn Thursday–Sunday last week to capacity crowds.

• Action, laughs and heart in ‘She Kills Monsters’

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 28, 2023

  

  In the upcoming Yellow Springs High School production of “She Kills Monsters,” comedy and drama come together to examine loss through a unique — and for its main character, unexpected — lens: the tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons and Dragons.

• Lights up at the Antioch College Foundry Theater

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 13, 2023

  

  This fall, the Foundry will again be the home to not just one group of artists-in-residence, but three. At the same time, the Foundry is gearing up to launch a full season of programming.

• Mad River Theater Works youth residency debuts

  By Lauren ShowsJune 23, 2023

  

  The inaugural Mad River Theater Works summer theater residency for youth will debut a public performance on Friday, June 23, beginning at 7 p.m. at the Foundry Theater.

• ‘Five Scripts’ to return to the stage

  By YS News StaffApril 10, 2023

  

  On Monday and Tuesday, April 10 and 11, the young thespians of McKinney Middle School and Yellow Springs High School will present two reprise performances of their fall show, “Five Scripts Toward an Anti-Racist Tomorrow,” at the Foundry Theater at Antioch College. Each show begins at 7 p.m.

• 2022 In Review | The Arts

  By Cheryl DurgansJanuary 5, 2023

  

  Impromptu music performances, live theater, new murals, book publications, films and so, so much more — Yellow Springs was a fountain of art in 2022.

• Students take flight in ‘Peter Pan’

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 17, 2022

  

  McKinney Middle and Yellow Springs High schools will present “Peter Pan and Wendy,” adapted by Doug Rand from the original play and novel by J.M. Barrie, Thursday–Sunday, Nov. 17–20, in the Yellow Springs High School gym.