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• The Oedipus Complex

  By Aaron ZaremskyAugust 21, 2010

  

  Mark Greenfield opened his rendition of Oedipus Rex at the Antioch Amphitheater last Friday night.

• 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.

• New Yellow Springs Theatre Project seeks to tap local talent

  By Diane ChiddisterMay 6, 2010

  

  Village children have many opportunities to take part in live theater through YS Kids Playhouse and school productions, and older youth benefit from a vital theater program at YSHS/McKinney. But local adult actors and playwrights have lacked consistent opportunities to perform since the closing of Center Stage theater several years ago.

• Theater, music, cones this summer

  By YS News Staff

  

  The Corner Cone will serve up more than just ice cream and hot dogs this year. Every Friday evening until the end of its season in October it plans to offer a live music performance, and in August it will make its foray into theater with an event co-owner Bob Swaney is calling the “Soft Serve Playhouse 10-Minute Play Festival.”

• Antioch School enlivens a classic

  By Lauren HeatonApril 29, 2010

  

  Anyone who has been alive for longer than five years has likely seen the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. But far fewer have read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the novel published by Frank Baum in 1900, which the Antioch School students say is more complicated and slightly more vicious.

• ‘Urinetown’ bursts with surprises

  By Lauren HeatonApril 22, 2010

  If viewers who haven’t heard of Urinetown: The Musical think they know what the Broadway hit is about, they don’t. If those who have heard about the show but haven’t seen it think they know how it ends, they don’t.

• A nonprofit, Little Art lives on

  By Web AdminOctober 22, 2009

  Zack McGhee loves the Little Art Theatre. He first started coming here for the indie circuit as a teenager from Fairborn and then in 2006 became a projectionist to get paid for one of his favorite pastimes. He is proud to have brought his Republican parents here to see films such as Michael Moore’s Bowling […]

• The ‘News’ off the page, on the stage

  By Lauren HeatonMay 28, 2009

  

  In the text of the classified ad about a lost puppy, there is a bigger story. In the letter to the editor about a neighbor’s farm that should or shouldn’t be developed, there is a bigger story. In the sports section about a ragamuffin team that clawed its way to state, there is still a bigger story.