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Arts Section

  • CMYS to feature piano, clarinet, cello

    By YS News StaffJanuary 23, 2020

    An unusual piano-clarinet-cello trio — The Goldstein-Peled-Fiterstein Trio — will take the stage on Sunday, Feb. 9, in Chamber Music in Yellow Springs’ third concert of the 2019–20 season.

  • Local filmmakers to return to Oscars

    By YS News StaffJanuary 15, 2020

    Steve Bognar and Julia Reichart are shown in Park City, Utah, where they last week attended the prestigious Sundance Film Festival to show their documentary, “American Factory.” The filmmakers brought home one of the festival’s top honors, the “Directing Award: U.S. Documentary.” (Submitted photo)

    “American Factory,” the documentary film by villagers and filmmakers Steve Bognar and Julia Reichert, has been nominated for the Academy Award for “Best Documentary Feature.”

  • First Lines — JOY JOY JOY

    By Audrey HackettJanuary 10, 2020

    A poem from a former villager, the late Jean Barlow Hudson. Strange, dreamlike, filled with somberness and joy, Jean’s poem helps us welcome the turning of the year.

  • The top stories of 2019

    By YS News StaffJanuary 2, 2020

    The Yellow Springs News’ annual year in review, printed in the Dec. 26, 2019 issue, is now available online. Check out our top stories of the year.

  • 2019 Year in Review: Arts

    By Lauren Shows

    2019 Year in Review: Arts

  • The Decade in Review: Arts

    By Lauren Shows

    Actor, director and co-writer Bradley Cooper and supporting actor Dave Chappelle sat on the front stage of the Little Art Theatre, to speak about and answer questions on Bradley's new release of “A Star is Born” (Submitted photo by Frédéric Yonnet)

    Yellow Springs 2010–2019: Arts

  • The Oberufer Plays— Remembering a holiday tradition

    By Lauren ShowsDecember 20, 2019

    Both “The Nativity and Shepherd’s Play” and “The Paradise Play” are examples of the mystery play or miracle play — a recreation of a Bible story, presented in tableaux in medieval times, and one of the earliest types of formal play.

  • Whirlwind of a weekend

    By YS News StaffDecember 19, 2019

    Billed as the “all-schools musical,” “Scrooge!” lived up to its descriptor, featuring students — and teachers — from the entire Yellow Springs school district. It was one of numerous events that played to full audiences the weekend of Dec. 13–15. Pictured above are Julia Hoff as Mrs. Carstairs and Joseph Minde-Berman as Fezziwig. (Photo by Kathleen Galarza)

    The weekend of Dec. 13–15 was particularly laden with events.

  • Rare all-district production— A musical ‘Scrooge!’ for the holidays

    By Guest Contributor

    YSHS is presenting “Scrooge! The Musical” from Thursday, Dec. 12, to Sunday, Dec. 15, at the Foundry Theater, at Antioch College,  920 Corry St.

  • Solstice Concert— Cellist to offer ‘sonic meditation’

    By Carol Simmons

    Fitzpatrick’s solo cello invocation for the project, an original composition that has become a signature piece in his continuing focus on music as an agent of peace and healing, will be among the works featured when the classically trained musician returns to Yellow Springs to perform a Solstice Concert on Sunday, Dec. 22, at House of AUM.