Arts Section
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Duke Ellington’s ‘Nutcracker Suite,’ string-style, at the Foundry
String super-group Mr Sun will bring their reimagined version of the suite to the Foundry Theater on Thursday, Dec. 11: A string-band take on the suite based, in part, on Tchaikovsky’s original, but mostly on the 1960 big-band-inflected reworking by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn — a reinterpretation of a reinterpretation.
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25 years of Ms. Demure
This month, Ms. Demure will host a live holiday program on DATV featuring a number of guests — including Yellow Springs’ own Mayor Pam Conine — in celebration of the season, Ms. Demure’s 60th birthday, and 25 years on DATV’s airwaves.
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Annual Solstice Poetry Reading to benefit Tecumseh Land Trust, Glen Helen
The event, co-sponsored by Tecumseh Land Trust, Glen Helen and Tesseract Books, will take place Dec. 5, 7–9 p.m., in the Glen’s Vernet Ecological Center at 405 Corry St. Twelve local poets will read original works, followed by a wine and cheese reception and an open mic session.
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Villager’s new novel heads west
“As with Geisel’s earlier work, the physical settings in ‘Orcas’ Call’ map directly onto real places: Orcas Island, the Salish Sea, the Olympic Peninsula.”
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‘No Visas’ for Foundry artists
“NO VISAS: A Hip-Hop Journey from Jaffa to Jerusalem to Yellow Springs,” will take place Saturday, Nov. 22, at 7 p.m., at the Foundry Theater.
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Ten-Minute Play fest seeks submissions, actors
Yellow Springs Theater Company is accepting submissions and actors for its annual Ten-Minute Play Festival, projected to be presented Feb. 13 and 14, 2026.
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World House Choir honors the legacy of civil rights fireband Pauli Murray
This weekend, the 10-movement dramatic cantata, “Sincerely Yours, Pauli Murray,” will be performed in Yellow Springs Friday and Sunday, Nov. 7 and 9, and in Cincinnati on Nov. 8.
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Hear the voices of women Vietnam vets in ‘We Were There’
The reader’s theater production, adapted by Jane Blakelock, Amy Bennett and Louise Smith, with support from Mad River Theater Works, will be performed Nov. 1 and 2.
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Conscience and connection in new sci-fi novel
Set in 2275, “Interwoven” follows Chief Scientist Dr. Tah Morant, conflicted creator of the Deuteron engine, slated to be used in humanity’s last desperate mission off a dying Earth.
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Move and sing at the Foundry’s Trad Romp Wknd
When the foot-stomping starts at the Foundry Theater next weekend, it won’t be just another weekend of concerts. Trad Romp Wknd, set for Oct. 24–26, is shaping up to be a full-bodied celebration of traditional music, movement and community.
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