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• 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.

• World House Choir to celebrate a decade of song, social justice

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 19, 2023

  

  The World House Choir — a multicultural and intergenerational musical group whose decade-long repertoire has embraced songs that put forward messages of unity, solidarity and social justice — will perform its 10-year anniversary concerts Thursday–Saturday, Sept. 21–23, at the Foundry Theater.

• New Little Art Theatre manager is old hand

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 18, 2023

  

  Next time you go to the movies, you can join the longtime Yellow Springs resident Caleab Wyant in celebrating his new position at the Little Art if you greet him by his new title: Theater Manager.

• 40 years of Chamber Music in Yellow Springs

  By YS News StaffSeptember 15, 2023

  

  Chamber Music in Yellow Springs, or CMYS, will mark its 40th anniversary this season, which opens Sunday, Sept. 24. Established in 1983, CMYS was founded by a handful of devoted classical music lovers.

• Film director Michael Schultz’s Yellow Springs connection

  By Cheryl Durgans

  

  Renowned film director Michael Schultz, known for iconic 1970s movies “Cooley High” and “Car Wash” and 1980s classics “Krush Groove” and “The Last Dragon,” once directed at the Antioch Area Theater’s summer festival in the ’60s. Arthur Lithgow offered Schultz the job.

• 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.

• Channel 5 goes live online

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 7, 2023

  

  During his first several months at the station’s helm, Station Manager Ben Guenther’s guiding mission has been to make Channel 5 accessible to as many of those creative people as possible.

• Emergent Verse | Private matters

  By Ed DavisAugust 18, 2023

  

  Readers may remember Audrey Hackett as not only a former reporter for the Yellow Springs News, but also the writer of “First Lines,” a poetry column she penned for a couple of years.

• Yellow Springs Film Festival to debut this fall

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 15, 2023

  

  The Yellow Springs Film Festival will debut Oct. 6–8, with film screenings at the Little Art Theatre and special events at the Foundry Theater and Crome Architecture.

• Shakespeare goes drag in ‘SHREW!’

  By Reilly DixonAugust 14, 2023

  

  On Friday and Saturday, Aug. 18 and 19, in the John Bryan Community Center, the Yellow Springs Theater Company will debut a flamboyant rendition of William Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew.”