Arts Section :: Page 7

• Trace Lysette talks humanity, joy in ‘Monica’

  By Lauren ShowsJuly 2, 2023

  

  Earlier this month, the Little Art Theatre premiered “Monica,” a film starring Trace Lysette, who grew up in Yellow Springs and the wider Miami Valley. Lysette spoke briefly with the News via phone after the film’s local debut.

• Review | To interiority and beyond in ‘Asteroid City’

  By Reilly DixonJune 26, 2023

  

  “‘Asteroid City’ is a meta film that spends 104 minutes scaffolding layers upon layers of tweedy, postmodern artifice. And I, for one, loved it.”

• 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.

• Yellow Springs News hosts South African journalists

  By Lauren ShowsJune 6, 2023

  

  Andile Nomabhunga, of Matatiele, in the Eastern Cape Province, and Dunisani Ntsanwisi, of Giyani, in Limpopo Province, spent the week working with the News as part of a three-week fact-finding project investigating ways to boost the sustainability of South Africa’s community media.

• Emergent Verse | Song of Herself

  By Ed DavisMay 31, 2023

  

  I wonder whether Walt Whitman’s timeless lines above from “Song of Myself” were stewing in Nancy Mellon’s mind, or unconscious, when she composed her poem.

• 10-Minute plays staged for this weekend

  By Reilly Dixon

  

  Showcasing 10 plays by local and international playwrights, and produced by the YS Theater Company, the festival will be staged on Friday and Saturday, June 2 and 3, starting at 7 p.m., on the south lawn at Yellow Springs High School.

• News loses, staffers awarded

  By YS News StaffMay 30, 2023

  

  Despite the loss, the News was happy to accept a handful of individual awards, including first place for news coverage for the entire staff.

• Renowned cellist comes home

  By Cheryl DurgansMay 19, 2023

  

  Homegrown classically trained cellist Karen Patterson will return to the area on Sunday, May 21, for a performance at High Street United Methodist Church in Springfield. Patterson will give the final concert of the church’s Sanctuary Concert series.

• Remembering Reichert

  By YS News StaffMay 13, 2023

  

  On Saturday May 6, a memorial service was held for late filmmaker Julia Reichert on the campus of Antioch.

• Local poets published in anthology

  By Reilly DixonMay 6, 2023

  

  The Glen Helen Association and Tecumseh Land Trust recently released “Sun and Shadow, Wood and Stone,” an anthology of poems by 61 local and regional wordsmiths who’ve read at the annual Solstice Poetry Reading over the past decade.