Performing Arts Section

• Schools stage revue to celebrate musicals past

  By Lauren ShowsMarch 12, 2026

  

  “Fearless Then, Fearless Now,” set for 7 p.m. Thursday–Saturday, March 12–14, and 3 p.m. Sunday, March 15, in Westminster Hall at First Presbyterian Church, is a revue: a theatrical collage of songs linked by a shared spirit.

• Yellow Springs 10-Minute Play Festival returns this weekend

  By Reilly DixonFebruary 11, 2026

  

  Have a laugh: The annual 10-Minute Play Festival, produced by YS Theater Company, returns Friday and Saturday, Feb. 13 and 14, at 7 p.m.

• Young thespians stage ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’

  By Lauren ShowsJanuary 15, 2026

  

  “The Diary of Anne Frank” is set to run its final two performances Friday and Saturday, Jan. 16 and 17, after an opening performance Thursday, Jan. 15.

• Ten-Minute Play fest seeks submissions, actors

  By YS News StaffNovember 20, 2025

  

  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.

• World House Choir honors the legacy of civil rights fireband Pauli Murray

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 7, 2025

  

  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.

• Hear the voices of women Vietnam vets in ‘We Were There’

  By Lauren ShowsOctober 27, 2025

  

  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.

• Local funny guys at it again in ‘Smaller and Worse: A Nonsense Show’

  By Reilly DixonAugust 12, 2025

  

  “Smaller and Worse: A Nonsense Show” runs at the Foundry Theater at Antioch College Thursday–Saturday, Aug. 14–16. Tickets can be purchased at the door or beforehand at http://www.bit.ly/45cBguU.

• ‘Feel It All’ with Yellow Springs-based GravityWorks Circus

  By Lauren ShowsJune 25, 2025

  

  The local aerial arts school will present “Feel It All,” its second ensemble performance, Friday and Saturday, June 27 and 28, at 7 p.m., and Sunday, June 29, at 2 p.m., at the Foundry Theater on the Antioch College campus.

• Mad River Theater Works’ world-changing show

  By Lauren ShowsJune 13, 2025

  

  Mad River Theater Works youth summer residency program participants will perform “Everybody Wants to Change the World” Friday, June 13, at 7 p.m. at the Foundry Theater. 

• 10-Minute Play Festival returns this weekend at new location

  By Lauren ShowsJune 3, 2025

  

  The annual 10-Minute Play Festival, produced by the YS Theater Company, returns Friday and Saturday, June 6 and 7, beginning at 7 p.m. each evening.