Performing Arts Section

• Community dance concert to return

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 30, 2022

  

  The Valerie Blackwell-Truitt Community Dance and Performance Arts Concert and Art Exhibition returns to the Foundry Theater on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 2 and 3 — the first such concert in more than three years.

• Donnell Rawlings finds home in the village

  By Cheryl DurgansNovember 19, 2022

  

  The stand-up comedian and actor known for his regular appearances on “The Chappelle Show” among other television, film and live performance work officially became a townie after purchasing a home this past summer.

• Students take flight in ‘Peter Pan’

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 17, 2022

  

  McKinney Middle and Yellow Springs High schools will present “Peter Pan and Wendy,” adapted by Doug Rand from the original play and novel by J.M. Barrie, Thursday–Sunday, Nov. 17–20, in the Yellow Springs High School gym.

• A timeline of theater in Yellow Springs

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 16, 2022

  

  Yellow Springs’ theater timeline begins in earnest in 1891, when construction of the Yellow Springs Opera House was completed at the corner of Winter and Dayton streets.

• Local actors star in ‘Baskerville’

  By Lauren ShowsOctober 20, 2022

  

  Villagers and actors Ellen Ballerene, Reilly Dixon and Robb Willoughby will star in Beavercreek Community Theatre’s production of “Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery,” Fridays–Sundays, Oct. 21–23 and 28–30.

• ‘Louverture Exchange’ — Black legacy through music

  By Lauren ShowsOctober 9, 2022

  

  History, generational struggle and legacy will be the unifying themes of “Louverture Exchange: A Musical Dialogue,” a performance featuring the World House Choir, hip-hop artist and local resident Tronee Threat and headlined by international performer Napoleon Maddox on Thursday, Oct. 13.

• ‘Dance on the drum’ classes set

  By Cheryl DurgansSeptember 3, 2022

  

  For the past 10 years, Manieri has studied a traditional southern Italian form of community drumming and dance called Tammurriata, or “Dance on the Drum,” and will be offering classes for five weeks through the Wellness Center at Antioch College on Tuesdays, from 6–7:30 p.m., beginning Aug. 30.

• Yellow Springs Kids Playhouse to take final bow

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 26, 2022

  

  After 27 years, the curtains are closing on one of the village’s longest-running and most beloved theater companies. Earlier this month, the Yellow Springs Kids Playhouse announced that the youth theater company is dissolving.

• E&A’s Big Dumb Show to debut this weekend

  By Reilly DixonAugust 12, 2022

  

  The sketch comedy production, “E&A’s Big Dumb Show,” is open to audiences at the YS Arts Council building on Friday, Aug. 12, at 8 p.m., twice on Saturday, Aug. 13, at 2 and 8 p.m., and again the following weekend, on Friday, Aug. 26, at 8 p.m., and finally on Saturday, Aug. 27, at both 2 and 8 p.m.

• YS Theater Company debuts ‘Pop-Up Shakespeare’

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 10, 2022

  

  This month, the Yellow Springs Theater Company will debut its “Pop-Up Shakespeare” performances, which will be mounted outside, in public spaces downtown, on weekends.