Performing Arts Section

• Local choirs join voices to honor Bernice Johnson Reagon

  By Lauren ShowsApril 23, 2026

  

  The World House Choir will join forces with MUSE women’s choir for “Give Your Hands to Struggle,” a pair of concerts honoring the life and legacy of the late Sweet Honey in the Rock founder Bernice Johnson Reagon, who died in 2024.

• Theater Oobleck stages post-web dystopia at the Herndon

  By Lauren ShowsApril 10, 2026

  

  The Herndon Gallery at Antioch College will host Chicago-based theater collective Theater Oobleck for three performances of “Song About Himself,” a dystopian, language-driven play by ensemble cofounder Mickle Maher, Friday–Sunday, April 10–12.

• Community dance concert set

  By YS News StaffMarch 19, 2026

  

  The annual Valerie Ann Blackwell-Truitt Community Dance and Performance Arts Concert is set for Friday and Saturday, March 27 and 28, in the gymnasium of John Bryan Community Center, 100 Dayton St.

• 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.