Performing Arts Section :: Page 22

• Thespians present a Haitian story of starred crossed love

  By Lauren HeatonApril 10, 2013

  

  The Yellow Springs High School thespians open their spring musical, Once on this Island,  this weekend on Friday, April 12, at 8 p.m. Set in the Caribbean and drawing on the history of Haiti, the story concerns two lovers divided by questions of race and class. After Haiti’s revolution in 1791, the French colonizers were thrown […]

• Expect anything at dance concert

  By Anisa KlineApril 4, 2013

  Produced this year by Melissa Heston, Marybeth Wolf and Ali Thomas, the Yellow Springs Community Dance Concert will be performed on Friday and Saturday, March 29 and 30 at 8 p.m. in Antioch College’s South Gym. “Expect anything” was Heston’s advice for the audience in a recent interview, as she reflected on the variety and […]

• Community dance concert this weekend

  By Lauren HeatonMarch 29, 2013

  

  The community dance concert is at Antioch this weekend.

• Allen McCullough— Village a musical wellspring

  By Lauren HeatonMarch 28, 2013

  

  From the level at which Allen McCullough listens, the average ear is way behind the times. In fact, he said, the lag time for modern music listeners isn’t a matter of a few years, but more like a century or two. And while Beethoven and Brahms created some of the most beautiful music in the world, McCullough believes it’s time for people to get a new sound. And by that he doesn’t mean Pink and Flo Rida.

• Center Stage play opens Friday— ‘The Crucible’ across eras

  By Anisa KlineMarch 14, 2013

  In the upcoming weeks, the Center Stage community theater group will put on its fourth theater production since its revival in 2011.

• Ain’t Misbehavin’ this weekend­— Fleming directs jazz musical at CSU

  By Matt MindeMarch 7, 2013

  This weekend, Fleming, the director of YS Kids Playhouse, returns to his jazz roots when he directs Ain’t Misbehavin’ at Central State University. The production takes place this Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., and Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Robeson Auditorium. Tickets are $10 for general admission, $1 for students.

• Fleming to direct Fats Waller musical at Central State

  By Diane ChiddisterFebruary 27, 2013

  

  YSKP director John Fleming of Yellow Springs will direct “Aint’s Mishavin,” a musical based on the songs of Fats Waller, at Central State University this Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

• Yellow Springs strings sing out together

  By Lauren HeatonFebruary 21, 2013

  

  Community string players joined together in an orchestra performance Wednesday night.

• Friday deadline for YSKP fundraiser

  By Diane ChiddisterJanuary 31, 2013

  

  Friday, Feb. 1, is the deadline to make reservations for the Feb. 9 Mardi Gras fundraiser for the YS Kids Playhouse.

• A Cajun Robin Hood seeks funds

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  In honor of Fleming’s Cajunhood and the New Orleans culture he comes from, YSKP will host its annual fundraiser as a Mardi Gras party on Saturday, Feb. 9, at the Glen Helen auditorium in the Vernet Ecological Center