Performing Arts Section :: Page 23

• Civil rights icon comes to life in play

  By Matt MindeJanuary 17, 2013

  What most people know about Rosa Parks begins and ends with what happened on a Montgomery, Ala., bus in December 1955, when Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. Few know that Parks was already a civil rights activist, that later in life she worked on the staff of a Michigan […]

• Mills Lawn teacher to play civil rights icon

  By Megan BachmanJanuary 10, 2013

  

  Mills Lawn music teacher Jo Frannye Reichert plays the role of Rosa Parks in a production about the life of the civil rights icon at Mills Lawn this Saturday.

• Mardi Gras FUNdraiser set for YSKP

  By Diane ChiddisterJanuary 9, 2013

  

  Yellow Springs Kids Playhouse will present a Mardi Gras fundraiser gala on Saturday, Jan. 9, at the Glen Helen building.

• Medieval plays tap a new root

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 20, 2012

  

  “Return to the Garden: A Ceremony for the New Time” will be presented Saturday, Dec. 22, the evening of the solstice, at 7 p.m. in Westminster Hall at the First Presbyterian Church.

• Ohio premiere of ‘Sparkle’

  By Lauren HeatonNovember 8, 2012

  To be a dancer with an African-American dance company in the Midwest is not your everyday occupation. To also be 49 and still performing with that company is astonishing. To have suffered a critical injury and attempt to come back at that age, with that company, is the gripping story of Dayton Contemporary Dance Company’s Sheri “Sparkle” Williams. A short film, “Sparkle,” by local filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar, will have its Ohio premiere in Dayton this week.

• Comedy, satire and the absurd in 10-min. bits

  By Jeff SimonsNovember 1, 2012

  Ann Boleyn, fleeting dreams, Russian gangsters, and a touch of Monty Python will be on stage this weekend at the First Presbyterian Church.

• YS Kids Playhouse starts fall classes this week

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 13, 2012

  

  Youth and adults can learn to express themselves in all different ways this fall with Yellow Springs Kids Playhouse.

• Clifton Gorge Music & Arts Festival— In with the old—and the new

  By Jeff SimonsAugust 30, 2012

  

  Clifton is back on the map. The festival map, that is.

• Blues Fest returns for 15th year

  By YS News StaffAugust 21, 2012

  

  AACW will host the 15th annual Blues and Jazz festival this weekend, Aug. 23-26. As always, the weekend will feature a spectacular line-up of musical acts and events.

• Shakespeare’s ‘Merchant’ comes to Antioch amphitheatre

  By Lauren HeatonJuly 27, 2012

  

  Dayton’s Free Shakespeare! presents “The Merchant of Venice” this weekend at the Antioch College Amphitheatre.