Performing Arts Section :: Page 26

• Malarkey’s a star on London’s West End

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 8, 2011

  

  Michael Malarkey has spent the year playing Elvis Presley in the West End production of “Million Dollar Quartet” at the Noel Coward Theatre in London.

• YSHS presents ‘Last Night of Ballyhoo’

  By Lauren HeatonNovember 17, 2011

  

  No one ever talks about Jews in Atlanta, even the Jews in Atlanta. That’s why Alfred Uhlry’s romantic comedy about a small Jewish community living in the capital of the South in 1939 opens with a Christmas tree.

• Singing from, and for, the heart

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  Singing brings people together in a way that unites and enriches, according to the organizers of “Singing from the Heart,” a Yellow Springs Community Sing that takes place next weekend.

• YSHS to host several last nights of ‘Ballyhoo’

  By Lauren HeatonNovember 11, 2011

  

  This weekend Yellow Springs High School opens its fall play, ‘The Last Night of Ballyhoo.’

• Community music steps up

  By Megan BachmanNovember 10, 2011

  

  Three is the magic number for an upcoming collaborative concert of three ensembles. The local Chamber Orchestra and Community Chorus and a visiting piano trio, appropriately named Triple Helix, will perform three works over an evening.

• Doing theater for the love of it

  By Lauren HeatonAugust 18, 2011

  

  When Center Stage closed its doors in 2003 after nearly 30 years of community theater performances, founder and director Jean Hooper predicted “someone else will step up…the theater will continue.

• Sights and Sounds collide at Arts Council

  By Aaron ZaremskyAugust 1, 2011

  

  The Yellow Springs Arts Council hosted an audio/visual extravaganza last Saturday night called Synesthesia.

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream

  By Aaron ZaremskyJuly 24, 2011

  

  FreeShakespeare! performed their rendition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Antioch amphitheater last Saturday evening.

• Jazz, entertainment and a little rabble rousing at the ‘Cotton Club’

  By Lauren HeatonJuly 7, 2011

  

  Guests are welcome to kick back and loosen their ties and their pocketbooks as YS Kids Playhouse takes them into the New York jazz scene of the 1920s Cotton Club.

• Musical event lifts a town and college

  By Lauren HeatonJune 16, 2011

  

  To have loved and lost is better than the usual alternative, but not quite as good as to have loved, lost and then regained love again — at least according to both 18th century composer Willibald Gluck and the leaders of Antioch College.