Performing Arts Section :: Page 28

• ‘Tuna’ for laughs, to support theater

  By Kelsey CundiffMarch 3, 2011

  

  Due to recent cuts in the school district budget, some students have chosen to use their senior projects as a way to give back to programs that have been important to them, and that now face decreased funding.

• Music, dance to honor YSHS theater

  By Kelsey CundiffFebruary 10, 2011

  The YSHS theater program has inspired Lauren Westendorf and Donovan Berends, so the duo is holding a musical review featuring songs from Broadway musicals to raise money for the program as their senior project.

• CMYS presents double reed, piano trio

  By Lauren HeatonJanuary 29, 2011

  

  Chamber Music Yellow Springs presents the Poulenc Trio tonight, at 7:30 p.m., at the First Presbyterian Church.

• An ‘Uncle Vanya’ that kids can get

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 2, 2010

  In 1979 a writer and teacher named Phillip Lopate decided to have his fifth- and sixth-grade students at PS 75 in New York City stage a production of Uncle Vanya on Broadway. Thirty years later, one of those students, Sasha Waters Freyer, has made a film, Chekhov for Children.

• A Wilde night in Victorian England

  By Diane ChiddisterNovember 13, 2010

  

  The YSHS Drama Club presents The Importance of Being Earnest tonight, Nov. 13, at 8 p.m. and tomorrow, Nov. 14, at 2 p.m. at the Mills Lawn gym. The play continues next weekend.

• VIDEO – Thrill Yellow Springs and the world

  By Vanessa QueryOctober 24, 2010

  

  On Saturday, Oct. 23, area zombies descended on the Bryan Center gym to dance to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” at the same time that thousands danced it all over the world. “Thrill The World” is an annual worldwide simultaneous dance of “Thriller.”

• Qigong in Yellow Springs

  By Aaron ZaremskyOctober 23, 2010

  

  The Senior Center hosts regular sessions of Qigong, the Chinese art of energy manipulation.

• Group keeps theater arts going

  By Megan BachmanOctober 21, 2010

  

  When a new pit orchestra conductor was needed three weeks before the opening of last spring’s high school musical, the Yellow Springs High School Theatre Arts Association, or YSHSTAA, scrambled to find one. When concerns about censorship of student-written plays arose…

• VIDEO – Art Stroll comedy performance highlights

  By YS News StaffOctober 19, 2010

  

  Highlights from “Hey, That’s A Nice Bike”, a meta philosophic dramatic sketch comedy performance put on by the 3rd Friday Players during Art Stroll on Friday, Oct. 15.

• YSKP is no longer just for kids

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 9, 2010

  

  At the height of a YS Kids Playhouse production, when every member of the cast has gathered together at fever pitch to dance and belt out an ardent musical message, there can be a yearning, or even a fleeting sense of jealousy, that kids get to do all the fun stuff. But this fall, adults can have fun too, when YSKP opens up four new dance classes to people of all ages.