Performing Arts Section :: Page 29

• Liar’s contest winners serve up a bunch of ‘bull’

  By Lauren ShowsJuly 7, 2010

  

  At the second annual Big Bull Shake Liar’s Contest on July 4, contestants competed to see who could spin the biggest yarn.

• YSKP show a dazzling desert display

  By Megan BachmanJuly 4, 2010

  

  While the Yellow Springs Kids Playhouse summer musical, “Conference of the Birds” doesn’t open until Thursday, July 8, the News got a sneak peak during rehearsal last Thursday. Watch an audio slideshow, featuring the sounds and stagings of cast members, below, and see next week’s print edition of the Yellow Springs News for a full article on the latest production in YSKP’s 16th season of youth theater.

• Summer Strings to host concert and musical bake sale

  By Megan BachmanJune 30, 2010

  

  Shirley Mullins’ Summer Strings youth orchestra will play its 47th grand finale this Saturday night at 7 p.m. in Kings Yard. The young musicians, who are concluding a two-week camp, can also be heard playing all over the village on Saturday morning from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. as part of a musical bake sale.

• Mayer and friends play for Presbyterian Church

  By Lauren HeatonJune 28, 2010

  

  Musicians shared their talents at “A Summer Spectacular,” concert held at the Presbyterian Church on Saturday. A variety of instruments were showcased, including natural horn, trombone, piano, English horn and euphonium, in addition to the vocal skills of a soprano. Listen below for concert excerpts.

• New Yellow Springs Theatre Project seeks to tap local talent

  By Diane ChiddisterMay 6, 2010

  

  Village children have many opportunities to take part in live theater through YS Kids Playhouse and school productions, and older youth benefit from a vital theater program at YSHS/McKinney. But local adult actors and playwrights have lacked consistent opportunities to perform since the closing of Center Stage theater several years ago.

• Antioch School enlivens a classic

  By Lauren HeatonApril 29, 2010

  

  Anyone who has been alive for longer than five years has likely seen the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. But far fewer have read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the novel published by Frank Baum in 1900, which the Antioch School students say is more complicated and slightly more vicious.

• YSHS opens ‘Urinetown: The Musical’ this weekend

  By Matt MindeApril 25, 2010

  

  The Yellow Springs High School/McKinney School present Urinetown: The Musical. Click on the title for showtimes and a link to an audio slideshow with stills from rehearsals and interviews with the actors.

• ‘Urinetown’ bursts with surprises

  By Lauren HeatonApril 22, 2010

  If viewers who haven’t heard of Urinetown: The Musical think they know what the Broadway hit is about, they don’t. If those who have heard about the show but haven’t seen it think they know how it ends, they don’t.

• YSHS opens ‘Urinetown: The Musical’ this weekend

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  The Yellow Springs High School/McKinney School present Urinetown: The Musical. Click on the title for showtimes and a link to an audio slideshow with stills from rehearsals and interviews with the actors.

• College welcomes dancers back

  By Stephanie BeasleyApril 15, 2010

  

  After nearly a decade of success under the guidance of Valerie Blackwell-Truitt, the Yellow Springs Community Dance Concert has a new face — three new faces, to be exact.