Performing Arts Section :: Page 31

• 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.

• Telling stories to save the land

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 8, 2010

  Eric Wolf remembers the moment he made an emotional commitment to supporting farmland preservation. He had returned to Shelter Island outside New York City, the place where as a child he went to hunt scallops and wonder at the expanse of cornfields.

• Dancing near the streets

  By YS News StaffAugust 6, 2009

  

  Copies of this and other photographs may be purchased from the News; please contact us via e-mail at ysnews@ysnews.com, or by phone, between 9:30 a.m. and 5: 30 p.m., Mon.–Fri.

• YS Kids Playhouse spotlights Bond, parkour movement

  By Brooke BryanJuly 9, 2009

  YS Kids Playhouse kicks off its summer programming beginning Thursday at 7:30 p.m. with the opening show of A Price to Pay: Before Bond Became 007. Running for two consecutive weeks, Thursday through Sunday, the production, written by YSKP alum Daniel Malarkey, tells the story of the teenage James Bond and how he earned his lucky 007.