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• ‘Louverture Exchange’ — Black legacy through music

  By Lauren ShowsOctober 9, 2022

  

  History, generational struggle and legacy will be the unifying themes of “Louverture Exchange: A Musical Dialogue,” a performance featuring the World House Choir, hip-hop artist and local resident Tronee Threat and headlined by international performer Napoleon Maddox on Thursday, Oct. 13.

• ‘Dance on the drum’ classes set

  By Cheryl DurgansSeptember 3, 2022

  

  For the past 10 years, Manieri has studied a traditional southern Italian form of community drumming and dance called Tammurriata, or “Dance on the Drum,” and will be offering classes for five weeks through the Wellness Center at Antioch College on Tuesdays, from 6–7:30 p.m., beginning Aug. 30.

• Yellow Springs Kids Playhouse to take final bow

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 26, 2022

  

  After 27 years, the curtains are closing on one of the village’s longest-running and most beloved theater companies. Earlier this month, the Yellow Springs Kids Playhouse announced that the youth theater company is dissolving.

• E&A’s Big Dumb Show to debut this weekend

  By Reilly DixonAugust 12, 2022

  

  The sketch comedy production, “E&A’s Big Dumb Show,” is open to audiences at the YS Arts Council building on Friday, Aug. 12, at 8 p.m., twice on Saturday, Aug. 13, at 2 and 8 p.m., and again the following weekend, on Friday, Aug. 26, at 8 p.m., and finally on Saturday, Aug. 27, at both 2 and 8 p.m.

• YS Theater Company debuts ‘Pop-Up Shakespeare’

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 10, 2022

  

  This month, the Yellow Springs Theater Company will debut its “Pop-Up Shakespeare” performances, which will be mounted outside, in public spaces downtown, on weekends.

• 10-Minute Play Festival returns

  By Lauren ShowsJune 3, 2022

  

  The 2022 Yellow Springs Annual 10-Minute Play Festival will be held Friday and Saturday, June 3 and 4, at 7 p.m. on the south lawn at YS High School. Admission will be by donation. Those attending are asked to bring their own lawn chairs or blankets for seating.

• Comedian Donnell Rawlings to host local events

  By Jessica ThomasMay 26, 2022

  

  The four-day series, dubbed “Donnell Land,” will include shows at Wiley’s Comedy Club in Dayton, kayaking down the Little Miami, and a kickball game in Gaunt Park.

• ‘Shrek: The Musical’ to debut

  By Lauren ShowsMay 4, 2022

  

  This week, the young thespians of YS High School and McKinney Middle School were in the last galvanic days before that transformation as they prepared to perform “Shrek: The Musical.” The production will be staged Friday–Sunday, May 6–8, in the Paul Robeson Cultural and Performing Arts Center at Central State University.

• YSHS One Acts to return

  By Matt MindeFebruary 11, 2022

  

  As part of her senior project, YSHS senior Rosemary Burmester is directing this year’s One Acts, which will be performed Friday and Saturday, Feb. 11 and 12, beginning at 7:30 p.m., at the Clifton Opera House.

• YSHS, McKinney students to perform ‘The Stinky Cheese Man’

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 9, 2021

  

  “The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales” will be performed by students from McKinney Middle School and YS High School on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 10–12, at Clifton Opera House.