Performing Arts Section :: Page 8

• Submissions open for 10 Minute Play Festival

  By YS News StaffOctober 28, 2019

  

  The YS Theater Company is currently seeking submissions for the 10 Minute Play Festival. The annual event, now in its sixth year, typically features a series of brief, one-act plays, written by playwrights from the Miami Valley and beyond, directed and performed by community members.

• Mark Twain Prize gala performance to honor Dave Chappelle

  By Carol SimmonsOctober 27, 2019

  

  Comedian and actor Dave Chappelle, who lives with his family just outside Yellow Springs, is set to receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at a star-filled performance Sunday evening, Oct 27, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

• YSHS and MMS present “The Bigfoot Letters”

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 24, 2019

  

  A rural Southern Ohio woman takes a little Bigfoot home to raise it as her own. Now what? YSHS and MMS present “The Bigfoot Letters” Sept. 26–29 at the Foundry Theater.

• Sketch comedy show to debut

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 22, 2019

  

  Eliot Cromer and Adam Zaremsky will present a sketch comedy show, “Wistful Meanderings of the Petty,” on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 23 and 24, beginning at 8 p.m. at the YS Arts Council.

• Review— YSTC debuts compelling ‘Othello’

  By Lauren ShowsJuly 25, 2019

  

  For those who don’t know, “Othello” concerns the secret machinations of the evil Iago against the titular Othello, “the Moor,” one of the few Shakespeare characters written as a person of color. This year’s Summer Shakespeare features a smaller cast and a strong group of leads.

• ‘Interrupted Motherhood’— The juggling act of single motherhood

  By Lauren ShowsJuly 18, 2019

  

  For playwright and actor Felicia Chappelle, art is therapeutic — whether it’s being received or created.

• ‘Othello’ outdoors

  By Lauren ShowsJuly 11, 2019

  

  Yellow Springs Theater Company’s annual Summer Shakespeare Shindig returns two weekends this month with a staging of “Othello.”

• YSKP brings back the old West

  By Reilly Dixon

  

  “Bonanza Valley!” is anything but the typical “cowboys and Indians” narrative. Instead, the YSKP play retells the story of the Western frontier in a way that explores and challenges “Old West” traditions of property, power and gender. It runs through Sunday.

• ‘DOROTHY LANE: a travelogue’— Smith’s artistic alchemy transforms

  By Lauren ShowsMay 23, 2019

  

  Louise Smith, a veteran writer and actor, therapist and Antioch College performance professor, will debut her new piece, “DOROTHY LANE:  a travelogue,” on Friday, May 17, and Saturday, May 18, at 8 p.m. in the Foundry Theater’s Experimental Theater.

• Blackwell-Truitt dance concert returns

  By YS News StaffMay 2, 2019

  

  The Valerie Blackwell-Truitt Dance and Performing Arts Concert returns on Friday and Saturday, May 3 and 4, at the Foundry Theater at Antioch College.