Millennial Theatre Company had a list of three musicals that, whenever they became available, the theater would drop whatever it had scheduled in order to do them. Two of those shows became part of its 2025-26 season. “Dear Evan Hanson” will be staged this summer, and the musical “Mean ...

Carbon Leaf’s latest release, 2024’s “Time Is the Playground,” was its first studio album in a decade. The long layoff wasn’t planned, frontman Barry Privett said, and it’s not like they weren’t busy. The indie rock band re-recorded the three albums it released between 2004 and ...

Assorted ramblings from the world of entertainment: • Eight films are scheduled for the Youngstown Summer Movie Series, which was announced this week. It includes a mix of recent box office hits, and a few titles that will have a nostalgic tug for kids of the ‘90s. The lineup ...

Ensembles from five area high schools will join the Big Band Sound of Packard for its annual Jazz Appreciation Month Big Band Jazz Festival. The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History led the effort to establish April as Jazz Appreciation Month to draw attention to ...

Jazz trombone player John Fedchock will join the Youngstown State University Jazz Ensemble and the Conneaut Area Blue Note High School Jazz Band for a concert Wednesday in Sharon, Pa. Fedchock, a Cleveland native, received degrees in music education and jazz studies at The Ohio State ...

The Youngstown State University Department of Art will host its first Summer Art Camp in June at Bliss Hall. Designed for students ages 13 to 18 entering grades 9 to 12, the camp will provide hands-on studio experience in painting, printmaking, photography and graphic design. Throughout ...