What awaits audiences when they venture “Into the Woods” at Kent State University at Trumbull? They’ll find the best collection of vocalists to grace its theater stage in recent memory. Director Harmon Andrews has a great cast — the chance to do a Stephen Sondheim musical (with ...
While the musical “Into the Woods” is set in the world of fairy tales, director Harmon Andrews wanted his staging to be rooted in a more realistic setting, at least emotionally. “I was looking at these overarching themes of family, of parents and children and how our past can affect our ...
Local concertgoers can catch three acts, each one a leader in their genre, at three different venues this weekend. Bluegrass legend Ricky Skaggs performs Friday at the Robins Theatre, top-selling smooth jazz artist Kenny G will blow his soprano saxophone at Packard Music Hall on Saturday and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees Chicago will play Powers Auditorium on Sunday. Skaggs, 72, played mandolin with legends Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs as a child and joined Ralph Stanley’s Clinch Mountain Boys when he still was a teenager. Skaggs played in the influential bluegrass act J.D. ...
Dan Klimczak wasn’t involved in the selection of “Clue: The Musical,” which opens Friday at Youngstown State University. The season already was scheduled when he was hired as a visiting lecturer of musical theater for 2026-27, but he couldn’t be happier about the choice. “During ...
Three comedy shows for 2027 at three different local venues go on sale Friday. Jim Gaffigan returns to the Covelli Centre in Youngstown on May 14. Gaffigan is a three-time Emmy winner and eight-time Grammy nominee who’s released several acclaimed standup comedy specials and starred in the ...
The William Holmes McGuffey Historical Society’s Memories of a Lifetime Speakers Series will present a program on former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Women In History impersonator Ruth Head will portray Roosevelt while dressed in period costume. The wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt is admired ...
