Scott Skiba takes creative approaches with classic operas. Some are born from the imagination of Opera Western Reserve’s production director, such as last year’s steampunk-style “Faust.” Others — 2020’s “La Traviata” that used Stambaugh Auditorium as its set and 2021’s ...
38 Special will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its debut album in 2027. With the anniversary approaching, lead singer Don Barnes, the one remaining member from that original lineup, bought a new stage set with risers and new lighting to revamp the band’s live show, which has been its ...
There is a meme I’ve seen several times this month that says, “If free public libraries didn’t already exist and someone tried to invent them, they would be condemned as a socialist plot.” Imagine the political ads we’d endure right now if libraries were a new idea. Luckily, they’ve been around for millennia. I’ve written many times over the years about my love of libraries, which started as a child who read every crappy biography ever written about his favorite athletes and continued as an adult who never could have afforded to feed the voracious reading appetites of ...
Westminster College announced Wednesday that its 59th Celebrity Series season will be its last. The entertainment series starts its 2067-27 season on Saturday with Three Dog Night, the first of five shows scheduled. The final performance will be Live and Let Die: The Music of Paul McCartney, on April 24, 2027. The decision to conclude the series was made after the recent retirement announcement of Celebrity Series Director Connie McGinnis. McGinnis joined the program in 1997 as box office manager, later became assistant director and was named director in 2012 following the ...
Even though it’s been open less than a year, Robert Dennick Joki is no stranger to The Playhouse Downtown. He directed at least a dozen shows at the performance space on the third floor of the Morley Arts Building in downtown Youngstown when it was home to the Oakland Center for the Arts, ...
The Autism Society of the Mahoning Valley and Penguin City Brewing will partner for Oktoberfest Youngstown on Saturday. The autism society staged Oktoberfest events in the mid 2010s for a few years as a fundraiser when Aundrea Cika Heschmeyer was its director. She had experience with staging ...
