Lisa Frederick saw an important part of Youngstown’s history slowly disappearing. “In downtown Youngtown and downtown Warren, on every corner there used to be a church,” the artist / photographer said. “We’ve already lost quite a few churches. There’s been a lot of consolidation, ...

Howard Korder’s play “Episode 26” is a spoof of the serialized sci-fi tales that used to run with the Saturday matinees in movie theaters in the 1940s and ‘50s. When Todd Dicken first read the play in the ‘90s, he had a different idea. “It's written to be an actual play with ...

Assorted ramblings from the world of entertainment: • It’s Valentine’s Day weekend. Love is in the air, maybe nowhere more than Penguin City Brewing Company, which has a group wedding on tap for Friday. ‘Til Death Do Us Part will provide couples with an officiant (Hannah Ferguson, ...

Art ARTS & EDUCATION AT THE HOYT, 124 E. Leasure Ave., New Castle, Pa.: “My Abandoned Heart: Photography by Diane Beatty,” “Portals to the Soul: Photography by Dina Liguore” and “Felicific Calculus: Photography by Eric Kunsman,” all through March 12 with meet-the-artists event ...

Staff report Auditions are scheduled in March for Youngstown Playhouse’s main stage production of “Urinetown: the Musical.” Director Nate Beagle is seeking strong comedic actors, singers and dancers ages 18 and older. Experience in improvisation, stand-up comedy, drag performance, ...

LOS ANGELES — In his seminal 1981 book “Simulacra and Simulation,” cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard argued that Disneyland is emblematic of reality’s collapse into perpetual imitation. “Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, whereas ...