By ANDY GRAY Staff writer YOUNGSTOWN — John Mayer will play at Wean Park on Sept. 26, turning YLIVE into a two-day event. His show will precede Tim McGraw, who will perform the next day. That show originally was planned for 2024 and was postponed until this year due to the infrastructure ...

Millennial Theatre Company Director Joe Asente grew up with Easy Street Productions’ version of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” “That was one of the very first shows I ever saw,” he said. “This has been part of my musical theater personal history for a long ...

The W.D. Packard Concert Band’s Fourth of July Spectacular will start with a debut and end with a bang. Opening for the Packard band for its annual Fourth of July performance will be the first public show by Brass Express. The group is an offshoot of Brass Metropolis, which disbanded earlier ...

Assorted ramblings from the world of entertainment: • Calling hours for Robert Joseph Miller Jr., who died at age 69, took place back in March. But his friends and fellow musicians knew the only way to pay tribute to the guitar player everyone knew as “Rollo” would be with music. That ...

Writer-director Shiloh Hart turned to local history for inspiration for this year’s Kent State University at Trumbull Summer Stock’s touring production. “My goal last year was to inspire the kids that anyone can achieve greatness,” Hart said. “I was like, ‘Man, how am I going to do ...

Art ARTS & EDUCATION AT THE HOYT, 124 E. Leasure Ave., New Castle, Pa.: 52nd Hoyt Regional Art Exhibition, through July 17. Hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday. hoytartcenter.org and 724-652-2882. BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ...