Poet Philip Brady and essayist Jacqueline Marino will be featured at Lit Youngstown’s next First Wednesday Reader Series event. Brady is the author of five collections of poetry, and he has received numerous awards, including the Ohioana Poetry Award, an Ohio Governor’s Award and six ...

Family Day and the Summer Reading Challenge Kick Off Party take place Saturday at the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library. This is the fifth year for Family Day, started by the Trumbull County Historical Society. Ryan MacLennan, TCHS director of operations and outreach, said, “When we ...

Three musicals are planned at Porthouse Theatre, Kent State University’s outdoor summer theater, for its 57th season. “Grease” opens the season on June 12 and runs through June 27. The Jim Jacobs-Warren Casey musical takes audiences back to the late 1950s at Rydell High School, led by ...

NEW YORK — A few years ago, Ashley McBryde fell off the horse. “That’s not a figure of speech, sadly,” the country star told The Associated Press. “I was really, really badly hurt, and it was a bad enough injury that there was a chance that I wouldn’t have been able to perform ...

It was a political rally. It was a revival meeting. It was a therapy session. Friday’s appearance by Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band at Rocket Arena was many things, but Springsteen and his small army of musicians and backing singers never forgot that it was, first and foremost, a ...

A band “seldom scene” in these parts will headline this year’s Mitch and Cindy’s Bluegrass Festival at the Trumbull County Fairgrounds. The Seldom Scene, whose original lineup was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2014, will perform Saturday at the ...