Staff report Lit Youngstown’s First Wednesday Reader Series will feature two Ohio poets. Mary Quade of Madison is the author of “Guide to Native Beasts” (Cleveland State University Poetry Center) and “Local Extinctions” (Gold Wake) and the winner of the 2022 the Journal Non / ...

Four exhibitions open Tuesday at Youngtown State University’s McDonough Museum of Art. The fall slate includes “Arron Foster: In_A_Sense,” “Aislinn Janek': Landscape as a Form of Knowledge,” “Michael Boyd Roman: Negus Weighting on a Miracle” and “Justin Sorensen: June ...

Kent State University at Trumbull will give early exposure to eight new plays with its 2025-26 Sips & Scripts series. The season will open Wednesday with “The Life of Lily,” directed by Jessica Brumfield, who is theater coordinator with Kenzie James at Kent-Trumbull this school year ...

The work of guest artist Ron Copeland is on display at Youngstown State University’s Judith Rae Solomon Gallery. Copeland, originally from Canton and now lives in Cleveland, draws on his Rust Belt upbringing in his art. In “Fragmented Narrative,” he explores how neighborhoods tell ...

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. — Westminster College’s Foster Art Gallery will display the work of Yoko Ono. “Passages and Wishes,” curated by Kevin Concannon and John Noga, invites visitors into a deeply personal and participatory experience with Ono’s powerful message of peace, imagination ...

The 2022 documentary “Party Dream” ends with the words, “Gil Mantera’s Party Dream has not reunited … Yet.” “Yet” is Saturday for the Youngstown duo of Ultimate Donny and Gil Mantera, who will perform together as Gil Mantera’s Party Dream for the first time in 15 years at ...