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Youngstown Soul Jam bringing four R&B acts to Powers

Four R&B acts will play an early evening show at Powers Auditorium on June 14. The lineup for the Youngstown Soul Jam features Russell Thompkins Jr. & The New Stylistics, The Manhattans featuring Gerald Alston, Harold Melvin’s Blue Notes and Mr. R&B Mark Williams. Thompkins is the original lead singer of the Stylistics, whose Philly soul hits include “You Are Everything,” “Betcha by Golly, Wow,” “Break Up to Make Up” and “You Make Me Feel Brand New.” Alston is the only living member of the Manhattans from its commercial peak in the ’70s, when it had top 10 R&B ...

‘Deer Camp’ hunting for laughs

Trumbull New Theatre closes its 2025-26 season with the musical comedy “Deer Camp.” The emphasis is on the comedy in the script by Gene Jurek with music by Doug Spartz. The show is set at a hunting cabin, where four friends gather every year. They tell their spouses the purpose is to ...

New movies light up summer season

The movies always feel bigger in the summer. The budgets. The ambition. The names. The stakes. This summer, Hollywood has many of the regulars on the lineup: “Spider-Man,” “Minions,” “Star Wars” and “Toy Story.” But the most eagerly anticipated is not a superhero, toy, or ...

Youngstown celebrates May, Mayo, Halloween this weekend

It’s a pick your holiday weekend in Youngstown. Cinco de Mayo arrives a few days early as the theme for May’s First Fridays Youngstown event at the Phelps Street Gateway downtown. The Calvin Center at 755 Mahoning Ave. will host a three-day May Day Festival starting Friday, and Penguin City Brewing Company, 480 E. Market St., partners with Dead Ink Apparel for its Halfway to Halloween Horror Fest on Friday and Saturday. The Cinco de Mayo event from 5 to 8 p.m. includes a community art mural that will be completed. The project is overseen by artist Gabriela Mottino Fernandez, an ...

Mahoning Valley arts and entertainment

Art ART ON PARK, 180 N. Park Ave., Warren: Rubbish on Park, 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, free. ARTS & EDUCATION AT THE HOYT, 124 E. Leasure Ave., New Castle, Pa.: “Greig Leach: Past in the Present Will Be the Future” and “Cheryl Capezzuti: Some of Us,” both through May 21. Hours are 11 a.m. ...

Kent-Trumbull premieres ‘Adulteryhood’

It started with a premise, one of those ideas that came to playwright Greg A. Smith a decade ago as he was falling asleep. He didn’t pause to write it down, but unlike other drowsy thoughts, it’s one he remembered when he woke up the next morning. That idea becomes a fully realized ...