Director Christopher Fidram doesn’t believe someone needs to have gone through rehab to relate to the characters in Duncan Macmillan’s “People, Places & Things.” Macmillan’s acclaimed play, which opens Friday for a two-weekend run in Youngstown Playhouse’s Moyer Room, tells ...

The theater program at Kent State University at Trumbull turns 60. The Youngstown Playhouse opens its new performance space at the old performance space of the Oakland Center for the Arts, and Rust Belt Theater Company continues its search for a new space for its original ...

There are perks that come with playing house concerts. “They were some of the smallest shows we've ever played in our lives, but they felt like some of the biggest shows we'd ever played in our lives,” Tim Quirk said about last summer’s Wonderlick tour, which included a show at a house ...

Blues, Brews & BBQ coming Shemeika Copeland will headline the inaugural Blues, Brews & BBQ Festival, presented by 7 17 Credit Union at the Warren Community Amphitheatre on Oct. 4. Also performing will be “King” Solomon Hicks, Damian Knapp, Cleveland’s Backstreet Blues Band, ...

Art ARTS & EDUCATION AT THE HOYT, 124 E. Leasure Ave., New Castle, Pa.: “Carnival Nights: Photography by Andrew Hoff,” “Goldberg Variations: Collages by John Lyon Paul” and "Subterranean: Photography by Prescott Moore Lassman,” all through Sept. 11. Hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. ...

The Neighborhood Events will bring laughter as well as music to this year’s The Block Party. A comedy stage joins the music stage that’s been part of the event since it started in 2018. Alison Green, who co-founded The Neighborhood Events with Mikey Caraballo and Danny Svenson, said ...