WHAT: “Once Upon a Mattress” WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday through April 14 WHERE: Ford Theater, Bliss Hall, Youngstown State University HOW MUCH: Tickets are $16 for adults, $12 for senior citizens and YSU alums, $9 YSU faculty and staff and free for YSU students ...

College theater programs serve two masters. They need to pick shows that provide educational opportunities for their students, but they also hope to offer choices that will draw an audience to see those students. The musical “Once Upon a Mattress” checks both boxes, according to its ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Gary Turner, 73, passed away at 1:05 p.m. Saturday, March 30, 2024, at home, with his family. Gary was born Jan. 26, 1951, in New Middletown, to the late George Ford and Ila Rae Ewing Turner. He was a man of many hats, starting his career as an EMT with American Ambulance and ...

Saturday’s 330 Day Concert was a celebration of the past, present and future of homegrown music. Public radio station The Summit (90.7 FM in Struthers/91.3 FM in Akron and 90.1 FM in Athens) started the annual concert held on March 30 (3-30, just like the area code) when it launched a ...

Youngstown native Ben Garchar didn’t have much background working with sports stories, but the chance to be an editor on the documentary “Rouge” appealed to him for other reasons. “I’m sort of Midwest at heart and blue collar at heart,” Garchar said. “That’s my background and ...

This year’s Slice of the Valley will be serving up wings and a couple of former Cleveland Browns along with the pizza. The Warren Rotary fundraiser, which returns to the Eastwood Event Centre in Niles from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday, is adding chicken wings for purchase for the first time. “I ...