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Barnes & Noble hosts author book-signing event on Saturday A multi-author book signing event runs from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday at Barnes & Noble, 381 Boardman-Poland Road, Boardman. Participants will include Samantha Jo, an award-winning author of dark fantasy and alt-Appalachian fantasy; Kara M. Zone, a romantasy and dark fantasy author; Ciara Hartford, a romantasy and dark fantasy author; and ZL Johnson, a horror author who just released a debut novel. The first 25 purchasers of indie books will receive a swag bag with merchandise from all four authors. Brookfield library ...

TNT presents mystery thriller

“I’ll Be Back Before Midnight” might be an unfamiliar play to many, and director Lisa Bennett wants to keep it that way. “You're not sure who's who,” Bennett said about the characters in the script. “You’re really unsure — ‘Oh, they’re OK.’ ‘No, they’re not.’ I kind of like that edge-of-your-seat type show, where you can’t identify evil until it’s right there.” The answers will come starting Friday, when “I’ll Be Back Before Midnight” opens at Trumbull New Theatre for a three-weekend run. Peter Colley’s play, first produced in 1979, tells ...

‘In the Zone’ is a lively place to be

YOUNGSTOWN — Hopewell Theatre finds nostalgic fun and a lot of ingenuity “In the Zone.” The production “In the Zone with Rod Serling,” which runs for three more performances, turns five episodes of the beloved television series “The Twilight Zone” into an evening of theater. The original series ran from 1959 to 1964, but the show never went away. I discovered it in syndication growing up in the ’70s. Younger generations might have watched “Twilight Zone” marathons on the Sci Fi Channel / SyFy, streamed it on Paramount+ or revisited the original series after the ...

Hopewell zones out with Serling stories

For the next two weekends, Hopewell Theatre plans to take audiences to “The Twilight Zone.” And just like it would have been for television viewers between 1959 and 1964 when the anthology series aired, the theater wants to surprise audiences with what they will see. That’s why Hopewell isn’t publicizing which five episodes it will present at its Youngstown theater. Director Christopher Fidram wasn’t alive when those episodes originally aired, but he watched them in syndication growing up. “I think back to when I started watching,” he said. “It would come on TV, ...

‘Menopause 2’ sets sail for Packard

Mary Louise Lee is no stranger to “Menopause” … or menopause, for that matter. Lee toured with the original “Menopause The Musical” about 20 years ago and is back on the road with “Menopause the Musical 2: Cruisin’ Through the Change,” which will be staged Tuesday at Packard Music Hall. “I tell people that 20 years later, I’m actually in menopause, so I can relate to the character a lot better,” Lee said during a telephone interview from Sioux City, Iowa. The original “Menopause the Musical,” which made its debut in 2001, features four women of very ...

Gray Areas: It’s a Halloween weekend of The Zou and some fireworks

Assorted ramblings from the world of entertainment: • James Brown may have been the hardest working man in show business, but Khalid Tabbara will be the hardest working man on Halloween. The Austintown native will be doing triple duty for a show Friday at Westside Bowl in Youngstown. His current music project is MUNNYCAT, the L.A. based indie pop duo featuring Tabbara as Khaledzou and his wife, Hubbard native Katianne Timko-Tabbara, as K808. It will be their first local show since the release of MUNNYCAT’s album “til death do us art” in August. Before MUNNYCAT, Tabbara ...