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New Music Guild opens 2025-26 season

The New Music Guild’s 23rd Fall Concert opens its 2025-26 season. The guild focuses on performance of works by living composers and sponsors visits by guest composers and performers. The fall concert will feature violinist Brendan Considine and pianist Karen Considine. Brendan Considine plays with the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra, Warren Philharmonic Orchestra, Ballet Western Reserve and Greenville Symphony Orchestra. He also serves as principal of Cardinal Mooney High School, and he has taught at Youngstown Symphony Orchestra and Westminster College. Karen Considine also ...

‘Spring’ has sprung at Kent-Trumbull Theatre

If you go ... WHAT: “Spring Awakening” WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday through Nov. 23 WHERE: Kent State University at Trumbull, 4314 Mahoning Ave. NW, Champion. HOW MUCH: Tickets are $20 for adults, $17 for students and senior citizens and $15 for children ages 12 and younger and free for Kent students and faculty. They are available online at www.kent.edu/trumbull/theatre and by calling 330-675-8887. CHAMPION — “Spring” arrived at Kent State University at Trumbull Theatre on a cool fall night with the opening of the musical “Spring ...

TSO brings ever-changing show to Covelli Centre

Trans-Siberian Orchestra was born with the song “Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24),” recorded by the progressive metal act Savatage for its 1995 album “Dead Winter Dead.” Paul O’Neill, who wrote the song and started TSO, died in 2017, but the drummer on that recording, Jeff Plate, will be behind the kit when TSO returns to the Covelli Centre for two shows on Sunday. This year’s tour features an all-new production of “The Ghosts of Christmas Eve,” the 1999 television special and DVD that mixed seasonal favorites and TSO originals. “We've done this show several times ...

‘Spring Awakening’ is Kent-Trumbull’s fall musical

Paul Dahman first saw the musical “Spring Awakening" when he was a student at Otterbein University. “I love the themes of it, of pushing back against authority,” he said. “Questions are OK. It's important to question things and not be afraid to ask what more or why? I always think of it as almost a protest show. Change is inevitable. It's going to happen. It may take a while, but that change will come.” Dahman appeared in Kent State University at Trumbull Summer Stock’s production of “American Idiot,” and his wife Makenna Liller Dahman choreographed that show and ...

Mahoning Valley arts and entertainment

Art ARTS & EDUCATION AT THE HOYT, 124 E. Leasure Ave., New Castle, Pa.: “Floating Beauty: Women in the Art of Ukiyo-e,” Tuesday through Jan. 29, 2026. Hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday. hoytartcenter.org and 724-652-2882. ASHTABULA ARTS CENTER, 2928 W. 13th St., Ashtabula: “Hope in Artistry: Suicide Awareness and Prevention,” through Nov. 25. Hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. ashtabulaartscenter.org and 440-964-3396. BUTLER INSTITUTE OF ...

Gray Areas: LOOP brings variety, French Blue turns 20

Assorted ramblings from the world of entertainment: • The Mahoning Valley has plenty of talent, and LOOP Youngstown will use some of it to help raise money for an arts and culture center locally. The second LOOP Youngstown Variety Show and Art Raffle runs from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday at Westside Bowl, 2617 Mahoning Ave., Youngstown. Emelia Sherin will serve as host for the event, which will feature different offerings every half hour. The Youngstown Area Community Concert Band will play Broadway favorites while James Shuttic does a live painting performance at 4 p.m. Short films ...