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ACTS explores ‘Mystery of Edwin Drood’

The musical “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” opens Friday for a two-weekend run at ACTS Performing Arts Center. Based on Charles Dickens’ final and unfinished novel, the musical invites audiences to solve the mystery for themselves — making every performance unique. The musical was written by Rupert Holmes, best known to pop music listeners as the man who wrote and sang the 1979 No. 1 single “Escape (The Pina Colada Song).” The musical won five Tony Awards, including best new musical, in 1986. Toni Schlemmer directs the ACTS production with Joseph Spurio as music director ...

‘Guys and Dolls’ coming to Ashtabula Arts Center

13th Street Theatre will stage the musical “Guys and Dolls” at Ashtabula Arts Center. Gambler Nathan Detroit is trying to find the cash to set up the biggest craps game in town while the authorities breathe down his neck. Meanwhile, his girlfriend and nightclub performer Adelaide laments that they’ve been engaged for 14 years. Nathan’s friend and fellow gambler Sky Masterson chases after straight-laced missionary Sarah Brown in his own romantic entanglement. The Frank Loesser / Abe Burrows / Jo Swerling musical ran for three years on Broadway in its initial run and won the ...

Butler displays abstract works

The Butler Institute of American Art draws from its permanent collection for an abstract art exhibition on display for the next two months. Among the included artists are Ronald Davis, Leon Polk Smith, Nassos Daphnis, Nicholas Krushenick and Douglas D. Craft. Davis is a painter known since the early 1960s for his use of geometric abstraction, abstract illusionism, shaped canvas paintings and 3D computer graphics. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, and “Ronald Davis: Forty Years of Abstraction” was shown at the Butler in 2002. Smith’s ...

Pumpkin Walk returns to Fellows Riverside Gardens

Mill Creek MetroParks will have its annual Pumpkin Walk at Twilight on Sunday at Fellows Riverside Gardens. Guests can stroll along pumpkin-lined paths as day turns to night and enjoy the seasonal beauty of the gardens. Another highlight of the event is Scarecrow Row. Located along the Gardens Trail Loop on the east side of the Kidston Pavilion, it features scarecrows dressed and decorated by local organizations. It also will include the educational feature “Creatures of the Night,” which will showcase nocturnal species commonly found in Ohio. Scarecrow Row will remain on ...

McGuffey series hosts Twain, Serling scholar

Mark Twain and Rod Serling will be the focus of the next William Holmes McGuffey Historical Society’s Memories of a Lifetime program. Mark Dawidziak, an author and former television critic for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, will discuss the parallels between 19th century humorist / author Twain and 20th century writer and “Twilight Zone” creator Serling in a program called “Moralists in Disguise.” Dawidziak, a Rod Serling Memorial Foundation board member and the author of “Everything I Need to Know I Learned in The Twilight Zone,” also has written five books about Twain. ...

Emissions from the Monolith festival returns in 2026

YOUNGSTOWN — The Monolith will start emitting again in 2026. Emissions from the Monolith, a music festival that attracted bands and fans from around the world to Youngstown from 2000 to 2006, will return to Youngstown for four days from Oct. 8 to 11, 2026, at Westside Bowl. Westside Bowl owners Nate and Jami Offerdahl will partner with Greg Barratt, who started the festival when he owned the former Youngstown music venue Nyabinghi, which hosted the festival. Emissions catered to fans of doom metal, stoner rock, sludge metal and adjacent sounds. Those genres don’t dominate pop ...