Youngstown Model Railroad Association announces open house

The Youngstown Model Railroad Association will have its annual open house for eight days over two months.

YMRA has both O and HO scale layouts. The HO layout is adding several new rides to its amusement park area, including a scale model of the Idora Park Rocket Ride. A new modular HO layout also has been added.

Open house dates are noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sunday and Nov. 8 and 9 and Dec. 6, 7, 13 and 14 at the club, Raccoon Road and Four Mile Run Road, Austintown. Admission is $5 with children ages 11 and younger admitted free. For more information, email yomodelrrclub@yahoo.com.

SPARK Storytellers event to explore ‘Crossroads’ events

A SPARK Storytellers event is scheduled at 2 p.m. Sunday at Trinity Playhouse, 234 E. Lincoln Way, Lisbon.

Five local storytellers — Kandace Cleland, Robin Tener, Connie Baer, Ashley Arter and Scott Weingar — will present original stories about a time in their lives when they came to a crossroad and the consequences of the path forward they chose.

Admission is $10 at the door, and the program is made possible in part by support from the Ohio Arts Council. For more information, go to stageleftplayers.org.

Youngstown labor museum hosts ‘First Ladies in Wartime’ program

Author and television producer Andrew Och will speak on “First Ladies in Wartime” at 3 p.m. Monday at the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor, 151 W. Wood St.

Och is the author of “Unusual for Their Time: On the Road with America’s First Ladies, Volumes 1 & 2” and the producer of the C-SPAN and White House Historical Association series “First Ladies: Influence and Image.”

The program is presented by the Youngstown State University humanities department through the Reeder Endowment in History, and admission is free.

‘Guns and Moses’ movie showing at Youngstown State University

The Youngstown Area Jewish Film Festival in partnership with the Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies at Youngstown State University will screen the film “Guns and Moses.”

The movie is the story of a Hasidic rabbi in a desert town whose congregation is attacked. A young white nationalist is arrested, but the rabbi doubts his guilt and begins investigating the case.

A virtual Q & A with film director Salvador Litvak will follow the film.

The movie will be shown at 6:30 p.m. Monday in room B112 at Cushwa Hall. Admission is free, but advance registration is required by Friday at jccyoungstown.org/filmfest. Donations will be accepted at the door.

Upton House in Warren offers program on women pilots

Alexandra Lausin, interim director of the International Women’s Air & Space Museum in Cleveland, will be the speaker for a First Wednesday event at the Harriet Taylor Upton House, 380 Mahoning Ave. NW, Warren.

Lausin will talk about the role of female pilots during World War II.

The program starts at 10 a.m. Wednesday with refreshment available starting at 9:30 a.m. Admission is free.

Sips & Scripts serves up ‘Claire the Chair’ at Kent State Trumbull

“Claire the Chair” by “Wild Bill” Johnson will be the next offering in Kent State University at Trumbull Theatre’s Sips & Scripts readers theater series.

Directed by Brian Westerley, the play gives a brief history of Broadway told from the perspective of two Broadway theater seats. It uses the conceit to show how Broadway shows and the Theater District changed from the 1920s to today. The “presentation” is interrupted by a second chair that roasts all things Broadway and provides biting social commentary.

It will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Darlene Lounge, 145 W. Market St., Warren. Admission is free.

ACTS sets auditions for production of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’

Auditions for ACTS Performing Arts Center’s production of the musical “Jesus Christ Superstar” are scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. Nov. 16 and 7 to 9 p.m. Nov. 18 at the theater, 40 S. Irvine Ave., Sharon, Pa.

Interested performers will be asked to perform 32 bars of a Broadway song with a pop, rock or gospel influence along with participating in a brief dance audition. It will be directed by Nicole Walzer with music director Joseph Spurio and choreographer Jessica Wellington.

The musical will open March 14, 2026. Pre-registration for auditions is recommended, and applications are available online at tinyurl.com/actsjcs.