YOUNGSTOWN —The Butler Institute of Art has a world-class art collection and regularly hosts live music and movies. As part of its centennial celebration, the Butler will add theater to its repertoire with a staged reading of “Red,” the 2010 Tony Award winner for best new play. The ...

Assorted ramblings from the world of entertainment: • Several talented area natives will perform this month at Warren G. Harding High School for “INSPIRE: An Immersive Arts Experience.” The event, present by Second Baptist Church of Warren, honors the legacy of Clifford and Lillie ...

Klea Blackhurst opens the 2019-20 Trumbull Town Hall lecture series with her tribute to entertainer Ethel Merman. She will perform at Packard Music Hall on the same stage Merman appeared on with Kenley Players in “Call me Madam” in 1968. Blackhurst has been doing her Merman tribute, ...

What if the couple in Jason Robert Brown’s musical “The Last Five Years” were serial killers instead of a writer and an actress. That was part of the inspiration for “Serial Monogamy,” the latest musical by Robert Dennick Joki and Josh Taylor, which Rust Belt Theater Company will ...

Garry Peterson, drummer for the The Guess Who, had a memorable stay in Warren. He doesn’t remember the name of the motel, but he remembers what happened there. “We were playing there one time in 1991 or somewhere outside of there,” he said. “My girlfriend at the time drove up from ...

For a band on a roll, what better place to have a EP release party than at a skating rink? The Super Babes, featuring Bridget Reckless on guitar and vocals and Ann Rock on drums and vocals, will celebrate its six-song debut, “We Are The Super Babes,” with a show Saturday at Youngstown ...

During the writing process, songwriters take inspiration from many sources and events in their lives. Country artist A.C. Jones says she's inspired by the people she meets and the stories she hears, along with her own personal struggles and thoughts. Human stories are the kindred spirits of ...

WARREN — With a theme of “Fairytale & Fantasy,” Occupied Warren 2.0 doesn’t have a chained live model to dramatize the dangers of sex trafficking or rows of pill bottles illustrating the scourge of opioid addiction. This year’s art project has two spaces devoted to Alice in ...

NILES — Tickets will be available starting Monday for the 21st Trick or Treat at Eastwood Field in Niles. The annual event runs from 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 23 and is billed as a safe way to celebrate Halloween for children ages 12 and younger. New this year is a a “Fast Pass” for $10 ...

LIBERTY — Local historian and genealogist Tim Seman will be the next speaker in the William Holmes McGuffey Historical Society’s lecture series. Seman will discuss the founding and development of the Youngstown and Mahoning County Library System. The library system was founded in 1880 ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Ten years of prints created by Youngstown State University students are on display in Bliss Hall’s Judith Rae Solomon Gallery. Associate Professor Joseph D’Uva started the YSU Student Print Collection in August 2009. The goal was to compile a collection of student ...

Theater Local BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART, 524 Wick Ave., Youngstown: Staged reading of “Red,” 7 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, free. 330-743-1107. CALVIN CENTER, 755 Mahoning Ave., Youngstown: Rust Belt Theater Company — “Serial Monogamy,” 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday ...

• ON SALE THIS WEEK • Trans-Siberian Orchestra returns to the Covelli Centre for two performances at 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. Nov. 15. Tickets range from $49.50 to $79.50 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through the arena’s Southwoods Health box office and Ticketmaster. That won’t be the ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Director Trevail Maurice assembles an all-star team of Mahoning Valley talent to get Youngstown Playhouse’s 96th season off to a magnificent start with “Dreamgirls.” Youngstown native Joshua William Green came home from New York to play Curtis Taylor Jr., the Berry ...

At Pentatonix’s concert Sunday at the Canfield Fairgrounds, I talked to a woman who drove eight hours from Chicago to be at the show. She told me, “They literally saved my life. A lot of their fans have anxiety, depression. We wouldn’t be around if it wasn’t for their music. They’ve ...

Andy Cooney is bringing a couple of friends with him for his third Warren Civic Music Association appearance. The tenor, who first played Packard Music Hall in 2009 and brought his Irish Christmas show to the venue last year, will open the WCMA’s 2019-20 season Sept. 12 with the New York ...

Mahoning Valley Historical Society will have its 144th Founders Day Open House from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday with many free activities and a focus on the Mahoning River. According to MVHS Executive Director Bill Lawson, “This annual event gives the community a chance to look back on its deep ...

Trumbull Art Gallery will celebrate its 55th TAG Annual and its first accessible lift with an open house Saturday. A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the lift, which will make the downstairs classrooms and the gallery space fully accessible, was added to the traditional festivities for TAG’s ...

The premiere of the Robert Dennick Joki-Josh Taylor musical “Serial Monogamy” by Rust Belt Theater Company has been delayed one week due to multiple cast illnesses. The show now will run 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday from Sept. 13 until Sept. 28 at the Calvin Center, 755 Mahoning Ave., ...

The Butler Institute of American Art will display the first major solo exhibition by Chantell Van Erbe, but the artist’s last name should be familiar to regular visitors to the museum. She is the daughter of New Jersey artist Gary Erbe, whose realist paintings are part of the Butler’s ...