“Hadestown” won eight Tony Awards in 2019, including best new musical. It’s still running on Broadway nearly seven years and 2,200 performances later, and it opened in London’s West End in 2024. It’s not available to regional and community theaters, but the producers have licensed ...
After a couple of weeks of nothing but snow and temps in the 20s qualifying as a heatwave, I’m sure I’m not the only one looking forward to weather that makes me want to do something outside besides shiver. A couple of reminders of warmer days ahead arrived this week. On Friday, the crowd at Westside Bowl will have a chance to choose at least one of the acts that will perform at the year’s Federal Frenzy in downtown Youngstown. Participating in the battle-of-the-bands-style event will be zoloft!, Doomsday Darling, Mo Turk, Brake Fluid, SJ the Artisan, and Drifting Thing and the ...
Art ARTS & EDUCATION AT THE HOYT, 124 E. Leasure Ave., New Castle, Pa.: “My Abandoned Heart: Photography by Diane Beatty,” “Portals to the Soul: Photography by Dina Liguore” and “Felicific Calculus: Photography by Eric Kunsman,” all through March 12. 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. BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART, 524 Wick Ave., Youngstown: 86th Area Artists Annual, through Feb. 15; “Gary Erbe: Magical World,” through March 29. Hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday ...
“Dating Sucks: The Musical” opens Friday for a two-weekend run at the Youngstown Playhouse, the first of four shows Rust Belt Theater Company will stage in the Moyer Room in 2026. Several new musical numbers will be part of the revue-style musical by Robert Dennick Joki with ...
Three photography exhibitions will be on display through March 12 at Arts & Education at the Hoyt. “My Abandoned Heart” features the work of photographer Diane Beatty, who lives in Campbell, and documents the remains left behind by the once thriving Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. ...
First Fridays Youngstown dances into 2026 “For the Love of Dance” is the theme for the First Fridays Youngstown’s first event of 2026. Activities planned at Ballet Western Reserve, 218 W. Boardman St., and Concept Studio, 217 W. Federal St., include open houses, mini performances and classes, curated winter vendors and organizations and food and drink, including a hot chocolate bar. A live music initiative funded by the Youngstown Foundation will support live music Friday at The Avalon, The Draft House and Penguin City Brewing Company as part of First Fridays Youngstown. ...
