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Comedian brings act, TV pilot to Funny Farm

Dan Rosenberg will be opening for himself when he comes to the Funny Farm Comedy Club on Oct. 9. It’s a lot of Rosenberg. Before the Beaver Falls, Pa., native performs, he will screen the pilot for the television series he wrote and stars in called “It’s a Lot.” “We show it, we show the blooper reel right after it, and then I just come out, and I've got three or four stories, you know, about the filming of it … and kind of tie it into my act,” Rosenberg said during a telephone interview. “Then I do another 15, 20 minutes of my act, and then we do a Q&A. The Q&As ...

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First Fridays Youngstown coincides with ghost tour Phelps Street Gateway downtown will be the site for October’s First Fridays Youngstown. The event runs from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday and will include music by November Loop, vendors and community organizations and family-friendly games and activities. Admission is free. This month’s event coincides with the Historical Youngstown Ghost Tours, which are sold out. Warren library offers sneak peek of upcoming Ghost Walk Two weeks before this year’s Ghost Walk starts, an open dress rehearsal is planned at 2 p.m. Saturday at the ...

Sinister Fest features horror films, vendors

Things get sinister at Skyway Drive-In to start October. The third Sinister Fest runs Friday and Saturday with more than 30 Halloween and horror-themed vendors. The event was started by Justin Haines, owner of Dead Ink Apparel, to celebrate the spooky season. The movie lineup includes a mix of studio releases and low-budget, independent horror fare. Friday’s lineup includes “The Devil’s Rejects,” “Rob Zombie’s Halloween” and the original “Night of the Living Dead” on screen one and “Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil,” “Army of Darkness” and “Trivial” on screen ...

Butler accepting AAA submissions

The Butler Institute of American Art is seeking submissions for its 86th Area Artist Annual exhibition. The juried show is open to artists living within a 75-mile radius of the Youngstown museum. Eligible media includes oil, watercolor, acrylic, pastel, photography, ceramics, sculpture, drawing / illustration, mixed media, works on paper and printmaking. This year’s juror is Nils P. Johnson, an attorney, artist and musician who is a member of such national artist organizations including the Allied Artists of America, the Connecticut Academy of Fine Art and the Copley Society of ...

Theater serves up ‘Arsenic & Old Lace’

Youngstown State University President Bill Johnson becomes actor Bill Johnson for University Theatre’s production of “Arsenic & Old Lace.” Johnson is part of the cast for the classic stage comedy by Joseph Kesselring, which opens Friday for a two-weekend run. Theater critic Mortimer Brewster announces to his spinster aunts that he’s going to marry the woman who lives next door, but he discovers the aunts have a bigger surprise — they poison lonely old men as acts of mercy. Further complications arise as Mortimer must deal with a brother who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt and ...

‘Foreigner’ finds home at Trinity Playhouse

Stage Left Players will stage the comedy “The Foreigner” for a three-weekend run. Larry Shue’s play tells the story of Charlie, a painfully shy Englishman seeking peace and quiet at a fishing lodge in rural Georgia. To avoid social interactions, his friend concocts a scheme: let the locals believe Charlie doesn’t understand English. The plan works a little too well, as the lodge’s colorful residents begin revealing their deepest secrets and wildest schemes right in front of him — leading to hilarious misunderstandings and unexpected twists. Shue also is the playwright ...