John Fleming founded the YS Kids Playhouse, a multi-media theater for youth, in 1995. He has directed and choreographed 15 original plays for youth and has instilled a high degree of theatre craft with over 1000 YSKP participants. Learn more about John...
Appetizers: Crawfish Boil, Alligator Bites, Muffaletta Sandwich, Creole Dip, Oyster Dishes and Fried Green Tomatoes Main Course: Vegetable Gumbo, Red Beans and Rice, Chicken, Boudin, Blackened Redfish, Jambalaya, Shrimp & Grits, Spoon Bread Dessert: King Cake
Appetizers: Crawfish Boil, Alligator Bites, Muffaletta Sandwich, Creole Dip, Oyster Dishes and Fried Green Tomatoes Main Course: Vegetable Gumbo, Red Beans and Rice, Chicken, Boudin, Blackened Redfish, Jambalaya, Shrimp & Grits, Spoon Bread Dessert: King Cake
Yellow Springs, Ohio — National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Rocco Landesman announced today that the YS Kids Playhouse is one of 832 non-profit organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Art Works grant. The YSKP is recommended for a $10,000 grant to support the 2013 Summer Theater Immersion. In July of 2013 the YSKP [...]
The audition’s complete and the show is cast. At the auditions it was pleasing to see today’s youth respond to the language and situations of the Marx Brothers. It’s generally overlooked that making a show is also an educational journey. And this is especially true in the YSKP, where all productions are original and there [...]
In Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro Cherubino, the Count’s Page, is a charming flirt who more or less falls in love with every female he meets. The part is written for mezzo-soprano and is normally played by a female. On his first entrance he sings about how he can’t control his romantic desires – “I [...]
This years’ new musical offering, Mo’s Night at the Opera, is a combination of two famous productions that occurred two hundred years apart. At first glance, combining Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro with the Marx Brothers’ A Night at the Opera seems like an irreconcilable task. Why would an 18th Century opera have anything [...]
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