Theater

When Ralph Harrell died in 1979, he left behind a funny legacy. Harrell spent most of the 20th century clowning around with the Ringling Brothers and Shrine Circuses. Now, the Miamisburg History Center is celebrating the clown they call “The Original Bozo.”

The Ohio Renaissance Festival is open now and runs till the end of October. WYSO traveled just south of Dayton to find out why thousands of people spend late summer and early fall traveling back to the 1500s.

WYSO music director Juliet Fromholt interviews Lily Datura and Aurora Maur of Gem City Burlesque about the group's September 23 show in Fairborn.

We take a look at Dayton, Ohio native Ted Ross, aka, The Lion from The Wiz.

The arts community in the Miami Valley is looking forward to a big gift this holiday season.

The Rubi Girls holiday drag show is this Saturday at the Dayton Arcade. Last year’s performance was online because of the pandemic. This year, they’re back on stage and more risqué than ever

This week Central State University presents a play that rewrites recent history. Local poet and activist Bomani Moyenda has written his first play, “What’s Done in the Dark.” The play creates a fictionalized case based on the police killing of John Crawford III and a community’s struggle for accountability.

WYSO & Wright State University collaborate for anniversary broadcast of Orson Welles radio drama.

The Xenia Area Community Theater (X*ACT) is currently producing an Ohio premiere, The Face of Emmett Till. In 1955, Mamie Till put her only son, 14-year-old Emmett on a train from Chicago to visit family in Mississippi. He was kidnapped and was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman. Decades later, Mamie Till Mobley co-wrote a play about her struggle.

Last month, a prison theater group at Marion Correctional Institution performed The Hamilton Project, 23 songs from the hip hop musical on the life of Alexander Hamilton.

The playwright and actor Felicia Chappelle dropped by our studios to discuss her one-woman play "Interrupted Motherhood."This powerful autobiographical…

The plays of William Shakespeare are performed on stage more than any other playwright’s works. There are a couple of good reasons for this."Because it’s…