Theater

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…

Antioch College professor Louise Smith visited the WYSO studio to talk to Music Director Niki Dakota about her upcoming performance of Dorothy Lane: A…

Students from Stivers School for the Arts will present their production of Once On This Island this weekend. Director Paula Powell and two of the student…

Work from Wright State University's art, music, theatre, dance, and motion pictures students will be on display at the campus' Creative Arts Center on…

Art in the City combines visual and performing arts, which will be highlighted throughout the downtown Dayton as a culmination of the DP&L Summer in the…

In Cage Shuffle Big Dance Theater's Paul Lazar performs randomized one-minute stories from John Cage's 1963 score Indeterminacy to set choreography by…

Steve Connell returned to the WYSO studios as his University of Dayton residency wraps up. He talked with Niki Dakota about his work with UD students and…