Lit Youngstown will offer an eight-session Writing Intensive focused on poetry starting in December. Participants will be asked to submit a poetry chapbook manuscript of 16 to 24 pages. Each month, visiting poets will lead a discussion and make suggestions for strengthening the submitted ...

The “Blippi: Join the Band Tour” comes to Packard Music Hall on April 16. Actors will portray Blippi and Meekah from the educational YouTube channel aimed at toddlers and young children. They will be accompanied by a live band as they explore how sound, rhythm and instruments make music. ...

The Warren Historical Players will do a dinner theater production of “Courtship in the City of Warren, Ohio” at 2 p.m. Sunday at Charbenay’s, 220 W. Market St., Warren. The performance explains the curious courtship rituals in the Victorian and Edwardian Age and how they shaped ...

Youngstown Playhouse will honor three of its past managing / executive directors with a permanent display at the theater. A photo dedication ceremony to recognize Arthur Sircom, James Cameron and Bentley Lenhoff is planned for 7 p.m. Friday before the opening of “The Thanksgiving Play” in ...

Joe Bell will be the guest speaker for Saturday’s William Holmes McGuffey Historical Society Memories of a Lifetime program. Bell replaces media personality Casey Malone, who is unable to appear. Bell, a former reporter and anchor for WKBN-TV in Youngstown, will speak about his broadcast ...

NILES — Over the years, I’ve seen Trumbull New Theatre make a lot of big musicals work in its performance space. On opening night of the Dolly Parton-Patricia Resnick musical “9 to 5,” it felt like the community theater didn’t have the resources to pull off the production it ...