Category: Performing Arts

  • Northwest to host second annual Sonatina-Sonata Festival for youth

    Northwest to host second annual Sonatina-Sonata Festival for youth

    Northwest Missouri State University’s Department of Fine and Performing Arts is hosting its second annual Sonatina-Sonata Festival, giving pre-college students an opportunity to perform on a university campus, receive feedback from music faculty and potentially win awards and scholarships. The festival includes an Honors Recital at 4 pm, Sunday, January 26, 2025, in the Charles…

  • Check Out Covi Loveridge Brannan’s Story

    Check Out Covi Loveridge Brannan’s Story

    Share This Article Share Post Newsletter Sed ut perspiciatis unde. Subscribe Today we’d like to introduce you to Covi Loveridge Brannan Hi Covi Loveridge, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself. Though I’ve been in New York City for almost a decade now, I am actually from the…

  • Local notes: Arkansas Arts Council announced the 2025 Governor’s Arts Awards

    Local notes: Arkansas Arts Council announced the 2025 Governor’s Arts Awards

    Arkansas Arts Council The Arkansas Arts Council, an agency of Arkansas Heritage, recently announced the 2025 Governor’s Arts Awards recipients. The recipients will be honored at a ceremony on March 7, 2025 at Robinson Center in Little Rock. Since 1991, the annual awards program has recognized individuals, organizations and businesses for their outstanding contributions to…

  • PROFILE | Kelsey Corder returns to Arkansas for performances of The Nutcracker

    PROFILE | Kelsey Corder returns to Arkansas for performances of The Nutcracker

    You could say that the stage is Kelsey Corder’s home, but when she set foot on the ArcBest Performing Arts Center stage this weekend, she came home in more than one way. Corder is in her second season dancing professionally for American Midwestern Ballet in Omaha, Neb. While she earned her career training and experience…

  • The hits parade in exhilarating ‘& Juliet’ on tour at Kennedy Center

    The hits parade in exhilarating ‘& Juliet’ on tour at Kennedy Center

    William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet has long been fertile ground for reinvention: from adaptations including West Side Story and Gnomeo & Juliet to modernized productions like Broadway’s current Sam Gold–Jack Antonoff collaboration and Folger Theater’s extrapolitical take earlier this season. But what if those star-crossed lovers hadn’t died? And what if Juliet was given the…

  • Area dance group participates in ‘Give Back’ event

    Area dance group participates in ‘Give Back’ event

    Members of Danza! Performing Arts Academy continued a charitable tradition this year. For the past 15 years the studio’s dance company, Danzaco has joined forces with Buffalo area studios raising money for local cancer research and patient support in our area. More than $860,000 has been raised prior to this year. Twenty-six patients directly have…

  • Oxford Performing Arts Center Hosts Free 2024 Christmas Movie Festival

    Oxford Performing Arts Center Hosts Free 2024 Christmas Movie Festival

    Oxford, AL – The Oxford Performing Arts Center (OPAC) is bringing holiday cheer to the community with its 11th annual FREE Christmas Movie Festival, scheduled for December 21–24, 2024. This family-friendly event promises a lineup of beloved holiday classics that are sure to delight audiences of all ages. Moviegoers can enjoy iconic films such as It’s…

  • Behind the Curtain: The Magic of Cincinnati Ballet’s ‘The Nutcracker’

    Behind the Curtain: The Magic of Cincinnati Ballet’s ‘The Nutcracker’

    The holiday season is upon us, and with it comes all of our favorite holiday traditions, like baking cookies, hanging stockings and, of course, taking in the timeless story of The Nutcracker at the Cincinnati Ballet. The Nutcracker, composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, touched the stage for the first time in Russia in 1892, and…

  • What’s Up in Music this season: We preview the statewide winter concert scene

    What’s Up in Music this season: We preview the statewide winter concert scene

    Things aren’t slowing down at all on the local music scene, with a wide variety of concerts scheduled over the next three months ranging from indie-rock to classical. Here’s a statewide rundown of some notable shows coming your way over this winter season. Ragged Island Brewing brings back the popular Barn Sessions with shows highlighting…

  • With the Civic Theatre full, performing arts look for room to grow

    With the Civic Theatre full, performing arts look for room to grow

    ROCHESTER — In 2019, when That Theatre Company debuted its raunchy original show “Jeff on the Shelf,” about four dozen people squeezed into an upstairs black box space at the Rochester Repertory Theatre building. After the first performance, the fire marshal’s assessment of the room set its capacity at 30 people. ADVERTISEMENT “That’s including the…