Category: Performing Arts

  • How you can celebrate the holidays with the Denver Center for the Performing Arts

    How you can celebrate the holidays with the Denver Center for the Performing Arts

    DENVER (KDVR) — It’s the holiday season! Well, at least it’s the season to plan for the holidays. Here’s what is scheduled at the Denver Performing Arts Complex during November and December. How much rain and snow did Colorado get during the 2023 water year? All tickets can be found online at the Denver Performing…

  • America’s Sweethearts to Bring Nostalgic Harmony to the Oxford Performing Arts Center

    America’s Sweethearts to Bring Nostalgic Harmony to the Oxford Performing Arts Center

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  • Review: Dallas Opera premieres Joby Talbot’s ‘Diving Bell and the Butterfly’

    Review: Dallas Opera premieres Joby Talbot’s ‘Diving Bell and the Butterfly’

    Everest, commissioned and premiered by the Dallas Opera back in 2015, got reactions across the spectrum. But it was deemed enough of a success for the company to commission another collaboration of composer Joby Talbot, librettist Gene Scheer and stage director Leonard Foglia. The result, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, had its vividly realized…

  • Sheboygan ATHENA awards finalists unveiled, plus more news in your weekly dose

    Sheboygan ATHENA awards finalists unveiled, plus more news in your weekly dose

    SHEBOYGAN — Sheboygan County Chamber of Commerce has unveiled the finalists for the 2023 ATHENA Leadership Awards. Here they are, by award: ATHENA Leadership Award (recognizing an individual): Alison Petri, Steimle Birschbach, LLC; Allison Thompson, Fresh Meals On Wheels of Sheboygan County; Denise Wittstock, Big Brothers Big Sisters WI Shoreline; Elizabeth Majerus, City of Sheboygan;…

  • Opera legend’s widow to help deliver $30M performing arts center to Naples

    One of the world’s most premier opera names plans to bring a $30 million multipurpose state-of-the art theatre to Naples. The project, a partnership with the Luciano Pavarotti Foundation, is dubbed The Theater in the Garden of Naples. It’s designed to honor the world-renowned tenor, while also fulfilling the long-standing need for such a multiuse…

  • WSCC hosting ‘Salute to United States Veterans’ featuring Concert Band, Jazz Band Nov. 9

    WSCC hosting ‘Salute to United States Veterans’ featuring Concert Band, Jazz Band Nov. 9

    The Wallace State Concert Band will perform under the direction of Dr. Justin Robinson during the Nov. 9 Salute to Veterans concert at 7 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the Burrow Center for the Fine and Performing Arts. Admission is free and everyone is welcome to attend. (WSCC) HANCEVILLE, Ala. — The Wallace State…

  • The Hylton Performing Arts Center Presents Artist-in-Residence The Legendary Ingramettes

    The Hylton Performing Arts Center Presents Artist-in-Residence The Legendary Ingramettes

    Provided by Hylton Performing Arts Center “One of America’s most celebrated gospel groups” (NPR) and 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellowship recipients, The Legendary Ingramettes will perform their family favorites sprinkled with uplifting Christmas music at the Hylton Performing Arts Center on Dec. 3. The performance includes a special guest appearance by local students…

  • Joan Woodbury, legendary pioneer of modern dance in Utah, dies at 96

    Joan Woodbury, legendary pioneer of modern dance in Utah, dies at 96

    Joan Woodbury, the dancer and choreographer who helped bring modern dance to Utah audiences as co-founder of the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, has died. Woodbury died Wednesday, according to her daughter, Jena Woodbury, who served as executive director of the dance company until last year. Joan Woodbury was 96. Woodbury and her artistic partner, Shirley Ririe,…

  • ‘Spring Awakening’ brings 19th century cautionary tale to Elon University

    ‘Spring Awakening’ brings 19th century cautionary tale to Elon University

    When performing arts professor Kim Shively was approached about directing Elon University’s fall main stage musical, “Spring Awakening,” she said she thought about how the musical’s message applies to the world today.  “I was looking at all the controversy surrounding pulling books out of libraries,” Shively said. “Not cultivating curiosity in children but rather sticking…

  • PPAC is Back! Providence Performing Arts Center Kicks Off 2023-2024 Season

    by Madelyn Young ’25 on November 4, 2023A&E Staff Arts & Entertainment After a summer packed full of concerts, shows, and tribute acts, the Providence Performing Arts Center is ready to welcome an exciting season of touring Broadway shows. Beginning with the opening of Funny Girl on Sept. 9, downtown Providence is sure to be…