Category: Performing Arts

  • Milton Elementary students showcase visual and performing arts

    Milton Elementary students showcase visual and performing arts

    Milton Elementary School recently hosted family, friends and staff for its annual fifth-grade art show to spotlight the young students’ hard work and creativity. Art teacher Ali Selders organized a display showcasing everything from paintings and drawings to mixed-media pieces, all created during the school year. Attendees were treated to musical performances by the fifth-grade…

  • Broken Arrow’s Tuesdays in the Park returns with free live performances

    Broken Arrow’s Tuesdays in the Park returns with free live performances

    A free summer tradition is lighting up Central Park in Broken Arrow, offering families a night of live entertainment, food and arts each Tuesday in June. Tuesdays in the Park features live musical performances from 7 to 9 p.m. at Central Park, located at 1500 S. Main St. Each evening includes a wide range of…

  • Series spotlighting BIPOC artists at The Ark set to return June 8

    Series spotlighting BIPOC artists at The Ark set to return June 8

    This story is part of a series about arts and culture in Washtenaw County. It is made possible by the Ann Arbor Art Center, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival, Destination Ann Arbor, Larry and Lucie Nisson, and the University Musical Society. “I think about stepping on a stage [as an] act of reaching out,” says…

  • Record-breaking crowd of 1,200 turns out for 2025 Minty Awards, dubbed Staten Island’s version of the Tonys

    Record-breaking crowd of 1,200 turns out for 2025 Minty Awards, dubbed Staten Island’s version of the Tonys

    STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The curtain rose — and roars of applause followed — as the 14th Annual Minty Awards lit up the historic St. George Theatre on Sunday, June 1, celebrating excellence in Catholic high school musical theater on Staten Island. A record-breaking crowd of 1,200 students, educators, families, and local dignitaries filled the…

  • Bay Street Theater Announces 2025 Mainstage Summer Lineup

    Bay Street Theater Announces 2025 Mainstage Summer Lineup

    Bay Street Theater is showing the 1951 film “A Streetcar Named Desire” this weekend to get viewers ready for their performance of it. Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center has an exciting lineup for the 2025 season. “We will explore the nature of love with three vivid productions that will bring our audience close…

  • ‘Sleeping Beauty’ and premieres on Indianapolis Ballet’s 2025-26 season

    ‘Sleeping Beauty’ and premieres on Indianapolis Ballet’s 2025-26 season

    Indianapolis Ballet’s 2025-26 season will be marked by another major collaboration with the Indianapolis Symphony as well as several premieres. In September, the company will perform George Balanchine’s “Concerto Barocco” for the first time, and dancers will present world premieres of more works with original choreography. In the spring, the ballet will program “The Sleeping…

  • Peru Shines Bright at the 2025 Talía Awards

    MADRID, June 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Peru took center stage at the 3rd edition of the Talía Awards, held on May 12 at the Teatro Fernán Gómez Centro Cultural de la Villa in Madrid. Organized by the Academy of Performing Arts of Spain, under the leadership of President Cayetana Guillén-Cuervo and First Vice President Eduardo Galán Font, the…

  • Hillsboro’s Walters Cultural Arts Center to change hours

    Hillsboro’s Walters Cultural Arts Center to change hours

    Hillsboro’s Walters Cultural Arts Center to close temporarily, reopen with new weekend hours Published 11:00 pm Monday, June 2, 2025 After closing for maintenance this June, the Walters Cultural Arts Center will change its hours. (Submitted by the city of Hillsboro) Hillsboro’s cultural arts center will be putting a temporary pause on operations this June…

  • Cinema, performing arts enjoy audience boom across Türkiye

    Cinema, performing arts enjoy audience boom across Türkiye

    ANKARA Türkiye saw a notable rise in audience numbers across cinema, theater, opera and classical performances last year, official figures have revealed, reflecting growing public interest in cultural events. According to the latest data published by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) on June 2, cinemas drew around 32.5 million viewers throughout the year, indicating a…

  • Classical guitarist to perform at Galena Center for the Arts

    Classical guitarist to perform at Galena Center for the Arts

    GALENA, Ill. — Classic guitarist Marcus DeJesus will perform a free concert, “Eco das Cordas: The Soul of Brazil in Choros and Canções,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 12, at Galena Center for the Arts, 971 Gear St. The Brazilian-born DeJesus lives in the tri-state area and is a professor of general music and guitar…