Category: Performing Arts

  • 2025 UPAF Ride for the Arts

    2025 UPAF Ride for the Arts

    A big day for bike lovers and those who want to celebrate the arts. The UPAF Ride for the Arts is underway in Milwaukee, where bike riders will go over the Hoan Bridge this morning for the ride. Stephanie Staszak and Samantha Sostarich joined FOX6 WakeUp to tell us more about the role UPAF plays…

  • Discovery Awards to honor young actors; Tulsa Youth Opera presents ‘The Hobbit’

    Discovery Awards to honor young actors; Tulsa Youth Opera presents ‘The Hobbit’

    James D. Watts Jr. Musical theater students from 32 regional high schools and theater programs will be participating in the 2025 Discovery Awards, which will take place 6 p.m. Monday, June 2, at the Tulsa PAC, 101 E. Third St. The Discovery Awards is a collaborative effort by the Tulsa PAC Trust and Celebrity Attractions…

  • At a Bryn Mawr theater program, actors with disabilities tell their stories ‘without boundaries’

    At a Bryn Mawr theater program, actors with disabilities tell their stories ‘without boundaries’

    From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Outside The Haverford School, 7-year-old Flynn Dorney is excited to show you what he and his friends are working on. . Flynn has been enjoying his first year with Acting Without Boundaries, a…

  • Downtown Pittsburgh’s Arts Landing project reaches full funding

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  • In ‘Chicago’ at Capital One Hall, a night of jazz, justice, and jokes

    In ‘Chicago’ at Capital One Hall, a night of jazz, justice, and jokes

    The production of Chicago the Musical on tour at Capital One Hall offered a night of razzle-dazzle, though it fell just short of fully igniting the stage. While the performance featured moments of brilliance and musical highlights that captured the sultry spirit of the Jazz Age, it didn’t quite stand apart from other renditions of…

  • Colorado arts and humanities funds are being drained. Can philanthropy refill them?

    Colorado arts and humanities funds are being drained. Can philanthropy refill them?

    Story first appeared in: On May 2, arts organizations across Colorado received their dreaded late-night emails — not wholly unexpected — from the federal government, terminating grants recently awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, effective at the end of the month. By May 6 the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation, a Denver-based philanthropic organization, sent out…

  • A Summer of World-Class Performances at SPAC

    A Summer of World-Class Performances at SPAC

    Each summer, hundreds of thousands of people are drawn to the splendor of Saratoga Spa State Park. It’s not just Saratoga Springs’ famed natural mineral springs and geysers that beckon them there, however, but the soul-stirring performances at Saratoga Performing Arts Center. With its distinctive wooden amphitheater and sloping lawn that accommodates just over 25,000,…

  • Talent Shines at Annual Senior Farewell – M-A Chronicle

    Talent Shines at Annual Senior Farewell – M-A Chronicle

    Seniors, friends, and teachers gathered in the Performing Arts Center to celebrate the class of 2025 and their many talents at Senior Farewell on Thursday night. The annual tradition offers seniors the chance to showcase their various abilities and support one another through their last moments together as a class. The event was hosted by…

  • Arts funding slash

    Arts funding slash

    Topline: Arts groups say closures and shortened seasons are likely if a $11.5 million fund allocated in this year’s state budget is eliminated. Why it matters: Arts organizations are already hurting from federal government withdrawal of grants like the National Endowment for the Arts. Why now: The clock is ticking to save the new Performing…

  • Rant and Rave

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