Category: Performing Arts

  • Beyoncé leads the 2025 Grammy noms, becoming the most nominated artist in the show’s history

    Beyoncé leads the 2025 Grammy noms, becoming the most nominated artist in the show’s history

    #inform-video-player-1 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #inform-video-player-2 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } NEW YORK – Welcome to Beyoncé country. When it comes to the 2025 Grammy Award nominations, “Cowboy Carter” rules the nation. She leads the nods with 11, bringing her career total to 99 nominations. That makes her the most nominated…

  • Busy lineup at Mondavi in November

    Busy lineup at Mondavi in November

    November is a busy month at the Mondavi Center. Upcoming performances include opera, comedy, a family music matinee (with songs in Spanish and English), plus (later in the month) concerts by several UC Davis performing ensembles. Tickets for the performances listed below are available online at MondaviArts.org, and in person at the Mondavi Center box…

  • DJ Kid Koala brings Nufonia Must Fall to the Performing Arts & Technology Festival in New Westminster

    DJ Kid Koala brings Nufonia Must Fall to the Performing Arts & Technology Festival in New Westminster

    Breadcrumb Trail Links Entertainment Celebrity Festivals Local Arts Travel Vancouver Music Theatre DJ Kid Koala presents a wild multimedia presentation of his graphic novel Nufonia Must Fall at the New Westminster Art & Technology Festival. Published Nov 08, 2024  •  Last updated 59 minutes ago  •  5 minute read DJ Kid Koala in his studio in…

  • Northwood Performing Arts Center to host Beatles tribute band

    Northwood Performing Arts Center to host Beatles tribute band

    GRAND FORKS – Tickets are available online for the “Yesterday – The Las Vegas Beatles Tribute” event, set for 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, at the Northwood Performing Arts Center. The Las Vegas Beatles tribute band, endorsed by Sir Paul McCartney himself, tours throughout the U.S. and internationally, including Japan, Canada, the Philippines, Hong Kong,…

  • How Cowboy Bebop LIVE takes fans across the galaxy with a funky jazz ensemble

    How Cowboy Bebop LIVE takes fans across the galaxy with a funky jazz ensemble

    Corey Paul’s dream of leading a live funky jazz ensemble that nodded to the intergalactic noir-western series “Cowboy Bebop” seemed like a far-out fantasy. Now it’s a reality, and the show’s hitting venues across Southern California this November. In the early aughts, Paul was an avid viewer of Toonami, a Cartoon Network programming block focused…

  • Holiday Arts Festival opens at Willamette Christian Center, free admission

    Holiday Arts Festival opens at Willamette Christian Center, free admission

    EUGENE, Ore. — We’re officially in the holiday season and the Holiday Arts Festival kicked off Friday at the Willamette Christian Center gymnasium. The festival features pottery, jewelry, hand-turned wooden bowls, and a youth art competition. Event organizer Kay Beckham says it’s a great opportunity to get an early start on your holiday shopping. “This…

  • Bunce Performing Arts presents ‘A Christmas Carol The Musical’

    Bunce Performing Arts presents ‘A Christmas Carol The Musical’

    Bunce Performing Arts, a musical theater company in Maple Grove, announces the dates and creative team of their upcoming production of “A Christmas Carol the Musical,” directed by Rachel Gaspar (of Champlin), with music direction by Joseph Leibig (of Maple Grove) and choreography by Carmen Castello (of St. Paul). “A Christmas Carol the Musical” will…

  • A bracingly contemporary century-old masterpiece

    A bracingly contemporary century-old masterpiece

    It’s not hard to find parallels between modern-day America and Germany between the World Wars. The era’s sexual freedom, flirtations with fascism and general sense of unease all feel eerily contemporary.  Arguably the most vivid artistic depiction of that time and place is “The Threepenny Opera” by playwright Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill. Nearly…

  • ‘The Ramaavan’ the Musical from Jersey City’s Surati Plays in NYC This Weekend

    ‘The Ramaavan’ the Musical from Jersey City’s Surati Plays in NYC This Weekend

    Stephen Schwartz turned Matthew into Godspell. Andrew Lloyd Webber set the narrative from the back chapters of Genesis to song and verse and called it Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. More than a few world-famous musicals have modernized ancient devotional literature through an encounter with contemporary pop. Ramaavan — A Musical, a stage adaption…

  • American Family Insurance Agent Carol Shaw and Buchanan Center for the Arts’s Kristyne Gilbert and Rebecca Quick

    American Family Insurance Agent Carol Shaw and Buchanan Center for the Arts’s Kristyne Gilbert and Rebecca Quick

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