#performing-arts

#performing-arts

Talk about traditions: San Francisco Opera's free Opera in the Park celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. On Sunday, opera lovers will flock to Robin Williams Meadow to hear some of the top artists from this season's productions, as Music Director Eun Sun Kim conducts a program of arias, duets, and more, all sung by some of the stars of the fall season's masterworks. Details: 1:30 p.m. Sept. 7; Robin Williams Meadow, Golden Gate Park; free; www.sfopera.com.

The TWEED Theaterworks production company is offering East Village residents a series of free shows called Garden Variety, featuring diverse performances from drag to burlesque.

"After forty years as Artistic Director of his eponymous company, the Stephen Petronio Dance Company, Petronio has decided to close shop—a financial decision brought on by shifting interests in both private and public sources of funding."

"We're looking for people with purpose, passion, and potential. This is about more than business ownership - it's about creating a legacy that empowers young people and brings lasting value to local communities."

Circus Bella, co-founded in 2008 by Abigail Munn and David Hunt, is a contemporary one-ring circus that has performed over 182 shows in the Bay Area and beyond.

I start cleaning a waterpark, which is Wings and Waves in McMinnville, where I was hired as custodial. And I didn't know I was hired as a custodial because I didn't speak English...

The music, the intensity, the ending where the paper rolls go off from the back of the theater and wash over you like a wave.

First off, a bilingual English and Welsh take on Romeo and Juliet entitled Romeo a Juliet (Nov 5-8)... it will apparently function as a study of the struggle for Welsh identity.

Max Bill’s theatre design, created for the National Exhibition in 1964, was meant for temporary use but instead became a central cultural venue in Lausanne.

The Cornell Concert Series, now renamed the Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series, is set to showcase both timeless classics and innovative new music in its upcoming season.

"The mood was celebratory - appropriately so, since this was Pimble's last season as artistic director of the company that she and Riley Grannan founded in 1978."

This is not going to ultimately fill out a $12 billion deficit for the state of California, but it is going to potentially decimate small nonprofit performing arts organizations in the state.

The traditional form of Japanese drumming, known as taiko, has existed for thousands of years and is used in religious ceremonies, wars and entertainment.

This summer marks a beautiful new beginning and we're thrilled to welcome campers to our spacious new home in the heart of Bed-Stuy!

The DUMBO Dance Festival provides a platform for over 400 performing artists to showcase their work while offering New York audiences access to an extraordinary range of excellent and visionary choreography at an affordable price.

Amy Seiwert, the artistic director of Smuin Contemporary Ballet, presents a new work that adds to her impressive repertoire of 13 ballets for the company.

Tamerlan Guliyev, a ninth-grader from New World School of the Arts, won the Overall Grand Prize at the Young Talent Big Dreams competition for his dance to 'Dancin' Fool'.

I am so excited to unveil the new Stanford Live season, Nemani says. Driven by the belief that art and creativity can shift culture, the 2025-2026 season aspires to fill our stages with artists and stories that reflect our communities.

His death, while he was in China for meetings related to future productions, was announced on social media by Rachida Dati, the minister of culture in France.

To watch a puppet is to feel for it, says Sarah Olmsted Thomas. Viewing a puppet gives it context and meaning, enhancing our empathy.