Celebrate The San Antonio Arts
SA Arts is your online source for San Antonio arts, cultural events, performing arts schedules, entertainment, galleries and San Antonio events. We provide a full calendar of events occurring in the city and surrounding Texas hill country area, including listings of significant live performances, exhibits at San Antonio museums and art galleries, downtown exclusive events and other local activities, including festival information.
Interview with Fiddler on the Roof’s Yehezkel Lazarov
Musical theater fans rejoice, the perennial favorite “Fiddler on the Roof” is coming to the Majestic, March 26- March 31, as part of the North Park Lexus Broadway in San Antonio Series. The beloved theatrical classic from Tony Award-winner Joseph Stein, and...
read moreINNOVATIVE MUSIC TO SHINE AT MBAW’s INTERNATIONAL FEST
Some of the most exciting music produced today is generated through experimentation and style fusion, a trend that Musical Bridges Around the World’s likes to showcase during its International Music Festival, scheduled this year for March 22-24 and March 29-31. Five...
read moreTHE PUBLIC ANNOUNCES A SEASON OF PREMIERES
THE PUBLIC ANNOUNCES A SEASON OF PREMIERES The Public Theater’s 2019-20 season will be packed with San Antonio and regional premieres, punctuated by a few familiar favorites to provide “a balanced season,” said artistic director George Green. “It’s one of our...
read moreFolk Festival Founder Nelda Drury Died at 101
Nelda Guerrero Drury, who died last month at the age of 101, was a beloved teacher and leader in the international folk-dance community locally, nationally and beyond. Nelda Drury A lifelong dancer, Drury founded the dance department at San Antonio College in...
read moreAUTOGRAPH SERIES FEATURES TERRANCE HAYES
At this time every year, Gemini Ink offers San Antonians the chance to visit and interact with a prominent author of national, and even international, stature, and this time the organization is bringing to town, Terrance Hayes, a National Book Award winner and the...
read moreMcNAY MUSEUM PAIRS ART WITH INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
You don’t expect to see cars displayed in an art museum but that is indeed what you’ll find upon entering the Tobin Exhibition Gallery at the McNay Art Museum right now. Ten resplendent, colorful automobiles from a bygone era, are positioned as sculptures along the...
read moreBALLET SAN ANTONIO PREMIERES “CARMEN”
The story of Carmen, the sensual, fiery Gypsy girl that George Bizet elevated to iconic status, is such natural dance material that it is surprising to learn that no “Carmen” ballet had been created until 1949 when Roland Petit choreographed one for his company, Les...
read moreROMANCE IS IN THE AIR…
The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center has a special treat for mariachi music lovers this weekend. It’s called “Noche de Romance,” a special Valentine’s concert featuring Mariachi Azteca de America that will be performed twice – on Feb. 9 and 10 - at the historic...
read moreTHE STORY OF RUSSIAN PRINCESS TOLD IN HIT MUSICAL
A century ago, the last Romanov tsar of Russia and his family were murdered by the Bolsheviks in Yekaterinburg and their bodies were thrown into unmarked graves. But due to the Soviet government’s obfuscations about the deaths, as well as other circumstances, a belief...
read moreSYMPHONY OFFERS TRIBUTE TO EMILIO NAVAIRA
When Troy Peters came to San Antonio ten years ago to lead the Youth Orchestra of San Antonio, one of his goals was to discover and connect with “the music of this city.” Before long he came across the songs of Tejano star Emilio Navaira and “fell in love with them.”...
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