In the 2013 Broadway production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, the ancient tale was revised to fit the current times by turning the meek, downtrodden  heroine into a socially aware young woman who longs “to make the world a better place” and who ultimately...

The San Pedro Playhouse has been a beautiful home for live theater in San Antonio pretty much continuously since the city built it in the center of San Pedro Park in 1930. Few playhouses have a better setting. The first resident organization that occupied the now...

BOLERO SONGS, STORIES AT THE CARVER Jose Ruben De Leon learned to love music as a baby. “I was a colicky baby and my parents sang to me to calm me and put me to sleep,” explains the playwright/musician. “That was the only thing that worked.” To make it easier on the...

ARTS San Antonio has two special treats for San Antonians this holiday season – a big Mexican folkloric extravaganza called “Fiesta Navidad,” and a beautiful “Nutcracker” produced by the Mejia Ballet International from the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The first up on Dec....

In this season of Thanksgiving here’s a show to be thankful for – “Songs of Freedom – a Tribute to Joni Mitchell, Abbey Lincoln and Nina Simone,” which will have only one performance Saturday at the Carver Community Cultural Center. All three of these artists are...

“THE NUTCRACKER” CONTINUES THIS WEEKEND If you want to get into the holiday mood, head down to the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts this weekend to see Ballet San Antonio’s spirited production of “The Nutcracker.” The music, the dancing, the growing Christmas...

THE HOLIDAY SEASON STARTS WITH “THE NUTCRACKER” Like every year in recent memory, Ballet San Antonio is the first theatrical company to officially herald the start of the holiday season by presenting the most Christmas-y of all Christmas productions – the beloved...

That a play written almost 140 years ago still resonates with today’s audiences is a tremendous credit to the playwright. That its current staging at the Classic Theater kept my attention as well as it did despite my knowing the plot and the resolution, was an...

To celebrate its 10th anniversary, the moving arts festival with the beautiful name of Luminaria has returned to the Hemisfair Park where it started as a one-night showcase for local artists dreamed up by former mayor Phil Hardberger. The fest has grown quite a bit...

CHUCK RAMIREZ RETROSPECTIVE AT THE McNAY Last time I saw Chuck Ramirez, we stood in front of his large photograph of an empty heart-shaped chocolate box at the former Ruiz-Healy Art gallery in Olmos Park. We hadn’t seen each other in a long while so we spent some time...