San Antonio stages are always alive with plays and musicals and two new but very different shows have  just opened this past weekend. Each will have a several=week run. At the Woodlawn, which specializes in musicals, you can immerse yourself in sweet nostalgia with...

The San Antonio Book Festival lasts only a day but that one day is positively crammed with activities, from book signings and discussions to opportunities for kids and teens to explore arts-and-crafts, theater, robot racing, virtual reality and dozens of other things....

The all-volunteer Overtime Theater is a veritable little powerhouse when it comes to staging new shows by San Antonio playwrights and songwriters. The latest one is “Nightingale,” an original musical co-created by Jules Vaquera and Dan Timoskevich, featuring 20...

Though I doubt that many people devote much thought to “the road not taken,” artists seem to like exploring the subject. What if you chose X instead of Y, what if you met A instead of B, etc.  You could have a completely different life from the one you have been...

March is Contemporary Art Month in San Antonio and there is a lot going on but I want to draw your attention to a small but unique exhibit at the Clamp Light Gallery, 1704 Blanco. Though modest both in scope and presentation, it’s definitely worth a visit. Curated by...

The San Antonio Museum of Art has once again brought to us an interesting historical exhibit focusing on the Mesoamerican colonies of the Spanish Empire. Titled “San Antonio 1718: Art from Viceregal Mexico,” the exhibition honors the city’s beginnings as an outpost of...

Former Ballet San Antonio principal dancers Sarah Pautz and Jayson Pescasio have returned to the Alamo City, and are presently affiliated with Ballet Conservatory of South Texas (BCSTX). She is the associate artistic director of the ballet school and pre-professional...

In 1913, a young black man, named Lee Johnson, was accused of killing prominent San Antonio physician, Dr. Augustus Maverick, a grandson of the legendary politician Samuel Maverick. So many citizens were outraged by the shooting that 1,500 people packed the two-story...

No one has impacted musical theater in recent times as much as Andrew Lloyd Webber, the composer of “The Phantom of the Opera,” “Evita,“ “Jesus Christ Superstar” and about ten other stage musicals. His songs soar and rock, drawing eager fans and packing theaters...

When Jose Ruben De Leon first read Rudolfo Anaya’s seminal novel “Bless Me Ultima,” he had no trouble relating to the book’s young protagonist, Antonio. There were similarities between their lives. In the story, Antonio is guided in his quest to understand the world...