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.
“ALL IS CALM” AT THE ALAMO
We all know and sing “Silent Night” at Christmas time but there was one special night in history when the singing of the beloved carol was exceptionally meaningful to the people singing it. That happened on a cold night in Belgium when the German and Allied soldiers...
read more“MISS BENNET”- A CHANCE TO REVISIT JANE AUSTEN’S BELOVED CHARACTERS
In the English-speaking world, Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” continues to top lists of favorite books in reader surveys while film, stage, TV, and literary adaptations and sequels by multiple writers keep on coming. So, it’s not surprising that playwrights...
read moreBALLET SAN ANTONIO KICKS OFF “NUTCRACKER” SEASON
As in previous years, Ballet San Antonio once again inaugurates the holiday season with its post-Thanksgiving performances of “The Nutcracker,” the ballet that’s become a Christmas tradition all over the United Sates. In fact, there is a book about it called “The...
read moreTHREE EXHIBITS TO SEE NOW
With the performing arts taking center stage at this time of the year, people may forget that there is a great deal to see and enjoy at San Antonio galleries. Here are three outstanding examples. San Antonio Art League & Museum is currently presenting its 2018...
read moreMARIACHI FEST CONCLUDES SUNDAY WITH BIG CONCERT
The world-famous Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan know San Antonio quite well. They have been the main attraction at the annual Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza since 1995, when the local PR firm, Munoz Public Relations, started organizing a festival showcasing the...
read moreVOICES DE LA LUNA EVENT FEATURES THREE POETS LAUREATE
VOICES DE LA LUNA EVENT FEATURES THREE POETS LAUREATE Yes three! Two will be there in person while the third, Aline B. Carter, will be present in spirit through her poetry. Organized by VOICES DE LA LUNA, a literary non-profit that publishes the VOICES DE LA LUNA...
read moreAUSTRALIA’S TEN TENORS READY TO CHARM SAN ANTONIO
“We like to put our mark on songs we love,” say the men who together make up The TEN Tenors ensemble, and they do just that and do it beautifully enough to charm millions of people around the globe at their mostly sold-out concerts. The Australian group’s current U.S....
read moreDIA DE LOS MUERTOS FESTS HONOR THE DEAD
“Imagine a moving altar of Muerto characters wearing vivid masks, large sugar calavera heads and flowers – but dancing down the street…” That’s how URBAN 15 is describing its famed dancing and drumming performers who will make up the Carnaval de los Muertos this...
read moreA HALLOWEEN-READY PLAY
“If the Mummy, Vampire or Zombie Don’t Get You, the Giant Crocodile Will.” How’s that as an incentive to go see “Unhappy Campers,” the latest play penned and directed by playwright William M. Razavi at the Overtime Theater? And there are killers on the loose as well,...
read moreSOWETO GOSPEL CHOIR and “ONE FUNNY MOTHER
Two very different shows are coming to town this weekend and both are worth catching. In the 15 years since its founding, the South African Soweto Gospel Choir has won many awards, toured the world and delighted audiences with their voices, exuberance and message. On...
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