By Jasmina Wellinghoff For the Express-News Ballet San Antonio is keeping its 2011 momentum going strong. Only a few months after premiering the brand new ballet “Dracula,” and only a little over a month since its multiple performances  of “The …

NEW BRAUNFELS — What better way to show off a spiffy new theater renovation than with a spiffy production? That’s what the folks at the Circle Arts Theatre have done, giving audiences an utterly charming staging of “Nunsense.” &…

Award-winning playwright Will Kern, whose works include “Hellcab” and “Kid Sister,” is spending this weekend at Trinity University. In addition to leading a workshop for students, Kern will be on hand for a staged reading of &#8…

Both of the fights in the Sheldon Vexler Theatre’s staging of “A View from the Bridge” have an explosive, anything-could-happen energy. The raw, violent truth of those scenes run through the rest of the production, as well. Thanks to …

Tenor René Barbera, who took three top prizes in Placido Domingo’s Operalia 2011 competition, is coming home to sing with the  San Antonio Symphony. The native San Antonian will sing in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, the big finale of the sy…

“The Orphans” are Catherine (Allison Dietz, left) and Lily (Linda McCullers, right) Spangler, quirky spinsters who have spent the past 25 years holed up in a once-elegant hotel. (David Clingan, center, plays their attorney.) The Depression-era show, cu…

As the Everly Brothers (and, later, Nazareth) famously sang, “Love Hurts,” but perhaps never so much as when the object of your affection is a cactus. “Baila Esta Cactus” chronicles the short, painful affair between performance artist Jimmy James Canal…

The Extended Run Players, the readers theater group run by Sister Germaine Corbin at the University of the Incarnate Word, is working on a new show that will consist of all sorts of theater stories. They’re reaching out to the community for some …

Just over 200 proposals were submitted for this year’s edition of Luminaria, and almost 90 were selected by the outside adjudicators. The artists were announced at a press conference Tuesday morning (Jan. 31) at HemisFair Park. Luminaria will tak…

This month’s WIP — aka, Wednesdays-in-Performance/Works-in-Progress — features flamenco from Fandango (above), performance art from Marisela Barrera and nu-style poppin’ from Xavia/Xman Perkins. The evening starts at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the…