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Robert Earl Keen Sings 'Merry Christmas From The Fam-O-Lee'

12/04/2014 - 6:00pm

‘Merry Christmas From the Family’ has become an unlikely classic that’s been a live show mainstay ever since. His band has recorded an entire Christmas album, and at this time of the year, they play it along with other Keen songs. “We bring our Christmas show to San Antonio and we have for years now. And over the years, it’s just grown and grown to be kind of like a parade.” His Tuesday night Tobin show features a huge set and they dress in costume. Young and old alike are welcome.

The Tobin Connection

12/01/2014 - 10:45pm

The ties between UTSA’s music and performance programs and San Antonio’s arts scene are in the spotlight–and will be made even stronger–with the opening of the city’s premier performing arts venue. The Sept. 4 event showcased the new $203 million state-of-the-art center as well as three resident companies -- San Antonio Symphony, Ballet San Antonio and Opera San Antonio.

Review: Ballet San Antonio’s ‘Nutcracker’

12/01/2014 - 9:30pm

As in years past, Ballet San Antonio and the San Antonio Symphony kicked off the holiday season the day after Thanksgiving with their annual production of “The Nutcracker,” but this year they did it in the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, their new performing home. The 11-performance run continues through Dec. 7. Perhaps inspired by the new venue, Ballet San Antonio has gone all out to produce a grander, more opulent and festive show that’s sure to please families looking for the traditional “Nutcracker” they know and love.

San Antonio Symphony sets Thanksgiving mood

11/17/2014 - 12:30pm

SAN ANTONIO – The San Antonio Symphony set a Thanksgiving table Friday night (Nov. 14) for a feast of American music in a classical series program. Music by Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Barber and Charles Ives dotted the concert, along with one piece first played in the early years of the San Antonio Symphony nearly 70 years ago and a world premiere with a puzzle.

First impression: ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’

11/13/2014 - 9:00am
If you missed AtticRep’s killer 2012 staging of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” you can now make up for it. The company is remounting it as part of its first season in residence at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, and the new staging is just as marvelous. The show, once again directed by Roberto Prestigiacomo, sizzles from start to finish. Don’t let it get away.

Lyle Lovett’s marathon show at Tobin draws 1,500

11/12/2014 - 9:30am
SAN ANTONIO – Lyle Lovett is the marathon man of Texas Americana music. His two-and-a-half hour show (plus a 15-minute encore) at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday with his small acoustic band surpassed generous efforts these past few days from country greats Don Williams, Dwight Yoakam and Merle Haggard. But the length of a set isn’t the true measure. For Lovett, a straight-ahead performer who attracted more than 1,500 fans Tuesday, it’s all about the pacing and the juxtaposition of song.

Don Williams Review

11/07/2014 - 4:00pm

One loves babies; the other is more about the babes. Country music legends Don Williams and Dwight Yoakam played in the area on Thursday night.

Williams was at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, playing for a little over 1,400 fans; Yoakam played John T. Floore Country Store in Helotes for some 2,200 fans.

Santana sets high bar for McCartney; gushes for Spurs again

10/30/2014 - 11:15am

SAN ANTONIO – He’s played Sunken Garden Theater with lightning at his back. He’s rumbled inside the Alamodome.

But Carlos Santana has maybe never played as well here as he did on Tuesday at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts.

The Woodstock era guitarist with his tight eight-piece band (that included two horn players, drummer and two percussionists) and two excellent vocalists performed for more than two hours for a crowd of 1,700, many who danced all night during the 18-song set.

Paul McCartney - 'A Show for the Ages' in San Antonio: Concert Review

10/02/2014 - 11:15am

Given that Sir Paul McCartney regularly sells out arenas that seat 50,000 people, it was anyone’s guess what his production — usually filled out by giant graphics screens, pyrotechnics and plenty of moving parts — would look like in San Antonio’s 1,750-capacity H-E-B Performance Hall at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, where he played a gig to benefit the newly renovated venue Wednesday night.

McCartney, Ringo almost come together

09/25/2014 - 11:15am

The Beatles never played San Antonio.

Thanks to a shiny new venue, though, the two surviving ex-Beatles are arriving within a week of each other — 50 years after they first arrived in America.

Both Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have played San Antonio before, both in venues befitting their post-Beatles status.

Home in the Tobin Center

09/17/2014 - 9:00am

Beyond the glitter and excitement of the newly opened Tobin Center, the three people leading San Antonio’s main resident performing arts organizations are exploring new ways to collaborate on and off the stage.

VENUES TODAY: SAN ANTONIO’S NEW PAC OPENS

09/09/2014 - 7:15am

After a seven-year repurposing process, San Antonio’s performing arts center, Tobin Center, opened its doors last Thursday to a well-attended ribbon-cutting ceremony and performances by its residents, including the San Antonio Symphony, Opera San Antonio and Ballet San Antonio.

AT&T Name Added to Tobin Sky Wall

08/26/2014 - 7:30pm

San Antonio could gain a bright icon on Sept. 4 when downtown's Tobin Center for the Performing Arts' AT&T Sky Wall becomes operational with thousands of LED lights.

Tobin Center leaders on Tuesday announced they were adding the AT&T Inc. name to the silver skin, or architectural veil, surrounding the building, which houses two performance halls. The performing arts complex will be dedicated next week.

Tobin Center: The People's Palace

08/21/2014 - 10:15pm

A fairly predictable cast of characters will populate the stage of the H-E-B Performance Hall when downtown’s new Tobin Center for the Performing Arts lifts its curtain for the first time on Sept. 4. That’s not to say the first public event at the $203 million, seven-years-in-the-making Tobin Center won’t be extraordinary. Indeed, for the first time, members of the San Antonio Symphony, Opera San Antonio and Ballet San Antonio—all resident companies at the Tobin—will perform together on the H-E-B Performance Hall stage.

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