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SA kicks off planning for tricentennial celebrations at the Tobin Center
01/28/2016 - 2:45pm
San Antonio officially kicked off its tricentennial celebration for 2018. The city will be turning 300 years old in 2018 and the city can't wait to start celebrating. "A celebration of our history, culture, and we're going to be so looking forward to the next 300 years in our incredible and amazing city," Mayor Ivy Taylor said. Wednesday's event was filled with energy, excitement and confetti. The Tricentennial Commission unveiled its new logo and announced the launch of its website in grand fashion.
Luminaria Take Two Features Events at the Tobin Center
01/28/2016 - 2:30pm
The final events of Luminaria Take Two, the series presenting artworks that had to be cancelled due to stormy weather during the 2015 edition of the arts blowout, will take place next month. Luminaria logo The main events have been designed as miniature versions of Luminaria. On Feb. 19, about 20 artists will take over the San Antonio Museum of Art campus from 8 p.m. to midnight for video projections, live music and other performances. Food trucks will also be up and running. On Feb.
YOSA Alum To Premiere Concerto With San Antonio Symphony
01/21/2016 - 9:45am
Christine Lamprea, a Youth Orchestras of San Antonio (YOSA) alum and former student of San Antonio Symphony principal cellist Ken Freudigman, returns to San Antonio this week with a world premiere tucked into her cello case. She’ll be performing composer Jeffrey Mumford’s concerto titled of fields unfolding...echoing depths of resonant light. Lamprea says she hopes that San Antonio’s familiarity and trust with her will help them listen to the new music with open ears. The concert takes place on January 22 and 23 at 8 p.m. at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts.
Former Led Zeppelin Frontman Robert Plant Is Coming to the Tobin Center
01/20/2016 - 11:30am
The legendary Led Zeppelin frontman brings his bluesy, brooding bacchanal to San Antonio on Thursday, March 17. From fronting one of the most stoned-on-sex, high-on-lust rock 'n' roll bands of all time, to continuously broadening and exhibiting his knowledge and love of the roots music canon, Plant has proved to be more than a one-trick pony.
Symphony jazzes up its festival opening
01/18/2016 - 7:15pm
The San Antonio Symphony didn’t waste a syncopated beat Friday night in jumping into its first Las Américas Festival program.
What music can be more American than jazz? The program presented works by two top greats, George Gershwin and Duke Ellington, composers sophisticated enough to rise above their nightclub and jazz- band roots to write pieces for the serious concert halls
Tobin Center and NEISD to take part in Kennedy Center program
01/13/2016 - 5:00pm
The Tobin Center for the Performing Arts and the North East Independent School District will be taking part in the 14th Partners in Education Institute at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
The intensive training program takes place April 27-30. Ten teams from across the country — each featuring a school system and an arts organization — were chosen to take part. They will join 95 established teams that are already working with the program.
The Best of 2015 in Classical Music
01/06/2016 - 1:30pm
Here are the highlights of the year in classical music:“Salome”: Opera San Antonio presented its first fully staged opera at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts in January. Richard Strauss’ “Salome” was an intense experience.
“The Nutcracker” at 30: Ballet SA Marks a Milestone, Looks to Future
12/11/2015 - 10:15am
As Ballet San Antonio completes its 30th season of “The Nutcracker,” the company looks back at the past by performing the choreography of Mayra Worthen, while looking forward to the future with newly minted artistic director, Willy Shives.
Shives believes that San Antonio deserves a world-class company but acknowledges that his greatest challenge is getting the audience into the theater.“We just need to get out there,” he said. “It is important for us all to grow as human beings and the arts put us in a place to be able to do that. A place of confidence and self-worth.”
REVIEW: Lionel Richie ‘All Night Long’ – almost
10/23/2015 - 3:00pm
SAN ANTONIO – Lionel Richie doesn’t do encores. But he does make generations of women swoon. Several minutes after the pop superstar, activist and award-winning songwriter closed his sold-out concert Thursday at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts -- and even after the lights went up -- several hundred ardent fans kept clapping and whopping it up.
Maybe it’s because he closed with “All Night Long.”
Richie was the star attraction at the Tobin Center’s second annual benefit concert. Last year, it was Sir Paul McCartney.
San Antonio earns a spot on Huffington Post’s short list of “Secretly Cool Cities”
10/20/2015 - 11:00am
Writer and humorist Will Rogers once proclaimed that San Antonio was “one of the three unique cities of America,” and now, some 90 years later, a national publication launched by media icon Arianna Huffington has given the Alamo City more contemporary praise. The Huffington Post has identified San Antonio as one of America’s five “Secretly Cool Cities.” San Antonio ranks No. 3 on the cool cities list.
Yo-Yo Ma delights San Antonio audience
10/19/2015 - 12:00pm
The San Antonio Symphony on Friday night continued its tradition of bringing the world’s best talents to the city’s stages by presenting cellist Yo-Yo Ma for a sumptuous, emotionally moving account of Antonín Dvorák’s Cello Concerto. Yo-Yo Ma joins the list of recent appearances here, which includes performances by soprano Renée Fleming, pianist Lang Lang and violinists Joshua Bell and Itzhak Perlman for concerts with the orchestra and recitals.
Downtown San Antonio’s Tobin Center scores international recognition
10/07/2015 - 4:30pm
The Tobin Center for the Performing Arts has had little trouble attracting audiences for its variety of shows and events. The center city venue, which opened in September 2014, ranked among the top entertainment facilities in the world in the third quarter of 2015 based on ticket sales, according to industry tracker Pollstar.
Billy Idol rocks San Antonio at the Tobin Center
10/07/2015 - 4:15pm
At the end of the night Monday at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, '80s rocker Billy Idol staked out territory that's impossible to argue with.
"Show 'em what a (bleep) hit song sounds like," Idol said as his band kicked into "White Wedding" during the encore.
More than 2,100 fans screamed along – including Judy Pukansky dressed as a not-quite-virginal bride – as Idol (shirtless, of course) sang one of his biggest hits.
He's in remarkable shape, but one of punk's original godfathers since the days of Generation X looks rode hard and put up wet.
Swan Lake Set To Glide Into The Tobin Center
09/29/2015 - 5:30pm
The San Antonio Symphony and Ballet San Antonio are teaming up for another big project. That project is one of of the most popular ballets in dance history—Swan Lake, wherein a maiden’s been turned into a swan by way of a spell. Stager Dominic Walsh picks the story up there.
"The only way this spell can be broken is by an act of true love, and so she must find a prince who will love her and be faithful."
She finds one but then an evil player creates a costly deception.
Future looking ever brighterfor growing arts community
09/25/2015 - 5:45pm
Tobin Center, more music venues,artist exchange programs sewing seeds for city’s cultural enrichment: Felix Padrón, director of the city’s Department for Culture and Creative Development, sees such recent developments as the opening of The Pearl, the in-the-works transformation of Hemisfair and the opening of the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts as indicators that “San Antonio’s urban core is reaching a critical mass where it is desirable to live, work and play.