After being on hiatus since 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the well-known and beloved Weaver Arts program makes its return to the Merced Theatre this Friday and Saturday with Beauty and the Beast Jr led by director Jenae Day. Performances are March 3, at 7 p.m.; and March 4, at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. When most people think of a middle…

The Fresno Philharmonic, conducted by music director Rei Hotoda, will present a pops concert with the acclaimed group Pink Martini, featuring lead singer…

Teachers as “facilitators of learning.” Students away from desks and teaming up at white boards to solve problems. Expanded transitional kindergarten…

William Shakespeare once said, "How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." In the same way, inspiration and joy radiates a great deal from grassroots theatre productions. In a time where a large percentage of popular media suffers due to mainstream conformity, it is increasingly more…

Things are getting pretty interesting for the next Aftershock Music Festival — the biggest of its kind on the West Coast — at Discovery Park in Sacramento…

The West Side Theatre in Newman has announced its March & April events. The venue is a beautifully restored 1940s movie house that now serves…

The Heartland Creative Corps intends to support art by individual artists and organizations in Merced, Stanislaus and Tuolumne counties with a $4.2 million program to increase the awareness and power of the arts within communities. The United Way of Merced County is the administering organization, and the Merced County Arts Council will serve as…

The Sierra Repertory Theatre is proud to present the West Coast premiere of Elvis The Musical, at the East Sonora Theatre, March 2 through April 2. The…

“All’s well that ends well,” haven’t we heard that phrase somewhere, sometime? It is the name of this often-neglected Shakespeare comedy —…