From Jan. 10 through Jan. 19, Playhouse Merced will present Jaclyn Backhaus’ “Men On Boats,” a dramatization of the exploration of the upper portion of the Colorado River by John Wesley Powell and his crew in 1869. By way of an all-female cast, the production will offer a new perspective on an era when women were not allowed the same…

The quarterly downtown Merced Art Hop unfortunately is ending at the height of its popularity. The next event — a winter edition that would have been held…

By ELIZABETH ARAKELIAN UC Merced External Relations A collaboration among the City of Merced, community members and the University of…

Editor’s Note: This story updates a previous version published in the print version of the Merced County Times that incorrectly identified what the donation and matching city funds were going to be used for. While artist Monika Modest is working on a mosaic art project for the Merced Open Air Theater, the new funding is going toward…

Made By Hand Gift Market, consisting of 18 vendors, attracted a crowd of holiday shoppers to the Merced Multicultural Arts Center at 645 W. Main…

New Beginnings — the local nonprofit animal rescue group — will be holding its annual Christmas Home Fantasy this Sunday, Dec. 8, from noon to 4…

Actors elaborately and stunningly dressed as cats, strutting, leaping and singing, and otherwise moving and meowing just like the animals they were portraying, filled Playhouse Merced’s stage during the opening show of “Cats”, the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber based on “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” by T. S. Elliot. The…

Merced College Art Gallery will present an exhibition of photography, painting, sculpture, digital art, ceramic art and mixed media created by the…

Sierra Repertory Theatre is overjoyed to announce new Managing Director, Jeremy Blunt. Blunt succeeds Becky Saunders, a longtime SRT actress who took…