News Roundup Let’s begin with theater news. From what we have learned about the new musical, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, the show definitely lives up to its satirical title and then some. The winner of four Tony Awards, including for Best Musical, the play tells the story of a poor young Englishman, Monty Navarro, who discovers that …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor — When Tim Hedgepeth first saw A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder in New York a few years ago, he felt like the odd man out in the jovial theater crowd around him. “People were screaming with laughter and I was just chuckling,” he recalled the other day. “A woman turned toward me and said, …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor — You have been the CEO of the Tobin Center for six years now, including a year before it opened to the public. How has this entire experience been for you? Energizing! Very rarely do you get an opportunity to start from scratch. When I got here in the spring of 2013, there was nothing, not …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor – Piano fans will be in heaven next week when the reinvigorated and expanded San Antonio International Piano Competition brings to town some of the best pianists in the world, both famous and well-established, and emerging young artists from several countries, hoping to win fame and medals. Renamed the Gurwitz San Antonio International Piano Competition in …
By Nicolas Sabala, Contributor  The bands MĂrame and Lloronas are at the forefront of San Antonio’s diverse and fearless music scene. Members of both groups are products of the new millennium and all of the technological advances that came after. It’s no surprise to find their influences range from Mexican folklore to 90s Hip-Hop and are as eclectic as a …
News Roundup- If you have been following Arts Alive San Antonio, you already know that DreamWeek San Antonio – which actually lasts two weeks – is in full swing right now. More than 200 events are scheduled, so there is truly something for everyone, from panel discussions and symposiums to performances, fashion shows, screenings, ceremonies, etc. (See feature story on …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor – Opera San Antonio (OSA) has a bunch of good news to share with San Antonio. For the first time in its five-year history, the young company will have an additional “winter performance” this coming Valentine’s Day, to keep opera lovers happy during the longish period between the two major fall and spring productions. The chosen …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor – Artpace is inaugurating the new year with a remarkable exhibit of women artists chosen from the long list of individuals who participated in the organization’s residency program over the span of 25 years. Curated by Erin Murphy, the Artpace residency and exhibition manager – and spread throughout the building- Visibilities: Intrepid Woman of Artpace features …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor – Brandon has been a lawyer for almost as long as he’s been a successful novelist, specializing in mysteries and legal thrillers that have won critical praise and a wide readership. His latest book, From the Grave, came out this month from Severn House Publishers. It’s a sequel to Against the Law, which introduced the disbarred …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor – Several years ago, Shokare Nakpodia and his Mighty Group marketing agency, were contracted to “beautify” the route taken by marchers participating in the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. March. To his astonishment, Nakpodia learned that San Antonio had one of the largest, best attended MLK marches in the country, and that got him thinking: How …
