The Nutcracker, Impresario… News Roundup, Nov. 26, 2020

Following a long tradition, Ballet San Antonio will once again present everyone’s favorite holiday ballet, The Nutcracker, at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, starting the day after Thanksgiving.  It will be a modified Nutcracker with fewer dancers on stage to avoid crowding and close contact, but co-choreographer Easton Smith says there will be plenty of magic as great …

2020 “Nutcracker” will be Different and Unique

By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor Though so many live stage productions have been cancelled this year, that’s not going to be the case with Ballet San Antonio’s Nutcracker. It will be different, more high-tech, and a little tweaked all-round but it promises to be just as enchanting as always, with great dancing and computer-generated special effects. This is a “Nutcracker” for …

Life in the Time of COVID-19, Part 32

Today’s poem, “Plasma” is by Eugene “Gene” Novogrodsky, a Brownsville-based poet who writes “slices of the Texas-Mexico border” area, where he has lived for 32-plus years. PlasmaBy Eugene “Gene” Novogrodsky Shock! 5:36 a.m., hot, muggy, dark, and there they are:More than 50 people standing in front of the plasma ($40 an hour drawing) facility,And, some sitting on the sidewalk, some …

Animated Light Show, New Artpace Exhibit… News Roundup Nov. 20, 2020

Grand displays of Christmas lights are always popular at this time of the year but the Lights Alive! Drive-thru Light Show upgrades the entire concept by producing a spectacle of dancing lights like you have probably not seen before. Produced by Living Light Shows, this spectacle consists of a mile-drive through a holiday landscape animated by computer-generated light designs synchronized …

Camerata Premieres New Work, Pink Floyd Spectacular… News Roundup, Nov. 12, 2020

Lots of great shows coming to the Tobin! Multiple-platinum country music star Tracy Byrd takes the stage for a single night tomorrow, Nov 13, to be followed the next day by the Pink Floyd Laser Spectacular that’s become a regular pre-holiday psychedelic experience that fuses the music of Pink Floyd with vivid video and light effects. Most people seem to …