By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor If you haven’t yet visited Ruby City, here’s a good reason to go: the new exhibit featuring the work of Venezzuelan-born artist, Arturo Herrera, who now lives in Berlin. Though the show is housed in the Studio Gallery in Chris Park, a short distance from the main museum, you can do it all in a couple …

By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor It’s been more than 142 years since Henrik Ibsen wrote his famous play, “A Doll’s House,” which ended with his protagonist, Nora, leaving her husband, Torvald, and slamming the door shut on their life together. Since that first dramatic exit, Ibsen’s play has been a staple of Euro-American theater, always praised as an early thespian manifesto …

The dance scene has been kind of low-key in recent months but dance will grace at least two San Antonio stages this weekend. Ballet San Antonio is presenting its season finale, “Don Quixote” at the Tobin Center, and the innovative, young company Ballet Neplanta is presenting its new work “Valentina” at the Carver Community Cultural Center. The ballet “Don Quixote” …

By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor The story of “Don Quixote” has been around since the 1600s when Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes wrote it in 1605. It first became a staged baller in Moscow and then, in a modified version, in St. Petersburg in 1871, danced to a musical score by Ludwig Minkus. And it continues to grace theater stages across …

By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor If you are a poet who loves the visual arts, you may be interested in entering the second annual Ekphrastic Poetry Contest, a city-wide “grass-roots” project coordinated by San Antonio poetry champions Jim LaVilla-Havelin and Linda Simone in honor of National Poetry Minth, which is in April.  Though the term “ekphrastic” is still unknown to a …

Lots of wonderful music is coming our way in the next few days. To begin with, The San Antonio Chamber Choir, will present Threshold as part of the CARITAS Series founded earlier this year by Mary Ann Winden, with the support of the Sisters of the Incarnate Word Congregation. The program will feature two new works: “tse go la” by …

By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor Writer Rachelle Neuman likes to play Mahjong with her friends, so it’s not surprising that the game she loves has also inspired her new play, “One Crack-Two Bam” that will premiere this weekend at the Cellar Theater of the San Padro Playhouse. Actually, it’s not quite accurate to refer to her play as “new.”  “This play …

There’s a bit of good news from the Musicians of the San Antonio Symphony (MOSAS). They will soon have an opportunity to play together but not under the auspices of the San Antonio Symphony. Scheduled for March 3 & 4, the concerts will take place at the First Baptist Church of San Antonio, which has a Fine Arts Series program. …

By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor Music can be understood by all, and so can dance and even the visual arts, but poetry is a language art. If you don’t understand the language that a poem is written in, the poem cannot speak to you. Or maybe it can? A unique poetry-and-performance evening that will take place at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts …

By SUSAN YERKES, Contributing Writer While taking a walk along San Antonio’s famous River Walk, you may be startled by a wild, rocky grotto on the Museum Reach of the promenade. It’s a magic place, with a trickling waterfall and a huge spirit face looming in the rock. Rest on a handsome wooden bench in the shade and wonder what …