By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor When she was only 13 years old, Constanza Roeder, was diagnosed with leukemia. That devastating blow was followed by two-and-a-half years of chemotherapy at the children’s hospital in Santa Cruz, California, which was painful but ultimately successful. Now a San Antonio resident, the vivacious young woman is the founder and CEO of Hearts Need Art, a …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor After being closed and silent for a number of months, the San Pedro Playhouse came alive with the sound of excited voices this past Friday during the Public Theater’s season announcement event. The occasion brought together theater folks and theater fans from across the city and felt a bit like a reunion of kindred souls. Everyone’s …
Lots of news in the visual arts! First, kudos to the City of San Antonio for including art in the newly renovated City Hall. Six new art installations by local artists are now a permanent part of the building that dates back to 1889. According to the press release, it is one of the oldest public buildings in continuous use …
by JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor Painting portraits is a time-honored art form that artists have practiced for some 5.000 years. For most of human history there was no other way to record someone’s looks except by drawing, painting or sculpting the face and head – or the entire figure of a person. The goal has always been to recreate the features …
Hollywood Westerns’ popularity may have declined in recent times but in its heyday, the Western was cinematic gold. A new exhibit at the Briscoe Western Art Museum looks at the story of the genre from the late 1960s through the 1980s. Titled Still in the Saddle: A New History of the Hollywood Western, the show “allows everyone to literally walk …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor Back in 1957, a group of black students attempted to join their white counterparts at Little Rock’s Central High School to start the process of school desegregation. Three years earlier the Supreme Court had decided that segregation in education was unconstitutional, and this group of teens was selected to test the new rules. There were nine …
BY JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor The Majestic Theater, home of Broadway musicals in San Antonio, has been silent for far too long, but the sound of music will be back in just a few months when the new 2021-22 Broadway Across America season makes its debut here with the beloved classic “My Fair Lady.” Then it’s off to a full schedule …
Like so many other events, the 39th annual Tejano-Conjunto Festival is going virtual this year while preserving the talent power that the fest has been known for through most of its history. The main music event will be live-streamed Saturday, May 22, form 7 p.m. to midnight, form the Guadalupe Theater. The lineup includes big-name performers like Flaco Jimenez, Los …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor Ballet San Antonio has been rather quiet for months but now it’s got news – good news! It will return to live, in-theater, performances this fall, and it will again have a full-time artistic director, who will move to San Antonio in a couple of months. French-born ballerina, Sofiane Sylve, who has served as artistic adviser …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor When we interviewed Kelly Hilliard Roush in 2018 after she became both executive and artistic director of the Classic Theater of San Antonio, she told us that she was honored to be the one to lead the still-young company into the second decade of its existence. “I would like the see the Classic become a cornerstone …
