Arts and Entertainment

Shakespearian actors will join the Reno Jazz Orchestra to perform the music of Duke Ellington’s “Such Sweet Thunder” concert on November 11 and 12, 2023, at the Good Luck Macbeth theater in Reno. David A. Brennan, DMA, will be the Guest Music Director, and the Reno Jazz Orchestra’s Jazz Workshop students will open the show.

Sierra Arts Foundation, a nonprofit that advocates for arts and the artists that create it within a 200 mile radius of the Reno, Sparks region, is hosting the first Holiday Music and Art Festival in partnership with the Carson City Parks and Recreation department at Silver Saddle Ranch on Nov. 18.

The event runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and is free to the public. It will feature artists, vendors, musicians and other nonprofit groups in advance of the holiday season.

The votes were counted and The Peoples Choice for the Nevada Artists Association "Autumn Show" has been awarded to Thaleia Georgiades' for "Topsy Turbans." This piece is on display in the Gallery and is available for purchase.

The Carson City Cinema Club presents “Memphis Belle” (1990) on Veterans Day, Saturday, Nov. 11 at the Brewery Arts Center Performance Hall, 511 West King Street-the old Catholic church.

Veterans can enjoy free admission. Join us for special events prior to viewing this show.

The Silver City Preservation Society, with Evangeline Presents and Yellow Truck Productions is pleased to present An extraordinary duo of songwriters and musicians in a benefit concert in Silver City, Nev., on Sunday, Nov. 19 at 7 p.m., doors at 6 p.m.

The Nevada Artists Association has announced the winners of the annual Nevada Day Show. This show will be on exhibit through Dec. 23 and features 166 entries by 73 local artists. All entries in this show are available for purchase. Drop in and vote for your top 3 favorites for the People's Choice Award while you explore the show.

After a wildly successful sold-out run of "Carrie: the Musical," Carson High School Theatre Arts is proud to announce that tickets are now on sale for our next main stage production. "Puffs (or, Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic) One Act for Young Wizards."

For seven years, a certain boy wizard went to a certain Wizard School and conquered evil. This, however, is not his story. This is the story of the Puffs, who just happened to be there too!

Western Nevada LGBTQ+ Social – Carson City - Saturday, November 18th 2-5pm

Hosts Sherrie Scaffidi, Aaron Sims and Mark Gillard invite you to join some of our regional LGBTQ+ folks and friends for a fabulous afternoon of food, fun and community. Sassafras Eclectic Food Joint, 1500 Old Hot Springs Road, Carson City.

The Carson City Symphony, conducted by Music Director David Bugli, will open its 40th season on Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023, at 4 p.m., with a concert, “Life begins at Forty,” at the Carson City Community Center's Bob Boldrick Theater.

This will be the Symphony's 220th concert. Featured guest soloist Eric Fassbender will play Mozart's Bassoon Concerto in B-flat Major with the orchestra.

Don't miss your chance to hear the fascinating and sometimes scandalous story of the rarely mentioned 4th partner of the "Bonanza Firm" Mackay, Fair, Flood and O'Brien.

Brewery Arts Youth Association is hosting an all ages halloween silent disco!

The Carson Valley Arts Council is pleased to present an evening with The Bow Ties. The band will perform at the CVIC Hall, 1602 Esmeralda in Minden, at 7 p.m. Friday, November 10, 2023.

All artists and vendors are encouraged to apply for participation in the 3rd Annual Ag & Artisan Holiday Faire on Saturday, Dec. 2, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the historic Storke Dairy at 876C Centerville Lane in Gardnerville. This is a wonderful event, with children from 4-H and FFA showing their animals, roping demonstrations, animal exhibits, antique farm implements, food and beverages, and a hay auction to benefit our local 4-H and FFA programs.

Our event draws families who want to do a little holiday shopping before the Parade of Lights, making a day of it!

Returning for its final weekend where theatre goers are transported into a live, black and white world of suspense and intrigue, local troupe Proscenium Players, Inc., rounds out Friday, Saturday and Sunday with "Rope," a gripping play originally created by Patrick Hamilton and later transformed into a cinematic masterpiece by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock.

The Capital City Community Band will present its annual Nevada Day concert at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023, immediately following the parade, in the Capital Amphitheater in Carson City.

The concert will feature a variety of music, from Broadway show tunes to marches and patriotic songs. A special feature will be “Home Means Nevada” arranged by Marine Band Sgt. Scott Ninmer.

The Children's Museum of Northern Nevada and the Nevada State Museum are teaming up to throw a neighborhood Halloween Block Party this Friday night, Oct. 20, 2023 from 5-8 p.m.

All artists and vendors are encouraged to apply for participation in the inaugural Brewery Arts Holiday Bazaar & Market happening Dec. 16 in Carson City. This regional retail experience will highlight art, crafts, interactive activities, food, drinks, music and more.

UPDATE: We've got notice that this event has been canceled. Check back for a future reschedule date.
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Join the fun this Sunday Oct. 22 at A to Zen in Carson City. A live jam session is planned on site, so bring your axe and jam with us. If you sing, come up and sing with us. The event is from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Prepare to be transported into a world of enchantment and grace as the Nevada Dance Company invites you to join us for Clara's Nutcracker Tea on Saturday, Nov. 4, from 12pm to 2pm. This magical event will be hosted at the historic Governor's Mansion in Carson City.

Stephen Provost, author of several books about the Silver State, will be the featured lecturer at the Nevada State Museum's Frances Humphrey Lecture Series on Thursday, October 26 at 6:30 p.m. His talk details U.S. Highway 50 in Nevada, the former Lincoln Highway that now goes by the nickname "America's Loneliest Road."

Is it that season already? Area artists are answering “Yes!” And a flock of them are winging their ways to Markleeville to set up their spaces in Library Park on Saturday, October 21.

Art in the Park, the inaugural event of the newly formed organization, Arts and Culture Alpine County, features a host of local area artists of multiple media who will show and sell from 1 pm to 4 pm that afternoon.

The Carson Valley Arts Council is pleased to present an evening with The Bow Ties. The band will perform at the CVIC Hall, 1602 Esmeralda in Minden, at 7 p.m. Friday, November 10, 2023.

As a salute to the creativity of the Great Basin Native Artists, the Capital City Arts Initiative is excited to present "It Started with Willows", an assemblage of working baskets and contemporary art.

Mark your calendar for an unforgettable night of blues music as the 2022 Blues Music Award and Band of the Year winners, Tommy Castro and the Painkillers make their way to Carson City for a live performance at the Nashville Social Club.

Nevada Day, Inc. and Briton Publishing have partnered to host featured author Julie Rogers Pomilia, granddaughter of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, who has published a book about her upbringing in the shadow of one of the most famous and popular western couples of all time.

With local directors and actors having taken on spine-chilling visions of the paranormal and macabre, their storytelling creativity will be unveiled this Saturday at the Carson Creepy Short Horror Film Competition at the Brewery Arts Center in Carson City.

In an audacious venture, the Proscenium Players, Inc. are set to defy the conventional with a groundbreaking black-and-white play, bringing to life the trials, tribulations and triumphs of creating an entirely grayscale spectacle. As the curtains prepare to rise on Oct. 13, 2023, at the Brewery Arts Center's The Maizie in Carson City, theater enthusiasts are in for a treat.

Celebrate the Godmonster of Indian Flats' 50th anniversary with us from Oct. 13-15 at St. Mary's Art Center in Virginia City.

Our friends from AGFA and Something Weird have dubbed Godmonster of Indian Flats as "easily the most berserk, out-of-control, and inexplicably deranged creature feature in the history of forever."

Join us every Wednesday night, 6 p.m. at Swan Music Hall inside the Nashville Social Club in Carson City for unforgettable evenings of country and line dancing hosted by the renowned Instructor/DJ Tim Renner.

Mile High Jazz Band presents "October Jazz at Gina's," an evening of big-band music with singer Jakki Ford, on Tuesday, October 10, 2023, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at Gina's Good Life Music & Lounge, 507 N. Carson Street, inside the Carson Nugget.

The music is free, donations are welcome. Gina's is a smoke-free, air-conditioned venue, and has a well-stocked bar.