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  • At the Newport Folk Festival in 2022, Joni Mitchell gave her first full-length performance in 22 years. The recording, <em>At Newport</em>, is out July 28.
    Joni Mitchell's return 'At Newport' reconfigures her legacy
    The surprise performance at the Newport Folk Festival, now released as an album, is another exciting evolution in Joni Mitchell's notoriously chameleonic career.
  • Visual artist Paul Lewin created this work for Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon's musical setting of <em>Parable of the Sower</em>.
    Octavia Butler wrote a 'Parable' that became a prophecy — now it's also an opera
    Octavia Butler's novel Parable of the Sower — depicting a dystopian U.S. in 2024 — was published 30 years ago. Toshi Reagon's new musical retelling explores the web of past, present and future.
  • The new UC San Diego outdoor amphitheater is lit up at dusk against a dark blue sky. A curved shell-like cover provides a partial roof for the concrete stage. Concrete and wooden bench seating forms a segmented semi-circle around the stage.
    A new performance and connections hub at UC San Diego
    UC San Diego's new outdoor amphitheater opens this week with a string of performances, including Death Cab for Cutie, a "Blacktronika" festival, contemporary percussion, Día de los Muertos, drag, giant puppets and "Purple Rain."
  • Kaisha Desselines-Wright and Dina Sok in Passengers at American Conservatory Theater.
    'Passengers' highlights the wow factor of circus acrobatics
    A new show at The Globe comes from Montreal-based The 7 Fingers circus collective.
  • Brent Nicholson Earle and his mother Marion Nicholson ride in a car at the homecoming parade for The American Run for the End of AIDS, 1986
    For The Love of Friends
    Wednesday, June 21, 2023 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with the PBS App. In 1986, to awaken America to the AIDS crisis and to honor the friends he lost, Brent Nicholson Earle runs the perimeter of the United States. In The American Run for the End of AIDS, Brent runs almost a marathon a day for 20 months straight. After enduring blisters, exhaustion, ignorance and fear, he returns home to a life of activism. Though the run finishes, Brent’s fight never stops.
  • Members of the Icelandic band Sigur Rós (left to right: Kjartan Sveinsson, Jón Ϸór Birgisson and Georg Hólm) have released <em>ÁTTA,</em> their first album in 10 years.
    On a new Sigur Rós album, warmth and light push through the darkness
    ÁTTA, the band's first album in 10 years, sports an orchestra of strings, high-flying vocalism and its signature bittersweet melodies.
  • SDUSD M.S. Honor Band and Orchestra Concert
    The final performance of San Diego Unified School District’s (SDUSD) middle school honor band and orchestra will occur on Saturday, February 4 at Point Loma Nazarene University from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. It features the finest middle school Honor Band students. These are auditioned groups, including the best players selected to rehearse and perform under the direction of two special guest conductors for an enriching musical experience.Students actively engaged in and activity funded, at least in part, by The VAPA Foundation, which strives to enhance the quality of and access to arts education in the SDUSD. For more information, please visit www.sandiegounified.org/academics/visual_and_performing_arts
  • Drummer Matt Tong (second from right) with the members of Algiers. The band released its fourth album, <em>Shook</em>, in early 2023.
    Matt Tong, Algiers' elastic timekeeper, surrenders to the song
    Tong first blew minds as the drummer of the British post-punk band Bloc Party. In his recent years with the genre-agnostic Algiers, he's found his place chasing a more collective mood.
  • Joan Marcus took this photo for <em>42nd Street. </em>Marcus began taking production shots while she was a graduate student estimates she's now photographed 1,000 shows.
    We ask 3 Broadway photographers: How do you turn a live show into a still image?
    Only a handful of theater photographers work on Broadway and their challenge is to capture the essence of live performance. Ahead of the Tony Awards, we ask three about their craft.
  • Babyface: Tiny Desk Concert
    The singer, songwriter and producer brought his timeless love songs to the Tiny Desk.
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