Arts & Culture
What’s going on? Sept. 18–24
Putting out good vibes this week. Chico News & Review wants you happy so we’ve got a few highlights of what’s on tap at local clubs, theaters, galleries and performance venues. Visit the CN&R’s FREE […]
Theater
Weekly picks
What’s going on? August 28–Sept. 3
The entertainment dam has burst this week and shown here is just a sampling! Chico News & Review has much more of what’s on tap at local clubs, theaters, galleries and performance venues. Visit the […]
Weekly picks
What’s going on? August 7–13
Summer celebrations continue! Chico News & Review will find you one, or many, with highlights of what’s on tap at local clubs, theaters, galleries and performance venues. Visit the CN&R’s FREE online calendar for all […]
Arts & Culture
Blue Room Theatre is making sure ‘The Twilight Zone’ hits its 30th anniversary in Chico
Production runs between now and July 26 By Emily Haerter Do you find yourself searching for horror, fantasy and drama? Are you keen for science fiction in black-and-white and compelling tales that leave you itching […]
Arts & Culture
What’s going on? June 19–25
Here’s just a sampling of events you can catch this week. Chico News & Review gives you many more choices for local clubs, theaters, galleries and performance venues. Visit the CN&R’s FREE online calendarfor all […]
Arts & Culture
What’s going on? June 12–18
What are you doing for fun this week? Chico News & Review delivers the highlights of what’s on tap at local clubs, theaters, galleries and performance venues. Visit the CN&R’s FREE online calendar for all […]
Arts & Culture
What’s going on? June 5–11
It’s time for something different. Chico News & Review has the newest highlights of what’s on tap at local clubs, theaters, galleries and performance venues. Visit the CN&R’s FREE online calendar for all of the […]
Arts & Culture
My Improv Class at Blue Room Theatre: A lesson in what’s both liberating and terrifying while building community and life skills
By Rachel Bush A few weeks ago I found myself on stage (for maybe the fifth time in my life), in front of a modest crowd at Chico’s Blue Room Theatre. My heart was racing […]
Arts & Culture
A renewed effort to save Chico’s El Rey Theater
Can one of California’s oldest movie palaces be restored? By Ken Magri A local group wants to raise $1,000.000 to turn Chico’s historic El Rey Theater, which went up for sale last March, into a […]
Arts & Culture
‘Best beware my sting’
For 21st century audiences, Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew can be confusing. It’s as fun and witty as any of the Bard’s comedies, but it does require a great deal of focus (and maybe […]
Arts & Culture
Back to the boards
The Chico theater scene has kind of settled into a groove after being so disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, one that includes many of the usual suspects making their way through our area in the […]
Arts & Culture
Open season for art
If last year the Butte County arts scene was still a little cautious about gathering in public, this fall it appears as though the pandemic jitters are all gone. Looking at the calendar ahead, it […]
Arts & Culture
The pull to create
This story is part of the “Open season for art” feature in the CN&R Fall Arts special issue. What does gravity feel like? Sound like? Behave like? These are questions that the Chikoko arts collective […]
Arts & Culture
Spooky, sexy, spectacular
This story is part of the CN&R Fall Arts special issue. In decades past, Halloween had a more fleeting presence in America, appearing for one exciting moment before vanishing just as quickly … like a […]
Arts & Culture
‘Can one desire too much of a good thing?’
William Shakespeare’s words are so deeply woven into modern culture that everyone, regardless of whether they’ve read his plays or seen them performed, is more familiar with The Bard than they may credit themselves. That […]