Colorado
Founded in 1932, Central City Opera is one of the oldest opera companies in the country. It performs in an ornate 19th-century opera house built by miners…
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Mississippi
Hal & Mal's is an excellent midsize live music venue. The sight lines are great, it feels neither too crowded nor annoyingly expansive, bar service is…
South End & Chinatown
This beautiful beaux-arts-style opera house dates to 1903. A century after its construction, the theater was sumptuously renovated and reopened by Emerson…
Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center
Connecticut
Named for the town’s most famous thespian, ‘The Kate’ sprang to life in 2005 from the former Old Saybrook Town Hall and includes a museum in tribute to…
Chicago
This well-regarded troupe works in a nifty theater hewn from the old Water Works Pumping Station building. The ensemble cast – which sometimes includes…
Cajun Country
Shuffling its feet beside Pat’s Fisherman’s Wharf in Henderson, the Atchafalaya Club hosts a great variety of Cajun bands. The Foret Tradition regularly…
San Francisco
Big voices at this mixed straight-gay karaoke bar could rattle pennies in the US mint uphill. If you can't decide what to sing from the 30,000-plus…
Denver
Founded in 1983, Opera Colorado is based in the Denver Performing Arts Complex. The company performs classics like Puccini's La Bohème but also produces…
Milwaukee
Gorgeous art-house cinema from the 1920s, and an inspiring venue to catch an indie favorite or Hollywood blockbuster. The name refers to the distinctive…
Richmond
The Sunday brunch at this Richmond institution draws LGBTQ and straight crowds, who enjoy their meals while watching drag performers sing and strut their…
Missouri
The multitalented Haygood family has been rocking Branson for almost 30 years with shows that see six siblings play 20 different instruments. They also…
Oʻahu
Opened in 1915 and known as 'the Broadway of the Pacific,' this lovely old theater is the third-oldest continuously running community theater in the USA…
Chicago
This beloved organization is all about knocking down the cultural walls that surround traditional classical ensembles. Expect broad-minded premieres and…
Aspen
Built in 1887, one of Aspen’s oldest and finest examples of Victorian architecture has been a working theater since it first opened, with the exception of…
Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
This ragtag operation once had to hold a fundraiser to purchase a bathroom for its tiny theater (located in a converted garage), but it's now drawing…
Chicago
Popular enough to draw big names on the blues circuit, Kingston Mines is so noisy, hot and sweaty that blues neophytes will feel as though they’re having…
New Orleans
Built back in 1918, this Beaux Arts beauty is a grand-dame theater that has undergone many incarnations – vaudeville stage, movie house etc – and is now…
Walt Disney World
Nineteenth-century vaudeville show at Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort, with ribs delivered to your table in metal buckets, corny jokes and the audience…
Houston
The Houston Texans (www.houstontexans.com) play at this retractable-roof stadium., which replaced the once-iconic Astrodome. As their fortunes have…
Brooklyn: Williamsburg, Greenpoint & Bushwick
This popular venue is the place to see indie bands in Brooklyn – everyone from They Might Be Giants to Teenage Fanclub and Kendrick Lamar has played here…
Seattle
Chop Suey is a small, dark space with high ceilings and a ramshackle faux-Chinese motif. Reborn under new ownership in 2015, it now serves burger-biased…
Miami
On the upper floor of the CocoWalk shopping complex, this four-screen cinema takes movie-going to the next level. It has Sony 4K digital projection, very…
Boulder
This opera-house-turned-movie-theater-turned-historic-venue brings in slightly under-the-radar acts like jazz great Charlie Hunter, the madmen rockers of…
Ohio
The Dayton Dragons, a minor league affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds, have sold out every game at Fifth Third Field since it opened in 2000. Fireworks, kid…
Boston
The funny guys over at Improv Asylum decided that Boston needed a few more laughs, so they opened this premier, stand-up comedy club in the Westin Hotel…
Denver
Bawdy, naughty and strangely romantic, the Clocktower Cabaret is a wild-child standout among LoDo’s rather straight-laced (or at least straight) night…
San Antonio
Check out up-and-coming comedians and local improv comics – as well as occasional major headliners – at this lively club in the Rivercenter Mall. There's…
Miami
This outdoor venue features an excellent lineup of concerts, dance, theater, opera and spoken word throughout the year. Some events are free. It's run by…
Portland
This gorgeous old gem is the kind of old-school performance hall every great city deserves. The State is accented with art-deco and Moorish influences,…
Atlanta
Internationally renowned theater inside the Woodruff Arts Center which produces a diverse bill of 10 or so annual productions, several of which later wind…
Honolulu
On the cutting edge of the Chinatown arts scene, this artist-run, nonprofit community arts center, gallery and performance space puts on a variety of live…
El Paso
The new Southwest University Park stadium (www.southwestuniversitypark.com) downtown is the home of the the El Paso Chihuahuas, one of the best-named…
The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill
Throwing swanky soirees since 1916, the Verdi Club hosts bawdy storytelling nights, swing-dancing lessons, drag-star comedy shows, the odd lucha libre …
San Diego
Re-imagined colorful containers make up this new outdoor community space and stage in East Village, a short walk from Gas Lamp. Home to a coffee shop,…
San Antonio IMAX Alamo Theatre
San Antonio
Films shown here include the 45-minute award-winning film Alamo: The Price of Freedom, about guess what. If you've never seen a film on a six-story-tall…
Berkeley
A world-renowned film center with an ever-changing schedule of international and classic films – cineastes should seek out this place. The spacious…
Milwaukee
This multipurpose venue in the middle of downtown is home to the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks and the often – but not always – excellent local college team, the…
Hudson Valley
Most weekends there's live music and other performances in this restored carriage house, which is a sort of clubhouse for the valley's working artists. It…
Chicago
Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta and Justine Chen’s The Life and Death(s) of Alan Turing are recent season headliners – indications of the critically acclaimed,…
Oakland
The RIC straddles that line between a bar and a performance space; the beers are good and the bartenders are friendly, but for us, the big draw is a…
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