Culture

Encore Players, a Livermore community theater group, will present “Jake’s Women,” by Neil Simon, at the Bothwell Arts Center on Aug. 19, 20, and 21.

Julia Whelan, an American actor and author who has narrated more than 500 audiobooks, will be at Towne Center Books in Pleasanton on Sunday, Aug. 14, to discuss her just-published novel, “Thank You for Listening.”

For its final Tuesday Tunes concert this summer, The Livermore Cultural Arts Council (LCAC) is bringing back Audio Illusion. They will appear on the Shea Homes Stage in the Livermore Plaza adjacent to the Bankhead Theater, Aug. 16 at 6:45 pm.

"Picture This," a temporary exhibit of public art, is now on display throughout the Tri-Valley.

Standup comedian Rita Rudner will return to the Bankhead Theater in Livermore on Saturday, Aug. 20.

The Firehouse Arts Center in Pleasanton will host ‘California Scenes,’ a solo exhibit of watercolors by Charlotte Severin, from Wednesday, Aug. 10, through Saturday, Sept. 24.

The Livermore Art Association and Gallery will celebrate Art In The Park along with artists from around the Bay Area.

Tri-Valley Cultural Jews’ Jewish Culture School will sponsor a Rosh Hashanah Open House on Sunday, August 28 from 10:30 am. to 12:30 p.m. in Pleasanton. The event will include crafts and cooking related to the holiday. Participants will learn Rosh Hashanah songs and dances and will learn abo…

LunaFish, a popular Livermore-based band that re-creates the San Francisco psychedelic rock sound of the late 1960s and early 1970s, will perform in Livermore Plaza on Tuesday, Aug. 9.

Stage 1 Theatre will perform “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” in English and American Sign Language (ASL) at the Firehouse Theater, 4444 Railroad Ave., in Pleasanton.

The Firehouse Arts Center is sponsoring a solo exhibition of floral photographs by Vanessa Thomas on the Pleasanton Art League Wall now through Saturday, Sept. 3.

On Aug. 2, Tuesday Tunes welcomes The Hurricane Band to the Shea Home Stage at 6:45 p.m.

The Museum on Main in Pleasanton will host an Old Time Toys and Games Family Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 6. The free event will include retro and old-time wooden toys, puzzles, tabletop and indigenous Ohlone games, and other outdoor activities on the museum’s front lawn at 6…

LIVERMORE – Candidate Mony Nop kicked off his mayoral campaign on July 21 with a fundraising event at the Purple Orchid Wine Country Resort and Spa in Livermore.

Tri-Valley residents can see a star in the making as Tommy Lassiter finishes the Tri-Valley Repertory Theatre’s run of Disney’s “Newsies: The Musical” at the Bankhead Theater in Livermore this weekend.

LIVERMORE — The Cheza Nami Foundation (CNF) will host their “Moving Together” dance and drumming workshop Aug. 12-13 at Las Positas College (LPC) in Livermore.

Congratulations to this year’s winners of the annual Taste Our Terroir food and wine pairing competition, held at Garre’s event center on July 14.

The Frankie Bones Project will perform on the Shea Homes Stage July 26 as part of the Livermore Cultural Arts Council’s (LCAC) Tuesday Tunes summer concert series. The show begins at 6:45 p.m. in front of the Bankhead Theater in Livermore.

On Feb. 1, the City of Dublin celebrated its 40th anniversary of incorporation.

July, with all its vacations and escapes from the heat, has a slower month at The Bankhead in terms of the number of performers coming through our doors.

A new history of Livermore examines the development of the city in parallel with the complex story of railroad development in California and across the U.S.

Pleasanton resident Sofia Erskine was selected to attend the 2022 Recording Academy’s Grammy Camp in Los Angeles next month.

Three performances remain in the Dublin Farmers’ Market’s Summer Concert Series at the Emerald Glen Park Amphitheater, 4201 Central Parkway, beginning this Thursday, July 21, with Night Train, a Bay Area rock ‘n’ roll dance band.

Three performances remain in the Dublin Farmers’ Market’s Summer Concert Series at the Emerald Glen Park Amphitheater, 4201 Central Parkway, beginning this Thursday, July 21, with Night Train, a Bay Area rock ‘n’ roll dance band. 

Award-winning singer-songwriter Ben Folds, former frontman for the alternative rock band Ben Folds Five, will headline the annual Brilliance at the Bankhead fundraising gala for Livermore Valley Arts, on Saturday, Sept. 10.

The upcoming Tuesday Tunes performance, produced by the Livermore Cultural Arts Council (LCAC), features the Dustbowl Travelers on the Shea Home Stage in front of the Bankhead Theater, on July 19, at 6:45 p.m.

Alan Frank, author of “Depot: A History of the Railroad in Livermore,” will give a local history lecture at the Livermore Public Library’s Civic Center Library, 1188 S. Livermore Ave., on Wednesday, July 27.

The Encore Players, a community theater group, and employees from the Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories will present “Take Me Out to the Ballgame: Baseball Over the Years,” for the Livermore Public Library’s Adult Reading Program on Monday, July 25.

The Blues House Band comes to Livermore July 12 for the Tuesday Tunes event at the Shea Home Stage in front of the Bankhead Theater. The family-friendly free concert kicks off at 6:45 p.m.

Living history reenactor Susan Marie Frontczak will portray the late American humorist Erma Bombeck in two performances at the Firehouse Arts Center in Pleasanton on Tuesday, July 19.

The Alameda County Planning Commission on Tuesday recommended that the Board of Supervisors place a measure on the November ballot asking voters to increase the size of agricultural and equestrian buildings allowed on farmland.

The Ballet Roots Dance Company (BRDC) is preparing to bring its new show to the Firehouse Arts Center in Pleasanton on Sunday, July 10.

DUBLIN — Outdoor restaurant seating will continue in Dublin until at least September 2023 if the city council follows the planning commission’s recommendation, passed unanimously on June 28.

The Livermore Valley Opera (LVO) said last week that seating is still available for its “Opera in the Vineyard,” at Retzlaff Vineyards, 1356 S. Livermore Ave., on Sunday, July 17.

Singer and songwriter Michelle Lambert, a Bay Area native, will perform on the Grandstand Stage at the Alameda County Fair on Thursday, July 7. 

Taste Our Terroir, Livermore Valley’s premier wine and food event, returns for four delectable days as the historic region celebrates and educates wine lovers about its unique ‘taste of the land.’ 

The Tri-Valley Repertory Theatre will present “Newsies: The Broadway Musical,” based on the 1992 Disney musical about the real-life newsboy strike in New York City in 1899, at the Bankhead Theater in Livermore beginning Saturday, July 16, and running through Sunday, July 31.

The San Francisco-based Nava Dance Theatre will present “Broken Seeds Still Grow” at the Bankhead Theater in Livermore on Saturday, Aug. 27.

Dublin, which recently marked its 40th year of incorporation as a city, will continue the celebration with a gala, dubbed The Ruby Affair, at Dublin Heritage Park and Museums, 6600 Donlon Way, on Saturday, Aug. 6.

July 4th is around the corner and there are several fireworks options for celebrants to choose from this year thanks to the lifting of most COVID-19 restrictions in the Tri-Valley. The following offers a sample of available holiday events.