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Artists and arts organizations hit hard during COVID-19 are now getting some much-needed funding thanks to the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis.

There's plenty to do this weekend March 1-3. First Run Theater will showcase a festival of new plays, plus, you can catch comedian Adele Givens, rockers Three Dog Night or

Gina Galati’s wonderful Winter Opera company continues its 17th season with Puccini’s Manon Lescaut.  This work, which opened in 1893, was Puccini’s first great hit.  It was rather daring of Puccini to present this piece, based as it was on a novel that had already been adapted to opera by two other composers—first by Daniel Aubert (1856), and then in a hugely successful work by Jules Massenet 1884.  But it was an archetypically operatic story—an emotional tug-of-war between a rich old man and a poor young one for the affections of a beautiful young woman (viz. La Traviata, La Ron...

If you’ve been sticking to the Fox and the Muny, you’ve been missing out.

It’s the season of giving and the classical musicians and vocalists of St. Louis are certainly doing plenty of that, with a panoply of programs scheduled for the holiday season.