Reno Little Theater
P.O. Box 7071
Reno, NV 89510
phone - (775) 329-0661
www.renolittletheater.org
Reno Little Theater provides a setting for people of all backgrounds to learn about live theater. Over the years, Reno Little Theater has offered adult and grammar-school drama classes, play-writing competitions, a children's theater, and over 450 on-stage plays. Reno Little Theater has also taken its productions from the main stage to Reno parks and to other Nevada communities. The theater offers a variety of plays each season, including musicals, comedy, mystery, suspense, and drama.
Reno Little Theater produced it first play, Three Cornered Moon, at the University of Nevada in 1935, making it Reno's (and Nevada's) oldest community theater, and one of the country's oldest. In 1941, Reno Little Theater purchased Dania Hall, at Sierra and 7th Streets and, with community funding and volunteer labor, remodeled the building and finished the interior as its first theater. The building served Reno Little Theater for over 50 years before being demolished to make room for a casino parking garage.
Current Reno Little Theater's productions are performed at Proctor R. Hug High School, located at 2880 Sutro Street, on the corner of North McCarran and Sutro Street (Map). We gratefully acknowledge the support that we have received from Hug.
Reno Pops Orchestra www.sierra-arts.org
P.O. Box 20952
Reno, NV 89551
775-673-1234
www.renopops.org
The Reno Pops Orchestra is an all-volunteer orchestra which serves the community by providing free or low-cost high-quality concerts and actively promoting music education to families and children. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit orchestra funded by grants, sponsorships, and donations.
Sierra Arts
17 S. Virginia St., Suite 120
Reno, NV 89501
The arts express the passions and perspectives of the people who live in this community. They encompass music, painting, poetry, creative writing, dance, theater and sculpture. Sierra Arts is dedicated to encouraging and enabling this creativity.
Since 1971, we have been a regional arts agency promoting and supporting the arts and artists in our community to make this a better place to live. We provide leadership, support, programming and education.
Sierra Nevada Ballet
P.O. Box 69
Genoa, NV 89411
phone - (775) 783-3223
fax - (775) 783-3553
info@sierranevadaballet.com
www.sierranevadaballet.com
Sierra Nevada Ballet is the new professional ballet company for Northern Nevada. We are versatile and innovative, incorporating the popular with the experimental, always a crowd pleaser with music and different types of dance from well-known classical to new age contemporary original pieces.
Sierra Nevada Ballet features the brand-new and unusual creations by the choreographer/composer team of Bena/Mazer/Smith to music played live by the Sierra Nevada Ballet composers in residence. Sierra Nevada Ballet is equally at home in the traditional classics performed to CD or tape. This group specializes in educational outreach lectures and performances.
Sierra Nevada Ballet features principal dancers Ananda Bena-Weber, Alejandra Llorente, Ramona Cachinero and Larissa Cassera. The permanent Guest Artist of the company is the ballet trained international Tap super star, Sam Weber. We have an apprentice program for young dancers and a Young Choreographer's program for new talent. The company's first open-to-the-public performance received raves and a standing ovation from Reno's ARTOWN audience of 1,500 people and continues to receive rave reviews and ovations from the Reno community.
Sierra School of Performing Arts (SSPA)
P.O. Box 17214
Reno, NV 89511
775-852-7740
The mission of Sierra School of Performing Arts is to provide performing arts opportunities for children and adults in the Truckee Meadows. Our school started in 2005 with summer camps focusing on singing, dancing and acting. The reaction from the community was overwhelmingly positive and has allowed us to grow and expand our offerings. We have mounted full-scale productions such as “Wonderland: the Musical Misadventures of a Girl Named Alice” in 2006 and “Broadway Bits” in 2007. SSPA also offers summer camps that range from Improvisation to singing and dance theater productions. Our summer camps have welcomed guest artist instructors including Rosine Bene, the director of the Sierra Nevada Ballet, Mary Bennett, the managing director at Bruka Theater, choreographer Padma Rothchild, and voice teacher Linda Saxton.
Sierra School of Performing Arts is a non-profit organization, run by volunteers and parents and inspired by our original resident instructor artists: Janet Lazarus, Jennifer Boyle and Kali Dobson. For more information or to volunteer, contact us at 852-7740.
Silver Stage Players
P.O. Box 1116
Elko, Nevada 89803
(775)753-5474
www.silverstage.org
Frank L. Sawyer: Chairman act@silverstage.org
Founded in the Fall of 1936 in Elko, Nevada, the Silver Stage Players
(SSP) is committed to creating the most complete, enveloping, poignant, and engaging theater experience possible. SSP strives to offer the freshest, most innovative, challenging, and contemplative theater in the area. An organization who challenges the norm and thrives on innovation, SSP presents a mixture of original, radio, comedic, contemporary, and classic audio, musical and dramatic theater events every year. From proscenium to thrust, from in-the-round to open-air, SSP continues to offer audiences the most 'outside-the-box', poignant, compelling, and leading-edge theater experiences in northeastern Nevada.
SSP is truly a community theater group. The company has always made a point to better our city through community service. The company has been involved with and continues to involve itself with several community service projects through the course of the year including the American Cancer Society’s 24 Hour Relay for Life, the Thomas Scott Foundation's Memorial Golf Tournament, The F.I.S.H. (Friends in Service Helping) Haunted House, Bright Path and their annual Reneissance Dinner, providing entertainment for senior citizens at Mountain View Care Center, the Elko Junior Chamber of Commerce Senior Citizen Monthly Birthday Party project, Spring Creek Elementary School, Ruby Mountain Riders for the Handicapped, The Boys and Girls Club of Elko, the Elko Festival of Trees, the Elko County School District, local region Girl and Boy Scouts of America, the City of Elko's Snowflake Festival, the City of Elko's Celebrate Elko Days, Friends of the Eureka Opera House, and The Eureka Museum Foundation.
Silver Strings
191 Heidi Circle
Carson City, NV, 89701-6532
Phone - 775-883-4154
Fax - 775-883-4371
www.SilverstringsNV.com
Elinor Bugli, Manager
Members of Silver Strings chamber music group began playing together in the Carson City Symphony in 2000, and they perform as a string quartet (two violins, viola, and cello) and in various duet, trio, and quartet combinations, sometimes with flute or guitar. Silver Strings repertoire includes a wide variety of musical styles, including classical, folk, and pops.
Strings in the Schools
P.O. Box 2001
Carson City, NV89702-2001
Phone - 775-267-6924
Fax - 775-883-4154
www.CCSymphony.com//0607SinS.htm
Sue Kitts, Director
Carson City Symphony's "Strings in the Schools" is a tuition free, after-school program that provides beginning violin lessons for students in grades 2-5 and ensemble/orchestra experience for string students in Carson City. A summer program is open to people of all ages from all areas. Four or more performances are scheduled throughout the year.
Tuition and books are subsidized by the Carson City Symphony Association through grants and donations.
Tahoe Players
PO Box 3457
Incline Village, NV 89450-3457
Phone – 775-831-0379
Fax – 775-831-1807
www.tahoeplayers.org
Monica Folio, Creative Director, 831-0379
Ellen Hendricks, Administrator/Webmaster, ellen@tahoeplayers.org
Tahoe Players is a community theatrical company with a primary focus on children’s theater. The company utilizes Tahoe and Reno amateur actors, singers and dancers. Tahoe Players productions provide the actors with an opportunity to display their talent and work with professionals. The local amateurs are supported by a professional director, choreographer, musical and vocal directors, professional musicians, set designer and stage manager. This provides an excellent learning opportunity for all involved.
The Note-Ables
925 Riverside Dr., Suite #6
Reno, NV 89503
775-626-1833
mail@note-ables.org
www.note-ables.org
The Note-Ables is a unique nonprofit organization with a primary purpose of providing musical opportunities for children and adults with disabilities. Our organization affords people of all ages and abilities the opportunity to express themselves through music. All of our programs are grounded in the philosophy that participating in music – expressing oneself through making sound – is both liberating and empowering for those who traditionally have had no voice in our society.
Theater Works of Northern Nevada
925 Riverside Dr.
Reno, NV 89503
775-685-2687
www.twnn.org
Theater Works of Northern Nevada’s aim is to promote the performing arts to a varied and sometimes neglected audience in the northern part of our state. The metropolitan areas of northern Nevada have undergone a tremendous economic and cultural growth within the last several years. This growth has brought with it a diverse change in the cultural climate of the area, which will hopefully make way for an expansion in the arts for our community.
VSA arts of Nevada at the Lake Mansion
250 Court St (at Arlington Ave)
Reno, NV
775-826-6100
775-337-6107
www.vsanevada.org and www.lakemansion.org
VSA arts of Nevada at the Lake Mansion (VSAN) is a non-profit organization established in 1986 to provide arts opportunities for children and adults of all abilities. VSAN conducts over 3,000 visual and performing arts workshops each year including open-to-the-public workshops and art camps in numerous facilities throughout the community and at schools, nursing homes, hospitals, and after-school settings and facilities. VSAN’s administrative offices are located in the historic 1877 LakeMansion in Reno which is available to the public to rent for special events and art birthday parties. Tours of the LakeMansion are conducted weekdays and for special events.
Wing & A Prayer Dance Company
925 Riverside Dr.
Reno, NV 89503
775-323-0766
www.wnpdance.org
Wing & A Prayer Dance Company was founded in 1992 in Reno, Nevada and has received awards and recognition from Dance & the Child International (daci), the E.L. Cord Foundation, the Gannett Foundation, and the Nevada Women’s Fund. Our inter-generational modern dance company showcases innovative choreography by local, national and international artists and provides the highest quality dance for local and regional communities. The Residency Program generates awareness and appreciation for creativity, dance and choreography for all participants. Wing & A Prayer specializes in dance education for ages 9-18 and collaborative performance projects with local artists and performance groups. Contracts are available for one and multiple day residencies. One of the highlights of these residencies is an ending performance incorporating as performers residency participants.
