1892 - Benjamin Harrison establishes 555,520-acre San Gabriel Timberland Reserve (Angeles National Forest). First forest reserve in California, second in U.S. [ story]
|
LOCAL ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Friday, Jan 27, 2017
The Canyon Theatre Guild’s annual gala is back for 2017 with the Night of a Thousand Stars Gala on Friday, February 10, 2017 at the Tournament Players Club in Valencia.
Celebrate with your Valentine in style at the gala with dinner, dancing, live entertainment, and auctions.
Tickets range from...
|
Tuesday, Jul 5, 2016
[SCRT] – This summer, the Santa Clarita Regional Theatre Company will present one of the greatest musicals ever written, The Wizard of Oz. The longevity of this timeless story about a girl from Kansas, a Tin Man, Scarecrow, Lion, a cyclone and an utterly hateful Wicked Witch is as evergreen as...
|
Thursday, Jan 28, 2016
Friday is opening night for the two-act comedy melodrama “Bullshot Crummond” at the Canyon Theatre Guild on Main Street in Old Town Newhall.
The play’s a send-up of low-budget 1930s detective movies and typifies British heroism at its dumbest. The cast features Barry Agin, Sanya Arnold and Tyler...
|
Sunday, Jul 5, 2015
“Splendors of Art,” an art show featuring the works of Zony Gordon, a watercolor impressionist artist in Santa Clarita, will be held from July 16 to Sept. 10 at the Canyon Theatre Guild, 24242 Main Street Newhall, during the “Sunshine Boys” production run.
An artist reception will be held Saturday,...
|
Friday, Jun 26, 2015
The Board of Supervisors will consider approving more than $4.5 million in funding for 184 nonprofit arts groups across the county, including a few local ones.
Every other year, qualifying 501c3 nonprofit arts organizations apply for 2-year grants from the L.A. County Arts Commission. The commission...
|
Sunday, May 31, 2015
“West Side Story,” an adaption of the Romeo and Juliet story, opened Saturday at the Canyon Theatre Guild in Newhall.
In this Tony Award-winning musical, the love story of Romeo and Juliet becomes that of Maria and Tony.
The grudge between the houses of the Capulets and the Montagues becomes a feud...
|
Saturday, Apr 25, 2015
The Canyon Theatre Guild is presenting “My Great Big, Loud, Italian Cabaret, a farewell to the Finleys” on Saturday, May 9.
Longtime members Greg and Patti Finley are retiring and relocating to Boise, Idaho, to be near their children and grandchildren.
The Cabaret promises to be an incredible evening...
|
Monday, Mar 9, 2015
The nationally recognized West Point Glee Club will give a public performance this weekend for Santa Clarita residents.
The choir, made up of cadets from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, will give a public performance at the Canyon Theatre Guild in Newhall on Sunday, March 15, at 6:30 pm.
First...
|
Friday, Jan 30, 2015
Jill Hackett’s one woman show, “Journeys in Pastel,” is now running and just extended to March 19, 2015 at the Canyon Theatre Guild at 24242 Main Street in Old Town Newhall. Several pastel paintings of Pine Mountain Club and the Gorman area are on display, along with other prize winning work.
Jill...
|
Thursday, Jan 29, 2015
If you could use some comic relief – and who can’t? – the Canyon Theatre Guild has just the ticket. Billed as a “riotously funny Southern-fried comedy,” the play is titled “The Red Velvet Cake War.”
It follows the misadventures of three cousins from Texas who try to get their families...
|
|
|
