If you love opera, you'll be glad for The Nevada Opera with its excellent performances from an inspiring director, Michael Borowitz. Each season there are at least two traditional performances at the Pioneer Center, plus other appearances throughout the year. Don't miss their Opera in Blue Jeans downtown at the river park during the Artown celebration in July. You can also sometimes catch the Nevada Opera's local chorus perform at the Shakespeare Festival at Sand Harbor. You can bring your own food and wine.
We love the building and we've heard it's a great place for an afternoon date. You can find detailed information about current exhibitions -- even past and future exhibitions -- at the NMA website.
Artown is a month-long summer arts festival in Reno featuring hundreds of events in various locations all over the city. Over a quarter million people attend each year and you hear lots of great reviews.
The online Arts Calendar at UNR offers six months of art at the University of Nevada, Reno. You can find info about galleries on campus, Performing Arts Series, Nevada Repertory Company, concerts, tickets, student events, auditions. It's a great site. It's a great school, and as anyone who has lived in a college town knows, it's important to have a good school in town. That is, it's important to have access to a good education and when there is a school close by, you find there's a lot available even without tuition.
The RSCVA website has quite a bit to offer people planning a visit to Reno for the sake of the arts, but also for finding a place to stay, information about the casinos, with a section devoted to planning a trip to Reno. If your friends ask for a site about Reno, this one can be helpful, but don't expect to find anything about queer culture talked about here.
There's a lot more to Nevada history than casino ash trays. Take a road trip across Nevada on U.S. 50, or down the state on 95, and if you can't do either, take a look at these websites to get a sense of Nevada's history.
