Artist in Action _ Galina Milton
2026-05-20 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Darkshot Coffee – Ball Park, 300 E 2nd St, in the libby, Reno, 89501
Visiting again for our May Artist in Action at Darkshot Coffee – Ball Park is Galina Milton.
Wonderful local artist with a brief bio here:
For 25 years, I’ve poured my heart into painting and teaching art. Born in Soviet Ukraine, I found my passion despite no formal art education. My journey took me from Ukraine to San Francisco’s Academy of Art University for my MFA, with a transformative summer at Russia’s Repin Academy in 2006. Blending impressionism and realism, my work captures life’s essence. See my story at www.galinamilton.com. #ArtJourney #Painting
Come and visit Galina and watch as well as chat about her style and painting. And yes, have a coffee too!

Open Mic Poetry: Shim's Tavern
2026-05-18 18:00 - 20:00, 2026-05-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Shim’s Surplus Supplies, 125 W 3rd St, Reno, NV, 89501, United States
Every Monday night from 6:00-8:00 PM, Join us at Shim’s for Open Mic Poetry!

Reno Antique Faire: Virginia Street
2026-05-17 10:00 - 16:00 | Reno Arch, 255 N Virginia St., Reno, NV, 89501, United States
Nevada’s largest outdoor antique market returns to Downtown Reno on North Virginia Street from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Season two of the Reno Antique Faire runs the third Sunday each month, April through November, featuring more than 150 vintage and antique vendors alongside 15 local food and beverage trucks.
After drawing over 40,000 visitors in its first season, the Faire is quickly becoming one of the region’s most talked-about events.
Enjoy free admission, free parking, and discover why thousands call the Reno Antique Faire a must-attend tradition.
Details at renoantiquefaire.com.

Movies With the Maestro: Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts
2026-05-16 18:00 - 22:00, 2026-05-16 12:00 - 16:00 | Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia Street, Reno, NV, 89501
Showtimes:
SATURDAY, MAY 16, 2026:
Two showtimes – Doors 12:00 PM, Concert 1:00 PM and Doors 6:00 PM, Concert 7:00 PM
Experience the magic of the movies like never before with Movies with the Maestro! Led by conductor Laura Jackson, the Reno Phil will transport you through decades of cinematic brilliance, performing critically acclaimed film scores from Hollywood’s most iconic blockbusters. Revisit the greatest film soundtracks of all time, from the sweeping adventure of The Magnificent Seven and the timeless romance of Titanic to the epic heroism of The Avengers and beyond. Don’t miss this unforgettable night of music that brings the silver screen to life—live in concert!
PLEASE NOTE: No images, film clips or other media will be shown. The Reno Phil will be in the spotlight during this all-music program. We do encourage themed attire, however prop weapons are NOT permitted at the venue.
TICKET INFORMATION:
Reno Phil Classix Series Subscribers pre-sale begins October 16 at 10:00 AM. Tickets are on sale on Monday, October 20 at 10:00 AM. For more information, including how to subscribe to Classix, visit https://renophil.com/movies-with-the-maestro.

UB40 ft. Ali Campbell: Reno Event Center
2026-05-16 00:00 | Reno Events Center, 400 University Way, Reno, 89501
UB40 feat: ALI CAMPBELL w/ MATISYAHU & JESSE ROYAL live on Saturday May 16th at Reno Event Center in Reno, NV All Ages show and tickets available now at Ticketmaster.com!

Niko Moon: Silver Legacy
2026-05-15 20:00 - 22:30 | Silver Legacy Casino, 401 N. Virginia St, Reno, 89501
Get ready for good vibes and feel‑good country beats! Niko Moon is bringing the energy to the Grande Exposition Hall on Friday, May 15. Don’t miss a night filled with music that’ll have you smiling from ear to ear.🌙✨
🎟️ Tickets on Sale this Friday, 1/23 at 10am
👉 Get yours: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/3900642E913366BC

BRÜKA THEATRE 33rd ANNIVERSARY SEASON WILD CARD THE LARK
2026-05-15 19:30 - 2026-05-31 22:00 | Bruka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St, Reno, 89509
BRÜKA THEATRE 33rd ANNIVERSARY SEASON WILD CARD
THE LARK
FROM THE BATTLEFIELD TO THE FLAMES; RECLAIMING JOAN OF ARC
May 15, 16, 20(A), 21, 22, 23, 27(OC), 28, 29, 30 @ 7:30 PM SUN Matinees: May 17, 31* @ 2 PM
TICKET PRICES
Senior/Student/Military $26 General Tickets $30
All Tickets $35 at the Door
A = Artist Night $17 All Tickets
OC = Our Center Night $22 All Tickets ($5 to Our Center)
*Followed by a talk-back with the company
INDIVIDUAL TICKETS ON SALE ON: April 27, 2026
THE LARK ONLINE TICKET LINK: https://brukatheatre.simpletix.com/
Reno, NV – Coming to Bruka Theatre in May of 2026, a revolutionary play that takes us from the battlefield to the flames with The Lark written by French dramatist Jean Anouilh, adapted by Lillian Hellman. This 1952 dramatization of the life and trial of Joan of Arc opens at Brüka on May 15 and plays through May 31, 2026. Directed by Holly Natwora, a local theatre artist whose dense and impressive resume includes such Brüka shows as Dangerous Liaisons, Waiting For Godot, and The Diary Of Anne Frank.
The Lark is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection.
ABOUT THE PLAY
John Chapman, writing in the New York Daily News said of The Lark: “It is always the story of a simple girl who became an inspired warrior and then was tried by the church—but there have been several ways of telling it. Anouilh’s way, and Miss Hellman’s, is to try to tell the story from two viewpoints. One of them is how we look at the tale now as a piece of history, with our knowledge of how the girl’s blundering captors unwittingly created a martyr who became forever a symbol of courage and faith. The other viewpoint has been to try to imagine what it must have been like to be Joan herself. Both approaches have been splendidly realized by the technique of divorcing the drama from the confinements of time, sequence and space. With this freedom, the story of Joan of Arc can move backward or forward without an interruption, without a jar. And as she tells her listeners of what she heard and what she did, her story comes alive.”
TICKET INFORMATION
Artist Night Tickets must be purchased in advance to receive a discount on our regularly priced tickets. Opening Night ticket holders are invited to a post-show reception and an opportunity to meet the artists. Our Center Night tickets include a $5 donation to Our Center. Ticket prices reflect some of the additional costs. Season Tickets are available online @ https://brukatheatre.simpletix.com/ (Under – Memberships) or call the box office at 775-323-3221 or email: boxofficebruka@gmail.com
ACCOMODATIONS: The Lark performances will take place in our upstairs Bruka Space, please contact us in advance so we can accommodate your needs. We have special elevator access available and accessible restrooms as well as other provisions to make your visit comfortable. Contact the box office at 775-323-3221 or email: boxofficebruka@gmail.com
RESERVATIONS are available in person through the Brüka Box Office phone number (775) 323-3221, online at www.bruka.org, or at our new Brüka Studio 44 located next door to Bruka on First Street at 44 W. 1st St. Our in-person box office hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 5 – 7 PM. We are closed on most holidays. Our 2025/2026 Season Tickets are on sale beginning September 1, 2025. Individual tickets go on sale the Monday after the previous show closes. Check us out at www.bruka.org.
All Brüka mainstage evening shows begin at 7:30 PM. Matinees begin at 2:00 PM. Doors open 30 minutes before curtain time. There is NO late seating and all ticket sales are final.
PARKING
We suggest convenient parking in the Court Street parking lot across from The Pioneer Theater and walking across the new Virginia Street Bridge to Brüka, FREE after 5:00 PM and all day Saturday and Sundays. We also validate parking at the Parking Gallery on 1st and Sierra Street. The Downtown Ambassadors are present before and after performances for guidance and safety.
LOCATION Brüka Theatre is located at 99 N. Virginia Street at the corner of 1st and Virginia Streets in downtown Reno, next to the Virginia Street Bridge. Please let us know if you require ADA accommodations by calling us at (775)-323-3221 or emailing us at boxofficebruka@gmail.com
ABOUT BRÜKA THEATRE Brüka Theatre celebrates its 33rd season of live theatre in downtown Reno – Wild Card is the theme for the 2025/2026 season. As an artistic leader in the region, Brüka is recognized for innovative productions, exceptionally talented artists, and an acclaimed Theatre for Children touring series since its founding in 1992. Central to Brüka is the commitment to the re-investigation of contemporary and classic plays and developing new plays within Brüka’s Artistic Collective, a group that includes winners of the Nevada Arts Council and Sierra Arts Foundation artist grants and now TEN local best actor honors. Brüka was named “Best Theatre Company” by Reno News and Review for twenty-one years. Brüka is a non-equity, small, not-for-profit member theater company and is a constituent of the national TCG (Theatre Communications Group). Brüka Theatre has produced hundreds of live shows in our downtown Reno location. Sign up for our newsletter by going to our website at www.bruka.org.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Holly Natwora received her MFA from Columbia University where she studied with some of American theater’s most innovative directors and performers. She has acted in more than seventy plays, most notably at La MaMa E.T.C., SoHo Rep., The Neighborhood Playhouse and two summers at Joseph Papp’s New York Shakespeare Festival, as well as touring The Caucasian Chalk Circle in Berlin, Germany and playing Lady Macbeth in the first ever New York Fringe Festival. Television and film credits include Law and Order and Law and Order:Criminal Intent. After moving to Reno in 2005, Holly has performed or directed at Brüka Theatre, Reno Little Theater, Good Luck Macbeth, and TheatreWorks of Northern Nevada. Holly was nominated for a Best Actress Award of Northern Nevada by the Reno News and Review and won A Best Actress Award for her portrayal of Nora in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House at Reno Little Theatre. Holly’s critically acclaimed rendition of The Diary of Anne Frank was invited to be performed at the Nevada Governor’s Advisory Council on the Holocaust in Education. Currently she teaches theater at Truckee Meadows Community College and occasionally at The Sierra School of the Performing Arts.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Jean Anouilh was a French dramatist and screenwriter whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1944 production of Sophocles’ Antigone, which, though performed without objection by censors, was nevertheless seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain’s Vichy government. His plays are less experimental than those of his contemporaries, having clearly organized plot and eloquent dialogue. One of France’s most prolific writers after World War II, much of Anouilh’s work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise.
Lillian Hellman was an American playwright, prose writer, memoirist, and screenwriter known for her success on Broadway as well as her communist views and political activism. She was blacklisted after her appearance before the House Committee on Un-American Activities at the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947–1952. Although she continued to work on Broadway in the 1950s, her blacklisting by the U.S. film industry redefined her personal and professional life.
In November 1947, after the Hollywood Ten defied the committee, Hellman wrote an editorial titled “The Judas Goats”. It said in part:
It was a week of turning the head in shame; of the horror of seeing politicians make the honorable institution of Congress into a honky tonk show; of listening to craven men lie and tattle, pushing each other in their efforts to lick the boots of their vilifiers; publicly trying to wreck the lives, not of strangers, mind you, but of men with whom they have worked and eaten and played, and made millions. Has it anything to do with Communism? Of course not. There has never been a single line or word of Communism in any American picture at any time. There has never or seldom been ideas of any kind. Naturally, men scared to make pictures about the American Negro, men who only in the last year have allowed the word Jew to be spoken in a picture, men who took more than ten years to make an anti-Fascist picture, those are frightened men and you pick frightened men to frighten first. Judas goats; they’ll lead the others, maybe, to the slaughter for you.They frighten mighty easy, and they talk mighty bad. … I suggest the rest of us don’t frighten so easy. It’s still not un-American to fight the enemies of one’s country. Let’s fight.

The Peak of EDC: DTension Bar
2026-05-09 17:00 - 23:30 | DTension Bar, 248 W 1st Street, Reno, 89501, United States
2016 wasn’t just a year… it was a feeling. ⚡️
The drops hit harder, the vibes felt deeper, and for a moment—nothing else in the world mattered except the music and your people.
We’re bringing THAT energy back.
📆: May 9th
✨ EDC 2016 10-Year Reunion and Pre-EDC Party ✨
Relive the golden era before we go back under the electric sky…
🎶 The BEST EDC 2016 sets all night long
🍭 Candy making station — come build your kandi like the OG days
🎧 OPEN DECKS ALL DAY starting at 5PM — bring your USB, this is YOUR moment
🔥 Multi-genre vibes, no limits, just energy
From sunset… until we’re back under the electric sky 🌌
If you know, you KNOW.
And if you don’t… this is where you find out.THe

The Orchestra Moves – Free Family Concert: Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts
2026-05-09 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-05-09 08:00 - 17:00 | Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia Street, Reno, NV, 89501
Activities 10:00 AM, Concert 11:00 AM
Free Family Concert – Wiggles Welcome!
Get ready to move, groove, and feel the music at The Orchestra Moves—a free, fun-filled family concert with the Reno Phil! Music isn’t just something we hear—it’s something we feel and move to! Watch as the orchestra brings sound to life, soaring high and low, creating exciting patterns, and even making you want to dance in your seat! With interactive moments, creative movement activities, and plenty of surprises, this concert is the perfect way for kids and families to experience the magic of music together. Come clap, sway, and discover how the orchestra moves—you won’t want to sit still for this one!
The concert is 1-hr. No advance ticket reservation is required.
Lobby Activities: Enjoy special activities for children on the plaza and in the concert hall lobbies related to the theme of the concert, including a coloring station, craft station, and more. Activities take place from 10:00 AM – 10:55 AM for 11:00 AM concertgoers.
