Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts

The holiday season is officially here! We've got a few recommendations for family-friendly ways to celebrate.

The professional opera company said it's moving in a new direction.

Approaching its 50th anniversary, Robert Cray Band stops at the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts for one night as part of a U.S. and U.K. tour promoting the 2020 album, "That's What I Heard."

The second annual Further Jazz Festival includes an 8-piece band playing Oliver Nelson's 1961 landmark album, "Blues and the Abstract Truth," led by Oliver Nelson, Jr.

After years of turmoil, the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts announces a mix of magic, music and comedy for its upcoming season.

Leslie Carrara-Rudolph is best known as Sesame Street's Abby Cadabby. She takes a break from fairy training to bring comedy cabaret, puppet-making and a sock called Lolly Lardpop to Bloomington-Normal and Peoria. Carrara-Rudolph and Normal native Paul Rudolph will sit down to talk about their journeys to Sesame Street at the end of the four-day residency next month.

A modernized version of the Gilbert and Sullivan 1879 operetta kicks off MIOpera's new partnership with the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts. A previously-planned July run of "Romeo and Juliet" has been postponed until next February.

The 100th year of the "American Passion Play" will be its last. The production is the longest-running passion play in the country and runs four Saturdays in Bloomington before closing for good.

The holidays are officially here, and two long-standing Twin City traditions are just the thing to take your family’s ho-ho-ho to the next level. WGLT's Lauren Warnecke visited Community Players and the Bloomington Center for the Arts as they made final preparations for their holiday revues.

On Monday, the Bloomington City Council OK’d a $1.5 million contract with G.A. Rich & Sons, Inc. to handle chemical system improvements at the facility.