Each week, Arts Orange County and Culture OC deliver you this look at the stories and events happening in our arts and cultural community.

Dance Visions 2025

An annual highlight in the field of dance, this concert at the Irvine Barclay presents works created and choregraphed by Department of Dance faculty at UCI's Claire Trevor School of the Arts MORE

Orange County’s Only Latina-led Theater Company is Toasting to Amor y Amistad

Breath of Fire has served as an incubator for voices that have been historically excluded in theater and on the stage, both in Orange County and beyond.

Blind Boys Bring Long, Rich Gospel Tradition to Soka

The Blind Boys of Alabama have been a uniquely powerful voice for gospel music for more than 80 years, winning multiple Grammy awards, influencing generations of musicians and breaking racial barriers. Founded in 1939 in Talladega, Alabama, the group has gone through many iterations as they slowly gained popularity. Their breakthrough year was 1983, when they performed in the Obie Award-winning musical “The Gospel at Colonus.” Over the years, the Blind Boys’ changing roster of musicians has mostly been vision impaired.

The five-member ensemble will perform Saturday at Soka Performing Arts Center with iconic blues singer Shemekia Copeland, whose memorably powerful voice brings urgency to songs that are heartfelt, sometimes humorous, and always honest in their examination of contemporary issues and challenges.

Electric Company Theatre's 'White Rabbit Red Rabbit' Surprises with its Unrehearsed Spontaneity

REVIEW: With a new actor performing every night, each show sparks with hesitations, discomforts and vulnerabilities.

The play subverts traditional theater, challenging audiences to reconsider what it means to perform, to create and to be complicit in what unfolds. It digs into topics of power and control, calling out the dangers of passivity and obedience. One of the most striking moments in a play that is both disarmingly funny and horrifically brutal is when it suggests that inaction can be worse than oppression, a direct challenge to the idea that neutrality exists at all.

Each week, we recommend a variety of events and experiences from the listings at SparkOC.com, our free website for Orange County's arts and cultural community.

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!

One of the great American stage musicals comes to the Rose Center Theater in Westminster MORE

Kim Ye: m0mmy brain marketplace

Kim Ye's work transcends the normal categories of visual art, using installation, performance, video and more in multi-faceted expressions - and this special exhibit at Chapman University's Guggenheim Gallery reflects on how the events of the last five years have changed domestic life MORE

One World, One Sky: Big Bird's Adventure

The characters of Sesame Street take kids on a special journey to understand and appreciate the stars in this special program at the Orange Coast Planetarium MORE

Ascension

The Choral Arts Initiative explores the nature of transformation and higher consciousness in a concert of new vocal works in Newport Beach, including the World Premiere of "Canticum Graduum" by Alexander Levine MORE