
Norbay Theater Awards Honor North Bay Artists
The 2026 awards recognized theater productions and artists from the 2025-2026 season at a Santa Rosa ceremony.
Entertainment in Santa Rosa runs on live events, local arts, venues and the media that covers them, and coverage here follows all of it. Reporting takes in concerts, theater, film, cultural happenings and the business side of the local scene.

The 2026 awards recognized theater productions and artists from the 2025-2026 season at a Santa Rosa ceremony.
The popular Wednesday Night Market at Old Courthouse Square will run for 20 weeks starting May 19.
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The Majesty of Water series features four decades of landscape art at the Pepperwood Preserve.

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Local musicians visited Analy High School to collaborate with students on traditional jazz standards.

Coverage takes in performances and festivals, gallery and museum openings, venue programming and ticketing, and the work of local artists and promoters. It reaches the city's performance spaces and the communities around them wherever an entertainment story crosses the line. Venue calendars and seasonal festivals shape the rhythm of local coverage more than any single headline does. Tourism and the wine region's visitor traffic often drive which events get attention in Santa Rosa.