Local vocalist Cheryl Lockett will lend her voice to the character of Nina Simone, actor Dennis Brown will moderate as W. E.

Plans are accelerating for the downtown Merced Theatre to reclaim its past glory as a place for movie watching, concerts and community gatherings amid iconic interior designs. The city received bids ...

MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- Merced's "Mainzer Theater" hosted an event encouraging communities to get involved and support policies against tobacco use. The UC Merced Nicotine and Cannabis Policy Center, ...

“The Sound of Music” presented by the Merced College Theater Department opens this week with two University of California, Merced professors starring in main roles, according to Merced College. The ...

A sea of 1,100 red and red-and-gold floral-patterned seats spreads over the interior. The light fixtures, chandeliers and exit signs -- all reds, yellows and greens -- have been reproduced. The castle ...

The Spanish Colonial Revival structure was a cultural and social hub for the city for 47 years and featured visual and sound equipment and air conditioning that were cutting-edge at the time. But in ...

California’s top arts ambassadors identified downtown Merced as a notable cultural hub, one of the first two counties in the San Joaquin Valley to receive such a recognition.

Officials announced a plan in 2016 to give Merced Mall a new look as a means to get younger shoppers away from Internet shopping and into visiting the 50-year-old bricks-and-mortar plaza. They got the ...

DTLA - In the spring of 2014, representatives of El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument proudly detailed a plan to modernize the 1870 Merced Theatre. The goal was to turn the historic structure ...