Vintage High School presents its annual Coffee House, a casual evening of theatre, featuring scenes, monologues, lip syncs, music and poetry   Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Vintage High School Little Theatre, 1375 Trower Ave., Napa.

The same weekend that the versatile Steve Martin appears on stage at the Napa Valley Opera House, the Napa Valley College Repertory Theater will present his first stage comedy.

Mercado Global, a fair trade nonprofit that uses markets to empower indigenous women artisans in rural Guatemala, unveils its Winter Artisan Collection Thursday at the Napa Valley Museum,

Napa’s genial songwriting troubadour, Johnny Smith, has a new compact disc on the market and it’s as good as anything he’s done to date.

The Carolina Chocolate Drops, returning to  NVOH after their popular performance in 2007, are a group of young black string band musicians that have come together to play the rich tradition of fiddle and banjo music in Carolinas’ Piedmont.

Tonight, the Opera House welcomes a man who regularly defies convention, pushes the limits and occasionally cheats death.

Ah, family. Past and present, near and far, the ties that bind — and never more so than in the case of Nick, a  second-generation Italian-American from New Jersey who has been offered his dream job — on the other side of the country.

Justin-Siena High School students will be dodging the raindrops onstage during performances of “Singin’ In The Rain,” their fall musical production, which opens Thursday.

There are high-achieving families, and then there are Cherryholmes, a home-grown bluegrass band that lit up the Napa Valley Opera House for an evening.

Forty years ago, (Oct. 5 1969), the BBC aired the first episode of “Monty Python’s Flying Circus,” a lunatic assembly of skits written and performed by a team of British comedians.