7 Best Performing Arts Venues in Napa and Sonoma, California

The art nouveau Cameo Cinema, built in 1913, screens first-run and art-house movies. Equipped with Barco laser projection and Dolby Atmos sound systems, the 140-seat venue occasionally hosts live performances.

The center's acoustically sophisticated Joan and Sanford I. Weill Hall hosts classical, jazz, avant-garde, and other ensembles and individual performers. The hall's back wall opens out for Summer at the Green concerts on a terraced lawn. The curved walls of the intimate 240-seat Schroeder Hall enhance the sounds of its 1,248-pipe organ.

This cultural hub, configured theater-style or open-floor depending on the performance, books music, dance, theater, comedy, and other acts, along with occasional speakers.

In keeping with its roots as a vaudeville house, the Mystic, which opened in 1911, books varied acts and events, from indie bands and comedians to folk and alternative acts and old-school rockers.

The eclectic recent bills at this nonprofit-run 1904 structure that debuted as an opera house have included pro wrestling matches, Swiss sludge music practitioners Toast Machine, and a surprise appearance by Jack White and his band.

This theater, built on Sonoma Plaza in 1934 by Italian immigrant and entrepreneur Samuele Sebastiani, books films, comedians, and musical and theatrical performances.

An 860-seat art deco former movie house, the Uptown attracts performers like comedians Kathleen Madigan and Frankie Quiñones, tribute band Petty Theft, and musician Rosanne Cash.