Following a critically-acclaimed outdoor production of Moliere's Tartuffe, The Charlotte Shakespeare Festival, the region's only free theatre festival, heads indoors for William Shakespeare's epic drama King Lear.
Following a critically-acclaimed outdoor production of Moliere's Tartuffe, The Charlotte Shakespeare Festival, the region's only free theatre festival, heads indoors for William Shakespeare's epic drama King Lear.
The Playwrights Foundation's 34th annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF), a festival celebrating the development of new work which is performed script in hand, is taking place July 22-31 at Thick House in San Francisco.
The Playwrights Foundation's 34th annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF), a festival celebrating the development of new work which is performed script in hand, is taking place July 22-31 at Thick House in San Francisco.
Following a critically-acclaimed outdoor production of Moliere's Tartuffe, The Charlotte Shakespeare Festival, the region's only free theatre festival, heads indoors for William Shakespeare's epic drama King Lear.
The Playwrights Foundation's 34th annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF), a festival celebrating the development of new work which is performed script in hand, is taking place July 22-31 at Thick House in San Francisco.
Fun, Fabulous, Food Filled Nights!...Coming together around a mouthwatering table of small plates, we create an experience in the theatre that is intimate and delicious.
Fun, Fabulous, Food Filled Nights!...Coming together around a mouthwatering table of small plates, we create an experience in the theatre that is intimate and delicious.
Berkeley's acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company is proud to announce a call for submissions for its seventh season of the Global Age Project (GAP) festival of new works. The company will choose four new plays to be presented as staged readings with professional directors and actors during the GAP festival in February of 2012.
An experienced, talented cast takes on the age-old tradition of matchmaking with a contemporary twist in San Jose Repertory Theatre's world premiere of Love in American Times, by Philip Kan Gotanda. Love in American Times is directed by San Jose Rep's Artistic Director Rick Lombardo, and will run from May 12 through June 5, 2011.
People's Light & Theatre presents the Philadelphia premiere of Horton Foote's Dividing the Estate. It runs May 11 - June 5, 2011 on the Main Stage. Artistic Director Abigail Adams directs. People's Light & T
An experienced, talented cast takes on the age-old tradition of matchmaking with a contemporary twist in San Jose Repertory Theatre's world premiere of Love in American Times, by Philip Kan Gotanda. Love in American Times is directed by San Jose Rep's Artistic Director Rick Lombardo, and will run from May 12 through June 5, 2011.
People's Light & Theatre presents the Philadelphia premiere of Horton Foote's Dividing the Estate. It runs May 11 - June 5, 2011 on the Main Stage. Artistic Director Abigail Adams directs. People's Light & T
In Celebration of the 40th anniversary of Stonewall, Brava, Theatre Offensive in Boston, and the queer community around the nation are gearing up to produce a nationally coordinated series of performance events taking place everywhere from Boston to Alaska during 2010. Come As You Are will thrill and enthrall! one night only. With live music, zesty cocktails, and a chance to explore sexuality; Come As You Are?s National Celebration will pop San Francisco?s cork with a little something for everyone! Tickets on a sliding scale. Suggested Donation $10
Berkeley's acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company announces the four plays chosen as finalists by a committee of local directors for the sixth annual Global Age Project (GAP), the company's new works initiative that promotes the creation of forward-looking theater: Fire Work by Lauren Gunderson; Silent Disco by Lachlan Philpott; Bird in the Hand by Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas; and Our Practical Heaven by Anthony Clarvoe. The selected plays will be presented as staged readings in a four-week festival at the Aurora Theatre, Mondays, February 7-28, 7:30pm, coinciding with the company's fully-staged World Premiere of Allison Moore's Collapse (January 28-March 6). Collapse originated as one of last season's GAP finalists and is the second main stage production to develop from the GAP. Each GAP reading will be followed by an audience discussion of the contemporary issues raised in each work. For information on GAP events (free and open to the public) and Collapse, the public may call (510) 843-4822 or visit auroratheatre.org.
Ray of Light Theatre (www.roltheatre.com), San Francisco's inimitable non-profit musical theatre company, is pleased to announce that the sensational, award-winning musical Jerry Springer the Opera will open its 2010-2011 10th Anniversary Season. This hilarious, crudely delightful yet heartbreaking operatic farce will rage beginning on September 10, 2010 at The Victoria Theatre in San Francisco's Mission District - home of the company's wildly successful and critically recognized productions of The Who's Tommy in 2009 (winner of 6 BATCC Awards), The Rocky Horror Show in 2008 (nominated for 5 BATCC Awards), as well as Bat Boy: The Musical in 2005 (named a Top 10 show of the year by The SF Bay Guardian).
In Celebration of the 40th anniversary of Stonewall, Brava, Theatre Offensive in Boston, and the queer community around the nation are gearing up to produce a nationally coordinated series of performance events taking place everywhere from Boston to Alaska during 2010. Come As You Are will thrill and enthrall! one night only. With live music, zesty cocktails, and a chance to explore sexuality; Come As You Are?s National Celebration will pop San Francisco?s cork with a little something for everyone! Tickets on a sliding scale. Suggested Donation $10
Berkeley's Aurora Theatre Company announces the directors for the company's sixth Global Age Project (GAP) festival of new works: Aurora Theatre Company Artistic Director chose Allen McKelvey, M. Graham Smith, Jonathan Spector, and Tracy Ward to sit on this year's GAP Director's Council. Over the next several weeks, the directors, along with Ross, will select finalists from an international pool of play submissions dealing with global age concerns. Four plays will be chosen to be presented as staged readings during the GAP festival, scheduled for February of 2011. The GAP festival will coincide with the company's fully-staged World Premiere of 2010 GAP finalist Allison Moore's new comedy, COLLAPSE, the second main stage production to develop from the GAP.