Browse photos from theatre in San Francisco / Bay Area including opening nights, red carpets, production shots, concerts & special events.
Playful People Productions will hold its annual fundraising gala at Saratoga Foothill Club, featuring live and silent auctions, dancing, and performances to support the San Jose theater organization.
Jung-Eun Shin, Michael Stevens, and James Benoit will join the San Francisco Symphony orchestra, alongside previously revealed cellist Starla Breshears, as new members of the roster.
The Mid-Market Foundation will present the inaugural Market Street Arts & Theater Festival, bringing free performances and ticketed shows to San Francisco's historic theater corridor.
San Francisco Opera will present Thea Musgrave's MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS in a new co-production with English National Opera, starring Heidi Stober in the title role.
New Conservatory Theatre Center will present the regional premiere of Samuel D.
MANIA: The ABBA Tribute has announced full principal casting for its 2026/2027 US National Tour, which will open October 9, 2026, at the Orpheum Theatre in Wichita, Kansas.
The Marsh San Francisco is presenting the world premiere of a fun and flirty look at the ways strangers find common ground during trying times in Paul Sussman's Did She Really Say 'Tantrum Yoga?'
San Jose Stage Company will present five productions in its upcoming season, including the Bay Area premiere of BARCELONA along with CLUE, THE FULL MONTY, TOPDOG/UNDERDOG and NETWORK.
San Francisco Opera will hold its free Opera in the Park concert in Golden Gate Park, with Music Director Eun Sun Kim leading the orchestra and singers from the fall season's productions.
The North American tour of CLUE will open its third season at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles September 8-12, 2026, before visiting Memphis, St.
Perla Vanesa Barraza has been named Managing Director of San Francisco's Magic Theatre, joining a new Executive Leadership Team overseeing the company's operations and artistic direction.
Jim Henson's musical, fun-loving Fraggles are dancing their cares away across North America and coming to ATG San Francisco's Golden Gate Theatre in November.
Silicon Valley Shakespeare's production sets Shakespeare's comedy within a South Asian American Hindu wedding, featuring Bollywood-inspired music and choreography, at Sanborn County Park in Saratoga.
Free Shakespeare in the Park will present Shakespeare's ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA at Red Morton Park in Redwood City, with additional performances planned in the coming weeks.
Ensemble for These Times announced its 19th home season, launching a two-year initiative called The HOME Project with five concerts across San Francisco Bay Area venues, including multiple world premieres.
Oakland Theater Project and New Performance Traditions will present a music-infused staging of KING LEAR at Z Space in San Francisco, directed by Michael Socrates Moran with a cast of 30.
Ars Minerva will present the modern world premiere of ANDROMEDA, a Baroque chamber opera by Marc'Antonio Ziani, at the Creativity Theater in San Francisco.
Golden Thread Productions will present five short plays by MENA playwrights at Potrero Stage in San Francisco, with this edition dedicated to Iran and Palestine.
The Royal Underground Theatre Company will stage Selina Fillinger's POTUS at Live Oak Theater in Berkeley, directed by Anna Oglesby-Smith, following seven women managing a White House crisis.
May Pang will appear at Peabody Gallery in Menlo Park for a free exhibition of her photographs of John Lennon, taken during their years together in the 1970s.
The San Francisco Neo-Futurists will present a special all-neurodivergent edition of THE INFINITE WRENCH, featuring 30 original plays in 60 minutes at Theater 33 in San Francisco.
This fall, 836M will welcome back RAWdance, a contemporary dance company based in San Francisco and New York's Hudson Valley.
Micaya will present the 28th annual SF International Hip Hop DanceFest at the Palace of Fine Arts, featuring dance companies from Tokyo, Montreal, Mexico City, Detroit, Los Angeles and the Bay Area.
Festival Opera will present a three-concert Salon Series in Piedmont, featuring resident artists, an operatic mad scenes program, and the world premiere of BORDERS OF DREAMING by Juan Sebastián Cardona Ospina.
San Francisco Playhouse will stage the Bay Area premiere of PETER PAN GOES WRONG, directed by Susi Damilano, reuniting cast members from THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG for the comedic sequel.
Silicon Valley Shakespeare will present Oscar Wilde's comedy of mistaken identities under the redwoods of Sanborn County Park in Saratoga, running in repertory with Much Ado About Nothing.
South Bay Musical Theatre will open its 64th season with Once Upon a Mattress, the hilarious and heartwarming musical comedy inspired by the classic fairy tale 'The Princess and the Pea'.
San Francisco’s acclaimed Merola Opera Program, one of the world’s most prestigious opera training programs, will close its 2026 Summer Festival with the annual Merola Grand Finale.
Producers Megan Calfas and Carly Steyer announced the cast for the return of CRUSHING at A.
Ensemble for These Times selected 13 composers for its third Call for Scores for Solo Piano, with works to be performed by pianist Dale Tsang in San Francisco and Berkeley.
Palo Alto Players will open its 96th season with the Tony-winning musical comedy, directed and choreographed by Lee Ann Payne, at the Lucie Stern Theatre.
Tenor Jack Swanson was named winner of San Francisco Opera's Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Emerging Stars Competition following his company debut as Count Almaviva in THE BARBER OF SEVILLE.
Smuin Contemporary Ballet will open its new season with a mixed program featuring works by Amy Seiwert, My'Kal Stromile and Michael Smuin at venues across the Bay Area.
San Francisco Playhouse is beginning its 2026-27 season with the rolling World Premiere of R.
Giancarlo Guerrero will conduct San Francisco Symphony's annual community tribute concert, featuring bassoonist Joshua Elmore in a solo debut with the orchestra.
Town Hall Theatre Company will present Robert Harling's STEEL MAGNOLIAS, directed by Richard Perez, set in a Louisiana beauty salon, opening its new Main Stage season in Lafayette, California.
Symphony San Jose will present a Halloween-themed concert led by conductor Peter Jaffe, featuring vocalist Bianca Orsi and an on-stage costume contest at the California Theatre.
Check out photos of Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actor Mariska Hargitay kicking off TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s 23rd Annual New Works Festival at Lucie Stern Theatre.
Steven Huynh and Claire Kwon will reprise their Broadway roles as the MAYBE HAPPY ENDING North American tour launches in Baltimore on September 13, 2026, with over 30 additional cities to follow.
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ELTON DOM: The Young Elton Experience Great Star Theater (9/10-9/13) |
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Julius Caesar Marin Shakespeare Company (8/14-9/13) |
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Pickleball Hillbarn Theatre (8/20-9/13) |
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The Fantasticks San Anselmo Playhouse (9/04-9/07) |
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THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST Terra Nova Theater (8/23-8/30) |
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Robyn DeGuzman’s Enough Free The Marsh Berkeley (8/28-8/30) |
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“Inspiración: Music by Women and Nonbinary Composers” Center for New Music (5/15-5/15) |
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The Fall Show Shotgun Players Ashby Stage (9/26-10/25) |
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THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST Colligan Theater at the Tannery Arts Center (9/04-9/13) |
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Hannah Gould’s Divorced: The Musical! The Marsh Berkeley (8/27-8/29) |
