The latest news on live theater in San Francisco from Broadway shows on tour to regional theater.
The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus will close Season 48 with two concerts: SHINE ON, featuring West Coast guest ensembles, and DOLLY! A PRIDE SHOW, a choral tribute to Dolly Parton performed at Green Music Center and San Francisco's Curran Theatre.
Town Hall Theatre Company will present TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS as the final production of its 2025-2026 season.
The San Francisco Symphony announced its summer season, featuring classical programs, film concerts, and performances with Andrew Bird, Sutton Foster, Kelli O'Hara, A.
Hell’s Kitchen recently closed on Broadway where it was a critical and commercial success garnering 13 Tony nomination and winning two.
Single-day tickets for the 69th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival are now on sale, featuring 73 performances across five stages, including a Herbie Hancock and Ron Carter duo and a world premiere commission by Meshell Ndegeocello.
Los Altos Stage Company will present THE TOXIC AVENGER, THE MUSICAL at the Bus Barn Theater in Los Altos, CA.
PlayGround will present staged readings of four winning plays from its 2026 Young Playwrights Contest at Potrero Stage in San Francisco, featuring works by Bay Area high school students on themes of city life.
Secret Improv Vice a monthly improvised detective show set in 1940s San Francisco, will present a Birthday Edition at Shelton Theater, where audience suggestions shape each case of murder, blackmail, and deceit.
Stanford Live announced its 2026–2027 season, featuring more than 50 artists spanning music, dance, theater, and multidisciplinary performance, with the guitar as a unifying theme and America's 250th anniversary as a backdrop.
Come From Away composers Irene Sankoff and David Hein will be among the artists converging in Palo Alto to unveil new plays and musicals in process at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s 23rd Annual New Works Festival.
San Francisco Opera will present Rossini's THE BARBER OF SEVILLE with two international casts led by conductor Benjamin Manis, featuring baritones Joshua Hopkins and Justin Austin sharing the title role.
Future of Us will present its inaugural festival, a 10-day citywide event running July 4–12, 2026, across San Francisco, timed to the nation's 250th anniversary.
The Braid, recognized as the nation's leading Jewish storytelling theatre, will present L'CHAIM AMERICA!, a National Endowment for the Arts-supported production touring Los Angeles, New York, and beyond.
Symphony San Jose will present SYMPHONIC WORLD CUP at the California Theatre in downtown San Jose, featuring works by Nielsen, Ginastera, and Shostakovich, with harpist Katherine Siochi as soloist.
Smuin Contemporary Ballet announced its 33rd season, SMUIN IN FRAME, featuring world and regional premieres by Val Caniparoli, Nicolo Fonte, My'Kal Stromile, and Amy Seiwert across four programs in the San Francisco Bay Area.
After being orphaned at 11 years old, Carole Klyce spent her adolescence running.
The Back with Two Beasts recently presented the World Premiere of Shades and Shadows, by William Brasse.
The San Francisco Symphony will present a month of Orchestral Series programs led by guest conductors, plus a special concert with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and a performance by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass at Davies Symphony Hall.
The Royal Underground Theatre Company will stage Aaron Sorkin's A FEW GOOD MEN at Live Oak Theater in Berkeley, directed by Enrico Banson, featuring a cast led by Kieran Cross and María Cecilia Flores.
California Theatre Conservatory will present Rodgers & Hammerstein's OKLAHOMA! at the Hayes Theatre in San Rafael, featuring conservatory-trained young performers in a production developed over nearly five months of rehearsal.
San Francisco's Merola Opera Program will present Richard Strauss's serio-comic ARIADNE AUF NAXOS, conducted by Ann-Katrin Stöcker and directed by Omer Ben Seadia, at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
The Tony and Olivier Award-winning OPERATION MINCEMEAT announced a full North American tour route spanning over 25 cities, including Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC, as the Broadway production hits 500 performances.
BATS Improv, San Francisco's longest-running improv company, was named a recipient of California's Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund, which supports arts organizations in building more equitable compensation for artists and staff.
Steinway Society - The Bay Area announced its upcoming 32nd concert season, featuring six internationally acclaimed pianists performing live at the Visual and Performing Arts Center in Cupertino, CA, with a home viewing option also available.
Golden Thread Productions and SFBATCO will present the world premiere of ARAB SPRING, a dark comedy by Egyptian-American writer Denmo Ibrahim about two siblings planning an Islamic funeral for their estranged father, at Potrero Stage in San Francisco.
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Pickleball Hillbarn Theatre (8/20-9/13) |
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Help Is On The Way: Broadway & Beyond – 32nd Anniversary Concert & Gala Marines' Memorial Theatre (8/02-8/02) |
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Hadestown (Non-Equity) Orpheum Theatre San Francisco (1/07-1/10) |
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Jagged Little Pill Paper Wing Theatre (7/17-8/09) |
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Much Ado About Nothing Santa Cruz Shakespeare (7/11-8/30) |
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Arsenic and Old Lace City Lights Theater Company (3/11-4/11) |
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The Marsh Berkeley, 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA The Marsh Berkeley (7/10-8/07) |
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Disney''s Beauty and the Beast San Jose Center for the Performing Arts (9/08-9/13) |
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Dream Hou$e City Lights Theater Company (5/13-6/06) |
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Knockoff Broadway: The Improvised Musical All Out Comedy Theater (7/25-12/26) |
