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San Francisco Ballet today announced its 90th Season, which will celebrate the trailblazing company’s nine decades of pushing ballet forward through offering innovative new works and adaptations, highlighting the world’s leading and emerging choreographers and dancers, and performing beloved c

Opera San José has lined up a remarkable panel of celebrity judges for its upcoming Irene Dalis Vocal Competition.

Playwrights Foundation, the West Coast's premier launchpad for exceptional new plays and playwrights, has announced its lineup for the 45th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF) which will be presented as a hybrid (in-person and streamed) festival July 29 - August 7, 2022.

Award-winning entertainer Mark Nadler (2015 Broadway World Editor's Choice Award for Entertainer of the Year) blew into town for a brief 4-performance run of his new show Hart's Desire, a very gay imagined collaboration between Moss Hart and Lorenz Hart had they not been closeted in the 1930's and 4

NOONTIME CONCERTS, which provides free live musical performances at Old St.

The Magic Theatre presents the World Premiere of Sam Chanse’s Monument, Or Four Sisters (A Sloth Play).

This summer, AlterTheater reopens with in-person audiences.

sjDANCEco presents Encores and Celebration A Program of World Premieres…LIVE, June 17 and 18 In San Jose's Hammer Theatre.

TheatreFIRST will present Balikbayan Box, a new play by Bay Area wunderkind Jeffery Lo that asks “how many ways can you define love?” Joseph, a Filipino-American chef agrees to an arranged marriage with Bethany, a Filipina teacher immigrating to America.

In honor of Artistic Director and Principal Choreographer Helgi Tomasson’s retirement after 37 years, SF Ballet, in collaboration with Words on Dance, will host a special New York celebration in his honor on Monday, May 23 at 6pm at Chelsea Factory.

Award-winning playwright Jessica Huang's powerful story of the repercussions of the Chinese Exclusion Act is superbly realized by Director Jeffrey Lo (The Language Archive, The Santaland Diaries, Vietgone) and a stellar cast including my local fave Jomar Tagatac in another outstanding performance.

BroadwayWorld takes a look back at the highlights of San Francisco Ballet's glorious 2022 season, which concluded last week and also marks the end of retiring Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson's 37 years at the helm.

The African-American Shakespeare Company will feature a total of 5 productions during its 2022-23 season that will include an original work Echoes of Us, curated and produced by the company in conjunction with The Craft Institute's African Diasporic Network and funded by The Black Seed Fund.

SAFEhouse Arts has an exciting June season lined up! They kick off the month with a special VIP Pride Preview featuring LGBTQIAA+ artists in our RAW and AIRspace Residencies on June 4th that opens up into a FREE Pride Party! The month is rounded out with a RAW Showcase on June 11th and a RAW+AIRspac

Kevin Rolston’s critically acclaimed Deal with the Dragon, a three-character, one-man performance hailed as “truly bravura” (Edinburgh Guide), and “meticulously written and exquisitely performed” (Huffington Post), comes to the Magic Theatre for a limited run.

Up next in its 2022 season, Oakland Theater Project (OTP) presents the first-ever Bay Area production of the 1989 play The Mojo and the Sayso by Aishah Rahman, a writer, professor and active participant in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s.

THE ART OF THE BRICK—a captivating exhibition featuring works of art by renowned contemporary artist Nathan Sawaya—has launched the summer event series Bricks at Night, a weekly after-hours celebration of creativity and art.

The Covenant Winery Summer Concert Series kicks off Memorial Day weekend in Berkeley with acclaimed French/American jazz pianist, composer and arranger Franck Amsallem.

Petaluma's premier theater company, Cinnabar Theater, under the leadership of Artistic Director Nathan Cummings and Executive Director Diane Dragone, is proud to present Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece opera 'La Traviata', performing June 10th-26th, 2022.

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley has announced the cancellation of its production of Madhuri Shekar’s environmental drama Queen, originally scheduled to perform June 29 – July 24, 2022 at the Louis B.

BroadwayWorld talks to multidisciplinary performer Erin Mei-Ling Stuart about her role in Magic Theatre's world premiere production of Sam Chanse's 'Monument, Or Four Sisters (A Sloth Play)' running May11 to 29.

Contra Costa Civic Theatre today announced its 63rd Main Stage season, which includes a reimagined classic musical, the Bay Area premiere about a cultural icon, a quirky comedy from the writer/producer of the Hulu hit series “Only Murders in this Building,” and a unique look at America’s melti

Los Altos Stage Company has announced its 2022-2023 (28th) Season of plays and musicals, continuing its tradition of presenting bold, entertaining, and thought-provoking theatre.

For the first time ever, acclaimed Ragazzi Boys Chorus will open its Summer Music Day Camp to the public, inviting boys 7 to 11 years old to partake in a week full of fun and music alongside Ragazzi's Primary and Premiere ensembles.

AfroSolo Theatre Company presents its 27th annual AfroSolo Arts Festival STANDING OUR GROUND! The series continues with a line-up of talented artists on the Potrero Stage Theater Saturday, May 7 @ 8pm and Sunday, May 8 @ 3pm (Pacific Time) featuring: Bianca Brown, Darlene Roberts, Toni Hines and