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Opera San José supporters gathered virtually tonight to welcome new General Director Shawna Lucey and hear her unveil plans for the company's 2022–23 season, a joyful lineup that offers audiences a renewed chance to gather and celebrate live performances.

Bay Area musician Rachel Lark and producer Ken Savage announced the Coming Soon #PleasureHunt, a scavenger hunt of sex-positive culture in the San Francisco Bay Area, in celebration of the world premiere of the new rock musical Coming Soon.

The San Francisco International Arts Festival (SFIAF) is pleased to present the US debut of German choreographer, David Brandstätter of French based shiftsart in movement.

Slated for release on April 22, 2022, Soul of a Show Girl is Gordon's first album featuring her original material, and it introduces a songwriter with an outsized gift for setting emotionally incisive lyrics to beguiling melodic hooks.

“The Biggest Little Farm” chronicles the eight-year quest of John and Molly Chester as they trade city living for 200 acres of barren farmland and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature.

The Monterey Jazz Festival, the world's longest continuously-running jazz festival, founded as a 501c3 non-profit in 1958, today pledged its commitment to confront bias, promote equity and honor the Black roots of jazz music by issuing its first Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion statement.

The Monterey Jazz Festival, the world's longest continuously-running jazz festival, founded as a 501c3 non-profit in 1958, today pledged its commitment to confront bias, promote equity and honor the Black roots of jazz music by issuing its first Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion statement.

Contra Costa Civic Theatre concludes its live, in-person Main Stage season with the musical Crowns by Regina Taylor, adapted from the book “Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats” by Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry.

Black Cab Jazz series, presented by Hammer Theatre Center and San José State University, concludes with multi-Grammy-nominated saxophonist/composer Miguel Zénon.

Stephen Schwartz's Tony Award-winning 1972 musical Pippin celebrates its 50th anniversary this year and Oakland University's Department of Theatre is inviting you to join the Guardians of Splendor for some Fosse-inspired magic March 30 – April 3 in Varner Studio Theatre on the OU campus.

Golden Thread Productions, the first American theatre company devoted to the Middle East, returns to live performances with Drowning in Cairo, previously presented and partially developed as part of the New Threads reading series in 2018.

Humphry Slocombe—the small-batch ice cream brand synonymous with unique, ultra-premium flavors—is celebrating the West Coast premiere of Immersive Frida Kahlo at Lighthouse ArtSpace San Francisco at SVN West with the creation of a new ice cream flavor.

San Francisco's acclaimed Merola Opera Program, one of the most prestigious and selective opera training programs in the world, has announced its 2022 season, welcoming the largest class of artists in company history.

San Francisco Playhouse (Artistic Director Bill English; Producing Director Susi Damilano) announced casting for Water by the Spoonful, the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner by Quiara Alegría Hudes (In the Heights).

Opera San José will close its 2021–2022 season with West Side Story, Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, and Jerome Robbins’s classic American tale of two star-crossed lovers and the prejudices that keep them apart.

Masquers Playhouse announces opening of ROCKET MAN.

The Lesher Center Presents Headliners series will bring the world-renowned Dance Theatre of Harlem to Walnut Creek for two performances only.

Transcendence Theatre Company, the award-winning, Sonoma County based theatre company, is proud to partner with several organizations throughout Sonoma County to present  Transcendence For All  - a program designed to bring the benefits and excitement of musical theater to various underrepresented

San Jose's Playful People Productions has announced its production of Disney's Frozen Jr.

San Francisco Ballet (SF Ballet) today announced the appointment of Danielle St.

Upstart Crows of Santa Fe presents its Spring Scenes show: 'Tis but a scratch - a mashup of scenes from Monty Python's Holy Grail and iconic Shakespearean stage fights.

The new season of the Schwabacher Recital Series, presented by San Francisco Opera Center and Merola Opera Program, continues on Wednesday, April 6 and Wednesday, April 27 at San Francisco's Dianne and Tad Taube Atrium Theater.

Special to the evening will be the San Francisco debut performance of critically acclaimed opera singer and finalist on NBC television’s hit show The Voice, countertenor John Holiday, in a spectacular musical program spanning opera to pop, including the artist’s heartfelt interpretation of

BroadwayWorld reviews San Francisco Ballet's richly-rewarding Program 4, which runs lives onstage at the War Memorial Opera House through Sunday, March 20th.

The Bay Area is enjoying a renaissance of black theatre, perhaps in conjunction with Black History Month: NCTC's Dot, MTC's Pass Over and now Shotgun Players' spectacular revival of Passing Strange, the Tony, Obie, and Drama Critics Circle Award winning musical.