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After 18 years as Executive Director of the greater Bay Area membership service nonprofit Theatre Bay Area, Brad Erickson, 62, has announced that he will step down at the end of 2021 to return to the East Coast and pursue a new endeavor.

The acclaimed Merola Opera Program continues its summer season with Back Home: Through the Stage Door, a thrilling new digital production.

42nd Street Moon is concluding its online Moonbeams series on a rather deliciously demented high note with Don’t Touch That Dial: DC & Peter’s Glorious Romp through the Golden Age of TV Theme Songs.

This July Plethos Productions is bringing Mo Willems' bestselling children's book series to life in a whole new way - with the hit musical “Elephant & Piggie's 'We Are in a Play!”.

Bay Area Celebration features local singers and spoken word artists based in the five Bay Area counties.

Learn more about the proposed budget and what it means for organizations including the Santa Clara Ballet, Santa Clara Chorale and Santa Clara Players.

Alonzo King LINES Ballet, the San Francisco-based, internationally celebrated contemporary ballet company, has announced it has received a $5 million gift from philanthropists MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett.

San Francisco Opera's weekly, free opera streams continue in July with Janáček's intense family drama Jenůfa (July 10–11), Berlioz's massive epic Les Troyens (The Trojans) (July 17–18), Strauss' emotional thriller Elektra (July 24–25) and Verdi's Tyrolean tragedy Luisa Miller (July 31–Aug

New Conservatory Theatre Center will celebrate 40 years of serving the Bay Area LGBTQ+ community, and its long-awaited return to live performances with a captivating 21-22 Season of two World Premieres, one Rolling World Premiere, one Regional Premiere, two West Coast Premieres, and a special musica

Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Artistic Director Johanna Pfaelzer today announced her first set of commissions.

The San Francisco Conservatory of Music, in partnership with the San Francisco Symphony, and the SFCM President's Advisory Council on Equity and Inclusion, announced today that Trevor Weston will receive the first commission of the annual Emerging Black Composers Project.

Berkeley Rep’s leadership announced today that after being closed for a year and a half, the Tony Award-winning theatre will reopen for live performances on Friday, October 1.

Oakland University's School of Music, Theatre and Dance will present Patience — a comic opera in two acts with music and libretto by Gilbert and Sullivan — from June 24-27 on the Varner Hall Courtyard Outdoor Stage as part of the “OU Outside the Box” performing arts festival.

Berkeley Rep announced today that it has named Sunshine Deffner as its new Associate Managing Director.

Presented in outdoors and indoors locations in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, Time of Change is a new, site-specific dance theater work featuring pop-up moments of original music, monologues, and movement.

The story of Gordon Hirabayashi's five-decade struggle for justice for the forced detention of Japanese-Americans during WWII is powerfully recreated in Jeanne Sakata's lovingly researched historical drama buoyed by a stellar performance by Jomar Tagatac.

Playful People Productions announces its first-ever variety show, cheekily titled Humans! On Stage! Doing Stuff! Sign-ups are currently open; the show will be held live, in-person at Historic Hoover Theatre in San Jose on the evening of July 31.

The Oakland Symphony announces its 2021-2002 concert season that will celebrate the 30-year-anniversary of Conductor and Music Director Michael Morgan leading.

After a year of virtual productions, Shakespeare by the Sea has announced its return to live performances at Point Fermin Park in San Pedro.

The Dragon, a theatre company based in Redwood City, has announced the lineup for the remainder of At the Port: Dragon's Drive-In Variety Show, running on June 18, 25, and 26, at 8:30pm PT at the Port of Redwood City, 459 Seaport Court, Redwood City, 94063.

From Shakespeare on Zoom to the history of jazz, Oakland University Community Music's Virtual and In-Person Summer Camps will offer something for everyone.

Smuin Contemporary Ballet announces an extension of its virtual classes, due to continued overwhelmingly positive response to its Company artist- and alumni-led program.

Award winning author, poet, editor, activist and third-generation Japanese-American artist Shizue Seigel today announced the forthcoming release on June 30 of Essential Truths, The Bay Area in Color, a robust and timely anthology featuring 130 BIPOC writers, poets and artists reflecting on recent an

Bring your lawn chairs and blankets to enjoy a relaxing evening listening to the sounds of the carillon's 49 fully-chromatic bells when the Six Fridays at 6 Summer Carillon Concert Series returns to the Oakland University campus beginning on Friday, July 9.

After over 18-months of quiet, there will be live jazz music once again at the Monterey County Fairgrounds.