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SHUCKED opened last night at BroadwaySF’s Curran Theatre and let me just say—the show popped! The story begins in the idyllic and insulated, corn-reliant town of Cob County, where a wedding is about to take place—until the corn suddenly begins to wither, threatening the town’s very existence

Nominations are now open for the 2025 BroadwayWorld San Francisco / Bay Area Awards! The 2025 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2025.

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will return to the world of Jane Austen with the heartwarming holiday tale filled with music Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley, written by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon and directed by Giovanna Sardelli.

In October 2025, SFJAZZ will continue its 2025/26 season with an eclectic mix of world-class artists—from jazz legends and rising stars to genre-defying innovators in soul, global music, and beyond.

Theatre Rhinoceros in collaboration with TransBay Joint Powers Authority and The East Cut has revealed the cast for OTHELLO.

You can now get a first look at photos from Paula Vogel’s Tony Award-winning play, INDECENT, performing at the Lesher Center for the Arts.

The American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA) and San Francisco Opera (SFO) have  announced a new two-year collective bargaining agreement, ratified by AGMA's Board of Governors on August 25, 2025.

Travel back in time to the days of Georgian England with the Orinda Starlight Village Players’ production of Jane Eyre.

American Conservatory Theater’s Education and Community Programs will present performances of Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare.

You can now get a first look at photos of Jake Brasch's The Reservoir, performing at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

Terror Vault—the Bay Area’s award-winning haunted attraction—revealed the cast and creative team behind HEXED, the world-premiere chapter of its wildly popular, fully immersive horror experience.

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The Marsh Berkeley will present the World Premiere engagement of acclaimed playwright and performer Wayne Harris’s Drapetomania, an exploration of political dissent and the tools of oppression that can be employed to silence protesters.

​For Bay Area Theatre Week, Theatre Bay Area will present an encore staged reading of Book of Glass, by Michael Lynch.

Marin Theatre has extended its production of Jonathan Spector’s Eureka Day presented in partnership with Aurora Theatre Company.

The Marquee Theater Journalists Association has revealed the nominees for their 2025 MTJA Norbay Theater Awards.

Global K-Pop icon Wendy of Red Velvet will make a stop at BroadwaySF’s Golden Gate Theatre as part of her W:EALIVE World Tour.

Produced by Rainbow Zebra Productions LLC and The Magic Theatre, this free reading – directed by Andrea Gordon - will take place on Monday, September 22, 2025 at 7:00 p.

San Francisco Opera opens its 103rd season on Friday, September 5 with Opera Ball, the opening night benefit gala co-presented with San Francisco Opera Guild, and Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto (September 5–27), led by Caroline H.

New Conservatory Theatre Center will serve up the next bowl of bold and fresh queer theatre with the World Premiere of Marga Gomez’s flavor-packed, auto-biographical treat, Spanish Stew, directed by Richard A.

Award-winning SF contemporary chamber music group Ensemble for These Times will kick off its 18th Home Season at Old First Concerts in San Francisco, with 'Lines, Circles, and Spirals,'

Cindy Fee—the voice of The Golden Girls theme song, “Thank You for Being a Friend”—will return to BroadwaySF’s Curran Theatre to perform throughout opening weekend of The Golden Girls Live: The Christmas Episodes.

IAMA Theatre Company will present a workshop production of Mathilde Dratwa's biting, tender, and tragically modern play Esther Perel Ruined My Life.

San Francisco Neo-Futurists will present Infinite Snarch: A Slumber Party Wrench, a special event featuring 30 of the ensemble’s all-time favorite original short plays selected to create the tone and atmosphere of a slumber party.

Associate Concertmaster Jason Issokson (San Francisco Symphony Foundation Chair) joins the San Francisco Symphony in September 2025 and succeeds Nadya Tichman, who stepped down as Associate Concertmaster in 2022 following 31 seasons in the position.