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TheatreWorks is putting out the call to budding songwriters, seeking teen songbirds and rappers ready to create the next Hamilton or Dear Evan Hansen, giving them the tools to tell their own story through music.

Theatre Rhinoceros presents a free live presentation of JAZZBOS AND JEZEBELS, written and performed by SuzyJane Edwards on June 23, 2020 at 7pm.

San Francisco Opera today announced the difficult decision to cancel its Fall 2020 Season due to the ongoing pandemic.

Ten Bay Area nonprofits have been awarded major grants to partner with world-class artists to create new works of dance and movement-based performance and premiere them in local communities, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation announced today.

The African-American Shakespeare Company debuts its new online series of talk-backs in a format remiscent of The Actor's Studio with James Lipton.

San Francisco Opera continues streaming performances as part of its Opera is ON initiative with Richard Strauss' Salome (June 20), Jules Massenet's Manon (June 27) and Carlisle Floyd's Susannah (July 4).

BATS Improv, the Bay Area's premier improvisational performing and training company has announced their Virtual Summer School of Improv a?"  a variety of curriculum content taught online by BATS coaches, for beginners to advanced student improvisors ages 11 to 17, with additional classes for younge

Smuin Contemporary Ballet announces the extension of its hit virtual classes featuring lessons in a variety of dance styles now through July 5, 2020.

San Francisco theatremakers are responding to Actors Equity's released set of guidelines on how to support safe and healthy theatre production amidst the pandemic.

San Francisco's new works incubator PlayGround in partnership with Bay Area theatre veteran Aldo Billingslea, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, Planet Earth Arts, and more than 30 leading theatres from the Bay Area and beyond team up to present a Juneteenth livestreamed Zoom reading of Vincent Terrell Dur

As the Bay Area's shelter-in-place continues, The Marsh San Francisco offers a variety of programming at 7:30pm nightly on MarshStream, its popular broadcast platform.

Today, the Board of Directors of San Francisco Pride announced the first wave of entertainers participating in the official Pride 50 online celebration.

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Opera San José announces plans to create the Fred Heiman Digital Media Studio, a new performance/film space that will enable the company to stream high-quality, fully-produced operatic performances into the living rooms of patrons.

On June 19, 2020 SF Recovery Theatre, still deep in the throes of COVID-19 Pandemic, will continue their mission to bring the truth to the people via their unique drama medium.

Smuin Contemporary Ballet announces Michael Smuin's uplifting Stabat Mater as the next installment of its Hump Day Ballets series, which aims to brighten mid-week spirits with free video streaming of a ballet from the company's archives.

San Francisco Opera will stream Giacomo Puccini's verismo triple bill of operas, Il Trittico, beginning Saturday, June 13, as part of the Company's Opera is ON initiative.

Throughout June and July, Montalvo Arts Center will present original artworks around the Bay Area for viewing on billboards and bus shelters, in a new public exhibition entitled lone some.

Marin Shakespeare Company added two more performance dates for Stories from the Deep, a collection of autobiographical theatre pieces written and performed by the Returned Citizens Theatre Troupe.

Flyaway Productions has announced the world premiere of MEET US QUICKLY WITH YOUR MERCY, the second in a trilogy of outdoor aerial public art performances addressing the devastating effects of mass incarceration.

Aurora Theatre Company Artistic Director Josh Costello and Managing Director Julie Saltzman Kellner announced last week that the Berkeley theatre company will shift its focus to a membership program for the 2020/2021 season, with online offerings replacing live productions until conditions allow for

Alonzo King LINES Ballet has announced it will move its summer programs online for 2020.

In response to the cancellation of the 83rd Stern Grove Festival due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Stern Grove Festival has created Best of the Fest-a 10-week virtual series of video playlists-launching on Sunday, June 14 on KPIX-TV (CBS).

San Francisco Classical Voice has reported that the San Francisco Girls Chorus is presenting a Virtual Festival, being streamed during June on their website.

Town Hall Theatre continues opening up the archives to share some of our past productions with audiences.