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PlayGround, San Francisco's premier theatre development lab, is hosting the nation's largest fully digital new play festival PlayGround Zoom Fest presented May 11 through June 14, 2020.

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

The San Francisco Opera is continuing to rehearse from home amidst the health crisis

Smuin Contemporary Ballet announced the expansion of its hit Virtual Class Program, featuring a brand new schedule packed with exclusive behind-the-scenes tutorials, lessons in all-new styles including tap and soft-shoe, and expanded offerings of its most popular classes.

CMT San Jose is one of the largest youth theater organizations in the country.

 Marin Shakespeare Company is postponing its 2020 season until summer 2021.

San Francisco Opera's Department of Diversity, Equity and Community (DEC) now offers new online programming for families, adults and educators at sfopera.

This week the California Arts Council announced a grant award of $20,000 to TheatreWorks Silicon Valley as part of its Arts Education Exposure program.

Palo Alto Players, the first theatre company on the Peninsula, will hold its first-ever virtual gala fundraiser - Play! on Sunday, May 31, 2020 at 5pm PDT.

In celebration of 100 years as a community theater, the Novato Theater Company is Sharing The Spotlight with performers from across the Bay Area, in an on-line, live streamed fundraiser and auction on Saturday.

This Week the California Arts Council announced a grant award of $18,522 to Ragazzi Boys Chorus as part of its Youth Arts Action program, which supports projects for youth that occur outside of traditional school hours.

What happens if the President is re-elected? In 20/20, a play by Theatre Makers, the answer is up to the audience.

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley has the perfect Mother's Day entertainment for you! On Sunday May 10th at 5pm PDT, they will band together with a number of theaters across the country to present a livestream of the hit show 'Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin,' a tribute to America's greatest songwriter.

San Francisco Ballet's free weekly stream on SF Ballet @ Home features commissioned works from the 2018 Unbound festival and other notable ballets from SF Ballet's repertory.

Playwrights Foundation, the West Coast's premiere launchpad for exceptional plays and playwrights announces the lineup for the 2020 Bay Area Playwrights Festival.

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's Founding Artistic Director Robert Kelley, Artistic Director Designate Tim Bond, and Executive Director Phil Santora announced changes to TheatreWorks's 2020-21 Season, which is now scheduled to begin in October 2020.

Merola Opera Program has announced, for the first time in its 63 year history, the cancellation of its summer training program and Summer Festival, including all public performances, public master classes, and events scheduled to take place July 9 to August 22, 2020, in accordance with local and glo

Transcendence Theatre Company, the award-winning, Sonoma County based theatre company, has announced an all new virtual season of Broadway Under the Stars.

Thwarted in their attempt to hold their annual Spring awards Gala by the Covid-19 pandemic, the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle took their Gala to cyberspace and held a virtual event in celebration of the excellent worked produced by Bay Area theatre artists in 2019.

In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, American Conservatory Theater (A.

San Francisco Opera announced today that it will stream performances from its archives beginning Saturday, May 9, with Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele.

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 newly launched Broadcast Platform.

Berkeley Playhouse's doors have been closed to the public since the shelter-in-place orders were enacted in March.

During this crazy time when the community can't be together physically, BATS Improv will be doing weekly shows online to bring a little improv magic into homes no matter where you are.