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It's opening night again for Pacific Symphony, Orange County's premiere orchestra, this time for a very special 40th Anniversary season.

Hillbarn Theatre, the Peninsula's premier theatre company, announced today that youth actors from its Conservatory will present the Tony Award-winning musical, WONDERFUL TOWN.

After the success of 2017's Dissent is Patriotic, IncivilitySF returns to the Lost Church for a second year, with a fresh slate of some of the Bay Area's best underground performers, for a showcase of original work riffing on the timely theme of elections and electoral politics.

Montalvo Arts Center will present The Ultimate Queen Celebration as part of its 2018-2019 Carriage House Theatre Concert Series.

The Oshman Family JCC presents Emmy Award-winning actor and singer Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Diaries 2018.

December brings the Bay Area premiere of A CONVERSATION WITH EDITH HEAD, a one-woman show starring Susan Claassen, written by Susan Claassen and Paddy Calistro - an entertaining look at old Hollywood through the eyes of one of its most legendary costumers.

African-American Shakespeare Company opens their 2018-19 Season with Ntozake Shange's 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf', a play that hasn't been professionally produced in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 20 years.

Sonoma State University's Green Music Center celebrates the important role of teachers and music mentors this year with its Annual Fundraiser, Today, September 15, 2018.

For the first time in over 20 years the Bay Area will have the chance to experience Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls When The Rainbow is Enuf.

The Stage kicks off Season 36 with the Obie-winning play 'The Lieutenant of Inishmore' by acclaimed playwright Martin McDonagh; screenwriter, director, and producer of this year's Golden Globe winner for Best Motion Picture - 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri'.

On September 20, SF Opera Lab pops up at The Great Northern in San Francisco for 'Battle of the Divas,' an epic head-to-head vocal battle.

Multi award-winning actor/playwright and Theatre Rhinoceros Artistic Director John Fisher will take audiences on a whirlwind tour of the past with his acclaimed solo show A History of World War II: The D-Day Invasion to the Fall of Berlin at The Marsh San Francisco.

The Hammer Theatre Center presents Ballet Folklorico de Mexico, the acclaimed dance ensemble representing the rich tapestry of Mexico's cultural history.

In October, New Conservatory Theatre Center is pleased to present the regional premiere of Cardboard Piano by Whiting Award-winning playwright, Hansol Jung, in partnership with Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) .

Cutting Ball Theater is celebrating 20 years since the company's founding and first production with a benefit honoring founders Paige Rogers and Rob Melrose.

The Douglas Morrisson Theatre (DMT) opens its 2018-19 season to Once Upon a Mattress, with performances running September 13-30, 2018.

Crowded Fire Theater (CFT) Young Jean Lee (author of 2016's THE SHIPMENT) returns to Crowded Fire with CHURCH, the second revolutionary production in Crowded Fire's 20th Anniversary Season of new and contemporary plays.

American Conservatory Theater (A.

Monterey Jazz Festival kicks off the weekend's activities on Thursday, September 20 with another edition of the "Concert on the Lawn" at the Monterey County Fairgrounds, with Monterey Jazz Festival's Next Generation Jazz Orchestra performing a free 45-minute set for 500 students enrolled in Monterey

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley continues its 2018/ 2019 season with Fun Home, the Tony Award-winning Best Musical.

Broadway San Jose, a Nederlander Presentation, welcomes the return of Broadway's record-breaking, Tony Award-winning musical smash CHICAGO to San Jose's Center for the Performing Arts(255 S.

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California Shakespeare Theater announced today the cast of the return engagement of its record-breaking hit play black odyssey, playing September 25 through October 7, 2018 at the Bruns Amphitheater.

Combining comedy cabaret with progressive political parody, Sandy and Richard Riccardi have over 40 million views on social media (including 'Tiki Torch Nazis', 'Boy From Mar-a-Lago' and 'Elton Has An Organ').

Aurora Theatre Company will add seven performances to its Bay Area premiere of DETROIT '67 by Dominique Morisseau, book writer of the hit Temptations musical Ain't Too Proud.