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Constitutional Journey HOLD THESE TRUTHS Begins TheatreWorks 18/19 Season
by BWW News Desk - May 15, 2018
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley kicks off its 2018/19 season with Hold These Truths by Jeanne Sakata, an inspiring true story following Gordon Hirabayashi, a Japanese-American student who fought internment to a relocation camp during World War II. This Northern California premiere celebrates the human spirit as it chronicles Hirabayashi's journey from college in Seattle all the way to the Supreme Court, and eventually to a Congressional Medal of Honor.
Oakland Symphony Appoints Dr. Mieko Hatano New Executive Director
by BWW News Desk - May 15, 2018
Oakland Symphony Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Mieko Hatano as its new Executive Director, effective June 4, 2018. As Executive Director, Dr. Hatano will oversee the Oakland Symphony including the Oakland Symphony Orchestra, the Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra, the Oakland Symphony Chorus, and the Oakland Symphony's MUSE and related youth-music-education programs. She will work closely with Music Director and Conductor Michael Morgan.
Custom Made Theatre & Just Theater Present World Premiere Of Jonathan Spector's GOOD. BETTER. BEST. BESTED.
by BWW News Desk - May 15, 2018
Custom Made Theatre concludes its 2017-2018 season with Jonathan Spector's Good. Better. Best. Bested., a co-production with East Bay-based Just Theater. Directed by Lauren English, the show runs June 14-July 7 at Custom Made Theatre, 533 Sutter Street in San Francisco.
Tony-Winner Len Cariou Brings BROADWAY & THE BARD to Bay Area
by BWW News Desk - May 15, 2018
Tony® Award-winning actor Len Cariou (Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, Applause) comes to the Bay Area this summer, starring in his acclaimed one-man show Broadway and the Bard: An Evening of Shakespeare & Song, conceived by Cariou, Barry Kleinbort and Mark Janas, with direction by Kleinbort and musical direction by Janas.
ODC Starts Summer Early With The WALKING DISTANCE DANCE FEST
by BWW News Desk - May 15, 2018
Next month ODC Theater provides an early kickoff to the summer with the seventh anniversary of its signature dance festival. Highlights include a West Coast premiere from filmmaker and choreographer Yara Travieso, the Bay Area solo debut of Toronto native Belinda McGuire and a world premiere from Kiandanda Dance Theater.
ODC/Dance Presents Intimate Summer Performance Series
by BWW News Desk - May 14, 2018
ODC/Dance, San Francisco's world class contemporary dance company, presents its annual summer event, Summer Sampler, July 20-21 and July 27-28.   
Theatre Bay Area Receives $25,000 Grant From National Endowment For The Arts
by BWW News Desk - May 14, 2018
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved $25,000 in support of Theatre Bay Area's Art Works project "Advancing an Inclusive and Equitable Theatre." More than $80 million in grants were approved as part of the NEA's second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2018.
Anjelah Johnson returns to Luther Burbank Center for the Arts
by BWW News Desk - May 14, 2018
Back by popular demand, Luther Burbank Center for the Arts (LBC) announced today that comedian Anjelah Johnson will return to Santa Rosa with her new stand-up comedy show on Friday, September 14, 2018 at 7:30 p.m.Tickets range in price from are $39.50-$49.50 and will be available on Friday, May 18 at 12 p.m. online at lutherburbankcenter.org, by calling 707-546-3600 or at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts ticket office (50 Mark West Springs Road in Santa Rosa).
Palace Wreckers, Inc. Announce Opening Of New Comedy At Berkeley City Club
by BWW News Desk - May 12, 2018
Central Works 2018 season of new plays leaps into the spring with the world premiere of Palace Wreckers, Inc, written and directed by Gary Graves, opening with a press night today, May 12, and running through June 10  (previews May 10 & 11) in architect Julia Morgan's historic Berkeley City Club. This Central Works Method play is a 'revenge comedy' - based on a Greek tragedy, turned into a contemporary comedy. The Central Works Method brings together writer, actors and director at the very outset of the playwriting process. In a supportive workshop environment, group research and collective brainstorming contribute to the entire development of the script.
AN ENTOMOLOGIST'S LOVE STORY Gets World Premiere Today
by BWW News Desk - May 12, 2018
San Francisco Playhouse (Artistic Director Bill English; Producing Director Susi Damilano) announced casting for the fifth show of its 2017-18 Mainstage Season-the world premiere of An Entomologist's Love Story, written by Melissa Ross. Giovanna Sardelli will direct.
PALACE WRECKERS, INC. Comes to Berkeley City Club This Spring
by BWW News Desk - May 12, 2018
Central Works 2018 season of new plays leaps into the spring with the world premiere of Palace Wreckers, Inc, written and directed by Gary Graves, opening with a press night today, May 12, and running through June 10  (previews May 10 & 11) in architect Julia Morgan's historic Berkeley City Club. This Central Works Method play is a 'revenge comedy' - based on a Greek tragedy, turned into a contemporary comedy.
MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET Comes to Broadway By The Bay, 6/8
by BWW News Desk - May 11, 2018
Broadway By the Bay continues their 2018 season with the rockin' Broadway smash, Million Dollar Quartet. In December 1956, in a small Memphis recording studio, four icons of music met-and had a jam-session that changed rock-n-roll forever. Broadway By the Bay invites music lovers of all ages to take their seats at the historic Fox Theater in downtown Redwood City as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins take to the stage for this story of a singular moment in rock-n-roll history, and a night of legendary music that lived on in infamy. Million Dollar Quartet runs for nine performances only beginning June 8, 2018.  Tickets (ranging from $44-$66) are available by calling (650) 369-7770 or by visiting online at www.broadwaybythebay.org. Ticket prices are subject to change without notice.
BWW Review: THE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY CONDUCTED BY FABIEN GABEL at The Jacobs Music Center
by Ron Bierman - May 11, 2018
The San Diego Symphony, along with many others, is this year celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Leonard Bernstein. The first half of the Symphony's 'Dances Suites and Serenades' concert consisted of 'Three Dance Variations' from Bernstein's ballet Fancy Free, and Serenade (After Plato's 'Symposium'). Fancy Free was choreographed by Jerome Robbins. Robbins collaborated on all of Bernstein's ballets and his hugely successful Broadway musical Westside Story. Fancy Free features three sailors on leave who want to impress two young women. Since two doesn't equal three, except possibly in fake-news reports, they  dance to showoff and help the women decide which two suitors will win approval. Galop, waltz and danzon variations provide solos for each sailor in which to demonstrate skill and personality.
Five Entrepreneurs Announced As Winners At San Francisco WeWork Creator Awards
by BWW News Desk - May 11, 2018
Last night, WeWork announced five winners received $742,000 in funding at the San Francisco Creator Awards Regional Semi-Final event at Palace of Fine Arts. The Creator Awards is a global initiative awarding funding to entrepreneurs, small business, nonprofits, performing artists, and more who are thinking in new ways, building fresh projects, and achieving real change. 
CMT Mainstage Presents Tony Award-Winning Musical AVENUE Q
by BWW News Desk - May 11, 2018
CMT Mainstage, featuring local performers ages 14-20, presents the 2004 Tony Triple Crown (Best Score, Best Book, Best Musical) laugh-out-loud musical, Avenue Q, May 11-20.
The Hammer Theatre Presents BELLA GAIA: A Poetic Vision Of Earth From Space
by BWW News Desk - May 11, 2018
 The Hammer Theatre presents BELLA GAIA - A Poetic Vision of Earth From Space for one night only on Today, May 11, 2018 as part of the Hammer Theatre's ArtTech series. BELLA GAIA is a renowned audiovisual experience lead by director-composer Kenji Williams and the BELLA GAIA Ensemble. The immersive event combines NASA satellite imagery, time-lapse nature photography, cultural heritage footage, and live performances of global beat music and dance to create an unprecedented and powerful exploration of the beauty and interconnectedness of all things on Earth. The award-winning show will take place at the Hammer Theatre Center (101 Paseo De San Antonio, San Jose, CA 95113). The performance will start at 7:00pm. Tickets range from $29 to $46. View video trailer and additional information on BELLA GAIA at http://www.bellagaia.com/sj.html. Visit the Hammer's site and purchase tickets at http://hammertheatre.com/event/arttech-series-bella-gaia-kenji-williams.
SCAPEGOAT By William Bivins Comes to Potrero Stage PlayGround Festival Of New Works
by BWW News Desk - May 10, 2018
PlayGround's Festival of New Works 2018 festival continues with the premiere of the full-length play SCAPEGOAT by William Bivins opening with a press night on May 23, running through June 17 (previews May 21 & 22), a co-production with Lorraine Hansberry Theatre.
National Endowment for the Arts Honors CMT San Jose
by BWW News Desk - May 10, 2018
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $80 million in grants as part of the NEA's second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2018. Included in this announcement is an Art Works Musical Theater grant of $10,000 to CMT San Jose for their summer Mainstage production of West Side Story. The Art Works category is the NEA's largest funding category and supports projects that focus on the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, public engagement with diverse and excellent art, lifelong learning in the arts, and/or the strengthening of communities through the arts.
Idiot String Announces 2018 Summer Touring Production SHIVER WE TIMBERS! A PERIPATETIC PICK-YER-OWN PIRATE ADVENTURE
by BWW News Desk - May 10, 2018
 Idiot String (Founding Producers Joan Howard and Rebecca Longworth) announced today that their fifth annual summer touring production will be a pirate-themed, participatory play entitled Shiver We Timbers! A Peripatetic Pick-Yer-Own Pirate Adventure. The touring show will be performed by Idiot String's dedicated troupe, the Samuel Peaches Peripatetic Players. Shiver We Timbers! will perform on Saturdays and Sundays from July 7 - August 12, 2018 at parks and public spaces throughout the Bay Area
BEST OF PLAYGROUND 22 Comes to Potrero Stage This Season
by BWW News Desk - May 10, 2018
PlayGround caps off its twenty-fourth season with Best of PlayGround 22, running May 10-27, 2018 (Press Night: May 12) at Potrero Stage. This fully-produced showcase of the best new playwrights and short plays have been selected from more than 150 submissions and 36 works developed as part of the season's Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series. Noteworthy director/performers Margo Hall, Becca Wolff, Soren Oliver, Jim Kleinmann, Katja Rivera, and Jenny McAllister join in to direct the Best of PlayGround 22 short plays.
Photo Flash: San Francisco Playhouse Presents AN ENTOMOLOGIST'S LOVE STORY
by BWW News Desk - May 09, 2018
Working at the Museum of Natural History has its ups and downs for entomologists Betty and Jeff. As they research the mating rituals of bugs, they find their own complicated relationships increasingly under the microscope. An Entomologist's Love Story is a comic, edgy and explicit look at love in our times.
San Francisco Opera Announces Casting Update For Wagner's DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN
by BWW News Desk - May 09, 2018
German soprano Evelyn Herlitzius, scheduled to make her San Francisco Opera debut as Brunnhilde in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), has withdrawn from the upcoming engagement due to health reasons. While San Francisco Opera regrets this casting change, the Company is honored to welcome in her stead the equally acclaimed Swedish soprano Irene Theorin as Brunnhilde, the pivotal heroine of Wagner's magnum opus. A celebrated Brunnhilde, Theorin's engagement will mark her first complete Ring in the United States with three cycles of the work at the War Memorial Opera House, June 12-July 1, 2018.
Theatre Rhinoceros Presents PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT – THE MUSICAL
by BWW News Desk - May 09, 2018
After last year's (2017) sold-out run, and the most successful show in the 40 year history of Theatre Rhinoceros, we are thrilled to be presenting - BY POPULAR DEMAND - an encore production for 2017/2018 Season of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert - The Musical. Priscilla has a book by Australian film director/writer Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott, using well-known pop songs as its score. Adapted from Elliott's 1994 Oscar-winning film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, the musical is the heart-warming, uplifting adventure of three friends who hop aboard a battered old bus searching for love and friendship and end up finding more than they could have ever dreamed of. With a dazzling array of over-the-top costumes, extraordinary headdresses, A FULL SIZE BUS - ON STAGE, and a hit parade of dance floor favorites, this wildly fresh and funny musical is a journey to the heart of FABULOUS.
Talk Story Returns to EXIT Theatre
by BWW News Desk - May 09, 2018
After a successful inaugural year in 2017, EXIT Theatre brings a treasure trove of storytellers together to Talk Story. As an art form and a means of communication, storytelling is one of our deepest-rooted instincts, and thanks to the phenomenal successes of series such as Porchlight, Bawdy, and The Moth, it's enjoying a renaissance in the Bay Area and across the country. Join us in June as we present a diverse slate of stories, spoken straight from the heart.
Contra Costa Civic Theatre Presents RAGTIME This Summer!
by BWW News Desk - May 08, 2018
Contra Costa Civic Theatre (CCCT) today announced the cast for its season finale, Ragtime, directed by CCCT Artistic Director Marilyn Langbehn, with music direction by Tania Johnson and choreography by Allison Paraiso. Ragtime, with a Tony award-winning book and score by Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, plays CCCT's Main Stage beginning June 15 through July 22. For tickets and information visit the theatre's website at www.ccct.org or call 510.524.9012.

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