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The Playwrights Foundation, a launchpad for exceptional plays and playwrights announces the lineup for the 2018 Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF) running July 20-29, 2018.

California Shakespeare Theater continues its 44th Season with the West Coast Premiere of Everybody, a sparkling new riff on the 15th-century morality play The Summoning of Everyman by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, whom the New York Times calls 'one of this country's most original and illuminating writers

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In The Mood, a 1940's musical revue featuring singers, dancers and a 13-piece orchestra, takes the stage at the Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater for two performances on Sunday, September 9, 2018, with a matinee at 2 pm and evening performance at 7 pm.

The Hot Licks perform classic gems written by the Man himself as well as songs that Dan Hicks loved to cover in his own original style.

The Lark Theater is pleased to present Bjork: Biophilia as part of their Rockin' at the Lark On The Big Screen series.

The Lark Theater is pleased to present Giacomo Puccini's Turandot as part of the Metropolitan Opera's Live in HD Summer Season - the last in the series.

Closing their 2017/18 Season, African-American Shakespeare Company presents William Shakespeare's RICHARD III for the first time in its 24 year history.

The Kinsey Sicks, America's Favorite Dragapella Beautyshop Quartet, announced today that they will celebrate their 25th anniversary in San Francisco with their critically-acclaimed show, Things You Shouldn't Say.

Bay Area Children's Theatre (BACT) brings a rollicking musical version of "Pete the Cat," to Sunnyvale for two weekends, starting Saturday, August 11.

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TheatreWorks Silicon Valley kicked 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.

2018 Bay Area Playwrights Festival (#BAPF2018) runs July 20-29, 2018 at Potrero Stage, 1895 18th St in San Francisco.

Aurora Theatre Company will add seven performances to its Bay Area premiere of DRY POWDER, the razor-sharp and whip-smart comedy that skewers the world of high finance by Sarah Burgess.

Cameron Mackintosh's acclaimed new production of Boublil and Schonberg's legendary musical MISS SAIGON will launch its North American tour in September 2018 and includes a highly anticipated engagement in San Francisco at the SHN Orpheum Theatre for 4 weeks from October 9 through November 4, 2018.

Quantum Dragon Theatre, the San Francisco Bay Area's premiere science-fiction/fantasy theatre company, continues its second season with the West Coast premiere of award-winning playwright Mac Rogers' Universal Robots, inspired by the classic work of science fiction theatre R.

Smuin launches its 25th anniversary season with Dance Series 01, a fall program that pushes the boundaries of contemporary ballet.

Montalvo Arts Center's historic Villa and picturesque grounds will play host to its annual Food & Wine Classic, now celebrating its 15th year.

And a 5-6-7-8! The award-winning Transcendence Theatre Company, lauded by audiences and critics for its high caliber series of Broadway inspired productions, presents 'Shall We Dance,' the third of its 2018 "Broadway Under the Stars' summer series of main stage musical productions.

San Francisco's acclaimed Merola Opera Program, one of the most prestigious and selective opera training programs in the world, culminates its 2018 Summer Festival with the Merola Grand Finale, featuring the 2018 Merola young artists in a dazzling array of opera's most exciting arias and ensembles.

MILES ELECTRIC BAND - Progressive All-Star ensemble featuring Miles Davis alumni revises the framework for modern jazz improvisation.

Vallejo native Tota Shakur is bringing The Field Effect Live Experience to the Empress Theatre for his first ever live performance.

Broadway by the Bay struts their way into August with the disco dancing, finger pointing, hip-swerving hit Broadway musical, Saturday Night Fever.

Using a diverse cast of singers, actors, poets, and performers, 'I, Too, Sing America' honors and weaves the perspectives and experiences of American artists of color with poetry, song, music and movement, featuring original compositions by Othello Jefferson.

Broadway By the Bay, the only major non-profit musical theatre company between San Francisco and Palo Alto producing full-scale musical productions announced their 2018 season fundraiser, "Disco Inferno!" taking place on Saturday, July 21 at the historic Fox Theater in Redwood City, and inspired by