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The Koret Foundation has awarded the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) $150,000 to establish a music education program with the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco, Congregation Emanu-El, and the San Francisco Interfaith Council.

Today, Luther Burbank Center for the Arts (LBC)announced several new performances in 2018, adding to its diverse lineup of shows in Santa Rosa.

Today, Bay Area playwright collective 6NewPlays announced that tickets are now on sale for CHAMPAGNE, a play by Bay Area playwright Barry Eitel (The Ice Cream Sandwich Incident, The Speakeasy), performing at the Randall Museum (199 Museum Way, San Francisco 94114) June 21 - July 15, 2018.

Town Hall Theatre 'Generations' Season 2017-2018 closes with Kate Hamill's rollicking new adaptation of SENSE & SENSIBILITY, based on the classic novel by Jane Austen.

PlayGround's Festival of New Works features the premiere of the full-length play BRIGHT SHINING SEA by Julianne Jigour opening with a press night on Wednesday May 16, running through June 16, (previews May 14 & 15).

A shocking political reversal has found Americans facing headlines filled with divisive rhetoric while polarized citizens passionately debate the issues of the day.

San Francisco's 42nd Street Moon (Daren A.

Alice Walker's poignantly sad, yet ultimately empowering classic novel, 'The Color Purple,' has found expression on the page, on film and twice now on the musical stage.

San Francisco's 42nd Street Moon (Daren A.

On Sunday, May 6, at 8 p.

The San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) today announces the appointment of trumpeter Michael Rodriguez to its faculty.

Lovers of new theatre will gather this August for an advance look at tomorrow's hits at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's 2018 New Works Festival.

FoolsFURY Theater Company, "one of the brightest stars of the San Francisco experimental theater scene" (SF/Arts), has announced the program for the seventh FURY Factory Festival of Ensemble and Devised Theater, July 10 - 22, 2018.

Aurora Theatre Company presents the Bay Area premiere of DRY POWDER, the razor-sharp and whip-smart comedy by Sarah Burgess that skewers the world of high finance.

The Rita Moreno California High School Musical Honors announced today the 2018 nominees who will compete in front of a panel of nationally recognized judges on Monday, May 21, 2018 at 7:30 p.

Hillbarn Theatre, the Peninsula's premier theatre company, announced that it has added crowd-favorite musicals WEST SIDE STORY andMAMMA MIA! to its 2018-19 season.

Festival Napa Valley, the performing arts organization recognized for transforming California's wine country into a cultural destination, announced that Tony and Emmy Award- winning actress and singer Kristin Chenoweth will headline its Arts for All Gala on Sunday, July 22 at HALL St.

Aurora Theatre Company will add seven performances to its world premiere commission of EUREKA DAY by Jonathan Spector.

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.

To celebrate the opening of The Color Purple at the SHN Orpheum Theatre, Humphry Slocombe and SHN have collaborated on a limited edition ice cream flavor inspired by the 2016 Tony Award winner for Best Musical Revival.

SFCM presents a chamber opera double bill Friday, May 4 and Sunday, May 6 with performances of John Musto's Bastianello and William Bolcom's Lucrezia, both featuring libretti composed by Mark Campbell.

Due to popular demand, The Marsh San Francisco extends Don Reed's wonderfully wild autobiographical trilogy Can You Dig It?: The '60s.

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.

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 on Saturday, May 12, and running through June 10  (previews May 10 & 11) in architect Julia Morgan's historic Berkeley City C

On June 1, 2018 The SF Recovery Theatre will commemorate their 20th Annual Season with a new production of Reflections In Black 2018, a collection of scenes by African American writers, featuring an African American cast, which examines what it means to be Black in the United States.