SAN FRANCISCO THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 345

Today, Luther Burbank Center for the Arts announced that John Hiatt & The Goners, featuring Sonny Landreth, will come to Santa Rosa for one night only on Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 8 p.

Following the most well attended season in the company's history, African-American Shakespeare Company (AASC) will expand back to four productions this season, beginning with A Midsummer Night's Dream (fittingly for San Francisco, coming in mid-September when the city's weather is at its warmest and

A magnificently macabre musical comedy, The Addams Family: A New Musical Comedy will open on October 6, 2017 at Chanticleers Theatre in Castro Valley.

San Francisco Opera's production of Richard Strauss'Elektra opens in a new staging by acclaimed English director Keith Warner at the War Memorial Opera House on Saturday, September 9.

Arguably Shakespeare's most popular work, A Midsummer Night's Dream, is in performance somewhere in the world every day of the year.

Theatre veteran John Hull draws on his love of theater for a suite of one-act comedies set in the world behind the curtain.

Actor Riley Costello makes the directing leap with a regional production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and reveals his favorite character.

San Francisco Opera inaugurates its 95th season on Friday, September 8, with Puccini's Turandot, staged in the iconic production by English artist David Hockney and conducted by Company Music Director Nicola Luisotti, and two opening night galas.

Sue Bevan's AN AUDIENCE WITH SHURL will play the San Francisco Fringe Festival this September.

Thinking himself worldly and experienced, Don Alfonso decides to relieve his young friends, Ferrando and Gugliemo, of their faith in sexual fidelity.

POONSTRUCK follows a shero's journey told through the orifices of Dr Tallulah, a fiery Sexual Activist, Zen Cosmetologist, and Intuitive Energy Healer.

San Francisco Chamber Orchestra opens its 64th season with Strings Attached, a concert showcasing the expressive possibilities of the string sections of the orchestra.

The fall, New Conservatory Theatre Center Family Matinee Series flies over the rainbow with a new telling of L.

Monterey Jazz Festival kicks off the weekend's activities on Thursday, September 14 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 students enrolled in Monterey Cou

Sue Bevan Theatre will present An Audience With Shurl, a tragicomic 4* piece about loss and search for connection, as part of the 26th annual San Francisco Fringe Festival, Sept 8 through 23, 2017.

Pullover Productions presents Keeping Up with the Jorgensons, The year is 1982 and Jeremy takes a road trip with his week-end father to Orange County.

The San Francisco Early Music Society's 2017-18 concert season kicks off the weekend of October 20 with three concerts by The Aulos Ensemble.

The New York premieres and world premiere production of Gordon Getty's "Scare Pair," a double-bill by the San Francisco-based composer, pairs his two one act-operas -- Usher House and The Canterville Ghost -- together for the first time on October 19 and 21 (7:30pm) at The Sylvia and Danny Kaye P

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley breaks new ground in 2017 by adding a second holiday show to its season, The Santaland Diaries, December 5 - 23, 2017, at the intimate 180-seat Lohman Theatre.

Bay Area Cabaret brings back two of today's most celebrated songwriting divas, together for the first time in the Venetian Room-cabaret star and Golden Globe-winner Amanda McBroom ("The Rose") and jazz great Ann Hampton Callaway ("At The Same Time").

In Roger Grunwald's THE OBLIGATION a Jewish-American comedian, a survivor, a half-Jewish German soldier and an SS General explore the dark history of their and our world.

Beginning in the summer of 2017 Dragon Theatre is open late on select Friday nights to showcase some up and coming local talents and help make downtown Redwood City the peninsula's premiere destination for entertainment.

DragStrip Productions presents the 22nd Annual San Francisco Drag King Contest.

Crowded Fire Theater (CFT) announces the featured playwrights and plays for the 2017 Matchbox Readings Series, an annual program presenting four public staged readings of plays in development.

San Francisco's acclaimed 42nd Street Moon has announced the full cast and creative team for the 2017-2018 season's opening production, Ain't Misbehavin'.