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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'.

Children's Musical Theater San Jose (CMT San Jose), a nationally acclaimed theater company honored 10 times by the NEA and the oldest operating performing arts organization in San Jose, announced its 50th Anniversary season of shows.

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley is seeking potential travelers to embark on the exhilarating journey of its nearly 50 years of innovative theatre with its fall gala TheatreWorks Around the World.

Berkeley Playhouse, the award-winning theater company for all ages, celebrates ten years of innovative and socially relevant performances, outreach initiatives, and youth curriculum through the Conservatory that are as diverse as the community it serves.

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley celebrates the holiday season with a hilarious escapade, Around the World in 80 Days.

Santa Cruz County Actors' Theatre, who brings the community the annual sold-out 8 Tens @ Eight Short Play Festival, presents a full-length staged production of Katori Hall's award-winning play, The Mountaintop, opening September 29 and playing through October 15 at the Center Stage Theater in downto

Other Voices, in Association with the Playwrights' Center of San Francisco, will present $WAMPLAND as part of the 26th-annual San Francisco Fringe Festival, September 8 through 23, 2017.

Theatre Rhinoceros presents the world premiere of The Legend of Pink by Kheven LaGrone.

Marin Shakespeare Company, Marin County's professional and award-winning outdoor summer Shakespeare festival, concludes its 28th season with Shakespeare's 'Love's Labour's Lost.

San Francisco Opera's partnership with the Bay Area's Classical KDFC continues this fall with monthly opera broadcasts beginning September 3with Giuseppe Verdi's Otello in a historic 1978 performance featuring Placido Domingo in the title role and Katia Ricciarelli as Desdemona.

Two Neo-futurists (Em Lee Reaves and Micael Bogar) match wits with musical theatre maker (Alice Moore) and comedian extraordinaire (Katie Rubin) in a truth-telling dark comedy adventure chalked full of games and prizes.

The Museum of Performance + Design was awarded an NEA/Art Works 2017 grant to digitize, catalog, and make available online for broad public access by June 2018 dance images from the HENRIETTA MCDOWELL, CHESTER KESSLER, BOB MCLOED, and KATHERINE KAHRS photographic collections in The Elyse Eng D