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Once more catering to a less-than-traditional holiday crowd, the Pear celebrates the holidays with THE MILLIONTH PRODUCTION OF A CHRISTMAS CAROL written and directed by James Kopp.

Inspired by Germany's Circus Sarrasani, we enter the big-top of a world-renowned circus in 1936 Berlin.

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.

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

Berkeley Playhouse opens their tenth season of professional theater for family audiences with the East Bay premiere of Alan Menken's heavenly musical comedy, Sister Act.

ODC/Dance presents an elegant and inspired afternoon on the idyllic grounds of McEvoy Ranch.

Following an extensive nationwide search, Luther Burbank Center for the Arts (LBC) announced that Bay Area marketing consultant Anne Abrams will join the organization as Director of Marketing and Patron Services effective August 31, 2017.

San Francisco Opera celebrates the opening of its 95th Season with Opera in the Park, presented by the San Francisco Chronicle, at Sharon Meadow in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park on Sunday, September 10 at 1:30 p.

In October, New Conservatory Theatre Center welcomes the return of the plays of Philip Dawkins with the regional premiere of Le Switch, directed by Tom Bruett.

San Francisco Opera presents Verdi's La Traviata in ten performances at the War Memorial Opera House, September 23 through October 17.

The Central Works 2017 season concludes this Fall with Strange Ladies by Susan Sobeloff running Oct 14-Nov 12 (previews Oct 12 & 13) at the renowned Berkeley City Club.

Ring in the holiday season with Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon Holiday Extravaganza (November 15-December 31, 2017).

ODC Theater will present the West Coast premiere of Kate Weare Company's MARKSMAN, October 5 - 7.

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When Irma, an attorney, returns from lunch to her 25th floor financial district law firm, Shelley, the receptionist, hands her two pink message slips.

Antenna Theater and its artiisiic director, Chris Hardman, presents The Love Plane Experience, Sunday, October 1st from 3-5 pm.

Whether it's the regional professional premiere of Sondheim's (almost) Broadway debut, the return of a hilarious English musical from the 1930s, the first Broadway musical written entirely by women, or a rollicking evening of song, dance, and stride piano, 42nd Street Moon's mainstage season promise

Luther Burbank Center for the Arts welcomes "SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE," the 14-time Emmy Award-winning show that sparked America's fascination with dance, for one night only on Sunday, November 18, 2017 at 8 p.

Custom Made Theatre Company opens its 2017-2018 season with Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-Winning How I Learned to Drive, a wildly funny, surprising and devastating tale of survival as seen through the lens of a troubling relationship between a young girl and an older man.

Sherri Rose will present HOW NOT TO DIE, a solo show about our obsession with safety in an uncertain world, as part of the 26th annual San Francisco Fringe Festival, September 8 through 23, 2017.

Madame Ho, by Eugenie Chan, Eugenie Chan Theater Projects' (ECTP) first full production, premieres at the Exit Theater, 156 Eddy St in San Francisco's Mid-Market arts district October 5-21, 2017, then goes to Chinatown's Donaldina Cameron House, 920 Sacramento St for three free community performance

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Bay Area Cabaret, now in its 14th season of presenting world-renowned Broadway, pop and jazz vocalists, announces the 2017-2018 season of shows at San Francisco's most elegant and historic showroom, the Fairmont Venetian Room (950 Mason Street atop Nob Hill).

San Francisco Opera today announced the addition of two concerts to its 2017 Fall Season.

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley continues its 2017/2018 season with the regional premiere of the London and Broadway hit, Constellations.