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Opera San Jose today announced the company's 2017-18 season opening September 19, 2017 with Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, conducted by Peter Grunberg and directed by Brad Dalton, followed by Puccini's La rondine, conducted by Christopher Larkin and directed by Candice Evans.

SF Opera Lab presents three performances of Francis Poulenc's 1958 monodrama La Voix humaine (The Human Voice) starring internationally acclaimed soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci with pianist Donald Sulzen on March 11, 14 and 17, 2017.

Jo Schuman Silver, producer of Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon, announced the appointment of Darren Douttas the company's new General Manager beginning today, February 6, 2017.

Central Works 27th Season, launches February 18 with Years in the Hundreds by Jesse Potterveld (Feb 18-Mar 12), a mystery, "a sis-story" really, about twin sisters who spent years fooling the outside world, but now everything changes.

Children's Musical Theater San Jose (CMT San Jose), the oldest operating performing arts organization in San Jose, now in its 49th year, will host its 26th annual benefit, Cabaret Night, today, February 4 at the City National Civic (135 West San Carlos) in downtown San Jose.

Hillbarn Theatre, the Peninsula's premier community theatre company, is proud to announce its Conservatory at Hillbarn fundraiser,One Day on Broadway, today, February 4, 2017 at 2 p.

The Mexican Museum, the premier museum of Mexican, Chicano, and Latin American art, culture, and heritage and an Affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, announces that the museum's world-class collection of alebrijes  is now on-loan to the new Cholula Regional Museum (Museo Regional de Cholula

Golden Thread Productions, the first American theatre company devoted to the Middle East, presents Syria Mon Amour: Food, Home, and Healing, this year's edition of What Do the Women Say?, its annual celebration of International Women's Day.

Due to high ticket demand, American Conservatory Theater (A.

Due to overwhelming audience response, Cloud 9 Theatricals, in association with Lang Entertainment Group and Ray of Light Theatre, announced today the extension of the San Francisco premiere of SILENCE! The Musical - the "subversively funny and deliciously tasty" award-winning musical parody of "The

Cirque du Soleil is back in San Jose with its latest soul-touching production LUZIA, which started setting-up today with the raising of its massive white-and-gold Big Top at Taylor Street Bridge.

Following a sold-out engagement in 2015, Tony and Olivier Award-winning star and recording artist Lea Salonga returns to Feinstein's at the Nikko.

The world class San Francisco Tribal & Textile Art Show is the most important show of its kind, and is considered the top tribal art event in North America.

Hillbarn Theatre, the Peninsula's premier theatre company, continues its "Season of Belonging" with Neil Simon's classic farce, Rumors.

The 2017 San Francisco International Arts Festival will feature a brilliant 11 day program co-presented with, and held exclusively at, the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture.

Magic Theatre begins its 50th season with a legacy revival of Sam Shepard's award-winning drama Fool for Love, opening February 9th.

The Watermark Conference for Women Silicon Valley announced today that Tony and Emmy award-winning actress Viola Davis will deliver a keynote address and former U.

American Conservatory Theater (A.

Berkeley Rep School of Theatre today announced the 15th Annual Teen One-Acts Festival.

The world class San Francisco Tribal & Textile Art Show is the most important show of its kind, and is considered the top tribal art event in North America.

Marin Theatre Company stirs the stage this season with the West Coast Premiere of peerless by Jiehae Park, a new dark comedy riff on Shakespeare's classic cursed tale Macbeth.

Beneath the Tall Tree, written by local artists Adrienne Walters and Jeffrey Lo, and directed by Joy Carlin, continues TheatreFIRST's mission of producing and presenting in-house new works as their means of social justice.

Students in the Bay Area Children's Theatre (BACT) Advanced Performers program have been selected to showcase a new musical at the first-ever Junior Theatre Festival WEST (JTF WEST), taking place February 10-12, 2017, in Sacramento CA.

ODC/Dance, San Francisco's internationally acclaimed contemporary dance company, announces programming for its 46th annual home season at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

In association with PianoFight and as a project member of Intersection for the Arts, the Stable Production Company will present the world premiere of APOCALYPSE, PLEASE, a science fiction play by Noelle Viñas and Kevin Vincenti.