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Savor the season with something a little sweet (but oh so good for you)! The Bay Area's homegrown Sweet Can Productions presents an intimate theatrical circus experience for the holidays with the seventh edition of MITTENS AND MISTLETOE: A WINTER CIRCUS CABARET.

Pear Theatre greets the new year with a production of UNCANNY VALLEY by Thomas  Gibbons.

Unity.

Winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Musical, "ONCE uses song & dance in a way I've never experienced in an American musical" (New York Times).

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley announces the launch of the first ever Party of the Decade - an extraordinary evening of food, wine, dance, and an incredible benefit auction.

Berkeley Rep today announced that Sandra Tsing Loh's autobiographical narrative, The Madwoman in the Volvo, will be staged as a special presentation in the Peet's Theatre.

Jim Brickman, award-winning songwriter and pianist, brings his most entertaining and romantic concert of the year, Pure Piano: The Greatest Hits, to Feinstein's at the Nikko for two performances only - Today, October 7 (8 p.

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Marquee Productions will present the popular rousing musical smash hit Hairspray December 2 through 11 at the historic Montgomery Theater (271 Market Street, downtown San Jose).

Palo Alto Players, the Peninsula's first theatre company, continues its 86th season with one of the most powerful stories of the 20th century, The Diary of Anne Frank, adapted by Wendy Kesselman from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, based on the personal memoir

The Oakland Symphony and Music Director Michael Morgan open the 2016-2017 season with the return of charismatic baritone Hadleigh Adams singing Mahler's Ruckert Lieder and the debut of the award-winning Delphi Trio-violinist Liana Berube, cellist Michelle Kwon and pianist Jeffrey LaDeur-- p

This October, the UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies (TDPS) presents Heart of Spain - A Musical of the Spanish Civil War, co-written by TDPS professor Peter Glazer and Eric Bain Peltoniemi.

The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) will launch the region-wide celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love with HIPPIE MODERNISM: THE STRUGGLE FOR UTOPIA.

In recognition of his contributions to both independent and blockbuster films, the San Jose International Short Film Festival (SJSFF) will honor renowned filmmaker James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy, The Belko Experiment, Slither) with "The Visionary Award" at their 8th annual Festival.

The most legendary nose in literature gets a makeover with a lively American adaptation of the 1897 French classic, now through October 16.

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley continues its 47th season with the regional premiere of a wry romantic comedy Outside Mullingar.

Marin Theatre Company invites you to go wild this Fall with the classic tale of friendship and adventure within the animal kingdom in Greg Bank's adaptation of The Jungle Book.

The Central Works 2016 Season closes with Into the Beautiful North, a new play by Karen Zacarias opening Saturday October 15 in the historic Berkeley City Club.

The Oakland Symphony, Michael Morgan Music Director and conductor, will be joined by guest violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins - currently on Broadway was as the Fiddler in Fiddler on the Roof -- and members of its acclaimed Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra for Lost Romantic Symphonies Friday, November

Motivated by the ambivalent outcomes of the Arab Spring and a failed effort to understand the war in Syria, future friend/ships plays in the imaginary realms of future fiction, December 15-17, 2016 at CounterPulse in San Francisco.

Eric Overmyer was born in Boulder, Colorado.

It's a topsy-turvy world where it seems every one is shouting, pointing fingers, skirting scandal or spewing venom.

Producers of the largest touring production on earth have responded to high demand in the South Bay by offering one last chance for audiences of all ages to experience the beauty and magic of Odysseo.

The Meeting* hosted by Justin Sayre - the monthly gathering of the International Order of Sodomites, the centuries-old organization which sets the mythic Gay Agenda - will return to OASIS (298 Eleventh Street, San Francisco CA) for a fifth appearance on Saturday, November 5 at 7:00 PM.

Marin Theatre Company invites you to go wild this Fall with the classic tale of friendship and adventure within the animal kingdom in Greg Bank's adaptation of The Jungle Book.