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3Girls Theatre Company takes pleasure in announcing the world premiere of an original musical comedy: MOMENTS OF TRUTH, by 3GT resident playwright Patricia Milton (book) and Caroline Altman (music & lyrics).

After a sold-out engagement in January, Melissa O'Keefe returns to Feinstein's at the Nikko for one night only - Wednesday, October 21 at 7 p.

Known for fostering playwrights at all stages of their careers, The Ground Floor: Berkeley Rep's Center for the Creation and Development of New Work today announces that it will begin hosting bi-annual salons in the fall and spring to share information with local playwrights about the new play devel

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley continues its 2015/2016 season with David Auburn's brilliant contemporary drama Proof, winner of the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Broadway San Jose at the Center for the Performing Arts plays host to Disney's THE LION KING now through October 4 only.

Fall is around the corner, meaning there's plenty of reason to look forward to these cool new and classic productions arriving in the upcoming months.

Hillbarn Theatre, the Peninsula's premier theatre company, follows up on the success of their 2015-16 season opener, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, with Neil Simon's award-winning classic, THE ODD COUPLE.

Cutting Ball Theater opens its 17th season with LIFE IS A DREAM by Pedro Calderon de la Barca.

Following the final curtain call for Friday's Opening Night performance of Verdi's Luisa Miller, San Francisco Opera General Director David Gockley will award stage director Francesca Zambello with the San Francisco Opera Medal-the highest honor bestowed by the Company to an artistic professional.

FROM COMO TO HOMO - Juggling a Stage Mom, Gender Confusion and Tap! - written and performed by Lynne Jassem and directed by Peter Michael Marin, will play four performances only as part of the San Francisco Fringe Festival next month.

Stephen Sondheim's macabre musical thriller Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street receives its highly anticipated San Francisco Opera premiere in a production featuring a cast of notable operatic stars and performed with Sondheim's original score for the lyric stage.

FROM COMO TO HOMO - Juggling a Stage Mom, Gender Confusion and Tap! - written and performed by Lynne Jassem (comic, tap dancer, monologist, singer, physical comedian) - will have it's West Coast Premiere at the San Francisco Fringe Festival for a limited engagement, tonight, September 12, 13, 19 &

The Importance of Being Earnest is the second show of Playhouse Merced's 22nd season.

The Marsh presents the return of THE JEWELRY BOX, a family friendly holiday show by award-winning performer Brian Copeland (Not a Genuine Black Man, The Waiting Period, The Scion) and directed by David Ford.

San Jose Stage Company launches its 33rd Season with the California Premiere of RFK, a high-stakes political drama by Jack Holmes in what the New York Magazine says is "… measured and intelligent, optimistic yet clear-eyed"  and Stage Magazine proclaims is "…a work of keen insight and humanity.

Garen Patterson presents BACK AT THE CULT! a solo performance musical about coming of age in a cult at the 2015 San Francisco Fringe Festival, running tonight, September 11, through September 26, 2015 at the EXIT Studio, 156 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94102.

Motion Pictures Collective will present IN DENIAL, a play about a clown who's dream is to be a Broadway superstar or Hollywood starlet as skinny and famous as pregnant Angelina Jolie as part of the 16-day San Francisco Fringe Festival (Tonight, September 11 through 26, 2015).

Palo Alto Payers, the Peninsula's first theatre company, presents CHICAGO, a brilliant musical satire that brings you the razzle­dazzle music of vaudeville, show­stopping dance numbers - and all that jazz! Written by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and based

Hotel Nikko San Francisco and Michael Feinstein will welcome actress, singer and songwriter, Minnie Driver, to Feinstein's at the Nikko for three performances only - tonight, September 11 (8 p.

The San Jose return of Disney's THE LION KING opens tonight, Thursday, September 10 at 7:30 p.

Silicon Valley's monthly public PowerPoint throwdown, SPEECHLESS, will return to the San Francisco Improv Festival 7:00pm, Friday, September 18th.

This fall, award-winning playwright Sarah Gubbins makes her Bay Area debut at New Conservatory Theatre Center with the West Coast premiere of The Kid Thing, to be directed by Becca Wolff.

The Department of Badassery and CloserVR are poised to make entertainment and tech history.

The San Francisco Improv Festival presents its 11th season of off-the-cuff comedy from top improv and sketch comedians.

Marin Theatre Company continues to delight children and families this season with the help of the Great Arizona Puppet Theatre and its award winning version of Cinderella.