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Luis Alfaro, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's (OSF) Andrew W.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre welcomes legendary performer Mikhail Baryshnikov in his return to the Bay Area to star in Man in a Case, adding yet another electrifying show to its 2013-14 season.

Bay Area Cabaret presents Broadway and rising jazz star Morgan James.

Some Girl(s) by Neil LaBute kicks off Dragon Theatre's new 2nd Stages Program.

For the first time in 42nd Street Moon history the company will present a World Premiere: a brand new musical by Greg MacKellan and Mark D.

The annual lottery to choose the 35 shows for the 2014 San Francisco Fringe Festival will take place on Saturday, February 15 at 2:00 p.

Dragon's brand new 2nd Stages series launches in March.

Tickets will go on sale to the general public for the CMT San Jose productions of Shrek The Musical and Pirates of Penzance on Friday, January 24 at 10 a.

TheatreWorks, the nationally acclaimed theatre of Silicon Valley, presents the laugh-a-second send-up of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant Sherlock Holmes mystery, adapted by Stephen Canny and John Nicholson.

Berkeley Playhouse continues its sixth season with the Tony Award-winning classic, Meredith Willson's THE MUSIC MAN.

Marin Theatre Company begins the second half of its 2013-14 Season with the National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere of Lasso of Truth, which was co-commissioned by MTC and NNPN in 2010 from Minnesota-based playwright Carson Kreitzer.

Cutting Ball Theater continues its 15th season with Alfred Jarry's UBU ROI in a new translation by Rob Melrose.

The Crowded Fire Theater (CFT) 2014 season begins with the World Premiere of Amelia Roper's She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange, her first play to be produced in the Americas.

Following a sold-out engagement in June 2013, Feinstein's at the Nikko is proud to announce the return of Grammy Award-winning vocalist, Steve Tyrell, with his acclaimed show Wordsmiths: Lyricists of the Great American Song -- March 27 - 30, 2014.

The side-splitting savagery known as FORBIDDEN BROADWAY is on the road again with their newest edition, ALIVE and KICKING, proving the enduring appeal of the show's wicked, wicked ways.

One of Broadway's best musicals, Guys and Dolls comes to Walnut Creek for the Arts in Diablo Theatre Company's exuberant production that captures the romance and humor of Damon Runyon's Depression-era urban fables about fancy-talking gamblers and the "dolls" who love them.

Hillbarn Theatre will present THE GRAPES OF WRATH by Frank Galati, from the novel by John Steinbeck, and directed by Greg Fritsch, with music by Greg Sudmeier.

Hotel Nikko San Francisco and Michael Feinstein are thrilled to welcome actress and singer Joan Ryan, who boasts an impressive four octave range, for her long-awaited return to the San Francisco cabaret stage with her self-titled show Joan Ryan, LIVE!, written and directed by Andrew MacBean (Associa

The Marsh announces that Geoff Hoyle's hit solo show GEEZER will move to The Marsh Berkeley tonight, January 23 - March 1, 2013, following its multi-extended runs at The Marsh San Francisco.

The Los Altos Stage Company proudly presents a steamy, southern tale of greed, mendacity, sexual desire, repression, death and decay.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre presents the world premiere of The House that will not Stand, a humorous and gripping historical drama commissioned from award- winning poet-playwright and Oakland native Marcus Gardley.

Unger and Madison are at it again! Florence Unger and Olive Madison, that is, in the female version of Neil Simon's hilarious contemporary comic classic.

American Conservatory Theater (A.

Direct from Ireland come the exhilarating CELTIC NIGHTS: THE EMIGRANTS BRIDGE, with a rousing story of Irish emigration across the Atlantic that traces the Celtic roots of North American music.

San Jose Stage Company presents the powerful and evocative musical The Threepenny Opera for an extended eight-week run, from February 5 - March 30, 2014.