SAN FRANCISCO THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 579

Stern Grove Festival, the longest running admission-free outdoor music festival in the country, celebrates its 75th anniversary season June 24 - August 26, 2012.

The international clown, circus and theatre communities will come together 7pm, Tuesday, March 13 at the Z Space (formerly Theatre Artaud), 450 Florida St.

Remember that guy whose YouTube video went viral after he recorded himself crying and yelling at people to just leave Britney alone!? Well I have to wonder what he would think of The Retro Dome's production of "Becoming Britney.

Bay Area Cabaret welcomes back renowned jazz guitarist/vocalist John Pizzarelli with two performances Sunday, February 26, 2012.

The San Francisco Arts Education Project (SFArtsED) and its nearly 50 musical theater performers ages 9 to 14 revive the Broadway hit Destry Rides Again at the Eureka Theatre through February 26.

Opera San Jose continues its 28th season with the romantic tragedy La traviata.

Marin Theatre Company Artistic Director Jasson Minadakis and Producing Director Ryan Rilette announced the sixth play of the company's expanded 45th Anniversary Season today - the West Coast premiere of A Steady Rain by Keith Huff.

'There may be something there that wasn't there before' at Broadway San Jose this March 6th thru 11th! For a short, limited engagement Beauty and the Beast will be dazzling the San Jose stage.

Skewered throughout with up-to-the-moment pop culture references and liberally laced with sight gags, jokes and everything but the kitchen sink, 'A Doctor In Spite of Himself' is a must-see dose of depravity that may require you to get stitches due to its propensity to provoke sidesplitting laughter

By day, attorney Alisa J.

Lee Brady is a playwright and woman of many theatrical hats, including actor, professor, and critic.

Tickets are now on sale for Kelrik Productions' presentation of ONCE UPON A MATTRESS, playing February 25 - March 11 at Unity (1490 Southwood Drive in San Luis Obispo.

An afternoon of 'old western entertainment' arrives at the Gallo Center for the Arts on Saturday, February 25 at 2:00 PM with Don't Fence Me In: Songs, Music, and Poetry of the American West.

UP FROM THE STACKS, a pop opera by Ben Katchor and Mark Mulcahy, and An Evening with Miranda July have been announced for Kanbar Hall at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

TheatreWorks of Silicon Valley presents the West Coast Premiere of the off-beat comedy NOW CIRCA THEN by Carly Mensch, story editor for TV's popular series Weeds.

"The Odd Couple (Female Version)," a comedy about two mismatched roommates, begins a two-weekend run on the Playhouse Merced mainstage Friday, February 24 at 7:30 pm.

Tom Colicchio, will appear at the Gallo Center for the Arts on Friday, February 24 at 8:00 PM.

Cinnabar Theater presents 'Don Giovanni' March 23 - April 15, 2012.

The Bay Area Critics Circle Award nominations are in and Berkeley's Aurora Theatre Company, now celebrating its 20th season, garnered 33 nods for the company's 2011 productions, the most of any company in its theater tier in the Bay Area.

IN THE HEIGHTS, winner of four 2008 Tony Awards® and the 2008 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Show Album, is coming to the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts in San Jose from April 17-22, 2012.

The first visible sign of the arrival of Cirque du Soleil and its live production TOTEM in San Jose is the raising of the blue-and-yellow Grand Chapiteau (Big Top) and the set-up of the Cirque du Soleil Village.

Mamma Mia!is back in the place where it all began - San Francisco's Orpheum Theatre! Broadwayworld's Linda Hodges caught up with actress Alison Ewing, who plays thrice married (and thrice divorced), delicious 'cougar' Tanya in the show.

Representing print and electronic media, members of the Critics Circle select nominees for 36 Drama awards and 38 Musical awards for actors, designers, productions and more, from shows they reviewed in 2011.

UP FROM THE STACKS, a pop opera by Ben Katchor and Mark Mulcahy, and An Evening with Miranda July have been announced for Kanbar Hall at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

Award-winning, 16-year-old Bay Area soprano Julia Belanoff will perform songs from her debut classical-pop album, "Winner In Your Heart," on Saturday, March 10 at the Coastal Repertory Theatre in Half Moon Bay, California.