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Berkeley's acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company presents the final Aurora Script Club meeting of the season with Tennessee Williams' Suddenly, Last Summer.

Billy Elliot the Musical begins performances on June 27 at the Orpheum Theatre (1192 Market Street at 8th).

Internationally celebrated and collected, world-recognized master of spray paint CHOR BOOGIE; presents as curator, the ArtOFFICIAL Truth, at Project One in San Francisco.

Ken Bacon and Marin Actors' Workshop presents 'The Petrified Forest' By Robert E.

Fun, Fabulous, Food Filled Nights!.

The always-popular Missoula Children's Theatre invites participants entering first grade through age 18 to audition for a role in The Wiz of the West, on Monday, Jun.

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 6/12 for San Francisco

Cutting Ball Theater presents the final installation of this season's Hidden Classics Reading Series, Josef and Karel Capek's THE INSECT PLAY, directed by Bennett Fisher.

This summer the Marin Shakespeare Company sets its outdoor stage for politics, power and pandemonium presenting 'Macbeth,' 'The Complete History of America (abridged)' and 'The Tempest.

Fun, Fabulous, Food Filled Nights!.

Mamma Mia! won't win any prizes for in-depth, philosophical story-telling, but its delightful mix of frothy, bouncy, romantic fun and disco/pop chart hits by ABBA make it a not-to-be missed theatrical event.

Capturing the charm of the original source material, TALES OF THE CITY benefits from a strong cast fully committed to the work.

Academy Award-winner Olympia Dukakis will be hosting a benefit performance of American Conservatory Theater's (A.

The Pasadena Playhouse has announced that full casting is complete for the west coast premiere of the new musical TWIST - An American Musical by William F.

Cirque du Soleil returns to the Bay Area with TOTEM, its latest big top production written and directed by Robert Lepage.

Pia Zadora Returns to the stage for Northern California Exclusive Engagement Vincent Falcone, Musicical Director

Three more performances have been added for 'Shirley Valentine,' currently playing at Cinnabar Theater in Petaluma, California.

Jo Schuman Silver, producer of Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon, announced last night the three Bay Area high school winners of The Steve Silver Foundation & Beach Blanket Babylon 'Scholarship for the Arts.

American Conservatory Theater (A.

Making its regional premiere with TheaterWorks Silicon Valley [title of show] is a fresh, funny and fabulous production about - what else - two guys writing a show about writing a show - on deadline.

The silent auction that will take place during 42nd Street Moon's annual fundraiser Scandals, Follies & A Bowl of Cherries on Monday, June 20 at the Alcazar Theatre, is now also offered online from today through June 18.

The always-popular Missoula Children's Theatre invites participants entering first grade through age 18 to audition for a role in The Wiz of the West, on Monday, Jun.

Chanticleer sings from the heart about passion and pain, joy and eternity - in other words - love.

Straight from Cuba, this 13-piece band, led by flautist Orlando "Maraca" Valle, has been called "the most influential Afro-Cuban band of the emerging century" (Chicago Tribune) and "one of the hottest names in jazz" (LA Times).

The SF Playhouse proudly announces four of the six plays in its ninth season and continues its legacy of professional, edgy and intimate theatre which has garnered it multiple Bay Area Critic Circle awards and nominations; repeated Top Ten list mentions and hailed by the NY Times as providing 'some