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42nd Street Moon's Ira Gershwin celebration continues in April with STRIKE UP THE BAND, to be presented at the Eureka Theatre in low-priced previews on April 6, 7 and 8, opening on Saturday, April 9, and running through April 24.

It's the 1980s and the daytime television soap opera set of 'The Promising Dawn' is turned upside down as leading lady Gretchen Manning works to avoid the impending doom writers have created for her character.

The Laguna Playhouse is pleased to present internationally acclaimed actor, playwright and Steinway concert artist Hershey Felder in two exclusive limited engagement shows this February: The Great American Songbook (February 14, 24 & 26) and Monsieur Chopin (February 17 - 27).

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 2/13 for San Francisco

Craig Jessup stars in FUNNY VALENTINE, performing songs about love by the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, and Stephen Sondheim.

There's one thing about those you meet in the theater community - they are always full of surprises.

The award-winning novel Holes jumps from the page to the stage with an area premiere which will close on February 13th at Hillbarn Theatre in Foster City.

The theatre's most outrageous, outlandish, uproarious, comic thriller, THE 39 STEPS, explodes onto the stage at TheatreWorks, the nationally acclaimed theater of Silicon Valley.

Back by popular demand, Cutting Ball Theater presents playwright Eugenie Chan's BONE TO PICK.

Santa Rosa's 6th Street Playhouse announces its 2010-2011 'All-American' season featuring four musicals and eight plays.

American Conservatory Theater (A.

TheatreWorks, the nationally-acclaimed theatre of Silicon Valley, has announced the line-up for its 2010-2011 season.

Opera San José continues its 27th Season with Rossini's delightful comic opera, The Barber of Seville.

The Friend Center for the Arts at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (JCCSF) and the Magic Theatre present The Virgin Play Reading Series on four Mondays in March.

San Francisco's cutting-edge Cutting Ball Theater welcomes the spring with the Bay Area Premiere of LADY GREY (in ever lower light) and other plays by Will Eno, hailed by The New York Times as 'a Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation.

Cutting Ball Theater presents the fourth installation of this season's Hidden Classics Reading Series, Pierre Marivaux's THE FALSE SUITOR, in a new translation by Ann and George Crowe.

Launching a public awareness campaign to break the silence and combat the stigma about mental illness, the San Francisco affiliate of the non-profit National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is co-sponsoring NAMI Awareness Night, with the national touring company of the award-winning musical Next t

Diablo Theatre Company will present the East Bay premiere of the hit Broadway musical comedy "The Drowsy Chaperone" in a high-stepping production that producers promise will be anything but drowsy.

The 6th Street Playhouse presents INTIMATE APPAREL by Lynn Nottage

Jazz & Cocktails - The Lush Cabaret Life, San Francisco's only weekly column devoted to cabaret, jazz & the nightclub entertainment experience, celebrates its One Year Anniversary on February 11, 2011.

Diablo Theatre Company will present the East Bay premiere of the hit Broadway musical comedy ' The Drowsy Chaperone' in a high-stepping production that producers promise will be anything but drowsy.

It's been 15 years since she's performed on a Bay Area stage - now Anna Deavere Smith is returning.

Today, Berkeley Repertory Theatre announced that it is rescheduling the run of Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup so that its star can recuperate from a recent knee replacement.

Jazz & Cocktails - The Lush Cabaret Life, San Francisco's only weekly column devoted to cabaret, jazz & the nightclub entertainment experience, celebrates its One Year Anniversary on February 11, 2011.

In response to overwhelming box office demand-and before its official opening performance tonight-the West Coast premiere of Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park has been extended through February 20 at American Conservatory Theater (A.