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THE FANTASTICKS, with a book and lyrics by Tom Jones and music by Harvey Schmidt will be directed by Bill English and play the SF Playhouse thru September 4.

The Bay Area's Jewish Music Festival marks its two and a half decades with a day of free outdoor festivities for all ages and backgrounds at the Yerba Buena Gardens on July 11, 2010.

NCTC presents the West Coast premiere of The New Century by Paul Rudnick and directed by George Maguire.

Tomorrow (Saturday, July 3) kicks off the Robert Mondavi Winery / Napa Valley Opera House Summer Festival with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and fireworks.

The National Queer Arts Festival, Mama Calizo's Voice Factory & Eye Zen Art Present BLACKBIRD: Honoring a Century of Pansy Divas, June 24 through July 10.

Porchlight Theatre Company presents a smoldering and passionate parable of intrigue, power-plays, gender roles, courtly love, brazen sexuality, and aristocratic self-interest run amok that is eerily relevant to our times.

Despite rising tensions surrounding a racially charged murder trial and warnings of possible riots, 12-year-old Los Angeles-based keyboardist Ben Babylon went ahead with his performance at the prestigious Yoshi's jazz club in downtown Oakland on Thursday, July 8.

The seven Emmy® and five Golden Globe® award-winning actor, Ed Asner, will speak at the Rotary Club of San Jose luncheon, Wednesday, July 14th from 12 - 1:30pm at the Summit Center (88 South 4th Street, San Jose, CA).

Mika Rottenberg's Squeeze will be on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from 9 July - 3 October 2010 and at the Mary Boone Gallery from 30 October - 18 December 2010 in conjunction with Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery.

Imagination Theater presents the Tony Award winning show, The Diary of Anne Frank Friday, July 9 - Saturday, July 24, 2010.

Broadway star, GLEE actress, and singer Idina Menzel, has added several new shows to her current solo tour.

Ray of Light Theatre (www.

6th Street Playhouse proudly presents ANNIE with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, book by Thomas Meehan.

Napa Valley Opera House (1030 Main St.

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The RRazz room at Hotel Nikko is San Francisco's premier nightclub, offering the finest in world-class Cabaret, Jazz, Comedy and Popular music entertainment.

Singer/songwriter Kathryn Keats and her band of renowned Bay Area musicians will perform two shows at Yoshi's jazz club in Oakland, California on Thursday, July 8.

Casting has been announced for the new production of the Tony Award-winning smash hit musical DREAMGIRLS which plays the Curran Theatre August 24 - September 26 as part of the 2009-2010 Citibank Best of Broadway series under the direction of Carole Shorenstein Hays.

Bay Area 'text-perts' are invited to join us at the Tuesday, July 13th performance of The Fantasticks to be a SF Playhouse Plugger.

BROADWAY BY THE BAY (BBBay), the Peninsula's premiere musical theatre company, continues its 45th season with a production of the classic Broadway musical ANNIE, running Thursday, July 15 through Sunday, August 1 at the San Mateo Performing Arts Center (600 N.

Universal Pictures Stage Productions, Working Title Films and Old Vic Productions in association with Weinstein Live Entertainment announced today that the first national tour of Billy Elliot the Musical, the 2009 Tony Award-winning Best Musical featuring music by Elton John, book and lyrics by Lee

There's 'Superman,' 'Ironman,' 'Spiderman,' 'Cyber Man' and 'Mighty Man.

Marin Actors' Workshop brings 'Humble Boy' to Novato.

Thrillpeddlers happily announces that due to popular demand and sold-out houses, its award-winning production of PEARLS OVER SHANGHAI, San Francisco's longest-running Cockettes Musical Hit has been extended again - through Dec.

Aurora Theatre Company opens its 19th season with Alice Childress' vibrant, humorous, and heartbreaking look at racism through the lens of the theater, TROUBLE IN MIND.