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Due to overwhelming demand, Producer Jo Schuman Silver announced today that Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon, the world's longest running musical revue, will extend its special 35th Anniversary performances.

A day-of-performance lottery for a limited number of $25 limited view side orchestra seats will be held daily for Monty Python's SPAMALOT, playing the Golden Gate Theatre beginning Friday, May 22 through Sunday, July 5.

The Tony Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe celebrates its 50th Anniversary season with a song and dance satire of monumental proportions, TOO BIG TO FAIL.

On Friday July 3rd members of the San Francisco casts of ?Wicked' and ?Spamalot' will join Composer and Lyricist Scott Alan for a concert of his songbook at the Rrazz Room at Hotel Nikko.

Team San Jose announced today that they have selected the Nederlander Organization to be the exclusive presenter of touring Broadway musicals and special events at the Center for the Performing Arts.

Teatro ZinZanni, the bewitching show combining cabaret, cirque, theatrical spectacle and original live music, blended with a five-course gourmet dinner, now in its tenth season, is looking for Bay Area performers to join the circus!

TheatreWorks' 8th Annual New Works Festival presents the incomparable Broadway and pop star Maureen McGovern in A Long and Winding Road: The Concert.

San Franciscos award-winning AfroSolo Theatre Company presents the 16th annual AfroSolo Arts Festival, celebrating African American artists giving voice to the Black experience.

This week's shows at Yoshi's Oakland (510 Embarcadero West, Oakland, California 94607) include Mose Allison & Bob Dorough and Vidya.

The revised cast list for the upcoming Benefit Concert, Help Is On The Way, is now available.

The Playwrights Foundation (PF) is proud to announce its company of top actors, directors and dramaturgs for the 32nd annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival, which will take place July 17-26 at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco.

The 2009 San Francisco Fringe Festival has added 13 shows to its roster of offerings, bringing the total to 43 theatre pieces, according to festival Artistic Director Christina Augello.

The critically acclaimed Cinnabar Theater and 6th Street Playhouse co-production of Ted Swindley's musical, Always, Patsy Cline returns to the Cinnabar Theater in Petaluma for an encore presentation.

City Lights Theater Company of San Jose proudly presents the epic rock musical THE WHO'S TOMMY by Pete Townshend and Des McAnuff.

NCTC's Summer Cabaret Series continues with Connie Champagne in Songs To Make You Gay.

Performance artist John Kelly comes to The Rrazz Room at The Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason, San Francisco CA with four performances of his legendary theatrical homage to the music of singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell.

Prepare for a HONKing good family experience when Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale of 'The Ugly Duckling' - set to music and performed by the Rising Star casts ages 10-14 - comes to Children's Musical Theater San Jose.

Welcome to Illyria, the most hip, far out, psychedelic place in the world! So begins Robert and Lesley Currier's adaptation of 'Twelfth Night, or All You Need is Love,' a 1960-70's music-filled adaptation of Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' at Marin Shakespeare, the gender bender romantic comedy where

The Julia Morgan Center for the Arts announced today that it has merged with Berkeley Playhouse.

Michael Frayn's international smash hit play, COPENHAGEN opens Friday July 10 and runs through Sunday July 12 at the Masquers Playhouse in Point Richmond.

Boxcar Theatre presents Rent Boy Ave.

Sally Kellerman, who has of the most recognizable voices in film and television, will appear at the Rrazz Room in the Hotel Nikko Monday, June 29 at 8 PM with a show of jazz and standards.

Songwriting team Don Seaver and Sean Owens are back at the EXIT Theatre?s Café, once again joining forces with powerhouse performer Shannon Day for Lady of the ?Loin, a sizzling tribute to San Francisco's raciest, raunchiest, most unrepentant neighborhood: the Tenderloin.

The Palo Alto Players invite audiences to come witness the confusion and hilarity when one seemingly ordinary man tries to balance two lives and two wives in Ray Cooney's RUN FOR YOUR WIFE.

The Marin Arts Council presents a Chaucer Theatre performance of Wife of Bath's Tale at its gallery location in downtown San Rafael.