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Lanford Wilson’s groundbreaking one-act blends humor and heartbreak in a new production combining theater, dance, and live music to explore loneliness and human connection.
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FeaturedGutenberg! The Musical!
Thursday Preview Performance @ 8pm, Fridays @ 8pm, Saturdays @ 2pm and 8pm, Sundays @ 8pm
Chinaka Hodge's All Greg's Kids Come Home, A Staged Reading
The oldest daughter in a family of top performing neuro-divergents decides to unmask at a high stakes homecoming. The staged reading has been described as Wes Anderson meets hella Oakland.
De Ayer a Hoy / From Yesterday to Today
Theatre Flamenco celebrates its 60th anniversary home season with a program honoring the legacy of Founder Adela Clara and inaugural artistic director Miguel Santos. The program features nine works including three premieres and six reimagined pieces from Theatre Flamenco's...
Once Upon A Mattress
Step into a riotous royal romp with Once Upon A Mattress , the laugh-out-loud musical comedy that tells the story behind the classic fairy tale The Princess and the Pea ! Watch fiery swamp princess Winnifred the Woebegone take on the impossibly picky Queen Aggravain in a battle...
Palace at Crystal Ballroom
London alt-rock band Palace performs in support of their fifth studio album Ox, released September 18 via Palace Presents/AWAL. The album finds beauty and wisdom in human revelations, channeling dreamlike textures into emotionally alive songs. Support is provided by Rollo...
Small Batch, Artisanal Comedy
A new solo show about love, loss, and the search for something handmade in an algorithmic age, written and performed by Alicia Dattner. Poking fun at the gourmands and the gauche alike, Dattner composts a season of stories into a self-deprecating comedy that turns the mundane...
“E4TT Call For Scores: Solo Piano, Vol. 3”
Following her wildly successful Call for Scores solo piano and piano four-hands recitals with Ensemble for These Times in their 17th and 18th seasons, E4TT emerita pianist extraordinaire Dale Tsang will return in E4TT’s 19th season to perform fourteen works chosen from the...
Barcelona
San Jose Stage Company launches its 2026/27 season with the Bay Area premiere of Bess Wohl's Barcelona. The production runs from late September through mid-October, with a press opening in late September.
Escher String Quartet
The Escher String Quartet performs as part of Music at Kohl Mansion's 2026-27 season of international chamber music. The concert takes place at 7 p.m. in the Elizabethan-style Great Hall of the historic Kohl Mansion in Burlingame, California.
Eureka Day
The Eureka Day School in Berkeley is a bastion of progressive ideals: representation, acceptance, social justice. Every week over artisanal scones, the school’s five board members work to preserve a culture of inclusivity. But when a mumps outbreak threatens the Eureka...
French Kiss
French Kiss is a triple bill presented by Smuin Contemporary Ballet featuring Amy Seiwert's French Kiss (2023), a world premiere by My'Kal Stromile titled I-SCRIT-AH-SCREE-TAH-SKRATT, and Michael Smuin's Stabat Mater (2002). Seiwert's French Kiss translates 1960s-era cocktail...
French Kiss
Smuin Contemporary Ballet opens its 2026/27 season with French Kiss, a program curated by Artistic Director Amy Seiwert featuring works by Seiwert, My'Kal Stromile and company founder Michael Smuin. The program includes Seiwert's vibrant French Kiss inspired by the music of Pink...
King Lear
King Lear is Shakespeare's tragedy directed by Michael Socrates Moran, in which a king divides his kingdom among his three daughters but, mistaking flattery for love, ushers in a new reign of domination, cruelty, and collapse. Stripped of title, authority, and comfort, Lear is...
Legally Blonde The Musical
Elle Woods talks her way into Harvard Law to win back her ex, and finds herself instead. So much fun it should be illegal.
MUNA – Gets So Hot Tour with hemlocke springs
MUNA is a Los Angeles-based indie pop trio who met at USC's Thornton School of Music in 2013 and have grown into one of indie pop's most electrifying acts. Their 2022 self-titled album earned them Band of the Year from Consequence of Sound and year-end list placement from...
Odyssea
Meet CASEMA: The Conference Attending Society of Eleusinian Mystery Appreciators! A self-styled secret society, these massive fans of classical antiquity pose as hotel service workers in order to sneak into academic conferences and in this way be close to their erudite heroes...
Our Loving Companions
An immersive theater experience celebrating the bond between people and their pets, featuring 14 plays and poems selected through a nationwide competition. Directed by Pamela Hollings, audiences choose their own adventure through stories of laughter, devotion, joy, and grief...
prePLAY New Play Series: The Trial Run by Daniel Martinez Jr.
PlayGround’s first prePlay Table Reading Series! Four PlayGround alumni in each PlayGround City will receive a public table read of an evening-length play with a paid cast and live broadcast
Seeds of Time Festival
Marin Shakespeare Company, in partnership with Play On! Shakespeare, presents the second annual Seeds of Time Festival, featuring six new theatrical works and the playwrights bringing fresh voices, perspectives, and forms of storytelling to the stage. Curated by AeJay Antonis...
Xian Zhang Conducts Kodály, Tchaikovsky, and Dvořák
Xian Zhang leads the Orchestra in Kodály's Dances of Galánta, Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations with cellist Pablo Ferrández, and Dvořák's Symphony No. 8.
Monday Night PlayGround-SF: AMERICA 250 - The Dreamers, The Builders, & The Leaders
Join us for new first-person solo pieces inspired by historical figures who contributed to the making of America over the past 250 years: those who helped dream it, build it, and/or lead it. Discover previously untold stories that deserve to be shared!
Palace at Rockwell at the Complex
London alt-rock band Palace performs in support of their fifth studio album Ox, released September 18 via Palace Presents/AWAL. The album finds beauty and wisdom in human revelations, channeling dreamlike textures into emotionally alive songs. Support is provided by Rollo...
Palace at Mission Ballroom
London alt-rock band Palace performs in support of their fifth studio album Ox, released September 18 via Palace Presents/AWAL. The album finds beauty and wisdom in human revelations, channeling dreamlike textures into emotionally alive songs. Support is provided by Rollo...
The Ring (Live-to-Picture)
San Francisco Symphony performs Gore Verbinski's The Ring live-to-picture with Jason Seber conducting Hans Zimmer's score.
Julian Lage Quartet with John Medeski, Jorge Roeder, and Kenny Wollesen
Jazz guitarist Julian Lage signed with Blue Note Records in 2021, a milestone in a career that began with the documentary Jules at Eight and led to a performance at the Grammy Awards at age 12. For his latest album, Scenes From Above, Lage assembled a quartet with bassist Jorge...
Bay Area Musical Improv Festival - Thursday 8:00PM Show
Welcome to the third-annual Bay Area Musical Improv Festival, bringing together musical improvisers from around the San Francisco Bay Area and across the country for a weekend of musical improv shows, workshops, jams and parties at the All Out Comedy Theater in Oakland! Over the...
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Co-founder and producing director Susi Damilano is at it again. Her previous comic stagings include Noises Off, Clue, The 39 Steps and the successful predecessor of this show, The Play That Goes Wrong back in 2024.…
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Transformative, innovative, and hauntingly memorable. These words encapsulate the reaction to Oakland Theater Project’s production of KING LEAR. The story leaps to life with a flourish of energy and grace.…
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LEGALLY BLONDE explodes onto the stage at Berkeley Playhouse with a joie de vivre that lights up the house. The high energy dancing, powerful vocals and the never ending onslaught of jokes keep the audience smiling. …
Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at New Conservatory Theatre Center
What did our critic think of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at New Conservatory Theatre Center? Little Shop of Horrors, whose star is a bloodthirsty flora, plants its roots at the New Conservatory for the opening of its 26-27 season and it’s an energetic, darkly comic, gender bending allegory for all that…
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The Madness of Lady Bright Venue: iMPACt Center for Art & Dance (10/16-10/25) |
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Gutenberg! The Musical! Hillbarn Theatre (10/08-11/01) |
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Odyssea We Players (10/08-10/18) |
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William Shakespeare's Antony+Cleopatra Red Morton Park (8/15-8/31) |
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Bay Area Musical Improv Festival - Saturday 8:30PM Show All Out Comedy (10/24-10/24) |
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Live At the Orinda - Beth Leavel Orinda Theatre (11/08-11/08) |
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Knockoff Broadway: The Improvised Musical All Out Comedy Theater (7/25-12/26) |
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Eureka Day City Lights Theater Company (9/24-10/18) |
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Bay Area Musical Improv Festival - Saturday 4:30PM Show All Out Comedy (10/24-10/24) |
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“E4TT Call For Scores: Solo Piano, Vol. 3” Community Music Center (10/18-10/18) |
