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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
FeaturedLena Hall: In Concert
Renowned for her Broadway triumphs and fearless musical style, Hall creates a concert experience that's equal parts intimate, spontaneous, and exhilarating.
FeaturedThe Secret Garden
Marin Shakespeare Company presents The Secret Garden, adapted by Jon Tracy from Frances Hodgson Burnett’s beloved novel and directed by Jennifer Le Blanc. After losing her parents, 10-year-old Mary Lennox arrives at her uncle’s Yorkshire estate. A hidden garden draws her into...
Holiday Show
A Taste of Ireland - The Irish Music & Dance Sensation
The internationally acclaimed hit production includes a starry roster of international dance champions who present a thrilling performance tracing Ireland's tumultuous history, packed with sensational renditions of traditional Irish dance brought into the modern age. The show...
Elim Chan Conducts Adams and Mendelssohn
Music Director Designate Elim Chan conducts the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus in Brahms's Nänie, Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with Renaud Capuçon, Arvo Pärt's Magnificat, and John Adams's Doctor Atomic Symphony. This marks Chan's first appearance with the orchestra since...
Elim Chan Conducts Mendelssohn and Adams
Music Director Designate Elim Chan conducts the San Francisco Symphony in Brahms's Nänie with the SF Symphony Chorus, Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with soloist Renaud Capuçon, the first SF Symphony performances of Arvo Pärt's Magnificat with SF Symphony Chorus, and the first SF...
The Rocky Horror Show
The Rocky Horror Show is a cult classic musical that has thrilled audiences for decades with its outrageous humor, electrifying rock score, and unapologetic celebration of individuality. Created by Richard O’Brien, this high-energy production invites you into a world where the...
A Taste of Ireland - The Irish Music & Dance Sensation
The internationally acclaimed production includes a roster of international dance champions presenting a performance that traces Ireland's tumultuous history through traditional Irish dance brought into the modern age, with a vivid musical score, dazzling scenery, and...
Barantschik, Wyrick, and Nel Chamber Music Program
SF Symphony Concertmaster Alexander Barantschik, cellist Peter Wyrick, and pianist Anton Nel perform a chamber music program at the Legion of Honor.
Dracula
Adapted by Steven Dietz from Bram Stoker's iconic vampire novel, this gothic thriller brings the seduction and suspense of one of literature's most infamous undead to the stage. A strange Transylvanian count terrorizes a circle of friends, drawing them into a captivating world...
Every Saturday Night
Commissioned and presented by San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company, this production transports audiences to San Francisco's Fillmore District, beginning in the present day where echoes of a once-thriving Black neighborhood still shape the streets. From there, the play pulls...
Manon
Jules Massenet's tragic romance is conducted by Music Director Eun Sun Kim in a production by Vincent Boussard. Soprano Amina Edris and tenor Pene Pati star in the leading roles. The cast also includes Vitor Bispo, James Creswell, and Stephen Gaertner.
Mean Girls: The Musical
Based on the hit 2004 film and inspired by Tina Fey's book, Mean Girls: The Musical is a hilarious, heartfelt look at the trials and triumphs of high school life. The show follows Cady Heron, a new student who quickly learns the highs and lows of popularity, friendship, and...
ReOrient 2026 Festival of Short Plays
Golden Thread Productions presents its 30th anniversary edition of ReOrient, featuring five fully-produced short plays by MENA playwrights Hassan Abdulrazzak, Banafsheh Hassani, Sepehr Jafari, Hannah Khalil, and Ahmed Masoud. This year's festival is dedicated to Iran and...
SF Symphony Musicians Chamber Music Concert
SF Symphony musicians present a chamber music concert at Davies Symphony Hall.
SLASHED
SLASHED is a brutal new immersive horror experience inspired by the era of masked killers, final girls, and inventive death scenes. Guests join the real-time investigation of the infamous Shellville murders after true-crime podcast host Petra Sterling disappears while...
SLASHED – Return to Hellville
Terror Vault returns with SLASHED, a brutal new immersive horror experience inspired by 1980s slasher films. Guests investigate the infamous Shellville murders after podcast host Petra Sterling disappears, venturing into the sealed town of Shellville to confront the supernatural...
The 39 Steps
A fast-paced comedy blending Hitchcockian suspense with physical comedy, rapid-fire character changes, and ridiculous situations. Adapted by Patrick Barlow from John Buchan's novel and Alfred Hitchcock's film, it follows Richard Hannay as he is accused of murder and pursued...
The Brothers Size
Written by Academy Award-winning playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, this modern-day fable explores the bonds of brotherhood and life after incarceration. The play tells the story of two brothers—a hardworking auto mechanic and one seeking his footing post-incarceration—and the...
The Escape Tomb
The Escape Tomb is an extreme solo fear challenge offered alongside SLASHED at the San Francisco Mint. Guests are led by the Executioner, a bag placed over their head, into a previously inaccessible area of the historic building. There, completely alone, they are sealed inside...
The Secret in the Wings
Descend down to La Val’s Subterranean Theater and delve into a vivid story woven from several lesser-known European fairy tales that reflect the dark and dangerous undercurrents of childhood and all of its enchantment. In Mary Zimmerman’s The Secret in the Wings , a child is...
The Vault of Visions
The Vault of Visions is an immersive tarot reading experience hidden within the historic San Francisco Mint, offered alongside SLASHED. Each night, two rotating Bay Area psychics provide guests with private, one-on-one tarot readings. Guests choose their cards and receive...
Winnie the Pooh
Winnie the Pooh is a homeschool musical production based on the beloved books by A. A. Milne, written by Playful People Artistic Director Katie D'Arcey. The production follows adventures in The Hundred Acre Wood and is open to children ages five to 12. It is presented by Playful...
HADESTOWN: TEEN EDITION
This intriguing and beautiful folk opera delivers a deeply resonant and defiantly hopeful theatrical experience. Following two intertwining love stories, that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of immortal King Hades and lady Persephone. Hadestown invites audiences...
Hadestown: Teen Edition
Hadestown: Teen Edition is a full-length adaptation of Anaïs Mitchell's folk opera, modified for performance by teen actors for family audiences. The story follows two intertwining love stories - young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and immortal King Hades and lady Persephone...
Palace at Franklin Music Hall
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 Willie J...
h*llo k*tty syndrome
An original play by Brian Dang exploring identity, visibility, and performance through a trans-centric lens. HK traverses genres of murder-noir, family drama, and cowboy romance while wearing an altered Hello Kitty mascot costume. As others insist on defining HK, the piece...
Latest San Francisco / Bay Area Reviews
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Review: EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT at A.C.T. Strand
A weary Donte Coleman sits in his Western Addition family home that he’s just listed for sale. In this well constructed memory play, scenes from his childhood burst to life in SFBATCO’s homage to the golden age of 1950’s San Francisco’s Fillmore district. Local legend Daryl V. Jones is the e…
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Review: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST at Actors Ensemble Of Berkeley
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST by Actors Ensemble of Berkeley fills the Live Oak Theater with cheeky humor. As the characters treat serious matters like frippery, and trivial items with seriousness, the tone is set early for a romping good time.…
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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.…
Review: KING LEAR at Oakland Theater Project
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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The Madness of Lady Bright Venue: iMPACt Center for Art & Dance (11/06-11/15) |
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Gutenberg! The Musical! Hillbarn Theatre (10/08-11/01) |
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Lena Hall: In Concert Feinstein's at the Nikko (11/06-11/07) |
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The Secret Garden Marin Shakespeare Company’s Downtown Theatre (11/27-12/20) |
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The Death of Meyerhold Shotgun Players Ashby Stage (11/28-1/01) |
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Ren's 12th Annual Winter Wonderland City Lights Theater Company (12/06-12/06) |
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Come From Away Revival Hall (11/13-12/06) |
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The 42nd Great Dickens Christmas Fair & Victorian Holiday Party The Cow Palace (11/21-12/20) |
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The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show Golden Gate Theatre (12/27-12/27) |
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Fiddler on the Roof California Theatre, San José (11/15-11/29) |
