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A joyful, high-energy musical comedy packed with unforgettable songs, humor, and heart, "Bye Bye Birdie" is a celebration of youth, fame, and the delightful chaos that happens when pop culture collides with small-town life. Cinnabar Theater's production is directed by Zachary...
Thursday Preview Performance @ 8pm, Fridays @ 8pm, Saturdays @ 2pm and 8pm, Sundays @ 8pm
GRAMMY-nominated drummer, producer, and composer Blaque Dynamite, born Mike Mitchell Jr. in Houston, Texas, merges explosive technical mastery with deep groove, humor, and creativity. He has expanded his profile as a bandleader, producer, and multimedia artist, releasing...
Japanese-born pianist Hiromi reunites with her power-packed Trio Project, featuring drummer Simon Phillips and electric bassist James Genus, who picks up the mantle from the late Anthony Jackson. From 2011 to 2016, this band released four albums that stretched musical...
Orange Uncle Sam from the US invades a celebration of life in Mexico. June bug Salma and human Lila join forces to resist.
Pianist Lang Lang performs works by Mozart, Beethoven, Albéniz, Granados, and Liszt, including Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 Pathétique and Piano Sonata No. 31, selections from Albéniz's Suite española, Granados's Quejas from Goyescas, and Liszt's Consolation No. 2 and...
Lang Lang plays a solo piano recital of works by Albéniz, Beethoven, Granados, Liszt, and Mozart.
We're honored to open our Live At the Orinda 2026 - 2027 concert season with multi-award winning jazz and cabaret legend Marilyn Maye . Although she's been revered as an American treasure for decades, after seeing her perform in person, many have said that she's also one of the...
Scottish-born composer Thea Musgrave's 1977 English-language opera receives its mainstage premiere at San Francisco Opera, having first been presented by Company affiliate Spring Opera Theater in 1979 at the Curran Theatre with the composer conducting. This co-production with...
In a sprawling mansion of her own design, Sarah Winchester navigates a complex legacy of guns, grief, and ghosts. She’s lost everything of value — her husband, her child — and gained a fortune. Her net worth can be measured in dollars… or blood. The confounding splendor of her...
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...
Santa Cruz Shakespeare invites you to experience Private Lives by Noel Coward, under the trees and stars of the Audrey Stanley Grove in Santa Cruz’s DeLaveaga Park this summer. Private Lives By Noel Coward Directed by Laura Gordon If you think Beatrice and Benedick go at it in...
Santtu Matias-Rouvali makes his Orchestral Series debut leading an all-Strauss program featuring soprano Renée Fleming. Fleming joins the orchestra for Strauss's Four Last Songs, a farewell tribute to the composer's wife and father. The program also includes Strauss's Ein...
Shrek The Musical JR is based on the Oscar-winning film and Broadway musical, following everyone's favorite ogre as he leads a cast of fairytale misfits on an adventure to rescue a princess and find true acceptance. Part romance and part twisted fairy tale, the show carries a...
Longtime friends Simone Porter and Blake Pouliot perform a program of works for violin by composers with California connections. Pouliot has been called immaculate, refined and impassioned by ArtsAtlanta, while Porter has been noted by the Los Angeles Times as lovingly lyrical...
Symphony San Jose opens its 2026-2027 season celebrating 250 years of the American spirit. The program features Aaron Copland's Billy the Kid Suite, the Bay Area premiere of Jonathan Leshnoff's Rhapsody on America with pianist Joyce Yang, and Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9...
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...
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 internationally acclaimed hit production includes a starry roster of international dance champions presenting a thrilling performance that traces Ireland's tumultuous history, packed with traditional Irish dance brought into the modern age, with a vivid musical score...
The play centers around two beloved soft-boy podcast hosts, who have incredible success with an advice podcast, until one of the brothers is canceled on Twitter for alleged abuse. The play is part of MELINA-FEST, a weekly Friday night series featuring four new works by Melina...
Modern jazz giants Kurt Elling and The Yellowjackets make their joint debut on the Miner Auditorium stage in tribute to the fusion of Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter's Weather Report. The 17-time GRAMMY Award nominee and two-time GRAMMY winner Kurt Elling soars into the universe...
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...
San Diego's Miles Doughty and Kyle McDonald formed Slightly Stoopid in high school, fusing rock, reggae, blues, hip-hop, funk, folk, metal, and punk. Discovered by Sublime's Bradley Nowell, they released their debut album Slightly $toopid in 1996 and have since released eight...
The Terminator Live presents the 1984 cult classic film on the big screen while Brad Fiedel's signature synthesizer-led, percussive score is performed live in-sync with the motion picture. Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as an indestructible cyborg sent back in time to kill Sarah...
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.…
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.…
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.…
What did our critic think of KING LEAR at Z Space?…
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. …
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…
From across the pond, acclaimed director Emma Rice’s latest adaptation North by Northwest makes its West Coast debut, turning Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 suspense film on its ear with her whimsical, comic stylings.…
What did our critic think of THE GLASS MENAGERIE at Center Rep?…
What did our critic think of AFRICAN STEW at Lorraine Hansberry Theatre?…
Stories of romantic love are delivered by a variety of interdisciplinary artists in the second Bay Area incarnation of Crushing, and it’s a winner for the art of spoken word. The featured writers span genders, ages and viewpoints and you never know what’s coming next.…
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Bye Bye Birdie Warren Theater (9/18-10/04) |
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Gutenberg! The Musical! Hillbarn Theatre (10/08-11/01) |
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The 42nd Great Dickens Christmas Fair & Victorian Holiday Party The Cow Palace (11/21-12/20) |
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Live At the Orinda - 2026/2027 Concert Season Orinda Theatre (9/22-5/23) |
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School of Rock Hillbarn Theatre (11/19-12/20) |
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The Rocky Horror Show Paper Wing Theatre (10/09-10/31) |
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Legally Blonde The Musical Berkeley Playhouse (9/11-10/18) |
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Seeds of Time Festival Marin Shakespeare Company's Downtown Theater (10/03-10/18) |
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Hadestown (Non-Equity) Orpheum Theatre San Francisco (1/07-1/10) |
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Hamilton (Angelica Company) San Jose Center for the Performing Arts (7/07-7/18) |
