201 Van Ness Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94102
Davies Symphony Hall is a theatre in San Francisco / Bay Area.
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...
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...
SF Symphony musicians present a chamber music concert at Davies Symphony Hall.
Fabien Gabel conducts d'Indy's Istar, Ravel's Shéhérazade with mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, and the first San Francisco Symphony performances of Debussy's Le jet d'eau with Leonard. The program closes with the first SF Symphony performances of Strauss's Symphonic Fantasy on Die...
San Francisco Symphony presents its 19th annual Día de los Muertos celebration featuring conductor José Luis Gómez, violinist Francisco Fullana, salterio players David Hernández Pozos and Claudio Israel Vázquez, and Casa Círculo Cultural. The program features music by Carlos...
The San Francisco Symphony presents its 19th annual Día de los Muertos celebration, conducted by José Luis Gómez, featuring music by Carlos Chávez, Evencio Castellanos Yumar, Luis Farfán Carrillo, Arturo Márquez, and José Pablo Moncayo García. Violinist Francisco Fullana...
Hélène Grimaud plays a piano recital of works by Beethoven and Schubert.
Marie Jacquot makes her Orchestral Series debut conducting the first SF Symphony performances of Holmès's Andromède, a symphonic poem based on Greek myth. Sayaka Shoji performs Respighi's Concerto gregoriano, and the program includes selections from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet.
Alonzo King LINES Ballet joins the San Francisco Symphony and conductor James Gaffigan for two world premiere works set to Debussy's Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun and the suite from Copland's Appalachian Spring, choreographed by Alonzo King. The program also includes...
The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, led by Wattis Foundation Music Director Radu Paponiu, opens its 2026–27 season with a program featuring Michael Tilson Thomas's Agnegram, Zoltán Kodály's Dances of Galánta, and Johannes Brahms's Symphony No. 4.
SF Symphony Youth Orchestra and Wattis Foundation Music Director Radu Paponiu open their 2026-27 season with a concert of works by Michael Tilson Thomas, Kodály, and Brahms.
The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, led by Radu Paponiu, honors late Music Director Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas with a performance of his Agnegram. The program also includes Zoltán Kodály's Dances of Galánta and Johannes Brahms's Symphony No. 4, the composer's final...
Sarah Hicks conducts a live-to-picture performance of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Sarah Hicks conducts a live-to-picture performance of Steven Spielberg's Hook.
Violinist Hilary Hahn, baritone Matthias Goerne, and pianist Gloria Chien play works by Beethoven and Bach, as well as Wir, a new work by Reena Esmail.
Pink Martini performs with the San Francisco Symphony as part of the 2026 Holidays with the Symphony season.
Handel's Messiah is performed with conductor Ruben Valenzuela, soprano Lauren Snouffer, countertenor Reginald Mobley, tenor Zachary Wilder, bass-baritone Enrico Lagasca, and the SF Symphony Chorus as part of the 2026 Holidays with the Symphony season.
Deck the Hall is presented as part of the San Francisco Symphony's 2026 Holidays with the Symphony season.
Holiday Brass is presented as part of the San Francisco Symphony's 2026 Holidays with the Symphony season.
Renowned R&B group All-4-One and vocalists Sheena Easton, Ruben Studdard, and Lindsey Webster honor the memory of legendary singer Peabo Bryson, a beloved presence at the SF Symphony's holiday concerts for nearly 30 years, by performing some of Bryson's signature hits as well as...
The San Francisco Symphony performs James Horner's score from Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas live to picture as the film is projected onto a large screen above the stage.
A Merry-Achi Christmas is presented as part of the San Francisco Symphony's 2026 Holidays with the Symphony season.
The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, led by Wattis Foundation Music Director Radu Paponiu, performs Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf with guest narrator Mychal Threets. Threets is a Bay Area librarian, the Resident Librarian for PBS and PBS Kids, and the host of the...
The San Francisco Symphony and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital San Francisco partner for the third time to welcome recently discharged pediatric patients and their families to a free holiday open rehearsal. The rehearsal features the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, led...
Bernadette Peters performs with the San Francisco Symphony as part of the 2026 Holidays with the Symphony season.
What did our critic think of A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD at New Conservatory Theatre Center?…
What happens when one of America's most recognizable First Ladies becomes a foul-mouthed, cabaret-obsessed, and completely unhinged theatrical sensation?…
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…
What did our critic think of DRACULA at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley?…
What did our critic think of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA at Broadway San Jose?…
What did our critic think of GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL! at Hillbarn Theatre?…
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?…
43 total · showing 21–30
Director and star Danny DeVito joins the San Francisco Symphony to host and narrate the film Matilda live, while composer David Newman conducts his score live-to-picture. Based on the book by Roald Dahl, Matilda tells the story of a little girl gifted with genius intelligence...
Tony Award-winning performers Sutton Foster and Kelli O'Hara join the San Francisco Symphony for a special tribute to Broadway and beyond, inspired by the 1962 CBS special Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall. With conductor Michael Rafter and pianist Dan Lipton, Foster and O'Hara...
Sarah Hicks conducts the San Francisco Symphony performing Leonard Bernstein's score to the 1961 film West Side Story live, while the remastered film is shown in high definition with the original vocals and dialogue intact. The 10-time Academy Award-winning romantic tragedy was...
This summer, experience the interesting collaboration between Oscar-winning composer A.R. Rahman and the world-renowned San Francisco Symphony at concerts this year, next year, and even a few years after that. The first concert in this series takes place this summer on a...
A Grammy and two-time Academy Award winner, A.R. Rahman is one of the world's most prolific composers and the musical genius behind the score of Slumdog Millionaire. He brings his genre-spanning compositions—ranging from Eastern classical, pop, world music, and rap—to new...
Chloé Van Soeterstède makes her conducting debut with the San Francisco Symphony, leading the first SF Symphony performance of Concert Overture in D major by Elfrida Andrée, a 19th-century composer and activist who fought for gender equality in Sweden. Violinist Paul Huang...
In the final chamber music concert of the 2025–26 season, San Francisco Symphony musicians perform works by Gareth Farr, Sarn Oliver, Joan Tower, and Gabriel Fauré. The program includes Farr's Taheke, Oliver's CAT (Contemporary Artful Tonalities) String Quartet, Tower's...
Conductor Stéphane Denève leads the San Francisco Symphony in a program featuring the first SF Symphony performances of Guillaume Connesson's Flammenschrift, a work the composer described as a psychological portrait of Beethoven. Organist Olivier Latry makes his Orchestral...
James Gaffigan, general music director of Komische Oper Berlin and Music Director Designate of the Houston Grand Opera, leads the San Francisco Symphony in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. Soprano Jessica Faselt, mezzo-soprano Kelley O'Connor, tenor Thomas Cooley, bass Peixin Chen...
Grammy Award-winning musician Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass perform songs from the iconic album Whipped Cream & Other Delights in celebration of its 60th anniversary. The concert also features other classics including "The Lonely Bull," "Spanish Flea," "Taste of Honey,"...
Is this your theatre? Claim it to manage listings and submit updates.
|
The Madness of Lady Bright Venue: iMPACt Center for Art & Dance (11/06-11/15) |
|
Gutenberg! The Musical! Hillbarn Theatre (10/08-11/01) |
|
Lena Hall: In Concert Feinstein's at the Nikko (11/06-11/07) |
|
The Secret Garden Marin Shakespeare Company’s Downtown Theatre (11/27-12/20) |
|
The Death of Meyerhold Shotgun Players Ashby Stage (11/28-1/01) |
|
Ren's 12th Annual Winter Wonderland City Lights Theater Company (12/06-12/06) |
|
Come From Away Revival Hall (11/13-12/06) |
|
The 42nd Great Dickens Christmas Fair & Victorian Holiday Party The Cow Palace (11/21-12/20) |
|
The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show Golden Gate Theatre (12/27-12/27) |
|
Fiddler on the Roof California Theatre, San José (11/15-11/29) |
