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.
A child requests her favorite fairy tale, and The Narrator puts out a call for the players to assemble on set to re-enact the story verbatim, as it’s been told since inception, no changes.…
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.…
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Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen leads a program featuring Principal Clarinet Carey Bell performing Wolfgang Amad Mozarts warmhearted Clarinet Concerto, while Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 2 closes the program in climactic cascades.
Edwin Outwater conducts the SF Symphony featuring pianist Aaron Diehl.
The Taiwan Philharmonic visits San Francisco as part of their 2018 North American tour after a highly-acclaimed 2016 US debut. Music Director Shao-Chia Lü conducts. “From Formosa” refers to a historic republic on the island of Taiwan. This performance traces Taiwan’s classical...
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