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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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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.


Thursday Preview Performance @ 8pm, Fridays @ 8pm, Saturdays @ 2pm and 8pm, Sundays @ 8pm

Renowned for her Broadway triumphs and fearless musical style, Hall creates a concert experience that's equal parts intimate, spontaneous, and exhilarating.

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...

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...
Four ultra-wealthy Tanzanian women gather every month to decide on their next book club read, and this month they chose the Bible again. With the arrival of a new member from abroad, tensions rise and cracks begin to form in the women's perfectly manicured lives and fiercely...
The Choral Project opens its 30th anniversary season with a program featuring Broadway favorites including Anthem from Chess, God Help the Outcasts from The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Our Time from Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along. The concert marks the return of...

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...

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...

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...
Pianist Dale Tsang performs fourteen works by thirteen composers chosen from Ensemble for These Times' third Call for Scores for solo piano. The group received 155 scores from 89 composers hailing from 20 countries. Works include pieces by Jinjoo Choi, Gilad Cohen, Michael...

Based on the hit film and extraordinary true story, this highflying musical comedy follows a brilliant young con artist as he poses as a pilot,
Phedra, Queen of Troizen, harbors a secret passion for her stepson, Prince Hippolytus, and with King Theseus nowhere to be found, tension in the household rises with each passing moment. An Ancient Greek hip-hop infused opera by Luis Quintero, inspired by Euripides, Seneca...
Sopranos Aura Veruni and Lila Khazoum perform with pianist Daniel Lockert, presenting musical excerpts from Idomeneo, Macbeth, The Magic Flute, Anna Bolena, Hamlet, and Lucia di Lammermoor. Costumes are by designer Marina Polakoff, who recently created costumes for Festival...
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...
Rafael Payare leads Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with Leonidas Kavakos and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10.

Secret Improv VICE begins the holiday season with our annual Halloween edition . What happens when Noir meets Horror? A show so fun it’s scary. Last year, our detective proved the ghosts in the Pacific Heights mansion were phony. Yet he remained haunted by the voices of the now...
Symphony San Jose conjures up some of music's scariest hits for Halloween, conducted by Peter Jaffe with featured vocalist Bianca Orsi. The program includes Rossini's William Tell Overture, Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries, Gounod's Funeral March of a Marionette, Márquez's Conga...

Long-lasting love is marked by both comfort and conflict. In The Fall Show , an older couple’s unexpected romance unfolds against a maelstrom of memory and movement. Lovers collide, chaos erupts, and tenderness persists in an intimate examination of love ‘til the very end.
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...
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...

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...
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...
SF Symphony Concertmaster Alexander Barantschik, cellist Peter Wyrick, and pianist Anton Nel perform a chamber music program at the Legion of Honor.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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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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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?…
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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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Alice, Formerly of Wonderland Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto (12/02-12/27) PHOTOS |
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HADESTOWN: TEEN EDITION TEAM Theatre (9/30-11/02) |
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The Legend of Robin Hood Hillbarn Theatre (1/21-2/14) |
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The Rocky Horror Show Paper Wing Theatre (10/09-10/31) |
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Catch Me if You Can San Mateo Performing Arts Center (10/22-10/25) |
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Live At the Orinda - Bryan Eng Orinda Theatre (12/06-12/06) |