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James and Lou move from Chicago to London to escape the past… but they soon discover that places aren’t haunted, people are. An original story...
Hamnet explores the life of Agnes Hathaway and her relationship with William Shakespeare, highlighting their love and the profound loss they experience after the death...
RACHEL BAY JONES, the Tony, Emmy, and Grammy winning original Heidi Hansen from Dear Evan Hansen, brings her luminous storytelling to Feinstein’s at the Nikko.
Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World is a thrilling, contemporary song cycle that captures the electric moment just before everything changes. In a...
“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”– Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon (illustrations by Clement Hurd)Artie and the Three Bears by Laura DomingoAnd Then I Would Dream by KT Frances HartlineNot...
Comedy Oakland, 2016-2025 winner of "Best Comedy Night" in East Bay Express Reader's Poll features funny, diverse, industry pros alongside up-and-coming comedians. Our comedians have...
Oscar-nominated Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, Saltburn) is Jessica in the much-anticipated next play from the team behind Prima Facie. Jessica Parks is a smart Crown...
Comedy Oakland, 2016-2025 winner of "Best Comedy Night" in East Bay Express Reader's Poll features funny, diverse, industry pros alongside up-and-coming comedians. Our comedians have...
Voices That Raised Us is a heartfelt live music experience celebrating the women whose voices shaped generations. Led by vocalist and acoustic guitarist TJ Carter,...
Comedy Oakland, 2016-2025 winner of "Best Comedy Night" in East Bay Express Reader's Poll features funny, diverse, industry pros alongside up-and-coming comedians. Our comedians have...
Comedy Oakland, 2016-2025 winner of "Best Comedy Night" in East Bay Express Reader's Poll features funny, diverse, industry pros alongside up-and-coming comedians. Our comedians have...
Join us for a special evening as we present "Tribute to the Mambo" with special guest saxophonist/flautist Mitch Frohman! Mr. Frohman and the Stanford Afro-Latin...
At the San Francisco Magic Theater, we don’t give you a “show.” We hand you an experience... a carefully engineered collision of impossible mentalism, laugh-out-loud...
Comedy Oakland, 2016-2025 winner of "Best Comedy Night" in East Bay Express Reader's Poll features funny, diverse, industry pros alongside up-and-coming comedians. Our comedians have...
To celebrate the historic 50th anniversary of the Grammy Award-winning San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, a special concert is planned for Sunday, March 8. Shelby and...
Step into the future of ballet with The Blake Works, a thrilling program that ignites the stage with raw energy and innovation. In this electrifying three-part series,...
From the creators of South Park comes The Book of Mormon, the musical that lovingly breaks all of Broadway's rules. This story about a mismatched...
Step right up and experience the magic of Marinelli Bros. Circus – A New Experience, dazzling audiences in West Covina at Plaza West Covina February...
Comedy Oakland, 2016-2025 winner of "Best Comedy Night" in East Bay Express Reader's Poll features funny, diverse, industry pros alongside up-and-coming comedians. Our comedians have...
Comedy Oakland, 2016-2025 winner of "Best Comedy Night" in East Bay Express Reader's Poll features funny, diverse, industry pros alongside up-and-coming comedians. Our comedians have...
Grammy-nominated and internationally acclaimed Liverpool Legends are bringing their unforgettable Beatles tribute show to Monterey for one night only! Handpicked by the late Louise Harrison, sister of...
San Francisco Playhouse will present the Tony Award-winning M. Butterfly, written by David Henry Hwang (Chinglish, Yellow Face, Soft Power, and operas The Monkey King,...
San Francisco Playhouse will present the Tony Award-winning M. Butterfly, written by David Henry Hwang (Chinglish, Yellow Face, Soft Power, and operas The Monkey King,...
Comedy Oakland, 2016-2025 winner of "Best Comedy Night" in East Bay Express Reader's Poll features funny, diverse, industry pros alongside up-and-coming comedians. Our comedians have...
Comedy Oakland, 2016-2025 winner of "Best Comedy Night" in East Bay Express Reader's Poll features funny, diverse, industry pros alongside up-and-coming comedians. Our comedians have...
At the San Francisco Magic Theater, we don’t give you a “show.” We hand you an experience... a carefully engineered collision of impossible mentalism, laugh-out-loud...
The Walsh Jesuit High School CenterStage Theatre presents an evening of Murder/Mystery Theatre! This evening will be a live, double feature of two plays: “A...
Comedy Oakland, 2016-2025 winner of "Best Comedy Night" in East Bay Express Reader's Poll features funny, diverse, industry pros alongside up-and-coming comedians. Our comedians have...
L’Chaim! To Life! With music from the Jewish tradition and around the world, SFCA celebrates life and love, gratitude and consolation, in a program of...
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by Steve Murray - February 26, 2026
Arthur Miller needed after his disastrous Broadway debut with the four-performance The Man Who Had All the Luck, and an article in an Ohio newspaper would provide the basis for All My Sons which would on to win two Tony awards for Best Author and Direction of a Play....
by Steve Murray - February 25, 2026
The Paranormal Activity franchise (seven films from 2007 -21), while critically panned, proved people love to be scared, then laugh at their foolishness. Now a theatre piece, the crowd anticipated the expected thrills of supernatural goings on in a live experience....
by Steve Murray - February 14, 2026
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by Steve Murray - February 12, 2026
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by Kelly Rogers Flynt - February 11, 2026
IMPROBABLE FICTION at Masquers Playhouse is a tale of two parts. Don’t let the easy-going first half lull you into complacency. When the action hits, it comes in quick succession with quippy lines, funny costumes, over the top dramatics, and plenty of belly laughs....
by Steve Murray - February 04, 2026
Change is hard, we all know that. We get stuck in patterns and the comfortable, even if that inertia is destructive. Watching Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard, brilliantly directed by American Conservatory Theatre Artistic Director emerita Carey Perloff and starring an all-star cast of local legends, will...
by Steve Murray - February 02, 2026
Heidi Schreck’s award-winning 2019 homage to the US Constitution couldn’t be timelier than at this moment of political crisis in America. Written as a remembrance of her 15-year-old self as a debater in love with the constitution, the present-day Heidi narrates the play which links her family’...
by Linda Hodges - January 28, 2026
Opening Night of The Wiz at Broadway San Jose was dazzling, the kind of evening that reminds you why musical theater, at its best, feels communal, electric, and alive. From the moment the curtain rose, the production burst onto the stage with color, rhythm, and unmistakable joy, offering a vibrant a...
by Jim Munson - January 26, 2026
San Francisco Ballet is kicking off its 2026 repertory season with the massively ambitious world premiere of Yuri Possokhov’s Eugene Onegin. It’s a tall order to create a full-length contemporary classical ballet to compete with the warhorses we’ve seen a zillion times, but SFB has given it th...
by Steve Murray - January 16, 2026
Trey Parker and Matt Stone are on a high recently, with their long- running animated series South Park skewering the present administration in their inimitable profane and darkly surreal style. 2011’s The Book of Mormon brought their irreverent humor to Broadway in what at the time seemed shocking...
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