Manning is a new play by Benjamin Benne directed by Adin Walker, receiving its West Coast premiere at Crowded Fire Theater. Following the death of their wife and mother, a father and his two sons spread her ashes in their backyard garden, and when a giant zucchini mysteriously...
Golden Thread Productions presents its 30th anniversary edition of ReOrient, featuring five fully-produced short plays by MENA playwrights Hassan Abdulrazzak, Banafsheh Hassani, Sepehr Jafari, Hannah Khalil, and Ahmed Masoud. This year's festival is dedicated to Iran and...
PlayGround closes out the summer season with the inaugural Twisted Holiday Festival, December 4th - December 20th, 2026, at Potrero Stage and simulcast. This three-week “fringe style” new works festival features 8 productions and 24 performances of new holiday-themed works (with...
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.…
A love of food sustains houseworker Gladys over a forty-year arc that coincides with the social, economic and political changes wrought by the Cuban revolution of 1959 in Eduardo Machado’s The Cook, opening Berkeley Rep’s 59th season. In Tanya Orellana’s superbly appointed and functional kit…
Review of Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST at Broadway San Jose, where dazzling stagecraft, spectacular choreography and standout performances make the new touring production a theatrical feast.…
VANYA and SONIA and MASHA and SPIKE is a delightful romp with equal measures of nostalgia and hope for the future. With rapid-fire dialogue and pitch-perfect timing, the cast bring the script by Christopher Durang to life. …
Marin Theatre opens its 60th season with a bang – a sobering dark comedy from director, writer and former California Shakespeare Theatre Associate Artistic Director Sean Daniels. Chronicling the dark ride of self-delusion into alcoholism, Daniels’ semiautobiographical story is beautifully exec…
Marin Theatre opens its 60th season with a bang – a sobering dark comedy from director, writer and former California Shakespeare Theatre Associate Artistic Director Sean Daniels. Chronicling the dark ride of self-delusion into alcoholism, Daniels’ semiautobiographical story is beautifully execut…
RUMORS at Woodminster Summer Musicals is full of laughs and gaffs, and is a jolly good time. Set in a posh New York townhouse, RUMORS is Neil Simon’s only full length farce. From half truths to utter nonsense and mistaken identities to outright charades, this production will ensnare you in a strea…
Pickleball at Hillbarn Theatre, written by Jeff Daniels, takes one of the country’s fastest-growing sports and serves it up as an unabashedly silly comedy filled with eccentric players, romantic entanglements, and plenty of physical humor. …
Altarena Playhouse brings Noël Coward’s FALLEN ANGELS to life with wit and charm. When the sardonic writing of a genius playwright meets the witty interpretation of a theater, it produces a night full of laughs and insights. …
The Little Shop of Horrors 40th Anniversary Tour with Ellen Greene at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre answered that question with an evening overflowing with nostalgia, laughter, and plenty of love for one of musical theatre’s most enduringly strange creations.…
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PlayGround Festival of New Works FESTIVAL STAGED READINGS A Look at Tomorrow’s Great Plays Today! May 9, May 12, May 16 & May 19 7pm PDT @ Potrero Stage & Simulcast ON-DEMAND thru May 31 (extended on-demand for Festival Sponsors) Admission-Free (donations gratefully accepted)...
ABOUT THE PLAY: A man trapped in a deadly storm during his ascent of Mount Everest must wrestle with ghosts of the past—both figurative and literal. Jessica June Rowe is a writer, playwright, editor, and perpetual daydreamer. Her short plays have been featured on multiple stages...
PlayGround Festival of New Works THE PASSING STORM by Jessica June Rowe (a Festival Premiere Presentation) Directed by Ely Sonny Orquiza May 17 & May 18 7pm PT at Potrero Stage & Simulcast On-Demand thru May 31 Admission: $0-$50 (donations gratefully accepted) or Festival...
ABOUT THE PLAY: Maya Money, Aurora, and Farrah Fenix fight to find what's real in the "heightened" world of professional wrestling. Featuring: L Duarte, Krystle Piamonte, Charisse Loriaux, GG Grilli, and Jeunee Simon. Matthew Y. Morishige is a playwright, actor, and musician...
Hear from five of the playwrights featured in this year’s Festival of New Works! Join Artistic Director Jim Kleinmann in conversation with PlayGround playwright alumni. A festival kick-off reception with the playwrights immediately follows the panel discussion! The panelists...
80 mins. No Intermission. WRITTEN BY MONA PIRNOT DIRECTED BY PETER J KUO 2023 Helen Hayes Nominee for Outstanding New Play or Musical A searing one-act play interrogating the collision between privacy rights and our intimate relationships. Georgia’s husband Corbin has landed his...
Bread & Butter Theatre returns to Potrero Stage with David Hare’s Tony and Olivier award-winning play Skylight. Broadway and the West End applauded this intensely clear-sighted play about a love affair. Kyra is surprised to see the son of her former lover in the doorway of her...
Charles Darwin, Her True Story celebrates Latin American revolutionaries and the revolutionary potential that we all carry within. It is January 1, 2001 in the south of Chile. A wealthy backer of Latin American revolutions appears shipwrecked on a shrinking patch of thin ice...
PlayGround has announced a limited run of the Hollywood Fringe hit, BREED OR BUST by Joyful Raven, directed by Jael Weisman. Following a one-night performance on August 26 (press night) as part of the inaugural PlayGround Free-Play Festival, Breed or Bust will run September...
PlayGround closes out the summer season with a new free festival of new plays by the PlayGround community, FREE-PLAY FESTIVAL, August 26-28, at Potrero Stage and simulcast. The inaugural Free-Play Festival features the return of Joyful Ravens BREED OR BUST (Aug 26 7pm PDT)...
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Bye Bye Birdie Warren Theater (9/18-10/04) |
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ELTON DOM: The Young Elton Experience Great Star Theater (9/10-9/13) |
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Gutenberg! The Musical! Hillbarn Theatre (10/08-11/01) |
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Julius Caesar Marin Shakespeare Company (8/14-9/13) |
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Pickleball Hillbarn Theatre (8/20-9/13) |
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Good Night, Oscar Hillbarn Theatre (3/04-3/28) |
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Hamilton (Angelica Company) San Jose Center for the Performing Arts (7/07-7/18) |
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Mamma Mia! San Jose Center for the Performing Arts (6/08-6/13) |
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Disney''s Beauty and the Beast San Jose Center for the Performing Arts (9/08-9/13) |
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Company City Lights Theater Company (7/15-8/22) |
