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Set in a lively beauty salon in northwestern Louisiana, Steel Magnolias proves that gossip, grit, and grace go hand in hand. Over the span of three years, six unforgettable women gather regularly for hair appointments and heart-to-hearts, sharing triumphs, heartbreaks, and...
Orange Uncle Sam from the US invades a celebration of life in Mexico. June bug Salma and human Lila join forces to resist.
In a sprawling mansion of her own design, Sarah Winchester navigates a complex legacy of guns, grief, and ghosts. She’s lost everything of value — her husband, her child — and gained a fortune. Her net worth can be measured in dollars… or blood. The confounding splendor of her...
Santa Cruz Shakespeare invites you to experience Private Lives by Noel Coward, under the trees and stars of the Audrey Stanley Grove in Santa Cruz’s DeLaveaga Park this summer. Private Lives By Noel Coward Directed by Laura Gordon If you think Beatrice and Benedick go at it in...
William Shakespeare's King Lear, directed by Michael Socrates Moran, is a co-production between Oakland Theater Project and New Performance Traditions. In the twilight of his rule, a king sets out to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, but in mistaking flattery for...
Four complex, disturbing, surreal, and moving new works by Melina Cohen-Bramwell will debut as a part of a weekly Friday night reading series, MELINA-FEST, beginning September 25th. Get to know an exciting up-and-coming voice in playwriting and experience a deep and thrilling...
The Eureka Day School in Berkeley is a bastion of progressive ideals: representation, acceptance, social justice. Every week over artisanal scones, the school’s five board members work to preserve a culture of inclusivity. But when a mumps outbreak threatens the Eureka...
King Lear is Shakespeare's tragedy directed by Michael Socrates Moran, in which a king divides his kingdom among his three daughters but, mistaking flattery for love, ushers in a new reign of domination, cruelty, and collapse. Stripped of title, authority, and comfort, Lear is...
PlayGround’s first prePlay Table Reading Series! Four PlayGround alumni in each PlayGround City will receive a public table read of an evening-length play with a paid cast and live broadcast
Join us for new first-person solo pieces inspired by historical figures who contributed to the making of America over the past 250 years: those who helped dream it, build it, and/or lead it. Discover previously untold stories that deserve to be shared!
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.
Descend down to La Val’s Subterranean Theater and delve into a vivid story woven from several lesser-known European fairy tales that reflect the dark and dangerous undercurrents of childhood and all of its enchantment. In Mary Zimmerman’s The Secret in the Wings , a child is...
Harold Pinter's taut, thought-provoking drama laced with laconic wit illuminates an illicit seven-year affair told backwards and forwards in time, beginning two years after the end of the affair and ending with the first clandestine kiss. Directed by Carey Perloff, American...
Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors By Gordon Greenberg & Steve Rosen Directed by Becca Wolff October 25 – November 15, 2026 “The lovechild of Mel Brooks and Monty Python, a side-splitting, rib-tickling, neck-biting, hysterically racy show. You’ll be screaming with laughter!”...
Peter Pan Goes Wrong is a San Francisco premiere comedy by Henry Lewis, Henry Shields, and Jonathan Sayer, the creators of The Play That Goes Wrong. The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society attempts their most ambitious production yet, complete with flying rigs, sword fights, and a...
It's 1970s Ohio, and Lizzie has gathered a group of women in a rec center basement to change their lives and maybe the world. Decades later, Lizzie’s daughter delves into her mother’s history to find answers to the feminist revolution’s unanswered questions, reliving those...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro is presented in Michael Cavanagh's production, directed by Shawna Lucey, with Sebastian Weigle making his Company debut on the podium. The cast features Peter Kellner, Slávka Zámečníková, Thomas Mole, Olivia Smith, Simone McIntosh...
It’s December 21, 1942, and The Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade is broadcasting live from the Hotel Astor. Join the studio audience for a delightful, musical trip back in time, featuring “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” “I’ll Be Seeing You” and other ‘40s favorites. All the while...
Our country has a fever. We must look to it!
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?…
LEGALLY BLONDE explodes onto the stage at Berkeley Playhouse with a joie de vivre that lights up the house. The high energy dancing, powerful vocals and the never ending onslaught of jokes keep the audience smiling. …
What did our critic think of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at New Conservatory Theatre Center? Little Shop of Horrors, whose star is a bloodthirsty flora, plants its roots at the New Conservatory for the opening of its 26-27 season and it’s an energetic, darkly comic, gender bending allegory for all that…
From across the pond, acclaimed director Emma Rice’s latest adaptation North by Northwest makes its West Coast debut, turning Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 suspense film on its ear with her whimsical, comic stylings.…
What did our critic think of THE GLASS MENAGERIE at Center Rep?…
What did our critic think of AFRICAN STEW at Lorraine Hansberry Theatre?…
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…
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Bye Bye Birdie Warren Theater (9/18-10/04) |
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Gutenberg! The Musical! Hillbarn Theatre (10/08-11/01) |
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Eureka Day City Lights Theater Company (9/24-10/18) |
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Escher String Quartet Kohl Mansion (10/18-10/18) |
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Mrs. Doubtfire San Jose Center for the Performing Arts (2/16-2/21) |
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Knockoff Broadway: The Improvised Musical All Out Comedy Theater (7/25-12/26) |
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Legally Blonde The Musical Berkeley Playhouse (9/11-10/18) |
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“Exile | Banishment | Home” Old First Concerts (11/15-11/15) |
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Tether After Dark Oasis SF (10/20-10/20) |
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HADESTOWN: TEEN EDITION TEAM Theatre (9/30-11/02) |
