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Welcome to the Cornley Drama Society’s opening night of The Murder at Haversham Manor—a classic whodunit where, unfortunately, everything that can go wrong does. Misplaced props, collapsing sets, forgotten...
Antigone fights to confer burial rights for her brother – who Creon, King of Thebes, deems a traitor – she is confronted with the painful choice...
Contemporary Asian Theater Scene (CATS) presents the first staged reading of “Aftermath Liturgy,” an original new play with music commissioned from award-winning playwright Min Kahng,...
San Francisco Playhouse will present the West Coast Premiere of Candrice Jones’ Flex, directed by Bay Area theatre titan and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre artistic director...
Folk tales say that everyone has a soul mate. Some tales go on to state that you meet your soul mate again in the afterlife....
A bilingual, joy-soaked adaptation brimming with music, physical comedy, and cultural collision, this vibrant production envisions Shakespeare’s tale of mistaken identity as a telenovela, creating...
Cassie, a fourteen-year-old girl raised on the San Francisco Bay, runs away, stealing a boat and embarking in search of her father. She draws upon...
The camp counselors at Indigo Woods just want everyone to have an AMAZING summer. But when political division and unrest start to encroach on camp...
SpaceHorizonZ wants you to colonize Mars, terraform the planet, and establish an extra-terrestrial plantation. Come along with Commander Jet Jope and Pilot Zhinga Ndongo as...
Marin Theatre will investigate family mythologies in the West Coast Premiere of the intimate, riveting Broadway play “Pictures from Home.” Playwright Sharr White transports late...
Based on the true story of a 17th Century party girl, The Hortense Mancini Project romps through the lacy Baroque underthings of King Charles II,...
The Orinda Starlight Village Players presentThe Bay Area Premiere ofTHE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYDby Agatha Christie - Adapted for the Stage by Mark ShanahanDirected and...
The Orinda Starlight Village Players presentNoel CowardsPresent LaughterDirected by Patrick AtkinsonStarring Matt Cardigan-Smith with Amy Stringer, Shiv Harris and Kesley ByeNoel Cowards classic comedy comes...
Santa Cruz Shakespeare invites you to experience August Wilson’s Fences, under the trees and stars of the Audrey Stanley Grove in Santa Cruz’s DeLaveaga Park...
She’s brash, reckless, and unapologetically self-possessed. Stumbling through life in the nowhere town of Splott, Effie – short for Iphigenia – numbs her days with...
She’s brash, reckless, and unapologetically self-possessed. Stumbling through life in the nowhere town of Splott, Effie – short for Iphigenia – numbs her days with...
Santa Cruz Shakespeare invites you to experience Shakespeare’s Macbeth, under the trees and stars of the Audrey Stanley Grove in Santa Cruz’s DeLaveaga Park this...
Santa Cruz Shakespeare invites you to experience Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, under the trees and stars of the Audrey Stanley Grove in Santa Cruz’s...
The Orinda Statlight Village Players present DRACULAby Bram Stoker Adapted and Directed by Malcolm S Cowler The classic horror novel is brought to life, using Cowler's signature combination...
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...
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....
Our country has a fever. We must look to it!
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by Kelly Rogers Flynt - April 21, 2026
weary soul. With a steady beat that blends with your pulse, this music sticks in your mind and body. Devoid of elaborate set pieces or high tech features, the show soars because the story matters. And you will come away remembering all that is good and noble and possible in community....
by Steve Murray - April 20, 2026
Composer, lyricist, and pianist extraordinaire Stephen Schwartz presented an evening of conversation and song- a celebration of his continuing support and collaboration with the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus....
by Kelly Rogers Flynt - April 12, 2026
Energetic dances, soaring songs, and clever comedy make a winning combination in ANYTHING GOES at Altarena Playhouse. With classic songs by Cole Porter and witty dialogue from P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton, ANYTHING GOES has entertained audiences since 1934. The fun and humor still resonate as a new...
by Kelly Rogers Flynt - April 05, 2026
Center Rep presents Neil Simon’s classic tale of family and obligations, LOST IN YONKERS. In a world of sound bites, TikTok, and AI images, this show reminds us that when it comes to family, things haven’t really changed that much. With humor and heart, the show demonstrates that even in the mid...
by Steve Murray - April 03, 2026
Berkely Rep’s co-production with La Jolla Playhouse of Ngozi Anywanu’s The Monsters is a joyous, heartwarming story of the bond between sister and brother that will want to make you hug your sibling. Both emotionally devastating and rewarding, The Monsters is brilliantly written, superbly acted ...
by Steve Murray - April 02, 2026
For Starra Jones, a baller from rural Plainnole, Arkansas, fulfilling her mother’s dream of basketball glory is her prime motivation. Playing a style of ‘dirty’ ball, her braggadocio will lead her to a foul play in Candrice Jones’ Flex, making its West Coast premiere at SF Playhouse....
by Linda Hodges - April 01, 2026
It's easy to see why Beetlejuice, the screen-to-stage adaptation of Tim Burton's beloved 1998 cult-classic film, earned eight 2019 Tony Award nominations including Best Musical. It is to die for. ...
by Steve Murray - March 30, 2026
There are many types of great theatre- light, cheerful, romantic, uplifting, silly, classic. Z Spaces’ co-production of Tadeusz Slobodzianek’s Our Class is unflinchingly dark, emotionally devastating and a tough watch – but it is great theatre, a timely cautionary tale of evil startingly conce...
by Steve Murray - March 23, 2026
I admit I’ve never seen Stephen Sondhiem’s Assassins, nor ever heard the score or read the synopsis. A flop in 1990, the 2004 revival won five Tony awards, and it’s been in theatre rotations since, often causing controversy for its raw language and unsavory content. A play from the perspective...
by Steve Murray - March 23, 2026
The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, the world's first openly gay chorus, continues it’s forty-eighth season with a concert both cheerful and deeply emotional celebrating the music and events of the 1980’s. For the LGBT community, the 80’s was the apocalypse incarnate - a community devastate...
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