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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...
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...
Parents suffer many indignities in this world and, GODDAMN, are they funny! If you’re a parent, come laugh through your pain; if you’re not a...
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...
Mahatma Moses Presents: HoliPurim, a one-night comedy celebration where the joyous worlds of Purim and Holi collide.Inspired by two festivals known for laughter, mischief, and...
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...
The 2026 Young Playwrights Festival showcases the creative talents of local high school students, presenting finalist plays performed by professional actors. This year’s selected works...
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...
Turn up the laughs and light up the night! Join us at The Lounge at Mercy for another comedy sesh packed with killer punchlines, chill...
Turn up the laughs and light up the night! Join us at The Lounge at Mercy for another comedy sesh packed with killer punchlines, chill...
Turn up the laughs and light up the night! Join us at The Lounge at Mercy for another comedy sesh packed with killer punchlines, chill...
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...
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...
We're excited to present an extremely rare U.S. appearance and the Northern California solo concert debut of UK jazz phenom Emma Smith. Known around the...
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by Steve Murray - March 06, 2026
For every lover of Ibsen, Arthur Miller and Stephen Sondheim, there’s a lover of The Three Stooges, Abbott & Costello and of course, Monty Python. Back in the 1970’s Monty Python’s Flying circus was a sensation with their irreverent and risqué observational comedy. If you couldn’t recite th...
by Steve Murray - March 02, 2026
There’s a giant dynamo inside the petite frame of Marilyn Maye that propels her constantly forward, now approaching her 98th birthday, and eighth decade of performances. She’s a national treasure and receives adulation befitting her status wherever she performs....
by Steve Murray - March 02, 2026
The late AIDS activist Larry Kramer meets Pete Buttigieg in John Fisher’s wild political fantasia Left Field, now occupying the full stage at Theatre Rhino. Written and directed by Fisher, Left Field follows an angry radical f****t who rises from mayor to supervisor, to VP candidate, to potential ...
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
What did our critic think of THE NOTEBOOK at Orpheum Theatre?...
by Steve Murray - February 12, 2026
What did our critic think of M. BUTTERFLY at SF Playhouse?...
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’...
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