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A joyful, high-energy musical comedy packed with unforgettable songs, humor, and heart, "Bye Bye Birdie" is a celebration of youth, fame, and the delightful chaos that happens when pop culture collides with small-town life. Cinnabar Theater's production is directed by Zachary...
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A Concert for MTT is a special memorial concert honoring the life, artistry, and enduring legacy of Michael Tilson Thomas, one of the most transformative figures in the San Francisco Symphony's history. The evening will feature personal tributes, archival footage and recordings...
GRAMMY-winning pianist Hiromi Uehara brings explosive virtuosity and thrilling unpredictability to the solo piano format. For the second night of her 2026-27 residency, she performs a solo show full of her inimitable fire and passion.
New Ballet dancers perform a formal preview of the 2026/2027 season, introduced by Director Dalia Rawson in the Charlotte Wendel Education Center. Dancers present excerpts from Sleeping Beauty and The San Jose Nutcracker as well as new works-in-progress being created for Fast...
London alt-rock band Palace performs in support of their fifth studio album Ox, released September 18 via Palace Presents/AWAL. The album finds beauty and wisdom in human revelations, channeling dreamlike textures into emotionally alive songs. Support is provided by Rollo...
The five-time GRAMMY-winning group Snarky Puppy returns to Oakland's Paramount Theatre. The global collective, featuring a revolving cast of up to a dozen musicians, is led by bassist and composer Michael League. The band's rotating lineup of instrumentalists has worked with...
An adaptation of The Tempest that sets Shakespeare's tempest in a tech company retreat to an island. A comedy full of revenge capers, Mai Thais, and gay romance, the characters explore the meaning of family and what makes a life complete. The play is part of MELINA-FEST, a...
Winner of the Sarah Vaughan International Vocal Competition, Cyrille Aimée performs with infectious joy and deep feeling for the lyric. She mixes Roma jazz inspirations, bossa nova, flamenco and the Great American Songbook. For these performances, she plays a cross-section of...
Virtuoso pianist Hiromi returns to the Miner stage for four exclusive nights with projects ranging from solo to trio. She kicks off her residency with a duo evening with Japanese tap dance master Kazunori Kumagai, revisiting their ongoing collaboration that dates back to their...
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...
Santa Cruz Shakespeare invites you to experience the musical The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown, under the trees and stars of the Audrey Stanley Grove in Santa Cruz’s DeLaveaga Park this summer. The Last Five Years By Jason Robert Brown Directed by Laura Gordon Music...
GRAMMY-nominated drummer, producer, and composer Blaque Dynamite, born Mike Mitchell Jr. in Houston, Texas, merges explosive technical mastery with deep groove, humor, and creativity. He has expanded his profile as a bandleader, producer, and multimedia artist, releasing...
Japanese-born pianist Hiromi reunites with her power-packed Trio Project, featuring drummer Simon Phillips and electric bassist James Genus, who picks up the mantle from the late Anthony Jackson. From 2011 to 2016, this band released four albums that stretched musical...
Orange Uncle Sam from the US invades a celebration of life in Mexico. June bug Salma and human Lila join forces to resist.
Pianist Lang Lang performs works by Mozart, Beethoven, Albéniz, Granados, and Liszt, including Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 Pathétique and Piano Sonata No. 31, selections from Albéniz's Suite española, Granados's Quejas from Goyescas, and Liszt's Consolation No. 2 and...
Lang Lang plays a solo piano recital of works by Albéniz, Beethoven, Granados, Liszt, and Mozart.
We're honored to open our Live At the Orinda 2026 - 2027 concert season with multi-award winning jazz and cabaret legend Marilyn Maye . Although she's been revered as an American treasure for decades, after seeing her perform in person, many have said that she's also one of the...
Scottish-born composer Thea Musgrave's 1977 English-language opera receives its mainstage premiere at San Francisco Opera, having first been presented by Company affiliate Spring Opera Theater in 1979 at the Curran Theatre with the composer conducting. This co-production with...
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...
London alt-rock band Palace performs in support of their fifth studio album Ox, released September 18 via Palace Presents/AWAL. The album finds beauty and wisdom in human revelations, channeling dreamlike textures into emotionally alive songs. Support is provided by Rollo...
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...
Santtu Matias-Rouvali makes his Orchestral Series debut leading an all-Strauss program featuring soprano Renée Fleming. Fleming joins the orchestra for Strauss's Four Last Songs, a farewell tribute to the composer's wife and father. The program also includes Strauss's Ein...
Shrek The Musical JR is based on the Oscar-winning film and Broadway musical, following everyone's favorite ogre as he leads a cast of fairytale misfits on an adventure to rescue a princess and find true acceptance. Part romance and part twisted fairy tale, the show carries a...
Longtime friends Simone Porter and Blake Pouliot perform a program of works for violin by composers with California connections. Pouliot has been called immaculate, refined and impassioned by ArtsAtlanta, while Porter has been noted by the Los Angeles Times as lovingly lyrical...
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…
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.…
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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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MELINA-FEST: 4 New Play Readings Studio B. Wolff (9/25-10/16) |
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Shrek the Musical Berkeley Playhouse (5/21-6/20) |
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The Legend of Robin Hood Hillbarn Theatre (1/21-2/14) |
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Steel Magnolias Town Hall Theatre (9/10-10/03) |
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Come From Away Berkeley Playhouse (2/19-3/21) |
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Rebecca Kaplan: How to Act Normal Mr Bing's (10/16-10/16) |
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Dream Hou$e City Lights Theater Company (5/13-6/06) |
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The 42nd Great Dickens Christmas Fair & Victorian Holiday Party The Cow Palace (11/21-12/20) |
