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Got your weekend plans? We have some cool ideas, to great date restaurants and Irish pubs to Cinequest and a last KISS.
Saxophonist Melissa Aldana performs a tribute to Latinx women artists -- especially Frida Kahlo -- at Hammer Theatre in San Jose.
Livermore Valley Opera program pairs Zemlinsky, Puccini works, including one of opera's most famous arias.
San Jose author Celia Stahr spent more than a decade researching 'Frida in America,' a look at the iconic artist's transformation during U.S. stay.
Bay Area-founded Culture Clash has brought its incisive satire back to Berkeley Rep with funny and sharp (Still) in America'
The high-minded showcase of the acting craft attracted a who's who of Hollywood over the years, including Paul Newman, Barbra Streisand, Meryl Streep, Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams and Anth…
Playwright Lauren Ollstein based her bittersweet play "They Promised Her the Moon" on the story of real-life pilots Jackie Cochran and Jerrie Cobb.
Get ready for an evening of hilarious Irish humor and storytelling -- with no doubt a few jokes about Brexit and Boris Johnson -- when the Real Irish Comedy Tour and Festival returns to the …
Joffrey Ballet has deep ties to San Francisco and Berkeley, and they will be in evidence when the company returns to Cal Performances March 6-8.
The headline for Jerrie Cobb's obituary in the New York Times states that the pilot "found a glass ceiling in space." Cobb, who died in March 2019 at age 88, was well on her way to becoming …
Like many Cupertino residents, Jing Jing Yang came to the city from China. As Cupertino's new poet laureate, Yang said she wants to inspire other immigrants to create in both their native an…
Four years after its launch, San Jose's New Ballet has a new spacious home in the historic Corinthian Event Center in downtown.
Being a mortician and an actor might seem, at first blush, like an odd confluence of interests.
Artists and arts groups are grappling with AB-5's impact on how they do business and the extent to which theater, dance and music lovers may lose opportunities to see shows by favorite local…
ACT in S.F. presents Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' funny and scary 'Gloria,' perhaps even more shocking for what it says than what it depicts.
Got your weekend plans yet? We have some ideas, from amazing dance recitals to Chicano stage legends to an awesome time in Vallejo.
From Smuin Ballet to S.F. Ballet to Wendy Whelan and Nancy Karp and Joffrey Ballet, here are some of the big dance recitals coming to Bay Area.
Sting's musical "The Last Ship," inspired by his English childhood, got a major rewrite but is still weighed down by cliches and blandness.
Chicano stage troupe Culture Clash returns to Berkeley Rep to parody the present while honoring its past.
'Parking near the theaters is a scary proposition, too. I have been closely followed and harassed by intimidating, shadowy people.'
He's an aquatic mammal who models healthy eating habits and lifestyle choices for young children. He's been the subject of books and plays, and now Potter the Otter has an exhibit named afte…
James Kudelka was at a disadvantage when BalletMet Columbus asked him to choreograph a piece for a program based on American pop music. Kudelka grew up in Newmarket, Canada, listening to cla…
Famed playwright Octavio Solis' deeply personal book of stories, "Retablos," will be performed by Word for Word theater troupe in S.F.
Charles Dickens probably didn't envision his final novel"a bleak, unfinished murder mystery"starting a new life more than 200 years later as a musical comedy. But the stage version of "The M…
One could argue that Mary Hidalgo is celebrating her 25th birthday, as she was born on Leap Day Feb. 29, 1920. If you're counting each year, Hidalgo has lived 95 of her 100 in Sunnyvale. Hid…
