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The entries in Dove Art Gallery's second annual Juried Art Competition range from a 3-D depiction of Calvary to a box painted in the style of Dutch chests from the 1800s. In addition to Milp…
Kaleid will open Friday for this month's art walk in its new location on South First and San Carlos streets.
Got your weekend plans? We've got some nifty ideas, from Madonna to the Blue Man Group to awesome French treats and German beer.
Sheila Callaghan's clever rom-com "Elevada" -- featuring a great cast -- is presented by Shotgun Players at Ashby Stage in Berkeley.
Lloyd Suh's new play 'The Chinese Lady' at Magic Theatre tells of Afong Moy, the first Chinese woman in America who was paraded as an oddity.
Since Robert Kelley founded TheatreWorks Silicon Valley 50 years ago, he's gone from working for groceries while staging his first production to managing an $8.5 million budget that supports…
The Improv refreshed its interior furnishings, replaced its lighting and sound system and added a few nods to the heritage of the comedy club and the historic Jose Theatre.
Karen Zacarias's culture-clash comedy 'Native Gardens' is timely but mostly gentle; it's getting a winning production by Center Rep in Walnut Creek.
Here are seven ways to play this weekend around the San Francisco Bay Area, from haunted houses to horror movies and a Candytopia-style Steph Curry-esque pop-up. Plus Lizzo, Sarah Bareilles …
A scrappy little play called "Sweat" " which just happened to win the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for drama for its playwright, Lynn Nottage, is getting a pretty decent, rough-and-tumble production …
Get tickets to see Blue Man Group on the Speechless tour, which touches down Nov. 1-3 at San Jose's Center for the Performing Arts.
"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" is opening at the The Curran in S.F.; here's what you need to know about the books before you attend the show.
'Nine,' the stage musical based on Fellini's classic "8½," gets a strong new production from Guggenheim Entertainment in San Jose.
Bruce Labadie, who has produced festivals for San Jose Jazz and the San Jose Downtown Association, received the Cornerstone of the Arts award from the city of San Jose.
Robert Townsend, known best for the groundbreaking film "Hollywood Shuffle," premieres a new stage show "Living the Shuffle" at The Marsh Berkeley.
The historic Presidio Theatre in SF has been reopened with a full slate of shows and this weekend hosts the great Latin musician John Santos.
Alameda's Kenny the Clown entertains throngs at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco.
Tasi Alabastro, one of four recipients of this year's Leigh Weimers Emerging Artists Awards, says he's "leaning into" the label and using the freedom to develop new skills as an artist.
Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night" gets a pared-down but still powerful revival by Oakland's Ubuntu Theater Project.
The back story -- and how we got to this Hogwarts train platform with a new generation of young wizards.
L. Peter Callender finally takes on Shakespeare's iconic Othello role for African-American Shakespeare Company.
Got your Bay Area weekend plans yet? We have some fab ideas, from a huge pumpkin fest to exciting Israeli cuisine to 'Rocky Horror.'
See how you rank in knowledge of Potter lore.
Answer the questions from each of the seven 'Potter' books and the 'Cursed Child' play.
Mozilla brings pop-up event -- installations that look at how tech and data affect us -- to Bay Area for the first time.
