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Adapted from a hit indie movie, 'Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,' about drag queens on a road trip, comes to Walnut Creek.
'Rocky Horror Show,' Richard O'Brien's iconic campy musical about sexual freedom and mad science, gets 3 Bay Area productions in October.
Half Moon Bay Art and Pumpkin Festival returns for its 49th year; here is what you need to know.
San Francisco police are looking for a man who was caught on surveillance video stealing a $20,000 Salvador Dali etching from an art gallery on Sunday.
The big question is why Hillbarn Theatre would want to squander its hard-earned dollars on such an outdated (despite its updates), unfunny, mostly uninteresting play as "It's Only a Play." Y…
Sam Shepard's final play, 'A Particle of Dread,' blends the story Oedipus with a murder mystery; it opens in Berkeley Oct. 18.
sjDANCEco's fall program features a world premiere inspired by Dreamer immigrants and a dance celebrating Nelson Mandela.
Bloom wrote more than 20 books and prided himself on making scholarly topics accessible to the general reader. Although he frequently bemoaned the decline of literary standards, he was as we…
In time for Day of the Dead celebrations, Bay Area Theatre Co. presents 'Death and the Artist' in San Francisco.
From the PG-13 frights of "Unhinged" to the family-friendly fun of the Trick-or-Treat Trail, the Winchester Mystery House is celebrating Halloween in ways befitting a purportedly haunted abo…
The artists' reception for "Space and Place," the new exhibit at the Euphrat Museum of Art, isn't until Nov. 6, but there are plenty of activities for visitors to the museum at De Anza Colle…
Get tickets for 50th anniversary tour of "Jesus Christ Superstar," a new production inspired by "Brown Album," playing San Jose's Center for Performing Arts.
The new exhibit is slated to run from Oct. 12 to Feb. 16.
In Clare Barron's odd and powerful "Dance Nation," at SF Playhouse, adults perform as competitive teen dancers -- the results will astound you.
A natural disaster in Puerto Rico inspired a Los Gatos business owner to travel there to offer aid not once but twice. And now she's planning a public event to tell the community about it.
She spent almost two decades as a classical dancer with Ballet San Jose, and when she retired from the company in 2013, she didn't want to stand still. So she pivoted to a new form of expres…
Got your weekend plans yet? We've got some nifty ideas, from Fleet Week fun to Litquake to a sizzling SF street food fest.
"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" kicks of its run at The Curran in S.F. Oct. 23 -- here are photos the cast.
The Tony Award-nominated musical "A Night With Janis Joplin,"starring Mary Bridget Davies, is in tour with stops in San Jose and Santa Rosa.
A second victim testified about being touched inappropriately by him and the jury heard from the father of another victim who has said Kabaniaev repeatedly raped her when she was a child.
Albany filmmaker Rosemary Rawcliffe thought her Dalai Lama film had been stolen, now it's ready to premiere at Mill Valley Film Festival.
The Asian Art Museum in SF covers two influential artists, Saburo Hasegawa and Isamo Noguchi, in one exhibit.
"I remember being stunned by the whole thing," the woman testified in court about the alleged first rape. "I don't think I had time to think in that moment ... I just felt like it was all re…
"Mark Twain's River of Song" at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley has some good music but fails to employ enough of Twain's character and wit.
The multimedia concert/theatrical show "Simon & Garfunkel Story" recounts career of iconic folk duo and delivers a boatload of cherished songs.
