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Due to Dunaway's allegedly 'verbally abusive' behavior, producers of the Broadway-bound play 'Tea at Five' had to cancel the show minutes before curtain, a report says.
Douglas Carter Beane's modernized version of the beloved children's story "Cinderella" is an eye-opening experience as visualized by director Milissa Carey, now dashing along through Aug. 4 …
A Legacy Business Program like that in San Francisco could help the South Bay preserve its historic businesses and cultural treasures.
The intimate, 184-seat venue had been in danger of being displaced after providing laughs at its Financial District location since 1978.
"Cabaret," full of decadent song-and-dance scenes and political turmoil, seems more relevant than ever in S.F. and San Jose productions.
Ed Hardy's classic tattoo art is on display at the de Young in SF, while the Asian Art Museum has the sort of Japanese tattoos that influenced Hardy.
Bay Area composer Jake Heggie explores the nature of identity with new opera "If I Were You," premiering Aug. 1.
"Little Black Dress," a musical revue by the creators of "Spank! The Fifty Shades of Grey Parody," comes to San Jose's Hammer Theatre.
Two short Caryl Churchill plays, "Here We Go" and "Escaped Alone," are presented in a Berkeley church by Anton's Well Theater Company.
August is full of events for everyone, including jazz in Walnut Creek, Shakespeare in Orinda and a cooking contest at Jack London Square in Oakland, to name a few.
Staff at the Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose hope that young artists who visit the museum's new studio space will be inspired by its namesake, LeRoy Neiman. "His art is very appealin…
African-American Shakespeare Company presents Migdalia Cruz's adaptation of classic 'Macbeth,' set in a homeless camp.
Shotgun Players in Berkeley presents 'Kill Move Paradise' by James Ijames, in which black lives cut short by racism grapple with the afterlife.
About a dozen kids and guest helped unveil the new LeRoy Neiman Art Studio at the Children's Discovery Museum with a series of paintings and a mural.
Got your weekend plans? We have some great ideas, from punk rock heaven to fun in the sun to ... ICE CREAM!!
The etymology of language in all its forms and meanings is the crux of "The Language Archive," running through Aug. 4 at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto. This TheatreWorks Silicon Valle…
Sarah Treem's multilayered play, "The How and the Why," pits two ferocious female biologists, both of whom have studied the field of women's menstrual cycles and aren't sure what the other w…
How does a beautiful young woman who was named Miss Santa Clara and Miss Silicon Valley become one of the ugly stepsisters of "Cinderella"? Simple. Douglas Carter Beane rewrote the book for …
A GoFundMe campaign has been started for the "Mary Tyler Moore" and "Rhoda" star, who has been battling cancer for 10 years and whose current treatment and care is "not covered by insurance."
Long before "Book of Mormon," "South Park" co-creator Trey Parker wrote "Cannibal! The Musical," which finally gets its Bay Area premiere.
A month after winning a Regional Theatre Tony Award, TheatreWorks opens 50th season with clever, heartfelt 'Language Archive.'
"Book of Mormon," the naught but sort of sweet musical from "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, comes to Broadway San Jose.
Robert Kelley founded TheatreWorks shortly after graduating from Stanford in 1970, now he's entering the final year of a Tony-winning career.
While there are no magical mice in "Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella," performers in Foothill Music Theatre's production say the show will still appeal to fans of the Disney version of th…
It may look as though Montalvo Arts Center has been yarn-bombed, but it's actually the annual Art on the Grounds Exhibition. "Threads: Weaving Humanity" is a series of four newly commissione…
