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TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, led by artistic director Robert Kelley, has been awarded the 2019 Regional Theatre Tony Award, considered the top citation for a company not producing on Broadwa…
Event features 385 artists over three weekends in May
On May 4 and 5, the lawn at West Valley College will be transformed into a gallery displaying works of art from local and regional artists. The Saratoga Rotary Art Show is a juried event who…
Here's what to do in San Francisco and beyond this weekend, from "Avengers" screenings to tapas tastings and flying machines.
A new play SF's New Conservatory by Philip Dawkins imagines a night of drinking and chatting between playwrights Tennessee Williams and William Inge.
Cal Performances presents French director Arthur Nauzyciel's unique production of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," set in the JFK era.
Women 'past the boiling point' make their views known about injustices, threats to rights
Robert Schenkkan's "All the Way" captures LBJ's turbulent first year as president; it's playing in El Cerrito through May 5.
There are at least three versions of the musical "Flower Drum Song" in the world, and the main thing they have in common are the songs of Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical…
Oakland Museum explores the LGBTQ movement in the new show "Queen California," but skips the obvious for something that is more meaningful.
Peter Paul Rubens' intense and vibrant early works come alive new exhibit at Legion of Honor museum in S.F.
Smuin Ballet is tour SF Bay Area with a program blending favorite works by Michael Smuin and a world premiere from Amy Seiwert.
Post:Ballet is reviving its acclaimed dance work "Lavender Country," inspired by the first gay-themed album in country music history; April 25-27 at Z Space in S.F.
Foad Satterfield " Things Known: Through June 9, Saint Mary's College Museum of Art, 1928 Saint Mary's Road, Moraga. Satterfield contemplates experience, nature and meditation expressed in l…
'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," the touring musical based on Roald Dahl's beloved book, is a let-down on several levels.
Garden at the Flea -- which includes a beer garden, food vendors and live entertainment space -- opens this weekend with a tribute to Mexican singer Selena.
ACT in San Francisco is staging playwright and actress Kate Hamill's feminist re-invention of "Vanity Fair."
The role of Ma Joad in the John Steinbeck-Frank Galati play, "The Grapes of Wrath," is central " in fact, enormously crucial " to the understanding of this Pulitzer Prize-winning story. That…
Charles Ludlam's fast-paced two-person comedy "The Mystery of Irma Vep" spoofs all manner of horror and gothic shows -- it plays at Danville's Village Theatre through April 28.
Playwright and actress Lisa Ramirez updates a 19th-century Russian classic to examine Oakland's homeless problem in "Down Here Below."
Performances of "La Bayadère" by the Mariinsky Ballet and Orchestra, the long-awaited return of Germany's Tanztheater Wuppertal in Pina Bausch's "Palermo Palermo," a season-long survey of B…
From Egg hunts and parade, to Snoop Dogg, Too Short and E-40 (at 1 show!) to a beer fest, Coachella acts and free national park fun -- here are 7 ways to enjoy the weekend in the S.F. Bay Ar…
Here's how to get tickets for the final performances of this iconic San Francisco production, which is set to close on New Year's Eve 2019.
The photos, shot mostly by unknown photographers, go up for auction on the 113th anniversary of the infamous quake.
"The Hoppening" on Saturday will include a hunt for 5,000 Easter eggs hidden throughout the Victorian gardens of the landmark mansion in San Jose.
