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"The Jungle," playing at The Curran in SF, re-creates a refugee camp in an immersive show meant to humanize the plight of the dispossessed.
Anna Ziegler's troubling "he said, she said" drama about an alleged sexual assault on a college campus gets a deft production at Aurora Theatre in Berkeley.
San Francisco's Academy of Sciences museum serves up moving, roaring version of dinosaurs, plus other attractions, in its new 'Dino Days' exhibit.
San Jose Museum of Art hosts a new exhibit of lesser-known works by iconic Bay Area Beat Generation artist Jay DeFeo.
Photographer Orin "Orie" Rutchick sets up a mobile studio to document his South Berkeley neighbors.
"Falsettos," the 1992 musical comedy about a husband and father coming out as gay was revived in 2016 and is now playing at SF's Golden Gate Theatre.
It's not unusual to hear the young audience watching the "Oskar" plays to yell out words of encouragement or admonition to the titular character. "Kids are shouting out 'You should help him!…
In creating "Sojourn," now playing through April 7 at Pear Theatre in Mountain View, budding playwright Evan Kokkila-Schumacher may have been influenced by Star Trek, Sheldon of "Big Bang Th…
City Lights Theater Company presents Sarah Ruhl's evocative "Eurydice" with sign language actors complementing the action.
As part of an annual celebration of classical music composer Johann Sebastian Bach, dozens of Bay Area musicians will stake out BART stations this weekend to perform free concerts featuring …
Got your weekend plans? Here are some killer ideas, from Livermore wine country barrel tasting to Jordan Peele's new movie to hip new eateries.
If you can ignore the ridiculousness of the storyline and the bland score by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber for "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," you might still find a few t…
The Tony Award-winning musical about a husband and father who has discovered he's gay plays at SF's Golden Gate Theatre.
Modern art icon Hans Hofmann gets a vibrant, all-inclusive show at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
"The aptly named Unbound Festival runs at the War Memorial Opera House Friday April 20- May 6. The range of the choreographers is astounding to find all in one place, from Alonzo King, artis…
With the appointment, Hope, a virtuoso soloist who also directs other ensembles as concertmaster, becomes New Century's fourth music director, following Stuart Canin (1992-99), Krista Bennio…
Green Day releases 'Revolution Radio’ Oct. 7, plays UC Theatre on Oct. 20.
Bruce Springsteen said, like his father, he suffers from depression and the two managed to patch up their differences before his father died.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- AMC Theaters nationwide are bringing two of Gene Wilder's most beloved films back to theaters this weekend.
Amazon's Audible -- a go-to destination for what used to be called 'books on tape' -- has launched the Channels app for smartphones, and it has started production on 40 shows, most with six …
A national tour of 'Hamilton,' the breakaway hip-hop musical, is set to launch in San Francisco March 14-Aug. 5
Steve Kinsella will launch new troupe with 'The Fantasticks' on Sept. 9
Travis Knight's first film as director -- the animated epic 'Kubo and the Two Strings,' now in theaters -- has gotten positive reviews for originality and style.
Elizabeth Cobbs' novel tells the separate stories of Alexander Hamilton, his wife Eliza, and the love triangle that wrecked his career.
Tony-nominated composer Andrew Lippa lends his charm to 'The Life of the Party,' an uneven medley of his songbook getting its American premiere at TheatreWorks.
