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Network adds 'Chicago Justice,' drops 'Mysteries of Laura,' 'Heartbeat' and 'Undateable.
Movement to make Elsa of Disney’s 'Frozen’ fall in love with a woman met with resistance from religious right.
Monique Hafen is extraordinary in delightful production at Hillbarn Theatre
'Gypsy,' South Bay Musical Theater's latest production, examines theatrical life on and off the stage.
'Glee' star and San Francisco native Darren Criss will star in the hit musical 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' at the Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco Oct. 4-30.
Whaddya hear, whaddya say? Disney's 'Newsies' is headed to the South Bay. The Tony Award-winning musical comes to San Jose's Center for the Performing Arts, 255 Almaden Blvd., May 10-15.
Berkeley Playhouse's first nonmusical production is a strong adaptation of 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' Harper Lee's classic civil rights novel.
Berkeley Repertory Theatre is presenting famed theater director Mary Zimmerman's rollicking adaptation of 'Treasure Island,' the classic Robert Louis Stevenson adventure novel, through June …
Hamilton has done better work, but new novel set in orchard is deeply affecting
Anderson Cooper doesn’t deny being interested in replacing Michael Strahan on 'Live!’ and now Neil Patrick Harris’ name has been added to the sweepstakes.
Two-day event features 10 world premiere plays
Palo Alto Players staging a wonderful production of the classic musical
'Dough' -- comedy set in London about a bakery, some pot and an unexpected business boom -- is a charmer.
Mix together these ingredients: a dramatic work by America's greatest 20th century playwright, a libretto that follows it closely, a thoroughly American composer with an ingrained sensibilit…
'Hamilton' creator Lin-Manuel Miranda goes on John Oliver's show to rap for segment on Puerto Rican debt crisis.
To commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, San Jose State is producing a 1950s version of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' ShakesBEERience is laughing it up with 'The Comedy of…
President Barack Obama and Prince Charles were among the thousands who paid tribute to the legendary playwright on the 400th anniversary of his death.
With its new production of "A Streetcar Named Desire," Opera San Jose continues its push into the contemporary repertoire.
Aurora Theatre Company revival of 18th-century farce is a highly funny lowbrow comedy.
Singer-songwriter Benjamin Scheuer's roaring solo show about life, loss and musical bliss has west coast premiere at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater.
Contra Costa Civic Theatre presents 'The Mountaintop,' which imagines Martin Luther King Jr. having a strange, revelatory encounter with a hotel worker on his last night alive; it plays thro…
F. Scott Fitzgerald's indictment of the idle rich in 'Great Gatsby' comes through loud and clear in the Role Players Ensemble's production playing in Danville through May 1.
Award-winning theater director Mary Zimmerman adapts the Robert Louis Stevenson pirate masterpiece 'Treasure Island' for Berkeley Repertory Theatre, where it runs April 22-June 5.
The North American premiere of the three-act ballet “Frankenstein” — choreographed by Liam Scarlett of London’s Royal Ballet — will be part of San Francisco Bal…
Swinging 1960s sex farce 'Boeing Boeing' hits the runway at San Jose Stage, where it plays through May 1.
