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Downtown Oakland has seen an explosion of new murals, providing a colorful and creative backdrop for protests against police brutality.
#OpenYourLobby initiative will offer first aid, water, restrooms
Hammer Theatre Center in San Jose wraps up its excellent streaming nseries of National Theatre productions with Tom Hiddleston in 'Coriolanus."
Any other year, June would be the month when students start looking forward to that last school day and a lazy summer of fun ahead. This year, it's definitely dicey whether some families wil…
Amid the strife and turbulence life is throwing at all of us, we hope you feel you can turn to The Weekender for ideas on diversions of all sorts. We're here to help, with seven great ways t…
Ali Gass, who previously worked at the University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art and Stanford's Cantor Center for the Arts, is the new executive director of the downtown museum.
Hope Hospice, based in Dublin, is holding an art drive and asking for donations for its patients.
NEW YORK (AP) " Christo, known for massive, ephemeral public arts projects died Sunday at his home in New York. He was 84.
By Jon Huang De Anza College's Student Art Show is online for the first time, thanks to the campus's closure during the COVID-19 pandemic. The annual showcase is usually exhibited on campus …
Berkeley Rep season lineup includes "Sanctuary City," "Goddess," "Swept Away," Cambodian Rock Band," "the ripple, the wave that carried me home," "Wintertime,"
Foothill College's Theatre Arts Department found itself in the same unenviable muddle as most local theater companies these days: What to do now that it can't stage its spring production? Fo…
Sheltering at home? We have some ideas for you, from a boozy Jurassic World party to peach barbecue yumminess to great movies and music.
Also worth checking out: City Lights in San Jose revisits "I and You," Neil Young performs for his chickens.
Works that were to be performed by S.F. Opera, S.F. Symphony, Oakland Symphony, as well as works by Steve Reich and Beethoven are all available.
About Opera San Jose 300 supporters joined a Zoom call to toast Larry Hancock, the company's outgoing general director.
Tributes from the arts community flooded in Wednesday, with Lin-Manuel Miranda on Twitter saying "What an extraordinary writer, what a life." Dan Savage wrote: "He ordered us to love ourselv…
Sheltering at home for Memorial Day weekend? We have some fun ideas, from tasty ice cream and barbecue to great movies, TV and music options.
Mountain View's Pear Theatre came up with a creative way of presenting its annual short-play program despite the current pandemic""Pear Slices 2020: Digital Edition." The Pear is presenting …
Dance fans can watch streamed content at home from Smuin and SF Ballet companies to Bandaloop and Alvin Ailey, whose annual Cal Performances residency has made the troupe honorary Bay Area-i…
The annual PlayGround Festival of New Works, which features two Peninsula residents and one San Jose world premiere, has gone digital this year and is streaming most of its events free of ch…
Job cuts at the Winchester Mystery House offer a potentially unsettling peek into how the economy in California might in some cases be restructured in a post-coronavirus employment market.
Here's what to do this weekend, from reopened drive-ins (yay!) to streaming Cirque acrobatics, gourmet grilled cheese and tasty Quarantinis.
Your living room can be the room where it happens as hit musical becomes available to stream
Cirque du Soleil introduces two new programs -- "Best Of" and "Behind the Curtain" -- to its mix of free content offerings online. Find out more here.
Theater owners hope their coming attractions will soon include getting moviegoers back inside at some point.Â
