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Everybody’s Talking About Jamie


The West End hit makes it's Bay Area Premiere during Pride Month! Inspired by true events, Everybody's Talking About Jamie follows Jamie, a teenager from ...

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Drew McDowall – A Thread, Silvered and Trembling


Scottish Electronics musician Drew McDowall was a key member of the legendary COIL group from the UK in the latter half of the 1990s whose seminal ritual drone ...

Emigres & Exiles in Hollywood: The Album


E4TT will close the season by celebrating the release on the Centaur label of our fifth album in Spring 2024, with a program that will ...

Emigres & Exiles in Hollywood: The Album


Celebrating music by immigrant film composers who fled Europe in the 1930s and ‘40s and helped create today's "Hollywood sound."

I, Too, Sing America
I, Too, Sing America
6/13 - 6/15/2024


I, Too, Sing America is a theatrical concert celebrating works of poets of color, featuring Langston Hughes, Frances Chung, Vince Gotera, and more set to ...

Not a Genuine Black Man


In 1971, Fair Housing advocates considered San Leandro one of the most racist suburbs in America. CBS aired a special on the situation. The U.S. ...

San Francisco Playhouse presents “The Glass Menagerie”


San Francisco Playhouse stages Tennessee Williams ’ seminal masterpiece “ The Glass Menagerie ,” directed by in-demand Bay Area theatre artist Jeffrey Lo . In ...

The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie
5/2 - 6/15/2024


Ghosts of the past continue to haunt in Williams seminal play The Glass Menagerie. Amanda Wingfield is a faded remnant of Southern gentility who now ...

The Marsh San Francisco presents “The Mushroom Cure”


Comedian and solo performer Adam Strauss returns to The Marsh San Francisco with his renowned show, “The Mushroom Cure,” inspired by a scientific study showing ...

Best Available
Best Available
5/18 - 6/16/2024


A NEW PLAY! City Repertory Theater company launches a search for a new artistic director. Who is the best available candidate? Rising star and hometown ...

Best Available
Best Available
5/18 - 6/16/2024


A New Play By Jonathan Spector · Directed by Jon Tracy City Repertory Theater company launches a search for a new artistic director. Who is ...

Concert Series: Cory Cullinan and Riley Max


Join us on Sunday, June 16, at 7 p.m. for a special Father’s Day concert with father and daughter recording artists Cory Cullinan and Riley ...

Galileo
Galileo
5/5 - 6/16/2024


BOOK BY DANNY STRONG  MUSIC AND LYRICS BY MICHAEL WEINER & ZOE SARNAK  CHOREOGRAPHED BY DAVID NEUMANN  DIRECTED BY MICHAEL MAYER    WORLD PREMIERE    ...

SistahFriend


This dramatic comedy by Phaedra Tillery-Boughton reveals the hard work behind ‘black girl magic' as it follows three best friends in their 40s, through life-changing ...

Sweeney Todd
5/31 - 6/16/2024


Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler, is a darkly gripping musical thriller that has garnered numerous accolades, ...

CHIEF ADJUAH (FORMERLY CHRISTIAN SCOTT)


Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah [formerly Christian Scott] is a two-time Edison Award-winning, six-time Grammy Award-nominated, Doris Duke Award in the Arts awardee. He is a ...

Songs From the Art Deco: A Jazz Moderne Cabaret


Shannon Wolfe, vocals & John Wilson, piano Join us for artfully curated evening of Songs from the Art Deco: A Jazz Moderne Cabaret. By request, ...

Broadway's Isaiah Tyrelle Boyd sings Burt Bacharach


I say a Little Prayer for you- An Evening of Burt Bacharch : Isaiah Tyrelle Boyd is excited to return to his home state California ...

Brian Copeland's Not A Genuine Black Man


The Longest Running Solo Show in San Francisco History returns for 4 special performances in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Not A Genuine Black ...

LUCÍA FUENTES
LUCÍA FUENTES
6/14 - 6/22/2024


Hernán Espinoza from Mexico walks Japan’s Shikoku pilgrimage path to open his heart. A Buddhist nun and others test his intentions.

The Marsh San Francisco presents “Not a Genuine Black Man”


The Marsh San Francisco will add four additional performances of the limited return engagement of Brian Copeland’s stunning work, “Not a Genuine Black Man,” which ...

The Marsh San Francisco presents “Swimming With Lesbians”


After setting sail in New York City for its East Coast premiere and then embarking into international waters in Toronto, Marga Gomez’ latest riotous solo ...

Yes and D&D


Sharpen your imaginary sword and stretch those improv comedy muscles as you prep for this immersive, improvised Dungeons and Dragons adventure! You choose the heroes ...

Bright Star
Bright Star
6/6 - 6/23/2024


Prepare to be swept off your feet! Bright Star is a tale of love, loss, and redemption that shines as brilliantly as its name suggests. ...

Cabaret
Cabaret
5/28 - 6/23/2024


Willkommen to the Kit Kat Klub. In this provocative, multiple Tony Award-winning musical, the euphoria of free expression, new relationships, and the seedy nightclub scene ...

Center Repertory Company presents “Cabaret”


Willkommen, bienvenue, and welcome to Center Repertory Company’s 2023-24 season finale, the Tony Award-winning musical masterpiece "Cabaret." At the close of the 1920s in Berlin, ...


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Review: GHOST OF KING at Oakland Theater Project


by Kelly Rogers Flynt - June 09, 2024

Captivating from start to finish, GHOST OF KING brings the power of MLK’s words to life. Whether you are familiar with King’s speeches and sermons or not, the show provides all you need to understand the dilemma at hand. In a time where MLK is memorialized on street corners nationwide and with an an...

Review: COMPANY at Orpheum Theatre


by Steve Murray - June 09, 2024

What a mess – the characters I mean. Sondheim’s original Tony-winning play examines both the merit and harsh realities of relationships as seen through the perspective of a detached, intimacy avoiding individual. They’re all delightfully dysfunctional, their relationships messy, beautifully mirrorin...

Review: DOUBT: A PARABLE at Altarena Playhouse


by Kelly Rogers Flynt - June 03, 2024

One thing is for sure, Altarena Playhouse has a hit on its hands with DOUBT. Thoughtful, engaging, and provocative, the show is a masterpiece of details. In a world where some things should be black and white, DOUBT plants the tiniest seed of uncertainty that grows to envelope the entire story. You’...

Review: EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE at Ray Of Light Theatre


by Steve Murray - June 03, 2024

Who doesn’t like a good coming of age story, better yet a LGBTQ coming out story to boot? Mix a catchy pop/rock score, a delightfully innocent 16-year-old schoolboy, and some fabulous drag, and you have the makings of a hit show tailor-made for San Francisco’s audiences. Based on a true story and th...

Review: THE LEHMAN TRILOGY at American Conservatory Theatre


by Steve Murray - May 30, 2024

A fresh off the boat Jewish immigrant from Bavaria stands in awe of the musical box that in New York City in 1884. All he can repeat is Baruch Hashem (Blessed be God) and is amused when an immigration officer changes his name so easily from Chaim to Henry. This man is Henry Lehman who, along with hi...

Review: CABARET at Center Rep


by Steve Murray - May 29, 2024

Center Repertory Company closes its 2023-24 season with a stunning production of the Tony Award-winning Kander and Ebb masterpiece Cabaret. Artistic Producer Markus Potter helms the finely tuned production with a stellar ensemble, marvelous musical direction and a supporting technical crew that conf...

Review: HEAD OVER HEELS at Berkeley Playhouse


by Kelly Rogers Flynt - May 29, 2024

HEAD OVER HEELS finds its beat and makes its way into your heart. Melding classic Go-Go tunes with ancient mythology, the show makes the old new and the new timeless. From feathers and corsets to sheep and snakes, HEAD OVER HEELS is more than a celebration of diversity, it is a celebration of life. ...

Review: TICK, TICK...BOOM! at New Conservatory Theatre Center


by Steve Murray - May 24, 2024

What did our critic think of TICK, TICK...BOOM! at New Conservatory Theatre Center? Read here!...

Review: GALILEO At Berkeley Repertory Theatre


by Steve Murray - May 16, 2024

What did our critic think of GALILEO at Berkeley Repertory Theatre?...

Review: TORCH SONG at Marin Theatre


by Steve Murray - May 15, 2024

Marin Theatre closes out their 2023/24 season with a newly revised production of Harvey Fierstein’s Tony Award-winning Torch Song. A smash hit in 1982, the original trilogy opened the floodgate of LGBT representations in theatre, film, and television with its universal themes of self-acceptance, fam...



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