San Francisco / Bay Area Theatre Newsroom

What did our critic think of FUNNY GIRL at Orpheum Theatre?

American Conservatory Theater will close its 2023/24 season with the National Theatre and Neal Street Productions’ critically acclaimed, five-time Tony Award winning production, The Lehman Trilogy. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Explore the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival with Playwrights Foundation's on-demand readings and events. See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets.

Experience the chilling tale of LA LLORONA, a Mexican folklore brought to life in a musical drama by Ópera Cultura. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets.

Discover the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival's on-demand readings and events, released by Playwrights Foundation.

Berkeley Rep has revealed the cast and creative team for the upcoming production of MOTHER ROAD. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.

Joe Landini Dance will reprise two dance pieces for in-person audiences three Saturday evenings, June 8, 15 and 22, 2024, at SAFEhouse for the Performing Arts, 145 Eddy Street, San Francisco.

The San Francisco Symphony has announced programming for its summer season, running July 4–August 4 with concerts at Davies Symphony Hall and outdoor performances at Stanford Live’s Frost Amphitheater, Shoreline Amphitheatre, and Sigmund Stern Grove.  

New Conservatory Theatre Center will bring tick, tick... BOOM! to the NCTC stage this May.

San Francisco Playhouse will stage Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady as the final show in its 21st season. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets.

Comedian and solo performer Adam Strauss continues at The Marsh San Francisco with a revised and extended run of his newest show Something Is Wrong with Adam Strauss. Also, while in the Bay Area, he will perform his renowned show, The Mushroom Cure,inspired by a scientific study showing that hallucinogenic mushrooms may cure obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Smuin Contemporary Ballet has announced the lineup for its 31st season, co-curated by departing Smuin Artistic Director Celia Fushille in concert with incoming Artistic Director Amy Seiwert, who will take the helm in July. Learn more about the lineup here!

Merola Opera Program will continue its 2024 Summer Festival with a fully staged production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni.

See first look photos of Bitch Slap!, performing at Oasis (298 11th St., San Francisco) now through Saturday, May 18, 2024. 

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will close its 53rd season with the World Premiere of a new musical tribute honoring Stephen Sondheim, Being Alive: A Sondheim Celebration. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, best known for its annual Free Shakespeare in the Park production and its rich array of arts education programs, raised over $90,000 at their ‘2024 All the World’s a Stage Gala’ held on Saturday, April 20 at the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club on Washington Square in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco.

Claire Woolner blows hard on the brutalist edges of performance art and swims into surrealist clown in this intimate evening of clown confessional.

In less than two weeks, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will host its spring fundraiser Blue Sky Bacchanalia.

What did our critic think of BITCH SLAP! at SF Oasis?

Watch Raúl Esparza and Jeremy Kushnier perform 'Believe the Day is Coming' and hear the GALILEO: A ROCK MUSICAL creative team discuss the show's theme of truth vs. power in the video here!

Experience the world premiere of SEEING STARS, a captivating play by Steve Budd, at The Marsh Berkeley from June 1 to July 13, 2024. Don't miss this theatrical extravaganza.

MR CHONKERS will be presented Friday May 24 @ 9:30PM and Saturday May 25 @ 8:00PM at Church of Clown in San Francisco.

Stuart Ross’ 1989 jukebox homage to boy bands of the 1950’s is a pleasant whiff of nostalgia sure to remove you from the stress of today’s less naïve and chaotic present. Forever Plaid follows The Plaids, a youthful quartet with stardom in their eyes killed in a car accident in 1964. Like the baseball players in Field of Dreams, they return to perform one final concert and we’re here to bear witness.

ODC/Dance has revealed the program for its annual SUMMER SAMPLER. See the lineup and learn how to purchase tickets.

There was a considerable buzz of excitement at the West Coast premiere of Michael R. Jackson’s A Strange Loop. Could the musical live up to the hype generated by its eleven Tony nominations and wins for Best Musical and Best Book? That would be a hell yes! Right from the opening number “Intermission Song,” A Strange Loop bursts with a kinetic energy and excitement not felt since Hamilton blew my mind.