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Theatre Bay Area Announces Statewide Expansion of Annual Conference

October 9, 2026

California Theatre Conference: Artistic Intelligence to take place October 26, 2026. SAN FRANCISCO, CA (9 October 2026) – Theatre Bay Area, is thrilled to announce the expansion of our long-running annual conference to include state-wide theatre artists and companies. After more than 20 years of producing northern California’s premier gathering for theatremakers, the transformation from the…

Theatre Bay Area Prints Special 50th Anniversary Edition of Callboard Magazine

October 9, 2026

Limited edition commemorative magazine printed to honor half a century of service to Bay Area theatre. SAN FRANCISCO, CA (9 October 2026) — Theatre Bay Area (TBA), celebrating 50 years as one of the nation’s largest and longest-running theatre service organizations, will publish a special 50th anniversary edition of Callboard magazine this November to commemorate…

Introducing the 2026 RHE Charitable Foundation Artistic Fellow

August 20, 2026

Theatre Bay Area and the RHE Charitable Foundation announce Deanalís Arocho Resto as the 2026 RHE Charitable Foundation Artistic Fellow. Resto will be introduced as the awardee on Monday, October 26, 2026, at Theatre Bay Area’s California Theatre Conference: Artistic Intelligence. Resto, a proud queer Boricua theatre artist, singer, presence seeker, and nature lover, has been seen on stage across the Bay Area, including San Francisco Playhouse, Center REP, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Playhouse,…

Announcing the 2026 Rella Lossy Awardee

June 16, 2026

We are proud to announce the recipient of the 2026-27 Rella Lossy Award. The Rella Lossy Award honors the memory of Rella Lossy, a lifelong champion of the American theatre and playwriting, by honoring the best new full-length script of a play by an emerging playwright that will premiere in Alameda County, Contra Costa County,…

Announcing the Spring 2026 CA$H Theatre Grantees

June 5, 2026

We are proud to announce the following recipients of the Spring 2026 CA$H Theatre Grants. Learn more about CA$H Theatre. CA$H Performs CA$H Performs is a $5,000 grant that supports fully produced performances of theatre projects that are open to the public. Ramon Abad The Big Whoop Dee Do is a new family-friendly, multimedia theatre…

27-year-old wins the Bay Area’s highest playwriting honor

February 25, 2026

by Chronicle Staff “Push/Pull” by Harry Davis has won the illustrious Will Glickman Award for the best play to premiere in the Bay Area in 2025. The lean, poetic script, about two troubled young men — one a bodybuilder, the other recently released from a mental health facility — is the first professionally produced play by…

Theatre Bay Area Celebrates 50 Years Serving the Arts Community

January 22, 2026

Theatre Bay Area kicks off its 50th anniversary celebrations this month with festivities continuing through all of 2026. Founded in 1976, Theatre Bay Area is one of the largest regional performing arts service organizations in North America. An organization by and for theatremakers, Theatre Bay Area has spent the last 50 years championing the performing…

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Introducing the 2025-26 Arts Leadership Residents

November 5, 2025

Joey Pagaduan at Marin Shakespeare Company Actor, writer, and administrator Joey Pagaduan will produce part of Marin Shakespeare Company’s season under the mentorship of Artistic Director Jon Tracy, Managing Director Lesley Currier, and Production Manager Leontyne Mbele-Mbong. Kimberly Braun at A.C.T. Young Conservatory Teaching artist and administrator Kimberly Braun will produce the Fall Young Conservatory…

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