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Oakland Theater Project Announces 2025 Season: Reckoning
Oakland, CA (March 18, 2025) – Oakland Theater Project (OTP) is pleased to announce its 2025 Season: Reckoning, featuring five mainstage shows and a bonus OTP Presents production that speaks to this critical time in American history. “Each play confronts the urgent questions of our era,” said OTP Co-Artistic Director Michael Socrates Moran. “From the targeting of trans people and mass deportations…
Read MoreShow Round Up: Theatre Springing Up Everywhere
The start of spring promises a bloom of beautiful theatre. What a variety! This weekend has everything from sketch to Shakespeare, and even some dance if that is your style. No matter what you see, it’s all part of a promising start to the spring theatre season. Learn all about this week’s shows: Only This…
Read MoreShow Round Up: The Ides of March
Beware! Missing out on this week’s shows would be a mistake. We couldn’t resisting post a show round up with a Shakespeare reference. But in all seriousness between the final readings of the 3Girls Theatre New WorksFestival, a one-night-only sci-fi themed Monday night PlayGround, and the opening of Pippin at WVLO it is hard to choose what…
Read MoreShow Round Up: Festivals & Fun Shows
There are so many shows opening (and closing) this weekend! There is a lot of great homegrown theatre playing this weekend, with local casts, local production staff, and local playwrights. Not only that, there are two fantastic new works theatre festivals start this weekend, one in the East Bay and one in San Francisco. I…
Read MoreSan Francisco Shakespeare Festival Announces 2025 Free Shakespeare in the Park: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Talented cast brings to life a tale of two young men who journey from a small Midwestern town to the alluring promise of California, where dreams are made and shattered in equal measure San Francisco Shakespeare Festival is pleased to announce the outstanding cast of the 43rd season of Free Shakespeare in the Park: Tyler…
Read MoreShow Round Up: A Full Calendar
March is starting off with a bang! It’s hard to believe it’s March already! I was looking through our show calendar and was struck by how many shows are opening. Especially the six shows that are only playing this week. How do I get a time machine so I can see them all? Here’s the round…
Read MoreShow Round Up: Winter Theatre for You
Shows make me want to leave the house! These days, I often hear that the biggest competition for theatres is the couch. With the on and off rain these past few weeks, I can see why. But this week’s show lineup has me excited to put on a coat and see some theatre. Here’s what got me excited: Opening Three…
Read MoreShow Round Up: Valentines Day Weekend
Plan your date night and fall in love with Bay Area theatre! Between the wintry weather and the Valentine’s Day holiday this weekend it is the perfect time to spend a cozy weekend at the theatre. Only This Weekend! Romance and Juliet at SPARC Theatre Cheyenne Jackson: Signs of Life at SF Gay Men’s Chorus…
Read MoreTheatre Rhinoceros Presents Cabaret
Queer arts and theatre as distraction, survival, and the illusion of escape Nov 21 – Dec 15, 2024 October 24, 2024, San Francisco – Theatre Rhinoceros, in its third year of residence in San Francisco’s historically gay Castro neighborhood as the nation’s longest-running LGBTQ+ theatre, is producing Kander & Ebb’s timeless masterpiece Cabaret … in a retail…
Read Morethe MAGIC THEATRE ANNOUNCES 2025 PERFORMANCES PASSES are AVAILABLE NOW
Including 3 World Premiere Plays created for and produced at the Magic Theatre the boilingby Sunhui Chang Aztlán by Luis Alfaro and Jerry Garcia in the Lower Missionby Richard Montoya SAN FRANCISCO, CA October 24, 2024 – The Magic Theatre is pleased to announce that 2025 Performance Passes are now available for purchase. The programming…
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