Theatre

Sunday, December 10 at 7:00 pm Presented in the historic Venetian Room of San Francisco’s Fairmont Hotel All Decked Out for the Holidays         Bay Area Cabaret is thrilled to present Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winner Jane Lynch in her Venetian Room debut. The star of Glee and host of NBC’s Hollywood Game Night will be joined by special guests Kate Flannery (NBC’s The Office), Tim Davis (Glee), and The Tony Guerrero Quintet. In an eclectic evening of music and humor, they’ll be performing songs from their Top 20 Billboard album, “A Swingin’ Little Christmas!”.         Jane Lynch is an Emmy and Golden Globe-winner […]

Named one of the top ten shows at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and profiled in the October 16, 2017 New Yorker Magazine. This is the remarkable true story of four friends from San Francisco who had a life-changing epiphany at a Bette Midler concert that led to them to form The Kinsey Sicks in an effort to find joy during the darkest days of the AIDS crisis. Now that the era of Trumpism is upon us, they’re sharing their hilarious, inspiring and at times heartbreaking tale, showing that hatred and deceit can be fought with humor and heart. Critics […]

Direct from an award-winning run at Washington D.C.’s Capital Fringe Festival, The Wandering Theatre Company brings its bold new staging of contemporary classic The Laramie Project to New York City’s Access Theatre. The story of Matthew Shepard broke headlines in 1998. A gay college student, he was kidnapped and beaten by two men, tied to a fence, and left to die in the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. The play is based on more than 200 interviews with Laramie residents conducted during the year immediately following the crime by playwright Moises Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project. Nearly […]

  Due to fires that devastated our community, Art Trails is rescheduled to October 21, 22 and October 28, 29. Studios NOT OPEN either weekend:            11 Christine MacDonald, 14 Susan Miron, 17 Tom Berto, 25 Barbara Kelly, 26 Lisa Skelly, 28 Bill Gittins, 30 Anne Regan, 31 Char Wood, 32 Dannell Powell, 63 Valerie Adams, 67 Donna DeLaBriandais Studios open Oct 21-22 ONLY:                   34 Rick Blundell, 36 Jennylynn Hall, 39 Sargam Griffin, 58 Beverly Todd Rose, 81 Caro Pemberton, 100 Jay Blums, 147 Sherri Ortegren Studios open Oct 28-29 […]

On a recent Saturday night the Laugh Cellar, Sonoma County’s newest venue for stand-up comedy, was packed, both with return customers and first-timers.Tucked away in a shopping center space off Highway 12 that previously has been home to a grocery store and a couple of different restaurants, the site has taken on a new life as a stand-up comedy club, decked out to fit its name, complete with a wine barrel onstage in the corner of the room.The place was packed the night Lisa Ellison and Tod Ceruti of Santa Rosa chose to make their first visit. “We love comedy […]

Russia‘s Bolshoi Theater has canceled a much anticipated ballet about dancer Rudolf Nureyev just three days before the opening night. Bolshoi made the announcement Saturday, saying that Tuesday’s premiere has been canceled. The ballet about Nureyev who defected from the Soviet Union to the West in 1961 was directed by Kirill Serebrennikov, known for bold productions that poke fun at Russia’s growing social conservatism. Serebrennikov was detained and questioned in May in a criminal case over embezzlement of government funds. He denies wrongdoing. Speaking to journalists Monday, Bolshoi director Vladimir Urin denied reports that the show had been scrapped because […]

Rounding out Season 39 is an over-the-top, extravagantly fun series of concerts – “The Gay Kitchen Sink!” Pride Month is never complete without an over-the-top, fabulous evening with the internationally acclaimed San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus! Celebrate Pride with SFGMC and their summer show — “The Gay Kitchen Sink” at the Nourse Theater, with very special guests The Kinsey Sicks. “The Gay Kitchen Sink” is just what it sounds like — a delightfully spirited playlist of LGBT anthems, current favorites, and huge production numbers. You’ll absolutely revel in music by gay icons like Cyndi Lauper, Elton John, Lady Gaga, Madonna, […]

Co-Presented by the Asian American Women Artist Association (AAWAA) and Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (APICC), Shifting Movements: Art Inspired by the Life and Activism of Yuri Kochiyama (1921-2014) is a multimedia exhibition illuminating the legacy of intersectional revolutionary activist Yuri Kochiyama through artworks that highlight the values and themes that guided her, and the incredibly diverse people, struggles, and movements that inspired her throughout a lifetime dedicated to fighting for a more humane and just world. The exhibition will take place May 4th to 25th, 2017 at SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco. Artists of all mediums are invited to submit artworks that […]

The critically acclaimed, award-winning Spreckels Theatre Company presents the North Bay premiere of the Broadway musical “Big Fish,” based on the celebrated best selling novel by Daniel Wallace and the acclaimed film, directed by Tim Burton. The show’s book is by John Augus witht Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa.  It is based on the novel by Daniel Wallace and the Columbia Motion Picture written by John August The story begins when a young man endeavors to sort out fact from fiction regarding his father, Edward Bloom, a charismatic teller of tall tales. The musical flashes back as it follows […]