American Conservatory Theater’s 2012 Season Gala raises over $760,000
“Black-tie-with-a-twist" event featured performances from A.C.T. Young Conservatory alumnus Darren Criss, Bill Irwin, Patrick Lane, Betsy Wolfe.
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San Francisco: PlayGround announces 2012 young playwright project
PlayGround and Bay Area high schools partner to enable young writers to find their own expressive voice through the creation, development, and production of short…
San Jose Museum of Art appoints Mónica Ramírez-Montagut senior curator
Ramírez-Montagut will head SJMA’s curatorial department, which is notable for its innovative approaches and community engagement.
‘Surviving Progress’ opens in San Francisco and Berkeley
Cautionary tale of evolution, inspired by best-seller “A Short History of Progress,” opens April 20.
New Play Development Factory opens in Silicon Valley
After each performance, the playwrights will take what they heard during the reading, as well as audience feedback, and will further refine the piece for…
Sleepwalkers to stage world premiere of ‘Down to This’
Riffing on the concepts of gambling and fate, the show uses an actual moment of chance to determine which of two drastically different endings will…
Stones don’t bite in ‘Any Given Day’
This is the great Jim Carpenter's first time on the Magic stage, and those that follow Bay Area theater know he's a stalwart icon. For…
San Jose Rep adds ‘Disconnect’ to 2012-2013 season
Playwright Anupama Chandrasekhar explores social, emotional, and cultural disconnections of call center life
2012 Schwabacher Debut Recitals at San Francisco Opera Center
Tenor Daniel Curran and bass Adam Lau with Pianist Robert Mollicone to perform works by Schubert, Bolcom, Duparc, Loewe, Tosti and Mussorgsky.
‘Of Mice and Men’ a profound gift
This is a strong cast, maybe one of the strongest I've seen on the TheatreWorks stage in the past few years.