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San 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 MoreYou Belong in Bay Area Theatre
For context: Last week, the National Endowment for the Arts made a series of changes including the elimination of a grant program for underserved communities and new anti-DEI requirements for applicants. This comes during a years-long drought in arts funding. As pro-discrimination and anti-transgender policies gain prevalence, we at Theatre Bay Area want to reaffirm…
Read MoreAnnouncing the Fall 2024 CA$H Theatre Grantees
We are proud to announce the following recipients of the Fall 2024 CA$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. Marc Abrigo Scared Stiff is an anthology collection designed to explore various topical…
Read MoreA Statement in Support of Our Community on November 6, 2024
TBA staff are feeling a lot of things right now: grief, anger, fear, and uncertainty among them. There is no Bay Area theatre without the women, immigrants, LGBTQ+, BIPOC, Jewish, Muslim, and disabled culture makers whose shoulders we stand on and who enrich our community today. Theatre has long been a haven for those of…
Read More20 Years Ago: A Letter to the Editor. Now: The Getting Played Symposium.
By Kathleen Antonia Tarr This year is the 10th anniversary of the Getting Played Symposium on Equity in the Entertainment Industry and Awards which I founded in response to what I observed as rampant discrimination in casting, direction, and production. 2015 was also the year I delivered the General Session at the Annual Meeting of the State Bar…
Read MoreMarin Shakespeare Company Presents the Oakland Theater Project Production of ANGELS IN AMERICA, PARTS I & II by Tony Kushner
Oakland, CA (Aug 28, 2024) – Oakland Theater Project is thrilled to continue its 2024 Season with Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize—winning Angels in America, Parts I & II, directed by OTP Co-Artistic Director Michael Socrates Moran (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Crucible), at Marin Shakespeare Company’s new indoor theater in San Rafael from September 27—October 27. Set in New York City in 1985, amid the…
Read MoreCOASTAL REPERTORY THEATRE PRESENTS
DIAL “M” FOR MURDER By Frederick Knott Directed by Paul Smith September 13 – 29, 2024 Coastal Repertory Theatre, 1167 Main Street, Half Moon Bay With unexpected twists and turns at every corner, DIAL “M” FOR MURDER will keep audiences guessing until the very end. This intimate psychological thriller, famously brought to the screen by…
Read MoreWYALD Arts and Litquake Festival 2024 present Poetry Nap at Chabot Planetarium
A Cosmic Tale of Poetry, Music, and Interstellar Whimsy SHOW DATE: October 12, 2024 The Planetarium at Chabot Space and Science Center 10000 Skyline Blvd, Oakland, CA 94619 BERKELEY, CA – August 14, 2024 – WYALD Arts and Ritual Theatre, a Bay Area multimedia theater and arts production company, in collaboration with Litquake Festival 2024,…
Read Morethe MAGIC THEATRE and PLAY ON SHAKESPEARE announce: Richard II
A new translated version by NAOMI IIZUKA from William ShakespeareDirected by Karina Gutiérrez The Second Premiere Play of the Iizuka Repertory following the premiere of Garuda’s Wing August 21 -September 8, 2024 The Magic Theatre is proud and excited to present Richard II by William Shakespeare, translated by Naomi Iizuka and announce the cast and creative team for this…
Read MoreAnnouncing Kenneth Rainin Foundation’s First Executive Director
Shelley Trott has been named the Foundation’s first Executive Director and will assume the role on September 1. (OAKLAND, CA—August 12, 2024) The Kenneth Rainin Foundation is elated to announce the appointment of Shelley Trott as its first Executive Director. This new position will implement the Foundation’s vision and oversee its effective and impactful grantmaking and operations. Shelley has held…
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