The Best Theater in Bay Area

Bay Area Educational Theater Company (ETC)

Bay Area Educational Theater Company (e.T.c.) is an educational, family-oriented, non-profit organization dedicated to fostering self-esteem, individuality, and teamwork while creating quality theatrical productions. e.T.c.s method provides comprehen... more

Bay Terrace Theater - Mira Theater Guild

The Bay Terrace Theater, home of the Mira Theatre Guild, offers space and support to host events both large and small. Whatever your requirements, from a full-stage theatrical production, to rehearsal space, to an intimate offsite meeting for three,... more

Bayfront Theatre

The 200-seat Bayfront Theater is one of the nation's largest performance spaces dedicated exclusively to improvisational theatre. The Bayfront is BATS Improv's primary performance and teaching space; BATS produces approximately 170 shows and 400 wor... more

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Bayside Performing Arts Center

It is the policy of the San Mateo-Foster City School District that the theatre at Bayside be used primarily for educational purposes. Educational purposes include serving as a performance venue for music, dance, drama, and other arts programs in the... more

Bayview Opera House

Bayview Opera House currently provides arts education and cultural enrichment to San Franciscans on a low or no cost basis. Recent offerings include adult drama, dance and yoga classes, DARE TO DREAM ARTS school age after school classes, toddler and... more

Belrose Theater

The Belrose is a non-profit California Corporation, and has been in its current location, a historical landmark, since 1962.   The Performing Arts Center was established in 1954 by Margie and the late David Belrose offering classes in... more

Berkeley Community Theatre

As a host to a variety of arts & entertainment events, the Berkeley Community Theatre has been hosting live bands since the 1960's. It has featured arists such as Joni Mitchell and The Grateful Dead among others. BERKELEY COMMUNITY THEATER can... more

Berkeley Playhouse

A music theatre for all ages producing a year-round season of musicals and a conservatory offering classes in music theatre performance skills. -------- Our mission is to create theatre and programs that engage, ignite, and celebrate diverse Bay Ar... more

Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Berkeley Rep)

Founded in 1968, Berkeley Repertory Theatre has established itself as one of this country’s top-ranking professional resident theatre companies, known for its consistently high-quality productions. Winner of the 1997 Tony Award for Outstanding... more

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Bindlestiff Studio

Bindlestiff Studio cultivates artists, who reflect and celebrate the diverse values, traditions, and histories of Pilipino and Filipino American cultures, through bold artistic expression and community engagement. more

Bing Concert Hall

Bing Concert Hall's 842 seats are arranged in a "vineyard"; format, with seating sections ringing the stage. What's more, the center-section seating begins on the same level as the stage. The result is a concert experience of unparalleled intimacy, o... more

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Black Repertory Group - Birel L. Vaughn Theater

Established in 1964 the Black Repertory Group, Inc. (BRG), located in Berkeley is a Cultural Arts Center that houses the Birel L. Vaughn Theater. For over 50 years as "Keepers Of The Culture" the BRG continues to take pride in presenting quality ente... more

Blue Blanket Improv

Saturday Night Comedy Spectacular! Blue Blanket Improv presents a wild theatre experience designed to keep you in stitches and teetering on the edge of your seat to find out what's coming next. Each show is created on the spot, based entirely on au... more

Blue Blanket Improv - Comedy Improv Shows

It's never the same show twice.  Each show is created on the spot, based entirely on audience suggestions. The new "To Do" in Half Moon Bay! When: One Show Each Month... Visit the website for upcoming dates and times. more

Boxcar Theatre

Boxcar Theatre is a Directors Theatre supporting the concepts and vision of the director. Whether original, adapted, or pre-published, Boxcar productions are bold and ambitious with a flair for the visual and fantastical. Founded in 2005, Boxcar h... more

Brad Barton, Reality Thief

Brad Barton has performed for over 20 years for corporate clients, arts festivals, TED talks, and more. His theater shows - even online performances - sell out. His charming, laid back style of true interaction with an audience is what has earned him... more

Brava Theater Center

Brava! for Women in the Arts! is a professional arts organization committed to producing, presenting and cultivating live art celebrating the intersection of feminism and multiculturism that ignites social change and empowers community. Located in th... more

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BrickaBrack

BrickaBrack is a collaborative theatre ensemble that presents original stories about extraordinary people. Our visual, kinetic productions use multiple mediums to entertain, illuminate, and inspire. more

Broadway By the Bay

Broadway By the Bay is the only major musical theatre company between San Francisco and Palo Alto producing full-scale musical productions using local talents. We are committed to producing the highest-quality shows while maintaining accessibility to... more

Broadway Playhouse

Traditional Blackbox Theatre Intimate theatre seating for 62 Wheelchair accessible Adjacent to lobby, gift shop and gallery On site kitchen and auxiliary classroom available more

Broadway Studios

BROADWAY STUDIOS is a special events venue in the heart of North Beach. We cater to a wide variety of events: birthdays, concerts, corporate, fashion shows, fundraisers, graduation, video and film productions, wedding receptions and private parties.... more

Brooklyn Preserve

We are a community center, a home, and an institution that cares. In 2017 we will be the home for the productions of the Ubuntu Theater Project, a kickass theater company who believes art should be a shared experience between absolutely anyone, for... more

Bruns Memorial Amphitheatre

Bruns Amphitheater is an outdoor theater in the Orinda hills that redefines classical theater for the 21st Century, through the lenses of equity, diversity, and inclusion. The range of events runs the gammut of arts: music, theater, dance, and opera... more

Buriel Clay Theater

The Buriel Clay Memorial Theater located on the first floor of the African American Art & Culture Complex was named after Mr. Buriel Clay, a prominent African American Playwright and Poet from San Francisco. The 210 seat theater has hosted theatr... more

Burlingame United Methodist Church

Cabrillo College - Visual & Performing Arts Complex (VAPA)

Cabrillo College's Visual and Performing Arts Complex offers state of the art facilities in all art mediums, as well as three performance venues: the Crocker Theater, the Music Recital Hall, and the Black Box Theater. The Cabrillo Performing Arts Co... more

Cabrillo Stage

Cabrillo Stage is a non-profit, non-union, professional summer stock, musical theatre company dedicated to presenting full scale Broadway musicals to the greater Monterey Bay area. Producing a diversity of musical theatre works with the goal of educa... more

Cafe Frascati

Caffe Frascati is like a little taste of Italy right in the heart of downtown San Jose. We want to bring you the best cappuccino outside of Rome and the tasty panini you can enjoy in the villages that dot the Umbrian countryside. And, to make things... more

Cal Performances

The mission of Cal Performances is to inspire, nurture and sustain a lifelong appreciation for the performing arts. Cal Performances, the performing arts presenter and producer of the University of California, Berkeley, fulfills this mission by prese... more

Cal Shakespeare

The seed that grew into the California Shakespeare Festival (CSF) was planted in June 1973 when a group of Berkeley actors performed Hamlet in local churches. After a few more productions, the group, calling itself the Emeryville Shakespeare Company... more

Cal State Hayward University Theatre

The department of Theatre and Dance provides comprehensive pre-professional training in the areas of acting, directing, dance, design, and theatre technology. The primary goal of the program is to develop artists whose performance skills and creat... more

California Shakespeare Theater

Founded in 1974, California Shakespeare Theater is a fully professional, critically acclaimed theater known for its innovative productions of the plays of William Shakespeare and other reimagined classics. Cal Shakes is committed to being a leadin... more

California Theatre - Berkeley

3 Screens. Built in 1920. Operated by Landmark since 1994. The California Theatre is situated in Downtown Berkeley, right next to the University of California-Berkeley and within walking distance of the BART station. Featuring the largest screen in B... more

California Theatre - San Jose

This historic venue, originally known as the Fox Theatre, was designed in 1927 by architects Weeks and Day and once said to be "the finest theater in California." The first film shown there was An Affair of the Follies, starring 1920s "it" girl, Bill... more

California Theatre Arts - Walnut Creek

California Theatre Arts was founded in 1984 with the vision of providing a high quality comprehensive and integrated program of instruction in theatre and dance. Our goal is to provide a professional atmosphere both to those students who aspire to a... more

Campus Little Theatre

Cardigan Entertainment

Theatrical Production Company that produces a variety of live events, plays, musicals abs more more

Carl Cherry Center for the Arts

The Cherry Center sponsors 12 diverse visiting art exhibits throughout the year. The majority of these exhibits have been selected, organized and curated by the Center and range from historical to contemporary art, including painting, photography, ce... more

Carmel Bach Festival

2014 Season Celebrates "Bach and the Italians" Carmel Bach Festival’s 77th Season “Bach and the Italians” focuses on the music of Italy, with an evening of Italian opera, virtuosic works for violin, Felix Mendelssohn’s &... more

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