San Francisco Performing Arts

Since the Tony Award for Regional Theatre Award was first given out in 1976, eight California companies have won. Three are in the San Francisco area.

The half price theater ticket booth at Union Square. Same day tickets for theater productions.

If you find the concert, play or other event you want to see sold out or if you can't find those prime seats you're looking for, don't despair. Ticket brokers will often have seats available. Our guide helps you learn how to choose and use them.

Alonzo King has choreographed for the Dance Theatre of Harlem and other prestigious troupes and now he is working ballet magic in San Francisco.

In the beautifully restored Geary Theatre. The 1999-2000 San Francisco season included 3 world theatre premieres and the American premiere of Tom Stoppard's "The Invention of Love".

The longest running, biggest hit musical revue in theatre history. The current version of the satirical revue with its wacky puns & whimsical hats follows Snow White around the world looking for her prince. Not classical theatre, but great San Francisco fun.

It's well worth a trip from San Francisco to one of this country’s top-ranking professional resident theatre companies, winner of the 1997 Tony Award for regional theatre.

Offering Broadway hits in San Francisco theaters, usually a couple of years after they premiere in the theaters of the Great White Way.

Theater located in historic Jackson Square, presenting new works and staged readings of theatre works in progress.

An arts center that includes Greens Restaurant, Magic Theatre, BATS Improv comedy and the outdoor Exploratorium.

Gilbert and Sullivan musical theatre in San Francisco.

San Francisco's newest contemporary ballet and dance company.

This small theatre at Fort Mason has premiered many works by Sam Shepard, and these days it's still known for staging innovative works.

Well reviewed and highly innovative dance company. "ODC glitters… A style built on risk and nerve" - The New York Times.

Intelligible, affordable opera (in English!).

A world class ballet company that's been around for more than eight decades.

Free or very low-priced classical concerts.

Classics and an occasional premiere.

Conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas.

Founded by the Tony Award-winning former director of the San Francisco Ballet.

Presenting free musical concerts among the redwoods every summer.

Imagine eating your dinner in the middle of a madcap circus, and you might get some idea of what Teatro Zinzanni is like. This long-running show closed its doors at the end of 2011 after an eleven-year run on Pier 29 and is planning to build a new, permanent home on the waterfront, to open by the end of 2012.