Hayward performing arts events

Cal Shakes - American Night: The Ballad of Juan José

Wednesday, May 29 8:00p

Hailed as a “boisterous, rollicking, surreal…journey into American history” by the Mail Tribune during its sold-out run at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Night brings the groundbreaking work...

Contra Costa Ballet's "Alice in Wonderland"

Saturday, May 18 2:00p

Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek

Back by popular demand, Contra Costa Ballet Foundation is proud to announce the encore presentation of Robert Dekkers’ Alice in Wonderland...

West Bay Opera's Otello

Friday, May 24 8:00p

Lucie Stern Community Theatre, Palo Alto

West Bay Opera's all new staging of Otello, a collaboration across the centuries by two great geniuses of the stage: Verdi and Shakespeare...

The Medea Hypothesis

Saturday, May 18 8:00p

Central Works at the Berkeley City Club, Berkeley

A world premiere from the Central Works Writers Workshop! Local playwright Marian Berges takes the time-honored Greek myth about a wronged woman with a score to settle, and reconfigures it into the...

Afiara String Quartet & Cecilia String Quartet

Sunday, May 19 2:30p

Bing Concert Hall, Stanford

The Afiara and Cecilia String Quartets, first introduced to campus through Stanford’s own St. Lawrence String Quartet, collaborate on a unique program of works for quintet and octet...

Camelot

Tuesday, Jul 16 8:00p

New SF Playhouse, San Francisco

Think “Camelot” meets “Game of Thrones”. Camelot is the timeless and powerful love triangle between legendary King Arthur, his Queen Guenevere and his best friend Lancelot...

Cirque du Soleil presents Criss Angel Believe

Saturday, May 18 7:00p

Luxor Theater, Las Vegas

Criss Angel, the most famous magician on the planet - in partnership with Cirque du Soleil - presents CRISS ANGEL Believe, an illusion spectacular at the Luxor Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas...

Abigail's Party by Mike Leigh

Tuesday, May 21 8:00p

New SF Playhouse, San Francisco

"brilliant and hilarious " - Daily Telegraph. This biting, hilarious, disco infused satire of British suburbia in the 70's is a party only Mike Leigh could conceive...

David Copperfield at MGM Grand Las Vegas

Saturday, May 18 7:00p

MGM Hollywood Theatre, Las Vegas

David Copperfield has been hailed by audiences and critics alike as the greatest illusionist of our time...

CANCELLED: Willie Barcena

Thursday, May 22 8:00p

Yoshi's San Francisco Live Music & Restaurant, San Francisco

A 20-year comedy veteran, never shies away from a challenge...

Redwood Symphony to offer Sweeney Todd in two performances

Saturday, Jun 1 8:00p

Cañada College Main Theatre, Woodside

Stephen Sondheim’s rollicking Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, will be presented by Redwood Symphony in two semi-staged performances Saturday, June 1, at 8 p.m...

Janowski conducts Brahms and Schumann

Saturday, May 18 8:00p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Two giants of the Romantic era grace the program. Schumann proudly called his overture “one of the strongest of my musical children...

Robertson leads Ravel and Gershwin

Wednesday, May 22 8:00p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Ravel, who heard jazz in Harlem with Gershwin, was dumbfounded by the dazzling Rhapsody in Blue, which Gershwin played at a birthday party for the French composer...