Lathrop performing arts events

CMT San Jose presents Jesus Christ Superstar

Friday, Jul 26 7:00p

A CMT San Jose staple! Jesus Christ Superstar is an early rock opera created by Tony, Grammy and Academy Award winners Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.

Cal Shakes - American Night: The Ballad of Juan José

Wednesday, May 29 8:00p

Bruns Amphitheater, Orinda

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...

The Medea Hypothesis

Thursday, May 30 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...

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...

Cirque du Soleil presents Criss Angel Believe

Tuesday, May 21 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...

David Copperfield at MGM Grand Las Vegas

Tuesday, May 21 7:00p

MGM Hollywood Theatre, Las Vegas

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

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...

Mortified

Friday, Jun 14 7:30p

DNA Lounge, San Francisco

After 7 yrs, check out the bay's funniest and most outlandish comedic/ music experience...

Dvořák's Cello Concerto with Gautier Capuçon

Wednesday, May 29 8:00p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Music from three Eastern Europeans gives this program a delightfully colorful sound palette...

Jonathan Biss plays Schumann

Thursday, Jun 13 2:00p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Schumann’s lilting, effervescent concerto started out as a shorter piece, but virtuoso pianist Clara Wieck—his wife—urged him to expand it...

Barantschik and Vinocour play Britten's Double

Thursday, Jun 6 2:00p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Britten composed the concerto for violin and his own instrument, viola, at 18; its youthful vigor will challenge the virtuosity of the SFS’s Concertmaster and Principal Violist...

MTT and Stravinsky: Stravinsky's Russian Roots

Friday, Jun 21 6:30p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

The joyous Les Noces “depicts” a wedding the way an Altman film uses scraps of conversation to tell a tale, and boasts four pianists on stage...

Dvořák's Cello Concerto and New World Symphony

Saturday, Jun 1 8:00p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Thrilling yet moving, powerful yet tender, Dvořák’s New World Symphony is an enormously popular work sure to enthrall listeners young and old...

MTT and Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring and Gil Shaham

Wednesday, Jun 19 8:00p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Stravinsky’s music has been a passion of Michael Tilson Thomas’s since he met the composer while studying at USC. Fitting that the music of Stravinsky plays a prominent part in the season...