San Francisco performing arts shows events

Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon

Saturday, May 18 6:30p

Club Fugazi, San Francisco

The always-changing Steve Silver’s Beach Blanket Babylon is the world’s longest running musical revue...

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...

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...

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...

Show For Equality: The Stephanie Teel Band

Sunday, Jun 16 7:00p

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

Marriage Equality USA is the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots organization fighting solely for the freedom to marry at the state and federal levels – including successful initiatives in New Y...

Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder

Friday, Jun 14 8:00p

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

A life full of music is the story of Ricky Skaggs...

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...

Hamed Nikpay

Sunday, Jun 9 7:00p

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

A fusion vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter, Hamed Nikpay has been a pioneering & experimental artist for over a decade...

The East-West Collective

Tuesday, Jun 18 8:00p

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

The EAST-WEST COLLECTIVE will commence its première tour of North America on June 14 at the Vision Festival in New York...

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...

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...

San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra

Sunday, May 19 2:00p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra is one of the finest ensembles of its kind, anywhere. For three decades, the Youth Orchestra has delighted audiences at home and abroad...

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...

Previewing The Gospel of Mary Magdalene: A San Francisco Opera World Premiere

Sunday, May 19 5:00p

Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, San Francisco

Mark Adamo, called “a brilliant theater composer” by the New York Times, will unveil his new opera, The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, this June at San Francisco Opera...

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