San Rafael performing arts events

Return to the Forbidden Planet

Thursday, Jun 20 8:00p

Space, Shakespeare and Rock 'n' Roll collide in "Return to the Forbidden Planet", a jukebox musical based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest. A cast of 14 and a live band follow the tale of Dr...

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

Sunday, May 19 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Chamber Music at the Legion of Honor

Sunday, May 19 2:00p

Legion of Honor, San Francisco

Alexander Barantschik violin Jonathan Vinocour viola Michael Grebanier cello Anton Nel piano Beethoven Piano Quartet in E-flat major Barber Cello Sonata in C minor Schumann Piano Trio in D...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Medea Hypothesis

Sunday, May 19 5:00p

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...

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