San Rafael theater 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...

Rock of Ages - Las Vegas

Wednesday, May 22 8:00p

Venetian Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas

Get set to enjoy the music that ignited a generation...

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...

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...

Bay Area Playback Theatre

Friday, May 24 8:00p

Open Secret Bookstore, San Rafael

Improvisational Theater created from your Real Life Stories "It touched all of us deeply...everyone who attended remarked afterward what an amazing experience they had.....

The Sound of Music

Sunday, May 26 2:00p

Cushing Memorial Amphitheatre on Mt. Tamalpais, Mill Valley

The Mountain Play – ‘A Great Outdoor Theatre Adventure’ and the San Francisco Bay Area’s most magical outdoor theater experience, is proud to present the Tony Award-winning musical The Sound of Mus...

All My Sons

Thursday, May 23 7:30p

Ross Valley Players’ Barn Theatre, Ross

by Arthur Miller Directed by - Caroline Altman, Production Manager - Wood Lockhart This tremendously impressive Tony Award-winning drama, by one of America's foremost playwrights and the author of ...

NT LIVE PRESENTS: THE AUDIENCE

Thursday, Jun 13 7:30p

Lark Theater, Larkspur

By Peter Morgan | Directed by Stephen Daldry STARRING HELEN MIRRIN British superstar Helen Mirren returns to National Theatre London Live and reprises her Academy Award winning role as Queen Eliz...

San Francisco Magic Parlor

Thursday, May 23 8:00p

San Francisco Magic Parlor Chancellor Hotel, San Francisco

Embark upon the San Francisco Magic Parlor’s theatrical journey where fascinating tales of Wonder and Shadow unfold...

Sweeney Todd

Friday, May 24 7:30p

142 Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley

Throckmorton Youth Performers Production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s heart-pounding masterpiece of murderous barber-ism and culinary crime tells the tale of the unjustly exiled barber wh...

Dead Certain: A Critically Acclaimed Psychological Thriller on Union Square. Memorial Day Special (click here for more)

Friday, May 24 8:00p

Hotel Cartwright Union Square (Pacific Heights Room), San Francisco

Dead Certain is an "edge-of-your-seat" thriller -- NYC Retrovisionmedia called this production "the sleeper of New York City's small theater season to date"...

Improvised Murder Mystery

Saturday, May 25 8:00p

Bayfront Theater, San Francisco

Where even the actors don't know whodunit! You are cordially invited to a witness a completely improvised murder! You will, of course, have the honor of choosing the murder weapon and the scene of...

Magic Bus

Wednesday, May 22 10:00a

Union Square at Geary and Powell St., San Francisco

Step aboard Magic Bus and back in time! With bubbles in the air and a flower in your hair, feel yourself transported to the Summer of Love...

The Beauty Queen of Leenane

Thursday, May 23 8:00p

Marin Theatre Company, Mill Valley

“Gloriously funny… wickedly amusing… an unalloyed delight” – The Telegraph Middle-aged, unmarried and embittered, Maureen is locked in a stalemate with her elderly mother Mag, who is as selfish as...