The Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival (BAIDDF) is an annual event produced by Urban Jazz Dance company that consists of performances and workshops that highlight the important contributions that Deaf and Hard of Hearing (HoH) artists make to our community.

The Festival features amazing local, Bay Area talent, as well as artists from Washington DC, South America, New York, and more!

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation provided

Ticket price(s): $25-$40

For more tickets and more info, click here.

Based on the film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 play Pygmalion, My Fair Lady is a beautiful musical about transformation, patronage, gender politics and class. Acclaimed phonetician Henry Higgins makes a wager that in six months he can pass off Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl, as a duchess at an embassy ball. But through arduous training, day and night, this innocuous bet turns into something much more.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Audio Description provided by Gravity Access Services.
Haptic tour begins at 1pm, performance begins at 2 pm.
Click here to sign up for the haptic tour.

Tickets: $30-$130

The Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival (BAIDDF) is an annual event produced by Urban Jazz Dance company that consists of performances and workshops that highlight the important contributions that Deaf and Hard of Hearing (HoH) artists make to our community.

The Festival features amazing local, Bay Area talent, as well as artists from Washington DC, South America, New York, and more!

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Audio Description, Live Captions, and ASL Interpretation provided.

Ticket price(s): $25-$40

For more tickets and more info, click here.

The Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival (BAIDDF) is an annual event produced by Urban Jazz Dance company that consists of performances and workshops that highlight the important contributions that Deaf and Hard of Hearing (HoH) artists make to our community.

The Festival features amazing local, Bay Area talent, as well as artists from Washington DC, South America, New York, and more!

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation provided

Ticket price(s): $25-$40

For more tickets and more info, click here.

Leila Awadallah’s duet with a unique, self-playing musical instrument confronts and distorts the tropes of the Arab, feminine body often perceived as a seductive other or used as a threat against the State. The music continuously builds into a drone-like soundscape that drives Awadallah’s experimental Baladi movement. While she moves, she speaks Palestinian stories and reflections on the work’s themes.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Ticket price(s): $0-$80

Part love letter, part absurdist caper, and part cultural satire, CRUSH is a solo dance-comedy show for anyone who's ever had a crush. Come relive the most agonizingly-heartbreakingly-ecstatically-disorienting moments of your life.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Ticket price(s): $0-$80

Damn, I think this piece is about adoration... and devotion. But also, disobedience. omg and obsession.
This piece is about TRUST ing ing ing ing ing ing ing ing.
To Trust your Wild ness
*this piece is the first solo of my project MuSeD. for more visit: gizzeh.com

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Ticket price(s): $0-$80

Enjoy the stage illusion and storytelling magic of Black Benatar, a "puppet show" from the inside out. Snuggle up for a whimsical and hilarious journey through the motherhood. Meet the eclectic neighbors including the Fybroid family, Cystina the squatter, and the twins Ova and Reese, in this playful exploration of identity, humor, and community.

Beatrice L. Thomas, also known as Black Benatar, is a multidisciplinary artist, performer, and storyteller blending drag, puppetry, and stage illusion. Through humor, magic, and heartfelt narratives, their work explores themes of identity, community, and queer motherhood. As the creator of Black Benatar’s Black Magic Cabaret, Thomas uses performance as a transformative tool to foster connection and joy. Their playful, thought-provoking artistry invites audiences into whimsical worlds where imagination and social commentary intersect.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Ticket price(s): $0-$80

Deepe Darknesse (pronounced dee-pee dark-ness-ay) is a physically maximal, experimental dance-theater work by choreographers/theater makers Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein. In a transmogrification regiment of their own design, the performers push past their physical limits and press the edges of the playing space in a frenetic, oddball, unrelentingly theatrical Rube Goldberg machine of “curiositas improspera” or unhappy curiosity. The attempt to become something “better” (a bird?) backfires: the shows’ three worlds tangle into a gordian knot and their climactic moment is overshadowed by the glamourous entrance of underrated 1960s Italian songstress Cocki Mazzetti.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Ticket price(s): $0-$80

komainu duet illustrates displacement and belonging through the lens of sisterhood. It follows the journey of an only child seeking direction, guided solely by the presence of a distant sisterly figure. As symbols of sacred ancestry, ‘komainu’ are lion-dog statues found protecting Japanese temples. Though found in pairs, the two are not the same. Unique expressions distinguish them from one another, mirroring the individual experiences of the sisters as they navigate their dual identities as both Japanese and American. This duet abstractly contemplates the responsibilities of daughters, the consequences of fetishization in the West, and the inherent loneliness of womanhood.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Ticket price(s): $0-$80

As a “foreigner”, “(im)migrant”, “othered body” one is confronted with the pertinent need to re-define home and re-establish one’s place within a new societal framework. Wanjiru Kamuyu wishes to reflect upon her personal journey as “(im)migrant” while non-linearly interweaving the rich and diverse stories of fellow “(im)migrants” in examining the politics surrounding the notion of privilege within a new societal, political and cultural landscape. Her dance, a migratory map of encounters, and having lived on three different continents – Africa, North America and Europe – has provided Kamuyu the privileged space and time to absorb diverse cultures, aesthetics and worldviews. An Immigrant's Story explores the complexity of the “othered” in relationship to re-creating a sense of belonging. It examines our mobility and access inclusive of the perceptions and reception of the “(im)migrant” within a new society and cultural constitution; which are influenced by dominant norms, stereotypes and prejudices.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Ticket price(s): $0-$80

Inspired by the reality of families torn apart by seas, structures, and policies, this new work researches themes of displacement, captivity, separation, and detachment. Titled after the former national bird of the Philippines, Maya investigates the impossibility of physical togetherness, exploring the anguish, longing for community, and instinct for self-preservation that arise in response to this harsh reality.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Ticket price(s): $0-$80

Poster for The Magnolia Ballet by Terry Guest, Directed by AeJay Antonis Marquis

Set beneath the shadow of a magnolia tree, The Magnolia Ballet follows Z, a young, Black queer teen growing up in small-town Georgia. While exploring a deeper love with his white friend, Danny, Z experiences a melee of memory, dance, and surrealism as the ghosts of elders past – and their secrets – roam. With tenderness and unflinching honesty, the play follows a boy’s discovery of untold truths amidst a journey into his own expression of love.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

AD provided by Gravity Access Services

Ticket price(s): $25-$80

For more tickets and more info, click here.

Savor the sweetness of summer with a taste of ODC/Dance. Experience world premieres from KT Nelson and Mia J. Chong, along with critically acclaimed, "especially thrilling," 10,000 Steps: A Dance About Its Own Making by Guest Choreographer Catherine Galasso.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Ticket price(s): $30 - $100

Filled with warm humor and tremendous heart, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Sweat tells the story of a group of friends who have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets, and laughs while working together on the factory floor in industrial Pennsylvania.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL interpretation provided
Ticket price(s): $20-63
Use code ASLSWT50 for 50% off tickets for ASL show on 6/22.

Filled with warm humor and tremendous heart, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Sweat tells the story of a group of friends who have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets, and laughs while working together on the factory floor in industrial Pennsylvania.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Haptic Tour begins at 1 PM (approximately 20 minutes)
Audio Described Performance begins at 2 PM
Seats marked with an “i” symbol offer “AD” ticket types, enabling purchasers to register that user for an Audio Description headset. You may also contact the box office to reserve an audio headset, let us know you’re bringing a guide dog, or get more information about this performance.

Ticket price(s): $20-63
Use code ADSWT50 for 50% off tickets for the Audio Described performance on 6/21.

A multimedia performance experience where the legends of Hip Hop take the stage, raw and unfiltered. For two nights only during Juneteenth weekend—June 20–21, 2025 in The Forum at YBCA—audiences will experience the music, movement, and stories that gave rise to one of the most influential art forms of our time.

Directed by Joanna Haigood, this work features Hip Hop pioneers Grandmaster Caz, Grandwizzard Theodore, MC SHA-ROCK, Grandmaster Melle Mel*, Graffiti Artist BG183, BGirl Rokafella, BBoy Kwikstep, and photography by Joe Conzo, Jr. The Bronx Revolution and the Birth of Hip Hop transports audiences to the streets of 1970s Bronx, where a cultural revolution was born.

*Grandmaster Melle Mel contributes through a powerful pre-recorded video performance, created specifically for this work.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Live Audio Description and Haptic Access Tour provided by Mylo Cardona of Gravity Access Services. ASL interpreters coordinated through Urban Jazz Dance Company’s Access Services.

Haptic tour begins at 6:30, performance begins at 7:30 pm.

Tickets: $30-$56

Veera fuses Opera & Carnatic music to tell the story of a community that lost its bravery...and how it learned to find strength again.

Featuring signature Modern Natya fusion choreography and live music, this groundbreaking new production honors Bharatanatyam and Carnatic traditions while ushering in a new era of innovation for contemporary South Asian-American arts.

Join us for a joyful, thought-provoking evening under the open skies. Free, family-friendly, and open to all.

Seating is an open-lawn amphitheater - please pack a picnic blanket or reserve a yoga mat in advance (limited quantities available).
For any questions or accessibility requests, please contact us at team@swetha.productions

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation provided.

Tickets: Free

Click here for event info

In the summer, an old man and an old woman sit on a park bench, talk about the birds, and bet on the rain…but things aren’t as simple as they may seem. With humor and tenderness, the singular imagination and innovative style of acclaimed playwright Jiehae Park turn the ordinary into the extraordinary as the seasons shift. A play about memory, forgiveness, and the possibility of becoming at any age.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Audio described performance.

Tickets: $47-134

In the summer, an old man and an old woman sit on a park bench, talk about the birds, and bet on the rain…but things aren’t as simple as they may seem. With humor and tenderness, the singular imagination and innovative style of acclaimed playwright Jiehae Park turn the ordinary into the extraordinary as the seasons shift. A play about memory, forgiveness, and the possibility of becoming at any age.

Show is approx 90 minutes long with no intermission.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Closed Captioned performance.

Tickets: $47-134

In the summer, an old man and an old woman sit on a park bench, talk about the birds, and bet on the rain…but things aren’t as simple as they may seem. With humor and tenderness, the singular imagination and innovative style of acclaimed playwright Jiehae Park turn the ordinary into the extraordinary as the seasons shift. A play about memory, forgiveness, and the possibility of becoming at any age.

Show is approx 90 minutes long with no intermission.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Closed Captioned performance.

Tickets: $47-134

It is 7 minutes after midnight, and Christopher stands beside his neighbor’s dead dog, Wellington, who has been speared with a garden fork. Finding himself under suspicion, Christopher is determined to solve the mystery of who murdered Wellington, and he carefully records each fact of the crime. Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play, and the Tony Award for Best Play.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Audio Description provided by Gravity Access Services.
Haptic tour begins at 1pm, performance begins at 2 pm.
Click here to sign up for haptic tour.

Tickets: $30-$130

Shotgun Players Presents YELLOW FACE by David Henry Hwang & Directed by Daniel J Eslick. This sharp-witted, semi-autobiographical comedy follows playwright DHH as he accidentally casts a white actor in an Asian role. Inspired by the real-life controversy over the casting of Broadway’s Miss Saigon, and blending satire with faux-documentary flair, Yellow Face unpacks identity, hypocrisy, and the complexity of representation in America—with hilarious and poignant results.⁠

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Audio Description provided by Gravity Access Services.
Haptic tour begins at 1pm, performance begins at 2 pm.

Tickets: $25-$40

In the summer, an old man and an old woman sit on a park bench, talk about the birds, and bet on the rain…but things aren’t as simple as they may seem. With humor and tenderness, the singular imagination and innovative style of acclaimed playwright Jiehae Park turn the ordinary into the extraordinary as the seasons shift. A play about memory, forgiveness, and the possibility of becoming at any age.

Show is approx 90 minutes long with no intermission.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Closed Captioned performance.

Tickets: $47-134

In the summer, an old man and an old woman sit on a park bench, talk about the birds, and bet on the rain…but things aren’t as simple as they may seem. With humor and tenderness, the singular imagination and innovative style of acclaimed playwright Jiehae Park turn the ordinary into the extraordinary as the seasons shift. A play about memory, forgiveness, and the possibility of becoming at any age.

Show is approx 90 minutes long with no intermission.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Closed Captioned performance.

Tickets: $47-134

In the summer, an old man and an old woman sit on a park bench, talk about the birds, and bet on the rain…but things aren’t as simple as they may seem. With humor and tenderness, the singular imagination and innovative style of acclaimed playwright Jiehae Park turn the ordinary into the extraordinary as the seasons shift. A play about memory, forgiveness, and the possibility of becoming at any age.

Show is approx 90 minutes long with no intermission.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Closed Captioned performance.

Tickets: $47-134

Kinematic/Kinesthetic is a groundbreaking work that integrates emerging and existing technologies to expand movement potential for both disabled and non-disabled dancers. Watch as AXIS Dance Company pushes the boundaries of dance technology through the use of dynamic mobility devices, including telescoping crutches and robotic hexapod legs developed by engineering students at Carnegie Mellon and University of Maryland working with multidisciplinary artist Ben Levine. Journey to the intersection of art, disability, and access technology in this captivating performance.

This presentation of Kinematic/Kinesthetic features special performance by choreographer & roboticist Dr. Catie Cuan. Following the performances will bea panel discussion moderated by Sydney Skybetter, director of Brown Arts Institute and associate professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies (TAPS).

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Audio Description and ASL interpretation.

Tickets: $16 - $68

Box office/questions: bingboxoffice@stanford.edu or 650.724.2464.

In the summer, an old man and an old woman sit on a park bench, talk about the birds, and bet on the rain…but things aren’t as simple as they may seem. With humor and tenderness, the singular imagination and innovative style of acclaimed playwright Jiehae Park turn the ordinary into the extraordinary as the seasons shift. A play about memory, forgiveness, and the possibility of becoming at any age.

Show is approx 90 minutes long with no intermission.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Closed Captioned performance.

Tickets: $47-134

The Oaklash Festival is the Bay Area's favorite celebration of Drag and queer performance. This year’s eighth annual festival will feature a full weekend of nonstop DRAG including live performance, DJs, artists, music, dancing, vendors and more Friday May 16th - Sunday May 18th! Kings, queens, and queers from all over the Bay Area and beyond will join together for this annual celebration of local queer culture.

Check out our full list of events and performers at oaklash.com/lineup

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Sunday May 17th performances starting at 4pm will be interpreted by Carlos Watson Interpreting - carloswatsoninterpreting@gmail.com

Tickets: $20 Suggested Donation (NOTAFLOF), $50 Full Weekend Passes available

Click here for more information.