Tap dance meets jazz rhythms in Dorrance Dance’s production of this holiday classic. Danced to Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s jazz interpretation of the classic Tchaikovsky score, The Nutcracker Suite boogies, slides, struts, and dives through the magical story of a young girl and her fantastical Christmas adventure. Along with collaborators Hannah Heller and Josette Wiggan, artistic director Michelle Dorrance gives the ballet’s pageant of national dances a 21st-century twist as the Sugar Plum Fairy transforms into a slinky Sugar Rum Cherry and the “March of the Toy Soldiers” becomes a swinging brass “Peanut Brittle Brigade” romp, among other creative inventions.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Audio Description provided by Gravity Access Services.
Haptic tour begins at 2:15 PM; please arrive by 2 PM
Access Services Provider Contact: Guillermo Cornejo, gcornejo@calperformances.org, 510-642-9988

Tickets: $35–$105 (prices subject to change)
UC Berkeley students can access exclusive discounts, including half-price tickets in all sections of the theater. Learn more about student discounts and other discounts.

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Ghanaian American playwright Jocelyn Bioh and director Whitney White bring you into the vibrant world of Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, a beloved Harlem hotspot where West African immigrant braiders work their magic on the locals’ locks. Amidst the lively buzz of a scorching summer, love ignites, dreams soar, and secrets unravel. But beneath the surface lies a current of uncertainty, pushing this close-knit community to confront the challenges of being outsiders in their own neighborhood.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Audio Description provided by Gravity Access Services.
Audio description devices available starting at 1:30 PM

Tickets: $130-176

Box office: 510 647-2949

Dang, dating sure is hard these days. But don’t worry, this show will flirt its way into your heart and hit like a one night stand! A hot and loaded experience brings the new age of dating to life onstage. Opposites who attract, David and Jenny answer the NY Times “36 Questions That Lead to Love.” From the writer who is adapting 'Crazy Rich Asians' into a musical, comes this exploration of technology and intimacy in our modern world.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL interpretation

Tickets: $0 - $40 ($15 Community Tickets with code 'COMMUNITY'; ASL BoGo Tickets, contact Box Office)

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Celebrate the warmth and joy of the season with the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus at our beloved Bay Area tradition, Holiday Spectacular 2024! On December 6 and 7 at the Sydney Goldstein Theater, expect 90 minutes of festive cheer, unforgettable music, and hilarious humor that will have you laughing out loud and singing along. This year’s theme, “Together,” embodies the spirit of community, love, and connection that pours from the stage in every note.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL interpretation provided

Tickets: Starting at $30

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Celebrate the warmth and joy of the season with the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus at our beloved Bay Area tradition, Holiday Spectacular 2024! On December 6 and 7 at the Sydney Goldstein Theater, expect 90 minutes of festive cheer, unforgettable music, and hilarious humor that will have you laughing out loud and singing along. This year’s theme, “Together,” embodies the spirit of community, love, and connection that pours from the stage in every note.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL interpretation provided

Tickets: Starting at $30

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ODC/Dance returns to the stage with the 38th anniversary of the beloved Bay Area holiday tradition, The Velveteen Rabbit, choreographed by KT Nelson and featuring students from ODC’s Youth & Teen Program. Based on the beloved classic children’s book by Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit brims with wit, festive costumes, madcap characters, and the perfect amount of holiday cheer! Featuring captivating narration, a delightful musical score by Benjamin Britten, and larger-than-life storybook characters portrayed by the world-class dancers of ODC/Dance.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Tickets: $30-$125
Get 10% off orders of 6+ tickets with code ODC10 at checkout.

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Celebrate the warmth and joy of the season with the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus at our beloved Bay Area tradition, Holiday Spectacular 2024! On December 6 and 7 at the Sydney Goldstein Theater, expect 90 minutes of festive cheer, unforgettable music, and hilarious humor that will have you laughing out loud and singing along. This year’s theme, “Together,” embodies the spirit of community, love, and connection that pours from the stage in every note.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL interpretation provided

Tickets: Starting at $30

Click here for more information.

Dang, dating sure is hard these days. But don’t worry, this show will flirt its way into your heart and hit like a one night stand! A hot and loaded experience brings the new age of dating to life onstage. Opposites who attract, David and Jenny answer the NY Times “36 Questions That Lead to Love.” From the writer who is adapting 'Crazy Rich Asians' into a musical, comes this exploration of technology and intimacy in our modern world.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Haptic Tour begins at 3:45 PM, Audio Described Performance begins at 5.

Tickets: $0 - $40 ($15 Community Tickets with code 'COMMUNITY'; ASL BoGo Tickets, contact Box Office)

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For over five decades, the dancers and acrobats of Pilobolus have entranced audiences with their unique version of dance theater. Contorting, bending, and partnering to transform themselves into a phantasmagoria of animals, spirits, and monsters, the Pilobolus dancers tell otherworldly stories through the strength and precision of their bodies, enhanced by magical stage effects In this retrospective production, the boundaries of gravity and creativity blur, offering an intimate window into the essence of the creative process.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Audio Description provided by Gravity Access Services.
Stay tuned for details about the Haptic Tour.
Access Services Provider Contact: Guillermo Cornejo, gcornejo@calperformances.org, 510-642-9988

Tickets: $36–$86 (prices subject to change)
UC Berkeley students can access exclusive discounts, including half-price tickets in all sections of the theater. Learn more about student discounts and other discounts.

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Mary Zimmerman returns to Berkeley Rep with an English language adaptation of Mozart’s Magic Flute, using only 10 singers and five musicians. Join Tamino on a daring quest to rescue the captive princess Pamina. Encounter dragons, birdmen, and trials by fire in this enchanting microcosm of wonder where magic and music intertwine. This show is 90-minutes with no intermission, is suitable for children ages 10 and up, and contains haze and flashing lights.

The show ends around 4:15pm, but there is an optional docent-led discussion that is held after the show that lasts around 30 minutes at the maximum, ending around 4:45 pm.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Audio Description provided by Gravity Access Services.

Tickets: $92 - $165

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In the wake of Jess Curtis transition, we present Beyond Gravity, new live works developed by artists Jess chose to fiscally sponsor and mentor over the last few years of his life. Beyond Gravity features two programs: Program A, with Aiano Nakagawa and Gabriele Christian and Program B, Abby Crain and Rachael Dichter, all evaluating the fragile terms of our relationships with lovers, family members, and intimate friends through stage. 

Program A: Aiano Nakagawa + Gabriele Christian
Program B: Rachael Dichter + Abby Crain

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Audio Description provided by Stephanie Hewett of Gravity Access Services.
Haptic Tour begins at 7:30 PM
ASL Interpretation provided by Debby Kajiyama.

Tickets: $20 - $40 NOFLOF

To learn more click here.

In the wake of Jess Curtis transition, we present Beyond Gravity, new live works developed by artists Jess chose to fiscally sponsor and mentor over the last few years of his life. Beyond Gravity features two programs: Program A, with Aiano Nakagawa and Gabriele Christian and Program B, Abby Crain and Rachael Dichter, all evaluating the fragile terms of our relationships with lovers, family members, and intimate friends through stage. 

Program A: Aiano Nakagawa + Gabriele Christian
Program B: Rachael Dichter + Abby Crain

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Audio Description provided by Stephanie Hewett of Gravity Access Services.
Haptic Tour begins at 7:30 PM
ASL Interpretation provided by Debby Kajiyama.

Tickets: $20 - $40 NOFLOF

To learn more click here.

Palo Alto Players presents the multi-Tony Award-winning beloved musical FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. In the little village of Anatevka, Tevye, a poor milkman, tries to protect his five daughters and instill them with traditional values in the face of changing social mores and the growing anti-Semitism of Czarist Russia. Rich in historical and ethnic detail, and layered with comedy and pathos, Fiddler on the Roof is sure to charm and captivate the entire family.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Audio Description provided by Gravity Access Services
Haptic Tour begins 1 PM, Audio Described Performance begins at 2 PM

Tickets: $20-63

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Palo Alto Players presents the multi-Tony Award-winning beloved musical FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. In the little village of Anatevka, Tevye, a poor milkman, tries to protect his five daughters and instill them with traditional values in the face of changing social mores and the growing anti-Semitism of Czarist Russia. Rich in historical and ethnic detail, and layered with comedy and pathos, Fiddler on the Roof is sure to charm and captivate the entire family.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Audio Description provided by Gravity Access Services
Haptic Tour begins 1 PM, Audio Described Performance begins at 2 PM

Tickets: $20-63

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Washington DC’s celebrated step dance company celebrates its 30th anniversary with a powerful production that tells the story of the Great Migration through Black dance forms, bold visual art, and vivid theatricality. The Migration is based on Jacob Lawrence’s famous series of paintings from the early 1940s that explored the Black American migration experience in a modernist style with a distinctive earth-tone color palette. Set to an uplifting soundtrack that includes music by Nina Simone and John Coltrane, gospel, and West African drumming, the movement traces a historical arc from Africa to the post–Civil War South to a new life in the North, the choreography a mix of stepping, tap, body percussion, and modern dance. “A life-affirming evening of theater” (DC Theatre Scene). Step Afrika’s past season performances sold out, so get your tickets early!

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Audio Description provided by Gravity Access Services.
Haptic Access Tour begins at 2 PM; please arrive by 1:45, Audio Described performance begins at 3:00.
Access Services Provider Contact: Guillermo Cornejo, gcornejo@calperformances.org, 510-642-9988

Tickets: $42-98 (prices subject to change)
UC Berkeley students can access exclusive discounts, including half-price tickets in all sections of the theater. More information about student tickets and discounts is available at calperformances.org/ucb-students. For information about other discounts, visit calperformances.org/discounts.

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The delightful Swiss mime troupe Mummenschanz visits with a retrospective program celebrating 50 years of wonderfully inventive—and totally silent!—storytelling. The company resurrects mesmerizing larger-than-life creatures and creations from its favorite repertoire, such as the Clay Masks and the Toilet Paper Faces, the delicate air-filled Giants and the Pipe Creature, bringing them to life with its distinctive charm and wit. A visual feast for all ages! “The group has to be seen—and sometimes touched—to be believed. But if you imagine the Muppets heavily influenced by French surrealism and a few psychotropics, you will have some idea” (The New York Times).

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Audio Description provided by Gravity Access Services.
Haptic tour begins at 2:15 PM; please arrive by 2.
Access Services Provider Contact: Guillermo Cornejo, gcornejo@calperformances.org, 510-642-9988

Tickets: $36–$86 (prices subject to change)
UC Berkeley students can access exclusive discounts, including half-price tickets in all sections of the theater. More information about student tickets and discounts is available at calperformances.org/ucb-students. For information about other discounts, visit calperformances.org/discounts.

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The first series of SMUIN's 24/25 Season – Never Standing Still – Dance Series 1 includes 3 ballets: one World Premiere, one Company premiere, and one revival.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Audio Description for Dance Series 1 provided by Gravity Access Services.
Arrive at 12:30 for a 15-minute Haptic Access tour starting at 12:45.
Audio Described performance begins at 2 PM.
Contact Annika Presley apresley@smuinballet.org for questions.

Tickets: $25-$89, Use Code SMUIN25 to get 25% off

Call Smuin’s Box Office at 415-912-1899, email boxoffice@smuinballet.org, or visit Smuin Ballet’s event page.

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What Berkeley Rep’s Associate Artistic Director David Mendizábal harnesses within his tightrope-walking direction is informed by the two talents who call the stage home…Both artists prove that, when done right, nothing compares to listening to live storytelling with a raucous audience. Robinson and Quijada layer so many musical influences, one instrument at a time, is to witness genius in motion. Both artists bring a unique perspective and remind us that despite different skin tones, we can work in solidarity to make beautiful music…Once the musical’s ferocity is set in motion, there’s no going back. History meets hip-hop in an electrifying live-looping musical, composed in real-time. Mexodus explores the often-untold stories of the Underground Railroad that led south into Mexico. Don’t miss this groundbreaking, theatrical experience of resilience and resistance, celebrating the power of Black and Brown solidarity.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Audio Description provided by Gravity Access Services.

Ticket info: We have half price tickets for folx under 35 years old. We release a number of $25 tickets every Tuesday at 1pm for the week's performances. We have 20% off RUSH tickets available 1 hour before the performance. 20% Teachers discount. 20% for Blue Star and 20% off for UC Berkeley Faculty and Staff.

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The first series of SMUIN's 24/25 Season – Never Standing Still – Dance Series 1 includes 3 ballets: one World Premiere, one Company premiere, and one revival.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL interpretation (Contact Annika Presley apresley@smuinballet.org for questions)

Tickets: $25-$89, Use Code SMUIN25 to get 25% off

Call Smuin’s Box Office at 415-912-1899, email boxoffice@smuinballet.org, or visit Smuin Ballet’s event page.

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Nominated for four Tony-Awards including Best Play, and winner of two including best vocal arrangements, 'Choir Boy' is a coming-of-age story with compelling music, traditional African American spirituals set to step choreography.
This is not a coming-out story. It's a story about the power of self-love.

“In his stirring and stylishly told drama, Tarell Alvin McCraney cannily explores race and sexuality and the graces and gravity of history.” - NY Daily News

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL interpretation

Tickets: $30 - $32;
Community Tickets available for $15 with code "Community"

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This Olivier Award-winning comedy is a hilarious hybrid of Monty Python and Sherlock Holmes. Welcome to opening night of The Murder at Haversham Manor, where the hapless Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society’s attempt to stage this 1920s murder mystery devolves into madcap mayhem. With an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines), the accident-prone thespians battle against all odds to survive until their final curtain call.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Haptic tour: 1:00 P.M.
Audio Described Performance: 2:00 P.M.

Tickets: $30 - $135

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The Prom: A fabulous whirlwind of Broadway magic and small-town drama—and you're invited! The Prom is a celebratory musical about love, courage, and equality that premiered on Broadway in 2018 and was also adapted into a movie musical on Netflix in 2020. When four eccentric Broadway stars seek good PR to get back into the limelight, they make it their mission to help a high school student and her girlfriend attend their prom in Indiana.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Live Audio Description provided by Gravity Access Services.
11:40 - Doors for the pre-show Haptic Tour check-in
12:00 - Haptic tour begins (15 minutes)
12:20 - Audio description headsets will be distributed / concessions open
1:00 - Audio described performance begins

Tickets: $33 - $55
Use our friends & family discount code: DANCE28 ($28.00 plus $3.95 handling fee)

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Nominated for four Tony-Awards including Best Play, and winner of two including best vocal arrangements, 'Choir Boy' is a coming-of-age story with compelling music, traditional African American spirituals set to step choreography.
This is not a coming-out story. It's a story about the power of self-love.

“In his stirring and stylishly told drama, Tarell Alvin McCraney cannily explores race and sexuality and the graces and gravity of history.” - NY Daily News

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Access Tour + Live Audio Description
Doors open at 3:45. Haptic Tour starts at 4pm, and the play begins at 5pm.

Tickets: $30 - $32;
Community Tickets available for $15 with code "Community"

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Vertical dance pioneers BANDALOOP dance company premiere their new work Somewhere to Land as part of the RISING TIDES, the City of Alameda's climate arts initiative.

Somewhere to Land is a new work inspired by the city of Alameda's visionary plan to transform a portion of the former naval air station at Alameda Point into an ecological park. Taking root in hopes for rewilding and for sustainable futures, Somewhere to Land will be performed on the facade of Hangar 25, one of two buildings which have been slated for demolition to allow for the construction of the future 'De-Pave Park.'

Enjoy drinks from Hangar 25 resident companies Alameda Soda Company and Urban Legend Cellars available from the event bar on site.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Access Tour + Live Audio Description by Gabriele Christian of Gravity Access Services

Tickets: $0 - $70
Community Tickets available for $15 with code "Community"

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The enigmatic Willy Wonka is opening the gates to his fabled factory…but only to a lucky few. Impoverished young Charlie Bucket and four other golden ticket winners embark on a life-changing journey through Wonka’s off-kilter world that includes chocolate waterfalls, nutty squirrels, and of course Wonka’s crew of mischievous Oompa-Loompas.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Relaxed performance

Tickets: $35 - $60

For tickets and more information, click here.

The San Francisco Bay Area is home to some of the most important pioneers in aerial dance and award-winning circus aerial artists. Every two years, Zaccho celebrates these unconventional and innovative artists alongside their international counterparts in a world-class festival devoted to aerial artistry in all its shapes and forms. For the 2024 festival, the proscenium and site-specific performances will be presented at Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture on August 16-18, 2024.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Access Tour + Live Audio Description
Tour at 7 PM, Performance at 8

There will be a post-show talkback with the artists after this performance. ASL interpretation provided.

Tickets: $15-30

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The San Francisco Bay Area is home to some of the most important pioneers in aerial dance and award-winning circus aerial artists. Every two years, Zaccho celebrates these unconventional and innovative artists alongside their international counterparts in a world-class festival devoted to aerial artistry in all its shapes and forms. For the 2024 festival, the proscenium and site-specific performances will be presented at Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture on August 16-18, 2024.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Access Tour + Live Audio Description
Tour at 2 PM, Performance at 3

There will be a post-show talkback with the artists after this performance. ASL interpretation provided.

Tickets: $15-30

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The San Francisco Bay Area is home to some of the most important pioneers in aerial dance and award-winning circus aerial artists. Every two years, Zaccho celebrates these unconventional and innovative artists alongside their international counterparts in a world-class festival devoted to aerial artistry in all its shapes and forms. For the 2024 festival, the proscenium and site-specific performances will be presented at Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture on August 16-18, 2024.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

Access Tour + Live Audio Description
Tour at 7 PM, Performance at 8

Tickets: $15-30

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Palimpsest Corpus represents the outcome of Pei-Ling Kao’s project The Dancing Body Through The Lens of Postcolonialism, in which ten well-known choreographers each set a short solo for Kao between 2018 and 2022. The work suggests that the movement of the dancerʻs body reveals their history. The various styles of dance training Kao has inhabited, together with the influences of the individual choreographers have all left traces on her movement.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Tickets: $0 - $80 (ODC offers a limited number of free and/or lower-cost Art Access tickets to every ODC-presented performance. These additionally subsidized tickets, available on a first-come, first-serve basis, are reserved for those for whom price is a barrier.)

Ticket and box office information.

Event information here.

nefesh brings the worlds of contemporary performance, dance, eastern european Jewish music, and feminist mysticism. The work reclaims diasporic traditions and cultures almost destroyed by anti-semitism and Zionism to imagine Jewish futures. nefesh invites audiences to inhabit the very fleshy experience of being, and at times the breath and vitality of being itself, as ahuvia corporealizes Ashkenazi chant and wordless melodies, and considers the power of each utterance to create material reality.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Tickets: $0 - $80 (ODC offers a limited number of free and/or lower-cost Art Access tickets to every ODC-presented performance. These additionally subsidized tickets, available on a first-come, first-serve basis, are reserved for those for whom price is a barrier.)

Ticket and box office information.

Event information here.