A.C.T. (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, Oct. 16 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 8:00pm
and 2 more dates.
Full Price: $62.00 - $82.00 Our Price:
$32.00 - $42.00*
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A decades-spanning tale of Prague's rock revolution, Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll follows the passions and politics of a Marxist professor in Cambridge and his Rolling Stones-obsessed protégé fighting for freedom in Soviet-dominated Prague. Nominated for four 2008 Tony Awards, Rock 'n' Roll features the music of the Stones and Pink Floyd.
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Zeum Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, Oct. 16 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 8:00pm
and 2 more dates.
Full Price: $15.50 - $20.50 Our Price:
$8.00 - $10.50*
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American Conservatory Theatre's Master of Fine Arts Program presents Good Breeding, by Award-winning playwright Robert O'Hara. This daring, incendiary play shifts the drama of Aeschylus' Greek classic Oresteia to the decadent surroundings of New York disco hotspot Studio 54.
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Hypnodrome (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, Oct. 16 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
and 7 more dates.
Full Price: $15.00 - $69.00 Our Price: $7.50 - $34.50*
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Thrillpeddlers present Shocktoberfest!! 2008: Elemental Horror at the Hypnodrome. This year's installment of the company's popular Halloween series continues to revive the sensational Grand Guignol theatre, with a series of thrilling, outrageous, and frequently gory one-act plays.
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Teatro ZinZanni (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 6:00pm
Sunday, Oct. 19 @ 5:30pm
and 4 more dates.
Full Price: $124.50 - $143.50 Our Price:
$78.00*
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Set along San Francisco's historic waterfront, Teatro ZinZanni is a bewitching evening of European cabaret, cirque, divas and madmen, spectacle and sensuality with live music and a gourmet five-course dinner — set in the nightclub of your dreams. Now in its seventh year, Teatro ZinZanni has become a Bay Area entertainment institution.
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New Conservatory Theatre Center (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, Oct. 16 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 8:00pm
and 15 more dates.
Full Price: $22.00 - $34.00 Our Price:
$11.00 - $17.00*
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The 2006 Tony Award winner for Best Play, Alan Bennett's The History Boys, makes its Bay Area premiere at San Francisco's New Conservatory Theatre Center. Alan Bennett's sharply funny and touching comedy goes inside the world of a British boys' school, where two teachers become rivals for the minds and hearts of eight unruly students.
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Club Fugazi (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 6:30pm
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 9:30pm
and 2 more dates.
Full Price: $46.00 Our Price:
$23.00*
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See the best-loved musical comedy revue that has been wowing audiences for more than 30 years: Beach Blanket Babylon! This zany musical spoof of pop culture is world-renowned for its extravagant costumes, huge hats and biting satire.
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Victoria Theatre (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, Oct. 18 @ 8:00pm
and 17 more dates.
Full Price: $28.00 Our Price: $14.00*
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Ray of Light Theatre is proud to present Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show at the Victoria Theatre. It's a full-scale production of the original hit musical which inspired the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running film of all time.
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Theatre 39 (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, Oct. 18 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, Oct. 19 @ 2:00pm
Full Price: $46.00 Our Price:
FREE - $23.00*
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This musical, transferring to Pier 39 after a successful run at the Zeum Theater, tells a tale of love and friendship. Five friends move to San Francisco from the Midwest, only to find themselves falling in love with each other, with the city itself, and facing any number of challenges to that love. Sexuality, faith and the ups and downs of love all come together for a rollicking, romantic, magical musical.
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Actors Theatre San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, Oct. 16 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 8:00pm
and 18 more dates.
Full Price: $34.00 Our Price:
$17.00*
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Actors Theatre of San Francisco opens their 20th season with a production of Of Mice and Men. The tragic story of George and Lennie, two Depression-era migrant workers who dream of a better life, is one of Nobel laureate John Steinbeck's best-known works.
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The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, Oct. 16 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 8:00pm
and 32 more dates.
Full Price: $40.00 Our Price: $20.00*
The SF Playhouse presents the Bay Area premiere of Conor McPherson's modern ghost story Shining City. In modern-day Dublin, a man seeks professional help after seeing the ghost of his late wife; both he and his counselor are drawn into a situation that will unalterably change their lives. The play opened on Broadway in 2006, and garnered two Tony Award nominations, including Best Play.
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The Shelton Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, Oct. 18 @ 8:00pm
and 22 more dates.
Full Price: $29.00 Our Price:
FREE - $14.50*
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Shopping! The Musical is a new musical comedy revue by award-winning writer Morris Bobrow about everyone's second favorite (in some cases, favorite) activity. Hilarious songs and sketches about the frustrations, annoyances and occasional joys of shopping — how men and women do it, dealing with customers, clerks and store environments, shopping online and on TV and other familiar situations.
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Altarena Playhouse (Alameda, CA)
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price:
$10.00*
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Ripped from the headlines of the Weekly World News, the tuneful Bat Boy is unlike any musical you've ever seen. When a half-bat, half-human creature is discovered in a cave outside of a small town, one family steps in to adopt him and raise him as their own. But the townsfolk are suspicious, and begin to blame their recent troubles on the pointy-eared newcomer.
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Stage Werx (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, Oct. 16 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 8:00pm
and 6 more dates.
Full Price: $25.00 - $35.00 Our Price:
$12.00 - $15.00*
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One of the longest running plays in Off-Broadway history, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom tells the saga of two fatally seductive vampiresses whose paths first collide in ancient Sodom. Sleeping Beauty or Coma is based on the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty and is set in the swinging mod London of the 1960's.
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Theatre Rhinoceros (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, Oct. 16 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 8:00pm
and 2 more dates.
Full Price: $23.00 - $28.00 Our Price:
$11.50 - $14.00*
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The cult hit makes its San Francisco debut, starring the incomparable Matthew Martin and his camp cohort Mike Finn. See what happens when a drag headmistress and her cross- dressed minions put on a musical of Moby Dick to save their beleaguered girls' school. This comedy musical is filled with toe-tapping LGBT fun, Rhino-style.
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Custom Stage @ Off-Market (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, Oct. 16 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 8:00pm
and 5 more dates.
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price:
$12.50*
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See what happens when David Mamet, Wendy Wasserstein, John Guare and Spalding Grey (among others) get their hands on the master of the short story, Anton Chekhov. This eclectic night of theater runs the gambit of styles from Chekhovian melodrama to hilarious fractured fairy tales.
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Rrazz Room @ Hotel Nikko (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 10:00pm
Sunday, Oct. 19 @ 7:00pm
and 6 more dates.
Full Price: $35.00 - $40.00 Our Price: $17.50 - $20.00*
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Drag star Miss Coco Peru presents her latest show, Ugly Coco. She'll recount her journey from boyhood to manhood to "womanhood", and share hilarious and moving stories from her life. A GLAAD Media Award winner, Peru's acting credits include Will and Grace and To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar.
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Castagnola's Restaurant (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Oct. 24 @ 7:00pm
Saturday, Oct. 25 @ 1:00pm
and 12 more dates.
Full Price: $85.50 - $115.50 Our Price: $42.75 - $57.75*
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Be a guest at this hysterical satirical Italian-American wedding, and you won't just see a show — you'll be a part of it! The fun starts with the happy couple's wedding ceremony, then it's time for the all-inclusive reception featuring a family-style pasta dinner, champagne toast, wedding cake, dancing and lots of laughs!
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Swiss Louis Restaurant (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 7:00pm
Saturday, Oct. 18 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $85.50 - $115.00 Our Price:
$42.75 - $57.50*
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Be a guest at this hysterical satirical Italian-American wedding, and you won't just see a show — you'll be a part of it! The fun starts with the happy couple's wedding ceremony, then it's time for the all-inclusive reception featuring a family-style pasta dinner, champagne toast, wedding cake, dancing and lots of laughs!
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Coit Tower (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, Oct. 18 @ Various Times
Saturday, Oct. 25 @ Various Times
Full Price: $40.00 Our Price:
$25.00*
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Immerse yourself in a world of fun and mystery while seeing the city from an entirely new perspective. Incorporating the best of interactive theatre and sketch comedy, Shanghai San Francisco is a live choose-your-own-adventure. Instead of sitting in a theatre, you embark on a mission through the city, seeking out actors on the streets, in charming bars and swanky restaurants.
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SS Red Oak Victory (Richmond, CA)
Thursday, Oct. 16 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 8:00pm
and 2 more dates.
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*
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Rivets, the new musical celebrating Rosie the Riveter, pays tribute to the family and loved ones left behind when 16 million American soldiers left to fight WWII. The show will be performed on the SS Red Oak Victory at the site of the historic Kaiser Richmond Shipyards in Rosie the Riveter National Park.
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Live Oak Theater (Berkeley, CA)
Friday, Oct. 31 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, Nov. 1 @ 8:00pm
and 4 more dates.
Full Price: $12.00 Our Price: $6.00*
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Actors Ensemble of Berkeley presents Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe's grand tragedy about a scholar who makes a deal with the Devil for ultimate knowledge and power. His dilemma highlights the rise of the Renaissance and its science in England, and the play boasts one of the most powerful conclusions in English literature.
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Phoenix Theatre (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, Oct. 16 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $30.00 Our Price:
$15.00*
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Off Broadway West Theatre Company presents a free adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy The Taming of the Shrew. Director Joyce Henderson has set the story of the courtship of stubborn Kate amid the surreal decadence of New York's Hamptons in the 1920s.
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Chanticleers Theatre (Castro Valley, CA)
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, Oct. 18 @ 8:00pm
and 12 more dates.
Full Price: $19.00 Our Price: $9.50*
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Chanticleers Theatre presents Fiddler on the Roof, one of the most famous musicals of all time. The show centers on Tevye and his attempt to honor and maintain ancestral and religious customs in his family while adapting to new pressures in tsarist Russia. The score includes such unforgettable songs as "If I Were a Rich Man," "Matchmaker, Matchmaker," "Sunrise, Sunset" and "To Life."
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Ashby Stage (Berkeley, CA)
Thursday, Oct. 16 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, Oct. 19 @ 5:00pm
Full Price: $17.00 - $22.00 Our Price:
$8.50 - $11.00*
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Two radical lives collide in this exuberant, vaudevillian musical by Seattle playwright and composer Chris Jeffries. Russian revolutionary Vera Zasulich and British playwright Oscar Wilde were unique figures of world history, each haunted throughout their lives for the very thing that made them famous. Jeffries holds up a mirror to a society incapable of recognizing its own heroes, and does it with a live original musical score.
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The Magic Theatre (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, Oct. 16 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, Oct. 19 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $40.00 Our Price:
$20.00*
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One young girl embodies the entire population of her small town to spin the story of the summer that inexplicably changed her life. From one of the brightest emerging voices in American Theatre, this quirky and touching play offers the unexpected perspective of a child on the big questions of life and death.
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Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
Monday, Oct. 20 @ 8:00pm
Monday, Nov. 17 @ 8:00pm
Monday, Dec. 15 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 Our Price:
$7.50*
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Come see where the Bay Area's theatre pros go to play on their night off. Now in its 15th season, PlayGround presents staged readings of six original short plays written by top Bay Area emerging playwrights, inspired by a single topic and performed by leading local directors and actors.
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The Marsh San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, Oct. 25 @ 5:00pm
Sunday, Oct. 26 @ 7:00pm
and 14 more dates.
Full Price: $15.00 - $22.00 Our Price:
$7.50 - $11.00*
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Originally produced by Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft, Ann Randolph's one-woman show Squeeze Box was an off-Broadway hit. This is her strange and wonderful tale of working at a woman's shelter while pursuing Harold, "the accordionist of her dreams." Wickedly funny and poignant, the show will be followed by excerpts from Randolph's next production.
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The Orinda House (Orinda, CA)
Friday, Oct. 24 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Oct. 31 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: SOLD OUT*
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J"LaChic Productions' Touch of Vegas cabaret show brings a touch of glitz and glamour to the Bay Area. This dynamically staged musical is filled with choreographed theatrics, golden oldies, treasured standards and more. Featuring Broadway musical-style lighting and sound, this revue of songs from the 1930s to today is performed by a 17-member cast and orchestra.
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EXIT Theatre (Taylor Street) (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Oct. 24 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
Saturday, Oct. 25 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
and 17 more dates.
Full Price: $15.00 - $30.00 Our Price: $7.50 - $15.00*
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Cutting Ball Theater presents Victims of Duty, from master of absurdism, Eugène Ionesco. A couple enjoys a quiet evening at home in their Parisian apartment where "nothing ever happens," when a detective enters, claiming that he is trying to track down the previous tenant. What starts as a simple interrogation quickly becomes a mind-bending journey.
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The Marsh San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, Oct. 18 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, Oct. 19 @ 3:00pm
and 6 more dates.
Full Price: $15.00 Our Price:
$7.50*
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Award-winning performer and San Francisco Bay Area favorite Wayne Harris stars in A May Day Parade, a tale centered on his lifelong love of marching bands. Harris portrays a Baptist preacher, three generations on a porch, a four-man bass drum ensemble, 12 rather large "letter" girls bumping and grinding down a midtown boulevard, and the 100-member Pleasant Green Missionary Baptist Church Drum & Bugle Corps.
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Theatre Rhinoceros (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, Oct. 23 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Oct. 24 @ 8:00pm
and 8 more dates.
Full Price: $12.00 Our Price: $6.00*
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Theatre Rhino and Grooviness Productions present His Heart Belongs to Me, a new play by Jerry Metzker. The unexpected death of his beloved partner sends a gay man's life on a tailspin that requires all of his inner reserves of strength to overcome.
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Off-Market Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, Oct. 18 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price:
$10.00*
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An outrageous series of tragi-comedy vignettes exploring the mania and pathos of modern relationships as they are affected by growing up in addictive, dysfunctional, or otherwise nutso families. Family Baggage is a moment in time of heartfelt hilarity, compassion and absurdity.
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Stage Werx (San Francisco, CA)
Sunday, Oct. 19 @ 7:00pm
Sunday, Oct. 26 @ 7:00pm
and 3 more dates.
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price:
$10.00*
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Enzo Lombard finally had everything—a dream job, a great Manhattan apartment and 11% body fat. It would all be gone in just a few weeks. Hear his comic tales about the craziest situations you can imagine, from a bus-riding chicken to the karaoke machine sounds of a Filipino transvestite.
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The Marsh San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Oct. 24 @ 8:00pm
and 3 more dates.
Full Price: $35.00 Our Price: $17.50*
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Gundlach Bundschu, California's oldest family-owned and operated winery, is celebrating its sesquicentennial throughout 2008 at the winery and across the nation by putting wine on center stage with the creation of Towle's Hill, an original, one-man play performed by Mark Kenward and directed by David Ford.
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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Novellus Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, Nov. 6 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Nov. 7 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, Nov. 8 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $30.00 Our Price: $15.00*
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Continuous City weaves together three story lines, including the journey of a traveling father and his daughter back home, tethered and transformed by speed, hypermodernity and failing cell phones. Featuring an interactive website and film clips taken in and around San Francisco, Continuous City illuminates our ever-increasing mash-up of global and local lives, of our real and networked experiences.
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The Clubhouse @ SF Comedy College (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, Oct. 25 @ 7:00pm
Sunday, Oct. 26 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: SOLD OUT*
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The smash L.A. hit that opened in 2006 and has been seen and heard on VH1, FOX and NPR comes to the Bay Area. All About Walken stars nine actors, male and female, of diverse ethnicities and ages, giving their takes on Walken through monologues, scenes, improv, music, dance and more. The show evokes moments from many of the unique actor's films, TV appearances and music videos.
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Next Stage Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, Oct. 18 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, Oct. 19 @ 2:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price: $12.50*
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Multi Ethnic Theater presents the premiere production of two short plays by newly discovered West Coast playwright, Ed Ballou. Return from Bird Island is the story of a family of sea-going settlers in the year 1900 struggling for survival. The Glimmer is about an alcoholic couple (a half-blind ex-boxer and his critical yet nurturing wife) battling their pasts and each other.
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Bayfront Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 8:00pm (All-Male Cast)
Saturday, Oct. 25 @ 8:00pm (All-Female Cast)
Full Price: $15.00 Our Price:
$7.50*
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BATS Improv, the Bay Area's favorite improvisational theatre company, presents a night of improvised Shakespeare. In this completely improvised Elizabethan play, the audience supplies the title and the story takes off from there — plot, characters and more are made up right there on the spot using Shakespearean language and themes.
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AlterTheater (San Rafael, CA)
Thursday, Oct. 16 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
and 5 more dates.
Full Price: $15.00 - $25.00 Our Price: $7.50 - $12.50*
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AlterTheater presents the the world premiere of American Whup-Ass by New York playwright Justin Warner. A candidate for senator finds himself challenged to a wrestling match on national television. In between lifting weights and training sessions with the Iron Buddha, he's ducking talk show hosts and trying to save the planet (or at least the state of Nevada) from toxic sludge.
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