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October 2026
TODAYOCT 17Sat
Performers and audience inside The Soiled Dove’s Tortona Big Top.
The Soiled Dove★
Aug 7 – Nov 7
Radium Presents
Radium Runway, Alameda
TODAYOCT 17Sat
The Jury Experience: The Killer AI
The Jury Experience: Killer AI — Who Pays the Price?
Aug 22 – Jan 9, 2027
SF Bay Area | Fever
Brava Theater Center, San Francisco
TODAYOCT 17Sat
Dear San Francisco
Dear San Francisco: The Intimate Circus Experience
Aug 22 – Jan 10, 2027
SF Bay Area | Fever
Club Fugazi, San Francisco
TODAYOCT 17Sat
Bobby McFerrin performing with a microphone
Bobby McFerrin and MOTION: Circlesongs
Aug 24 – Oct 26
The Freight, Berkeley
TODAYOCT 17Sat
Candlelight: Coldplay & Imagine Dragons in San Francisco
Candlelight: Coldplay & Imagine Dragons
Aug 28 – Feb 26, 2027
SF Bay Area | Fever
St. Ignatius Church, San Francisco
TODAYOCT 17Sat
Musical Story Time @The Freight
Musical Story Time with the Berkeley Public Library Story Time Band
Sep 3 – Dec 3
The Freight, Berkeley
TODAYOCT 17Sat
Candlelight: Coldplay & Imagine Dragons in San Jose
Candlelight: Coldplay & Imagine Dragons★
Sep 5 – Dec 4
SF Bay Area | Fever
Hammer Theatre, San Jose
TODAYOCT 17Sat
Little Shop of Horrors
Little Shop of Horrors
Sep 12 – Oct 18
New Conservatory Theatre Center, San Francisco
TODAYOCT 17Sat
Ballet of Lights: Sleeping Beauty in San Francisco
Ballet of Lights: Sleeping Beauty in a Sparkling Show
Sep 20 – Feb 27, 2027
SF Bay Area | Fever
Brava Theater Center, San Francisco
TODAYOCT 17Sat
Six performers pose with luggage as a man leaps with one hand raised.
Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest
Sep 22 – Oct 18
A.C.T. | American Conservatory Theater
Toni Rembe Theater, San Francisco
TODAYOCT 17Sat
The USS Haunted Hornet event poster featuring a skull above an aircraft carrier
The USS Haunted Hornet
Sep 24 – Nov 1
USS Hornet Sea, Air and Space Museum, Alameda
TODAYOCT 17Sat
The Fall Show
The Fall Show
Sep 25 – Oct 18
Shotgun Players
The Ashby Stage @ Shotgun Players, Berkeley
TODAYOCT 17Sat
AURA: An Immersive Odyssey of Breathtaking Proportions
AURA at San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral★
Sep 26 – Oct 31
SF Bay Area | Fever
Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
TODAYOCT 17Sat
Peter Pan Goes Wrong
Peter Pan Goes Wrong
Sep 26 – Nov 28
San Francisco Playhouse
TODAYOCT 17Sat
José Villalobos & Regina Saura On View at Caldwell Snyder Gallery
Sep 30 – Oct 31
Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco
TODAYOCT 17Sat
The Phantom of the Opera — San Jose
The Phantom of the Opera — San Jose
October 7–18
Broadway San Jose
San Jose Center for the Performing Arts
TODAYOCT 17Sat
Dracula
Dracula
Oct 7 – Nov 1
Theatreworks Silicon Valley
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
TODAYOCT 17Sat
Promotional artwork for Gutenberg! The Musical! at Hillbarn Theatre
Gutenberg! The Musical!
Oct 8 – Nov 1
Hillbarn Theatre, Foster City
TODAYOCT 17Sat
Audience inside the Avalon Ballroom during the Catalina Island JazzTrax Festival
Catalina Island JazzTrax Festival
October 8–18
TODAYOCT 17Sat
The Black Cat Hotel: A Host of Vampires — submitted event image.
The Black Cat Hotel: A Host of Vampires
October 8–31
The Palace Theater, San Francisco
TODAYOCT 17Sat
Litquake, San Francisco’s Literary Festival, October 8–24, 2026.
2026 Litquake Festival★
October 8–24
Litquake Foundation
TODAYOCT 17Sat
The Brothers Size
The Brothers Size
Oct 9 – Nov 1
AASC | African-American Shakespeare Company
Theater 33, San Francisco
TODAYOCT 17Sat
Smuin Contemporary Ballet: French Kiss
French Kiss
October 9–18
Smuin Contemporary Ballet
Cowell Theater at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco
December 2026
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Alice, Formerly of Wonderland
Alice, Formerly of Wonderland
December 2–27
Theatreworks Silicon Valley
Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto