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October 2026
TODAYOCT 23Fri
Performers and audience inside The Soiled Dove’s Tortona Big Top.
The Soiled Dove★
Aug 7 – Nov 7
Radium Presents
Radium Runway, Alameda
TODAYOCT 23Fri
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 23Fri
Dear San Francisco
Dear San Francisco: The Intimate Circus Experience
Aug 22 – Jan 10, 2027
SF Bay Area | Fever
Club Fugazi, San Francisco
TODAYOCT 23Fri
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 23Fri
Peter Pan Goes Wrong
Peter Pan Goes Wrong
Sep 26 – Nov 28
San Francisco Playhouse
TODAYOCT 23Fri
Dracula
Dracula
Oct 7 – Nov 1
Theatreworks Silicon Valley
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
TODAYOCT 23Fri
Promotional artwork for Gutenberg! The Musical! at Hillbarn Theatre
Gutenberg! The Musical!
Oct 8 – Nov 1
Hillbarn Theatre, Foster City
TODAYOCT 23Fri
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 23Fri
World Premiere of Every Saturday Night
World Premiere of Every Saturday Night
Oct 10 – Nov 1
SFBATCO
The Strand Theater, San Francisco
TODAYOCT 23Fri
Oh, Mary!
Oh, Mary!
Oct 13 – Nov 1
Curran Theatre, San Francisco
TODAYOCT 23Fri
The Empire Strips Back: A Burlesque Parody
The Empire Strips Back: A Burlesque Parody
Oct 15 – Nov 15
SF Bay Area | Fever
Victoria Theatre, San Francisco
TODAYOCT 23Fri
Illustration for San Francisco Opera's Manon
Manon
Oct 15 – Nov 1
San Francisco Opera
War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco
TODAYOCT 23Fri
A Case for the Existence of God
A Case for the Existence of God
Oct 17 – Nov 15
New Conservatory Theatre Center, San Francisco
TODAYOCT 23Fri
Liberation
Liberation
Oct 23 – Nov 29
Berkeley Rep
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
TODAYOCT 23Fri
Invisible Atlas
October 23–25
Ranko Ogura Dance
Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco
Oct
24
Sat
Thrill-O-Ween
Thrill-O-Ween
October 24
Chase Center
Thrive City, San Francisco
Oct
24
Sat
Portrait collage from the official Black Panther Party Film Series artwork at AAMLO.
Black Panther Party Film Series★
October 24
AAMLO | African American Museum & Library at Oakland
African American Museum and Library at Oakland (AAMLO)
Oct
24
Sat
Silent Shorts Program
Silent Shorts Program
October 24
YBCA | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Oct
25
Sun
Cover artwork for Akira Kurosawa’s Ran, with red Japanese calligraphy and colorful brushstrokes on a white panel centered on black.
OTP Film Club: Ran
October 25
Oakland Theater Project
Oakland Theater Project at FLAX art & design
Oct
27
Tue
Found Company: A Spontaneous Staged Reading — submitted event image.
Found Company: A Spontaneous Staged Reading
October 27
Mission StageWorks
Eclectic Box, San Francisco
Oct
28
Wed
The Moors at LeFevre Theatre
The Moors
Oct 28 – Nov 1
Saint Mary’s College of California
LeFevre Theatre, Moraga
Oct
29
Thu
Promotional artwork for Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors
Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors
Oct 29 – Nov 15
Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek
Oct
30
Fri
Bluey’s Big Play
Bluey’s Big Play
Oct 30 – Nov 1
Broadway San Jose
San Jose Center for the Performing Arts
December 2026
Dec
2
Wed
Alice, Formerly of Wonderland
Alice, Formerly of Wonderland
December 2–27
Theatreworks Silicon Valley
Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto