Now through August 25, the Marsh presents the inaugural In Front of Your Eyes Performance Festival. This series of live performances will present developing work by women and nonbinary performers, with new solo works by Marga Gomez and Tina D'Elia.

Any local resident knows that San Francisco and the Bay Area offer a plethora of arts events, performing companies, and favored venues. Here are the best of winners and runners up voted by our readers.

Next summer, a new musical, "Five & Dime" will premiere at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. This month, Bay Area theater fans can get a close-up look at the show in the late stages of its gestation.

"The Girl from the North Country," on a national touring musical that begins a three-week run at the Golden Theatre on July 30, can help change perceptions of Bob Dylan's music.

Shapiro, best known as a co-host of National Public Radio's newscast "All Things Considered," will vividly demonstrate both his values and skills in "Thank You for Listening," his storytelling and music show, playing in San Jose and SF August 7 & 8.

As George Elrod rose through the ranks of Chicago's comedy scene over the past decade, he created countless characters in improv and sketches. He performs with The Second City touring company, now playing at the Berkeley Rep.

This week, two wildly different Bay Area productions offer new spins on icons of 20th-century pop culture. Here's a look at Drunk Drag Broadway's salacious take on Disney cartoonery, and "Mrs. Doubtfire"'s musicalized nanny buffoonery.

Painfully funny and crackled with intelligent ambiguity, "The Lifespan of a Fact," now playing at Berkeley's Aurora Theatre, is but a single link in an unlikely lineage of artistic and philosophical responses to a suicide that took place 22 years ago.

Now through September 8, San Francisco Mime Troupe will perform "American Dreams," a new musical that opens their 65th season. The political show is a contemplation of what the future of the United States and the world might look like.

After living in New York for the first 60 years of his life, Bronx-born actor Peter Gregus moved to the Bay Area last fall. He's making his local stage debut as Juan Peron in the new production of "Evita" now playing at the San Francisco Playhouse.

For many Bay Area theatergoers, the biggest question on Broadway's biggest night isn't which shows will win Tony Awards, but which shows will we get to see on national tours or in local productions over the next couple of years?

When it premiered 40 years ago in September 1984, few realized how groundbreaking "The AIDS Show: Artists Involved with Death and Survival," a theatrical production produced by Theatre Rhinoceros, would be. A new documentary proves its relevance today.

For the first time in English, "A Last Supper of Queer Apostles" has been recently released. It is a collection of Chilean writer, activist and performer Pedro Lemebel's innovative essays known as "crónicas."

The talent at Transcendence Theatre Company's concerts consists of dozens of singers and dancers who regularly appear on Broadway and West End stages but sweep into Sonoma County in several waves each summer.