Smuin’s joyful holiday tradition has returned to live in-theater after 21 months, spreading yuletide cheer at theatres around the Bay with its signature showcase of classical and contemporary dances set to delightfully festive tunes. “Smuin’s The Christmas Ballet,” currently performing through December 24 in Mountain View, Carmel, and San Francisco, celebrates the holidays with two colorful acts highlighting the best of both worlds: beautiful classical ballet set to beloved carols, and red-hot contemporary numbers set to pop favorites. Its 2022 edition features dances ranging from ballet, tap, and jazz, to swing and more, plus the unwrapping of two world premieres.

     This year's wildly popular, family-friendly experience features hundreds of new displays including larger-than-life animal lanterns throughout the Oakland Zoo. Enjoy a walkabout through the land down under with kangaroos and koalas, icons of the California coastline including whales, otters, and jellies, exotic animals of the tropical rainforest, and a trip to the past with a towering t-rex and a megalodon shark tunnel!

     The Winchester Mystery House has announced a lineup of special events that will take place throughout the holiday season.

     “The holidays are a very special time at Winchester Mystery House,” said General Manager Walter Magnuson. “Many people don’t realize that during Sarah Winchester’s lifetime, the spookiest day of the year was actually Christmas Eve. Families and neighbors would gather around the fire in shadow filled story circles to hear tales of specters and the supernatural.  We hope that our guests make a visit to the Winchester Mystery House part of their holiday tradition.”

     Dress up and join the party with “Disney Junior Live On Tour: Costume Palooza,” coming to the San Jose Civic Auditorium on December 8, then to the Luther Burbank Center in Santa Rosa on December 12.

     California Symphony recently celebrated the orchestra’s largest section, and its melodic heart and soul, with “All Things Strings,” conducted by California Symphony’s Music Director Donato Cabrera, which performed November 5 -6, 2022 at the Hofmann Theatre at Lesher Center for the Arts (1601 Civic Drive) in Walnut Creek, CA.

     Six mysterious guests assemble for a dinner party at Boddy Manor, and then become suspects when their host turns up deceased. But who is the killer? Ah, that’s the question in Center Repertory Company’s farce-meets-murder-mystery theatre stage adaptation of the classic Hasbro board game “Clue,” currently performing through November 20, 2022 at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, CA.

Back by popular demand, “The Book of Mormon” — which played two previous sold-out and record-breaking engagements — returns to San Jose’s Center for the Performing Arts (255 S. Almaden Blvd.) for a limited engagement beginning Tuesday, November 22 and running through Sunday, November 27, 2022.

Music Icon Jose Feliciano to Make Appearance at Bankhead Theatre as Livermore Valley Arts Celebrates It’s 15th Anniversary Season.

BroadwaySF has announced the upcoming stage production of “Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations,” to be performed November 9 through December 4, 2022 at the Golden Gate Theatre (1 Taylor Street), San

The Smuin Contemporary Ballet recently kicked off its 29th season with “Dance Series 1” featuring a long-awaited World Premiere by brilliant Cuban choreographer Osnel Delgado, whose work Bay Area audiences were able to experience for the first time in ‘The Turntable.’

David Greig’s acclaimed play “Dunsinane” is currently performing through October 16, 2022 at the Marin Theatre Company. Being produced for the first time by an American team, Dunsinane is a captivating, imagined sequel to Shakespeare’s Macbeth that explores one man's attempt to restore peace in a country consumed by war. Macbeth is dead.

BroadwaySF, part of the Ambassador Theatre Group, has announced that tickets for “Christmas with C.S. Lewis,” starring David Payne, will play the A.C.T. Strand Theatre (1127 Market Street) for 6 performances November 18-20, 2022.

An exciting new exhibit, “Shape, Form, and Color: Modern Expressionism,” will be on display at the UNCLE Credit Union Art Gallery at the Bankhead Theater in Downtown Livermore, CA. from October 6 through December 4, 2022.

Center Repertory Company of Walnut Creek, CA, launches its 2022-23 season with the hit musical play “Always… Patsy Cline,” one of the most entertaining shows one could hope to experience.

The Contra Costa Civic Theatre opens its 63rd season with the glorious Lerner and Loewe musical “Camelot,” playing through October 9….

“Spectacular” is the one word that describes BroadwaySF’s production of “Moulin Rouge! The Musical,” currently playing at The Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco through November 5, 2022….

Livermore Valley Arts begins its 2022-23 season with star music icons. From blues master Charlie Musselwhite and his stripped-down music that comes from the soul on Saturday, September 17…