Performance
AWAKENING: A Constellation of Stories, Song, and Film
The Foundry 835 Carleton Street, Berkeley, CA, United StatesJoin us in the loft of an old steel foundry for an original supersaga, inspired by folk tradition, silent movies, the Frankenstein myth, Shakespeare, and the works of the futurist Khlebnikov.
Adventures of A Black Girl: Traveling While Black
Brava Theater 2781 24th Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesTraveling While Black is part travelogue, part history lesson, part stand-up comedy and based on a lifetime of travel as a touring artist. Come see the show that had audiences screaming for more!
Year of the Rooster
Impact Theatre at La Val's Subterranean 1834 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United StatesOdysseus Rex is having quite a year. Quite a part of a year, anyway - Odie’s only eight months old. But even at his young age, he’s mad as hell and wants to fight his way to the top. Did we mention Odie’s a rooster? Odie’s trainer, fast-food cashier Gil, has been raising Odie in a bid to return to the horrific world of cockfighting, his only chance to win at something in life. To get there, though, Gil and Odie have to survive Dickie the cockfight promoter, Gil’s mom, and Philipa, Gil’s young McDonald’s manager who’s got big dreams of her very own. A gut-busting yet poignant portrait of the price of ambition, this is the must-see show of the fall.
FEAR.
Un-Scripted Theater Company 2nd Floor, 533 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesThere are few things scarier than the unknown. This October, the stars align for ONE NIGHT of improvised horror as the master storytellers of Un-Scripted Theater Company spin audience suggestions into tales of the uncanny and the macabre. Experience first-hand the excitement and terror of a horror story that only live theater can create.
Alice In Antarctica with Australian Harpist Alice Giles
JCCSF 3200 California Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn this multimedia performance, harpist Alice Giles commemorates the First Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-14, using acoustic and electric harp, spoken and sung voice, recorded spoken voice, and visual and audio material.
Ego: a play by Carl Djerassi
Z Space 450 Florida Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesA famous writer obsessed with reputation fakes his death in order to read his obituaries. His psychiatrist knows what's going on, but can't tell anyone, not even the writer's wife. But soon she's on his trail anyway, as his 'death' ignites a train of outrageous events.
Legend Of Banbury Cross
Lesher Center for the Arts 1601 Civic Drive, Walnut Creek, CA, United StatesIn a land many of us thought was only in make-believe, we meet new friends with Mother Goose as our guide.
Insufficiency: a play by Carl Djerassi
Z Space 450 Florida Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesThis delightful new play is a comedy of academic manners, mystery, and suspense that exposes the passions, petty jealousies, and foolish behavior that scientists and academics so often love to indulge in.
Shocktoberfest 15: The Bloody Debutante
The Hypnodrome 575 10th Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesOur latest extravaganza of terror and titillation includes an Edgar Allan Poe classic from Le Theatre du Grand Guignol, Isabel’s Zombie Holocaust, The Bloody Debutante, and Deathwrite.
Ransom, Texas
The Flight Deck 1540 Broadway, Oakland, CA, United StatesIn a small West Texas town, two men locked in the office of a factory battle for power using whatever they've got: manipulation, mind-games, lies, and brute force. This savage, emotionally compelling two man tour-de-force will blow your socks off.