Christmas
The Great Dickens Christmas Fair!
Cow Palace Exhibition Halls 2600 Geneva Avenue, Daly City, CA, United StatesThe bustling streets of London, immortalized for all time by the mighty pen of Charles Dickens, form the living backdrop of your excursion into Christmas Past. You are a living part of a Victorian Christmas card come to life!
Holiday Tree Walk
Roaring Camp Railroads 5401 Graham Hill Road, Felton, CA, United StatesGet in the holiday spirit by bringing family and friends to ride Roaring Camp’s daytime steam train to Bear Mountain. At the summit, guests may sip hot cider and delight in viewing a tree-lined walk of beautifully decorated holiday trees.
Santa Cruz Holiday Lights Train
Roaring Camp Railroads 5401 Graham Hill Road, Felton, CA, United StatesVintage excursion cars, adorned with thousands of colorful lights, roll through the streets of Santa Cruz as passengers lend their voices to holiday carols, sip hot spiced cider, and listen to musical entertainment while Santa visits the little ones, or the young at heart!
Tilden Park Christmas Fantasy In the Woods
Tilden Park Merry Go Round Shasta Road, Berkeley, CA, United StatesThe Annual Christmas Fantasy experience at Tilden Park features an extensive array of outdoor holiday light displays and decorations covering the merry go round and surrounding grounds.
Christmas Revels – A Theatrical Celebration of the Winter Solstice
Scottish Rite Center 1547 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA, United StatesThis year’s Revels opens in the 1930s, where our protagonist meets a mystery man who sends him on a journey east to Appalachia, south through the bayous of Louisiana, north to the mid-Atlantic states, and finally westward ho to California!
Jolly Juliana – An Original Melodrama and Holiday Vaudeville
G.K. Hardt Theatre 52 W. 6th Street, Santa Rosa, CA, United StatesA delightful, heart-warming, extravaganza commemorating the roots of American theatre; sing-a-long, hiss, boo and cheer for a villain, hero and heroine.
It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
Town Hall Theatre 3535 School Street, Lafayette, CA, United StatesOne of the greatest stories ever told gets a new twist as this beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life as a live 1940s radio broadcast. With the help of an ensemble that brings a few dozen characters to the stage, the story of idealistic George Bailey unfolds as he faces great challenges one fateful Christmas Eve.
Center REP’s A Christmas Carol
Lesher Center for the Arts 1601 Civic Drive, Walnut Creek, CA, United StatesBrimming with music and dance, love and laughter, spectacular special effects and scary ghosts, it's no wonder the critics have called it ‘THE Christmas Carol to see in the Bay Area.’ Join the thousands who make this theatrical event a part of their annual holiday traditions.
It’s A Wonderful Life – a live radio play
Tides Theatre 533 Sutter Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA, United StatesThis beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life as a live 1940s radio broadcast. With the help of an ensemble that brings a few dozen characters to the stage, the story of idealistic George Bailey unfolds as he considers ending his life one fateful Christmas Eve.
A Scottish Christmas with Stewart Tartan Pipes and Drums
Transfiguration Episcopal Church 3900 Alameda De Las Pulgas, San Mateo, CA, United StatesYou are cordially invited to a Free Concert to celebrate the season, presented by the Stewart Tartan Pipes and Drums of San Francisco. Bagpipes and Drums, Scottish Fiddlers, Highland Dancing, Scottish Ballads.