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Oakland, CA 94612


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Playwrights Foundation Announces Cohort And Finalists For Resident Playwrights Program


by A.A. Cristi - February 15, 2024

Playwrights Foundation announces cohort and finalists for Resident Playwrights Program, offering a two-year residency to Bay Area playwrights for artistic growth and career advancement. Meet the selected playwrights: Cat Brooks, Ruben Grijalva, Sloka Krishnan, and Leigh M. Marshall....

West Coast Premiere of NOLLYWOOD DREAMS to be Presented at San Francisco Playhouse


by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 24, 2023

Get ready for an unforgettable theatrical experience as NOLLYWOOD DREAMS takes the stage at San Francisco Playhouse. Find out all the details about the show, including dates and ticket information, and secure your seats today. Don't miss out on this exciting event!...

The Black Arts Movement Business District, Community Development Corporation Presents 4th BAMBDFEST


by A.A. Cristi - August 03, 2023

Art in all of its many forms and manifestations come together to create a blend of community events, live music, activism, entrepreneurship and performances during the month of August as part of BAMBDFEST, an international event hosted by the Black Arts Movement Business District, Community Developm...

Lower Bottom Playaz Has a New Home in the Black Arts Movement Business District


by A.A. Cristi - August 03, 2023

Culture is what makes the world go round in Oakland. It's why folks flock here, and its why people stay. Unfortunately, making art and preserving culture in The Town is difficult and sometimes miraculous - especially if you are Black. As the politics and demographics of Oakland have shifted, pushing...

The Lower Bottom Playaz To Close 24th Season With August Wilson's RADIO GOLF


by A.A. Cristi - August 03, 2023

Oakland's oldest Black theater company ends its 24th season with August Wilson's final installment in his American Century Cycle....

Oakland's First Poet Laureate Joins Cast Of Roe V. Wade Theater Project


by Stephi Wild - October 17, 2022

Remote Theater, an award-winning online theater company born at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, today announced that local theater artist Ayodole Nzinga - Oakland's first Poet Laureate - has joined the cast of THE CHOICE, an online anthology of seven short plays about the rise and fall of Roe...

Oakland Theater Project Presents Bay Area Premiere of Aishah Rahman's THE MOJO AND THE SAYSO


by Stephi Wild - May 11, 2022

Up next in its 2022 season, Oakland Theater Project (OTP) presents the first-ever Bay Area production of the 1989 play The Mojo and the Sayso by Aishah Rahman, a writer, professor and active participant in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. ...

Past Shows

Radio Golf
Radio Golf
8/10 - 8/27/2023


RADIO GOLF wraps The Lower Bottom Playaz’s (LBP) Season 24: Songs Like Home, with an examination of what it means for Black people to make ...

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Everybody’s Talking About Jamie in San Francisco / Bay Area Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
Ray of Light Theatre (6/1 - 6/23)

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She Kills Monsters in San Francisco / Bay Area She Kills Monsters
Plethos Productions (9/6 - 9/22)
Best Available in San Francisco / Bay Area Best Available
Shotgun Players at The Ashby Stage (5/18 - 6/16)
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley presents “Being Alive: A Sondheim Celebration” in San Francisco / Bay Area TheatreWorks Silicon Valley presents “Being Alive: A Sondheim Celebration”
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts (6/5 - 6/30)
San Francisco Playhouse 4-Ticket FlexPass in San Francisco / Bay Area San Francisco Playhouse 4-Ticket FlexPass
San Francisco Playhouse (11/16 - 9/7)
The Marsh Berkeley presents “Breed or Bust” in San Francisco / Bay Area The Marsh Berkeley presents “Breed or Bust”
The Marsh Berkeley (6/8 - 6/8)
San Francisco Playhouse presents “Evita” in San Francisco / Bay Area San Francisco Playhouse presents “Evita”
San Francisco Playhouse (6/27 - 9/7)
San Francisco Playhouse presents “The Glass Menagerie” in San Francisco / Bay Area San Francisco Playhouse presents “The Glass Menagerie”
San Francisco Playhouse (5/2 - 6/15)
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