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We’re not exactly dashing through the snow to get to this week’s arts and nightlife events, but you’re welcome to don your gay apparel before heading outside.

British theater director Emma Rice, whose work has delighted Bay Area audiences for over a decade, has brought her latest work to Berkeley Repertory Theater, and its as visually stunning, emotionally rich, and intricately staged as everything Rice has done previously.

We’re not exactly dashing through the snow to get to this week’s arts and nightlife events, but you’re welcome to don your gay apparel before heading outside.

We’re not exactly dashing through the snow to get to this week’s arts and nightlife events, but you’re welcome to don your gay apparel before heading outside.

 La Jolla Playhouse has announced the first five productions of its 2023/2024 season, including the world-premiere musical The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical, music and lyrics by Joe Iconis, book by Joe Iconis and Gregory S. Moss, directed by Tony Award winner Christopher Ashley.

The creative team adapting F. Scott Fitzgerald’s landmark novel The Great Gatsby into a Broadway-bound stage musical has been announced. It will feature music & lyrics by Tony Award nominees Nathan Tysen & Jason Howland, and a book by Jonathan Larson Grant winner Kait Kerrigan, helmed by award-winning director Marc Bruni.

There’s a super-abundance of energy on Berkeley stages this holiday season. Shotgun Players’ "Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812" and Wise Children’s "Wuthering Heights" at the Berkeley Rep each compress the soul of an epic literary masterwork.

There’s a super-abundance of energy on Berkeley stages this holiday season. Shotgun Players’ "Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812" and Wise Children’s "Wuthering Heights" at the Berkeley Rep each compress the soul of an epic literary masterwork.

AIN’T TOO Proud is the musical show following the remarkable journey of The Temptations from the streets of Detroit to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and it’s heading to the UK next year.

Goodman Theatre kicks off the new year with a new play: Christina Anderson’s poignant, transporting and quietly subversive story of racial justice, political legacy and family forgiveness, The ripple, the wave that carried me home—winner of the prestigious 2022 Horton Foote Prize, awarded to “an original work of exceptional quality.”