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June 1 kicks off Pride Month, but we’ve got a lovely bouquet of rainbow-licious arts and nightlife events in the last week of May as well. Get going out.

From Burning Man to South of Market nightlife, the American Conservatory Theater production pays homage to Bay Area culture and queer history.

Director Sam Pinkleton’s cast list reveals Bay Area actors anew, but for potential they’ve always had. 

The announcements are in for the 2023-24 theater seasons in San Francisco and Berkeley, and after some sputtering through the last couple years of a pandemic, the show schedule finally looks very full once more.

Soho Rep presents the world premiere of multidisciplinary theater-maker and “imaginary historian” Jillian Walker's The Whitney Album, a meditation on the artist's relationship to Whitney Houston's work and personal life, and perceptions of both in the American imagination. The production concludes a 2022-23 Soho Rep season consisting entirely of works commissioned by the organization

Zachary Stewart|Noah Diaz’s plays fascinates and confounds in this Roundabout production. ||Off-Broadway|

The creative team for the Off-Broadway play explains the big moment in the show that's gotten them applause every night.

Top stories include new queens joining Six the Musical next month! Plus, The Music Man has extended its run by two weeks, Come From Away will have a re-imagined production in Gander, and more!

In a new Off Broadway play, Linda Lavin shines as a woman paid to say what an ailing young man cannot.

Noah Diaz's new comedy about illness and death takes a trip to Oz and Kansas