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Shopping! The Musical, by award-winning writer Morris Bobrow, is San Francisco's longest-running original show. A hit since its 2006 premiere, Shopping is a musical comedy revue about everyone's second favorite (in some cases, favorite) activity. Hilarious songs and sketches about the frustrations, annoyances and occasional joys of shopping. Learn more...

Enjoy a beautiful sunset on the water and then return to the shimmering city lights while enjoying a delicious dinner prepared fresh onboard by Hornblower's chefs. Spend the rest of the cruise dancing to live music. The trip includes a four-course dinner, cash bar, live band, and breathtaking bay views. Learn more...

Teatro ZinZanni introduces their newest show, Brevé - Brunch with a Twist!. Enjoy a delicious three-course brunch while watching an abbreviated mid-day spectacular performance of cirque, cabaret, music and more that has made Teatro ZinZanni a hit in San Francisco. Learn more...

Rick Evans, whose San Francisco Architecture Walking Tour is a long-running hit on Goldstar, presents his newest tour. The Chinatown Walking Tour is a two-hour journey through this famous neighborhood, presenting fascinating facts about its history and architecture. Covering legendary and obscure landmarks, the tour is designed to fascinate and inform visitors and locals alike. Learn more...

Sample the wines of Napa and Sonoma Wine Country on a full-day tour. The Wine Lover's Tour is a semi-private, semi-customizable tour, which will visit 4 to 6 wineries. Lunch and wine tasting fees are not included in the price. See the More Details section for more information. Learn more...

Secret Improv Society's popular theatrical shows blend improvised theater, comedy and music to produce a totally unique form of entertainment. San Francisco's best improvisers, comedians and musicians join the quick-witted cast in applying their unique creative process to whatever the audience throws their way. Learn more...

No additives, no preservatives--just good stand-up comedy. This comedy showcase features some of the best comedians in town, including those local favorites from the bigger clubs -- without the two-drink minimum of those other clubs. Lineups change every week, so check below for lineup details. Learn more...

Be a guest at this hysterical satirical Italian-American wedding, and you won't just see a show -- you'll be a part of it! The fun starts with the happy couple's wedding ceremony, then it's time for the all-inclusive reception featuring a family-style pasta dinner, cash bar, wedding cake, dancing and lots of laughs! Learn more...

The San Francisco Comedy College presents The Stand Up Project at the Clubhouse. See live stand-up comedy by SFCC graduates, now making their names as rising stars in the Bay Area comedy scene. The show includes a different lineup every week, plus a weekly news report and improv by FRISCO Improv. Learn more...

Immerse yourself in a world of fun and mystery while seeing the city from an entirely new perspective. Incorporating the best of interactive theatre and sketch comedy, Shanghai San Francisco is a live choose-your-own-adventure. Instead of sitting in a theatre, you embark on a mission through the city, seeking out actors on the streets, in charming bars and swanky restaurants. Learn more...

Explore the Gothic side of San Francisco's Nob Hill with this incredible Vampire Tour, led by Mina Harker, a real vampiress. Not gory or dark, this tour combines San Francisco history with vampire lore and humor, and has been delighting Goldstar Events' customers since January 2004! Learn more...

The Marsh presents Ann Randolph's Loveland. The award-winning solo performer (Squeeze Box) has been compared to the late Gilda Radner by Mel Brooks. In this hilarious, deeply moving show, Randolph plays a women taking the greatest journey of her life: a trip from Los Angeles to Ohio. Learn more...

This hit-filled R&B revue at J'LaChic Theatre 39 traces a narrated musical journey from the early days of Motown to the classic soul sounds of today. The songs of Stevie Wonder, the Temptations, the Four Tops, Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross and more are performed by Bay Area trio Top Shelf, accompanied by female vocalists and dancers. Learn more...

The Marsh presents Don Reed in East 14th: Tales of a Reluctant Player. This hilarious and poignant solo show is the story of Reed's boyhood in 1970s Oakland, torn between his strict, church-going mother's upbringing and his admiration of his father, a pimp. East 14th was an Off-Broadway hit, nominated for two 2008 NAACP Theatre Awards. Learn more...

The Comedy Club at Castagnola's presents top stand-up comics. Located in Castagnola's Restaurant, a historic venue overlooking Fisherman's Wharf, the show features the best rising stars on the Bay Area comedy scene, plus hilarious headliners from San Francisco and beyond. Learn more...

Joshua Nelson performs his unique take on American gospel music at the Osher Marin JCC. Championed by Oprah Winfrey, Nelson incorporates Jewish religious lyrics and meanings into his soulful songs. Also on the bill are the Red Hot Chachkas, who combine original klezmer-style tunes with traditional Eastern European music. Learn more...

Beautiful Thing is the story of two working class London teenage boys who fall in love, the shy Jamie and the charming and handsome next door neighbor, Ste. The boys' attraction to one another is quickened by Ste's difficult home life and the well-meaning intentions of Jamie's mother. Her love and patience are tested as she finds out the truth about the boys' unexpected relationship. Learn more...

Join Dorothy and Toto and their friends on a wild and wonderful adventure over the rainbow and through the Land of Oz. Directed by award-winning Jon Tracy with musical direction by Phil Gorman, Berkeley Playhouse's The Wizard of Oz features bungee-jumping monkeys, glowing orbs, clowning and classic shadow play. Learn more...

Jennifer Jajeh brings her comedic solo show about life as a single, Catholic, Palestinian-American woman to San Francisco. In I Heart Hamas: And Other Things I'm Afraid to Tell You, Jajeh recounts a trip back to her parents' hometown in the West Bank while weaving in an honest and funny examination of topics from dating to politics to identity. Learn more...

Two couples enjoy an evening of nonsensical conversation in a comedy considered to be one of the classics of absurdist theater. The first play penned by Eugène Ionesco, The Bald Soprano takes place in the home of the Smiths, a traditional London couple who have invited the Martins over for dinner. Their increasingly odd banter is anything but traditional, however. Learn more...

Dan Hoyle's tings dey happen is an award-winning adventure story about the year Hoyle studied oil politics in Nigeria, the "new Middle East" of oil security. Traveling alone through the swamps of the Niger Delta, he befriended militants, warlords, prostitutes and diplomats. Dan plays them all in this solo performance, which just completed a tour of Nigeria, sponsored by the U.S. State Department. Learn more...

David Mamet's two-character play invites the audience to make stunning discoveries about power, education, privilege and sexual misconduct as a series of teacher-student one-on-ones turns into intriguing and emotional drama when the teacher's tenure is threatened by accusations of sexual misconduct. Learn more...

Contra Costa Civic Theatre presents a madcap musical murder mystery farce from the authors of Ragtime. In Lucky Stiff, nerdy English shoe salesman Harry Witherspoon has a chance to inherit six million dollars from his late uncle, a casino manager from Atlantic City. But to get it, he must take his uncle's corpse on a trip to Monte Carlo. Learn more...

Cal State East Bay presents an original play by one of its faculty members. Influenced both by Shakespeare's Othello and recent events at Fort Bragg, The Iago Syndrome tells the true story of four soldiers who return home from active duty in Afghanistan and, within a matter of weeks, murder their wives. Learn more...

After winning more awards than any other show at the 2009 SF Fringe Festival, William Bivins' Pulp Scripture brings the Good Book back to life. These stories ripped from the Old Testament include tales of incest, drunkenness, human sacrifice and crowds of horny Sodomites. Pulp Scripture are the Bible stories they didn't teach you in Sunday school. Learn more...

Continuing its world premiere run at StageWerx in San Francisco, the shocking comedy The Afterlife of the Mind centers on Lydia, who is desperate to prevent her famous philosopher husband Harry from dying of a rare illness. She enlists a shady but brilliant neurosurgeon to perform a brain transplant, but a botched procedure leads her to push the limits of her love. Learn more...

Wallace Roney believes in nurturing young and talented musicians. His current quintet includes Rashaan Carter on bass, Aruan Ortiz on keyboards and 17-year-old Kush Abadey on drums, with Wallace and his brother Antoine on tenor, soprano and bass Clarinet. The infusion of new blood into the band has taken the eclectic Roney Quintet repertoire to fiery new heights. Learn more...

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Lost My Virginity is the one-woman show of Aileen Clark (part John Lequizamo, part Mike Myers), chronicling her true life story about being the whitest latinita on the planet, finding life in death and learning why you shouldn't fall in love with men who act like your father (especially if said men happen to be gay). Learn more...

Theatresports is an entertaining and engaging night of theater presented as a competition. Every show features two teams of improvisers performing a variety of scenes, quirky games and musical numbers which are scored by judges. At the end of the night, one team wins, moving closer to the title of Clash of the Heroes Tournament Championship. Learn more...

The SF Playhouse presents She Stoops to Comedy, a playful, gender-bending show by one of New York's most innovative writer/performers, David Greenspan. Set in a summer-stock production of Shakespeare's As You Like It, actress Alexandra Page schemes to woo back her estranged female lover by playing Orlando (who everyone knows is a man) opposite her lover's Rosalind. A bevy of unexpected romances ensue. Learn more...

The late Harry Chapin penned over two dozen songs for this progressive musical retelling of the Gospels of Matthew and John, transported to modern day, rural Georgia. Based on the book by civil rights activist Clarence Jordan, Cotton Patch Gospel uses a rousing bluegrass score -- performed by a one actor playing scores of roles, a live bluegrass band and three stunning singers. Learn more...

Set in 1838, As It is in Heaven explores issues of faith through the eyes of nine women in a Shaker village. When a newcomer to the community begins experiencing visions, the older members, who have seen none, begin to question their own devotion to the Way. Alternately dramatic and comic, the play reflects the simplicity of the lifestyle it depicts, and is punctuated by Shaker songs sung a cappella. Learn more...

Bay Area Rainbow Symphony presents an evening of familiar and playful music under the baton of artistic director Daniel Canosa. Works include Ravel's playful Menuet Antique, Haydn's virtuosic Sinfonia Concertante (with Bettina Mussumeli, violin, and BARS soloists), and Mendelssohn's beloved Symphony No. 4 "Italian." Learn more...

John Kolvenbach's Mrs. Whitney is the hilarious sequel to his previous play, Goldfish. What happens when a cynic by trade takes to the road in the hopes of reuniting with her one true (albeit messy) love? When her most prized possession leaves the nest, Margaret Whitney reluctantly chooses to follow her heart. Learn more...

Fresh from Broadway, Mamet's new comedy November takes a satirical stab at American politics. President Charles Smith, the most corrupt buffoon ever to sit in the Oval Office, is in the final days of his bid for re-election, but the country is a mess and his poll numbers are low. Toss in a lesbian speechwriter longing to marry her sweetheart on TV, Thanksgiving turkeys awaiting pardon, and a ton of shady back-room scheming and you've got Mamet's latest. Learn more...

The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco presents Irving Berlin's I Love a Piano. In this blockbuster musical revue, six talented singers will perform more than 60 songs. Berlin wrote many of American music's most unforgettable tunes, from "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and "There's No Business Like Show Business" to "God Bless America" and "White Christmas." Learn more...

Boxcar Theatre presents Museum. This unique work, performed in actual museums across the Bay Area, employs 38 actors to tell the story of a modern art exhibit on its final day. Aficionados, snobs, obnoxious college girls, and a disgruntled security guard observe and interact with seemingly blank canvases, an oddly compelling bowl of clothespins and more. Learn more...

The House of Blue Leaves won the 1971 critics award and the Obie award as the best American play. It is a poignant, beautifully crafted piece that takes us back to 1965 to a shabby apartment in Queens on a day that the Pope is visiting New York. Here the lives of zookeeper and aspiring songwriter Artie Shaughnessy, his aptly named wife Bananas, their soldier son and a few nuns collide with strange results. Learn more...

Diablo Ballet opens its 2009-10 season with two classic ballets and an exciting premiere. George Balanchine's Apollo, set to the music of Stravinsky was his first great artistic triumph. Acclaimed San Jose choreographer Gary Masters' Fête for Three is a celebration of pure movement set to Vivaldi's music. Diablo will also perform their 45-minute version of the great 19th-century comic ballet Coppelia. Learn more...

Nick Griffin has been doing stand-up for over 20 years. He's toured across the country, and his many TV appearances include his own half-hour Comedy Central special and five appearances on the Late Show with David Letterman. He's a hilarious performer and a consummate professional, and he headlines Punch Line Comedy Club. Learn more...

Awkward Face Improv Comedy performs a series of scenes connected around a theme. The set explores the audience suggested theme and themes that emerge through the piece. The set can include: games, monologues and just about anything possible in the improv world. Learn more...

Henry Cho's comedy draws on his upbringing as a Korean-American in Tennessee. A frequent guest on The Tonight Show, Henry had an hour-long Comedy Central special, What's That Clickin' Noise? Henry's film credits include Material Girls and the Farrelly brothers' Say it Isn't So. Learn more...

The New Century Chamber Orchestra plays works spanning the 20th century. American composer William Bolcom's dynamic works are influenced by the ragtime tradition. The NCCO will also play Richard Strauss' haunting Metamorphosen, inspired by the bombing of the Munich opera house. Learn more...

Stateless weaves a century of German, Jewish and African American history with contemporary hip-hop music, beat-box vocal rhythms and vaudeville. The play is inspired by the true story of co-writer Dan Wolf's family history, beginning with his great-grandfather, who was part of a singing group responsible for one of the most popular songs in German history. Learn more...

Internationally renowned performance artist Penny Arcade presents her show New York Values at the Marsh. A former member of Andy Warhol's Factory and innovator of performance art in the '80s, Arcade takes on bourgeois bohemians and explores the relationships between art, individuality, crime and rebellion in this freewheeling mixture of storytelling, monologues, music and dance. Learn more...

Patrick Bulger and Jesse Fernandez host Things We Made, a showcase of unconventional comedy: characters, videos, illustrations, movement, music, and more. The show was chosen for SF Sketchfest in 2008 and 2009. Learn more...

Martha, the daughter of the college president, much to the consternation of her husband, George, a "forty something" professor of history, invites an ambitious young academic and his naive wife for late night drinks. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a dark brilliant comedy about the private lives and painful secrets of the two couples, written by three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Albee. Learn more...

Grammy-winning musicians Keb' Mo' and Solomon Burke play a concert at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland. Mo' has won multiple Grammy awards for his blues style, which mixes Delta traditions with assured vocals and acoustic guitar. Burke, a former preacher, became one of soul music's great pioneers in the '60s with tunes like "Cry to Me" and "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love." Learn more...

Host Peter Gros brings a live version of the long-running television show Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom to the Lincoln Theater stage, accompanied by a bevy of live, wild animals. A show for the whole family, Wild Kingdom aims to heighten awareness about environmental issues. Learn more...