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Off Broadway West Theatre Company presents Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge. This complex, emotionally affecting drama tells the story of a New York longshoreman, his relationship with his orphaned niece, and his wife's two cousins, who have immigrated illegally from Italy. Learn more...

In this witty, modern fable from acclaimed playwright Carter W. Lewis, a woman attempting to cope with a terminally ill husband and an angry stepdaughter forms an unlikely bond with a charismatic, blind thief. The play challenges our view of a "normal" life -- and "normal" love. Learn more...

Harold Pinter's two-act play The Homecoming centers on the return of Teddy, a philosophy professor in America, to the North London home of his father, uncle and brothers, who occupy the fringes of working-class society, some distance from respectability. Joining Teddy is his wife Ruth, the woman who enters and disrupts their domain, in this comedy of menace. Learn more...

A surreal exploration of loss, The Short and Happy Life follows Manny Singer, who must deal with the aftermath of his best friend's death by combustion. Ryan Michael Teller's dreamlike, multimedia play -- which he wrote in response to 9/11 -- makes its world premiere at the Phoenix. Learn more...

The Nose is the first part of a series of multimedia events from International Theater Ensemble commemorating the 200th birthday of Russian author Nikolai Gogol. This experimental, work-in-progress theatrical production -- which incorporates video art and modern technology -- is based on Gogol's satirical short story about a man whose nose runs away from his face. Learn more...

A murdered husband and a missing wife draw a small town sheriff into a web of mystery and deceit that seems to have as much to do with his own family tragedy as it does with the crime. Meadowland is a haunting journey into a small Asian community, written by international award winner Ian Walker. Learn more...

Three of the Bay Area's most deeply underground and thought-provoking comedians band together on New Year's Eve for a unique stand-up comedy show which promises to be an evening filled with biting political and social commentary that will attack all points along the spectrum from the rightest right to the leftest left. Learn more...

A mash-up parody of just about every Christmas television, movie or play, Tenderloin Christmas Hustler follows the adventures of one particular misfit boy and his journey to find acceptance. Set to many familiar tunes from the holiday season, TCH is a cheeky, heartbreakingly sweet new holiday classic. Learn more...

Named November's best political theatre by The San Francisco Examiner, March to November is a leftist, activist work inspired by Chloe Veltman's January 9 article for the SF Weekly calling on Bay Area writers to create richer, more surprising material. March to November pulls from the recent election, features critics in drag, bar fights and a classic hero story to assess the relevance of overtly political theatre itself. Learn more...

Off Broadway West Theatre Company presents a free adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy The Taming of the Shrew. Director Joyce Henderson has set the story of the courtship of stubborn Kate amid the surreal decadence of New York's Hamptons in the 1920s. Learn more...

Paul Robeson was a famous actor, singer and civil rights campaigner. When over the years he became too radical and outspoken for the establishment's liking, he was branded a traitor, harassed and denied opportunities to perform or travel. This play is a roller coaster journey through Robeson's remarkable and eventful life, featuring some of his songs and speeches, including a dramatic rendition of "Ol' Man River." Learn more...

Broadway With A Twist II: The Concert is a musical revue featuring your favorite Broadway show tunes, performed by a team of talented actors and actresses. Broadway With A Twist II includes two dozen classic Broadway songs from artists including Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter, Frank Loesser, Jerry Herman and more. Learn more...

The Ladies of the Camellias is a funny and poignant look at the world of theatre and the stage, and wonderful people who inhabit it. Among them are actors, directors (whatever they are!), bomb-wielding anarchists and the famous writer, Alexander Dumas, fils. All are part of a wonderful ensemble that collide with sidesplitting results. Learn more...

Award-winning playwright Lee Blessing's Riches depicts an "everything is right" marriage in which everything goes horribly wrong. On a romantic getaway to celebrate their twenty-first wedding anniversary, a seemingly close, happy couple discovers just how far apart they really are. Learn more...

This haunting quartet of plays by Samuel Beckett, Anais Nin, Ian Walker and Rick Burkhardt explores the thinning line between s*xuality and violence...and the politics that blur them. Will the need for control outweigh the power of love? This multimedia production weaves safety, compassion, terror and desire into a hypnotic tapestry of powerful performances. Learn more...

Arthur and Esther, the dark comedy that won acclaim at this year's New York Fringe Festival, makes its West Coast premiere at the Phoenix Theatre. This one-man show probes the murky and marvelous world of small-town librarian Arthur Huey, a direct descendant of the man who invented the Dewey Decimal Classification System, whose world is crumbling around him. Learn more...

Let it Snow! is an improvised holiday musical, filled with good old-fashioned Broadway singing and dancing. Each performance is a new musical, set in the real home town of an audience member. Much beloved by audience and cast alike, this show returns for a third year! Learn more...

Adapted and directed by Oleg Liptsin, this classic novel is turned into an explosive dramatic performance. A Propos of the Wet Snow operates on emotional provocations, shifting of characters, video-interactive arts and cutting edge projection technology. By integrating interactive art possibilities and new computer technology into live stage production, the creators of this show have opened new and refreshing creative opportunities in performing art. Learn more...

Blanche DuBois, tormented by the memory of her tragic marriage and the scandal she caused in her small Southern town, flees to New Orleans to find refuge with her sister. But her crude brother-in-law resents her presence, and in a violent, passionate rage, exposes her past and cuts off her last chance of escaping from the misery of her life. Learn more...

Linda and Michael, successful writers who happen to be married to each other, thrive on the give-and-take of their unusually honest relationship. But when they decide to share their journals, the boundaries between past and present, fact and fiction, trust and betrayal begin to break down. No life, it turns out, is an open book. Learn more...

Jonathan is in L.A. auditioning for a film, and he's dragged his wife along for support. She is distant because their sick daughter was left at home with a relative. Then there's Michael, who's distracted because his boyfriend just left him. With the arrival of a guest, the play goes deeper, forcing the audience to see how ugly people can be when they only look at themselves instead of those they love. Learn more...

What if the classic movie "It's A Wonderful Life" had featured a Jewish family, the guardian angel was Jack Benny and it was set in Hollywood? Find out as former "Tonight Show" writer Fred Raker portrays 25 wildly entertaining characters in a solo comedy the SF Bay Guardian describes as "nothing less than a wonderful 75 minutes." Learn more...

Meet Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke. Booth wants to be a legendary Three-Card Monte hustler like his brother; Lincoln is struggling to escape his criminal life. Haunted by the past, each clings to the other, but with that closeness comes a shocking electricity that threatens to destroy them. Learn more...

Up Market Productions presents a workshop production of the new fast-paced, comic play A Union of Socialist San Francisco. A free-spirited daughter of liberal Haight household falls in love with a Marin County yoga instructor, whose parents are politically correct liberals. When the two families unexpectedly meet at the Victorian Haight home, the evening turns into a comic melee of mixed-up intentions, vegan uprisings and missing geckos. Learn more...

Comedy improv theater meets old-school game show in this out-of-the-ordinary night of improvised entertainment. It's your choice: sit back and enjoy the show or submit your name for a chance to become a contestant. Script-free from beginning to end, this is one live comedy game show you can see again and again. Laugh! Win prizes! It's an exciting 2-hour night of un-scripted fun that's never the same show twice. Learn more...

Begin or end your Valentine's Day week with an evening of the most memorable love songs from your favorite Broadway shows. The show will serve as a wonderful treat to enjoy with someone you love...or someone you'd like to love! Learn more...

Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight tells the story of 3 pairs of lovers trying to enjoy a night of romance. But in a massive (and apparently spreading) case of coitus interruptus, each couple is blocked from satisfaction by a mixture of circumstance, honesty, stubbornness, identity and selfishness. All three couples end up connected by an uproarious conference call with hilarious results. Learn more...

Back by popular demand! Regretrosexual, performed by former Bay Area stand-up comedy favorite Dan Rothenberg at the Phoenix Theatre, is the hilarious exploration of the fluidity of amorous behaviour and how it effects those caught somewhere in the middle. Learn more...

See the West Coast Premiere of Rinne Groffe's Jimmy Carter Was a Democrat, a searing, smart and funny drama about the political battles of the 1980 presidential election. Learn more...

Second Wind Productions presents Athol Fugard's The Road to Mecca, a play about an old woman's struggle for freedom and friendship in the heart of the South African karoo. Learn more...

It Could Have Been A Wonderful Life is a one-man comedy about one man's attempt to come to terms with some serious identity issues. A hilarious send-up of all things show biz! Learn more...