Four highly-gifted teens collab and collide one pivotal summer at a prestigious Berkeley girls’ music program. They improvise and crack wise atop a steadily thrumming undercurrent of disaster and emergency. This world premiere play with music comes from A.C.T.-commissioned playwright Eisa Davis, the singular writer-musician-actor whose keen ear for the language and inner lives of adolescent women brought us the Pulitzer finalist Bulrusher. At turns hilarious and melancholy, raucous and poetic, ||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :|| is an exquisite and achingly true story of friendship, self-discovery, and the salvation of art-making.

||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :||

The Strand Theater

San Francisco Playhouse will present the West Coast Premiere of Candrice Jones’ “Flex”, directed by Bay Area theatre titan and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre artistic director Margo Hall. This action-packed new play set in 1998 spotlights the Lady Train high school basketball team in Plainnole, Arkansas. Following the recent formation of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), the players dream of going pro. First, they must face the pressures of being young, Black, and female in the rural South as setbacks on and off the court threaten to break the team apart.

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Flex

San Francisco Playhouse

Following its New York premiere at BAM, and subsequent Off-Broadway and Boston runs, the critically acclaimed OUR CLASS comes to Z Space's Steindler Stage in San Francisco!

Our Class

Z Space

Following the sold out premiere of Richard II, the Magic Theatre partners with Play On Shakespeare for a new version of Macbeth by legendary writer Migdalia Cruz, directed by Liam Vincent. Set in a gritty 1970’s New York City, Catherine Castellanos (Macbeth) and Sarah Nina Hayon (Lady Macbeth) lead an all-star cast in a performance delivering a fast, bloody, gritty, and fun story of murderous ambition.

Macbeth

Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture

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The Artelize Podcast and Kasper Holten - Pedefining Opera for the modern world

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The Artelize Podcast - A legacy of innovation in Opera: Celebrating Marc A. Scorca

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The Artelize Podcast: A love letter that was never sent

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our highly-gifted teens collab and collide one pivotal summer at a prestigious Berkeley girls’ music program. They improvise and crack wise atop a steadily thrumming undercurrent of disaster and emergency. This world premiere play with music comes from A.C.T.-commissioned playwright Eisa Davis, the singular writer-musician-actor whose keen ear for the language and inner lives of adolescent women brought us the Pulitzer finalist Bulrusher. At turns hilarious and melancholy, raucous and poetic, ||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :|| is an exquisite and achingly true story of friendship, self-discovery, and the salvation of art-making.

American Conservatory Theater Strand Theater

Migdalia Cruz’ new version of Macbeth cuts to the grief and core of Shakespeare’s classic like you've never seen before!

Director of the classic film, Frankenstein James Whale is spending his retirement away from the glitz and glamour of Hollywood. Will James find peace from his torment, or will his inner monster beguile him to deeper depths? Tom Mullen provides a theatrical adaptation of Christopher Bram’s novel and Oscar-winning film, with a plunge into the inner soul.

Gods & Monsters

New Conservatory Theatre Center

As solo artists, SF Performances veterans Jason Vieaux and JIJI are about as high voltage as guitar playing can get. Together, as former teacher and pupil, they light up the stage with an electric interplay showcasing a vibrant approach to standard repertory and a knack for what’s hot today and what tomorrow will sound like. Grammy® winner Jason Vieaux has been described by NPR as “perhaps the most precise and soulful classical guitarist of his generation.” JIJI is “talented, sensitive and brilliant,” according to the Calgary Times.

Jason Vieaux and JIJI

San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center

Astonishingly versatile and virtuosic bassist and composer Edgar Meyer returns to San Francisco Performances with the Dover Quartet—the perfect match for his clever programming that spans multiple genres, often springing from clever partnerships. “I learn a lot from collaboration,” he told Nashville Musicians magazine. Calgary Herald enthused, “The power of the Dover Quartet to communicate a work with awesome sophistication borders on the spiritual.”

Edgar Meyer and Dover Quartet (The Shenson Great Artists & Ensembles Series/Herbst)

War Memorial and Performing Arts Center

Double Grammy® winner J’Nai Bridges brings a refreshingly expansive knack for programming matched by technical gifts and “calmly commanding stage presence” (The New Yorker) for her return to San Francisco Performances. She is joined by pianist Terrence Wilson, “one of the biggest pianistic talents to have emerged in this country in the last 25 years” (Baltimore Sun), and SFP veterans the Catalyst Quartet, who perform “with the clarity and vigor of a great ensemble” (San Francisco Chronicle).

J’Nai Bridges, Terrence Wilson, and Catalyst Quartet (Art of Song/Herbst)

Making their respective debuts, Italian conductor Daniele Rustioni and German cellist Daniel Müller-Schott join the San Francisco Symphony in Dvořák’s wrenching and radiant Cello Concerto, a paragon of the Romantic cello repertoire. Although it was conceived in the United States, its beating heart belongs to the homesick composer’s native Bohemia. Brahms composed the Second Symphony on summer holiday in the Austrian province of Carinthia, where he awoke at dawn to swim in Lake Wörth, gorge on fresh crab in the afternoon, and hike for hours. A work of bittersweet depth, the Second revels in bright sunshine and lingers in cool shadows.

Brahms 2 & Dvořák’s Cello Concerto

Davies Symphony Hall

Legendary violinist Pinchas Zukerman and acclaimed pianist Shai Wosner team up for an all-Brahms recital, featuring the composer’s three violin sonatas.

Pinchas Zukerman & Shai Wosner

Dvořák’s goal for his Symphony No. 7, here conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada, was to surpass all of his previous efforts. Grand, gloomy, and dramatic, it contains few of the Slavic folk–derived, nationalistic elements associated with the composer. The influence of Brahms—particularly his recent Third Symphony, which impressed Dvořák as the finest symphony ever written—permeates the four movements. Mozart’s exuberant and expressive Piano Concerto No. 9 represented a great leap forward in ambition and achievement alike. The young Canadian soloist Jan Lisiecki interprets what legendary pianist Alfred Brendel called “one of the greatest wonders of the world.”

Orozco-Estrada Conducts Dvořák 7

Renowned for his searching interpretations of French classical music as well as his genre-defying jazz records, pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet performs Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No. 5, Egyptian. The concerto’s nickname didn’t originate with Saint-Saëns; it came about because he composed most of it while on vacation in Luxor. But no single country could contain his restless imagination: the “Egyptian” compiles a world-traveler’s far-flung impressions. Debussy’s dreamy Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun and Berlioz’s hellacious Symphonie fantastique round out this program of French favorites led by Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan.

Symphonie fantastique & Jean-Yves Thibaudet

Legendary violinist and conductor Itzhak Perlman joins the San Francisco Symphony for a one-night, can’t-miss performance.

Itzhak Perlman with the San Francisco Symphony

Joshua Bell and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields return to Davies Symphony Hall for a program featuring Johannes Brahms’s Violin Concerto and Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 1, Spring.

Joshua Bell & Academy of St Martin in the Fields

The Brentano String Quartet is among the world’s most revered and celebrated quartets. “Make no mistake: the Brentanos are a magnificent quartet. This was wonderful, selfless music-making” (The Times of London). Known for its unique sensibility and probing interpretive style, the Quartet has performed across five continents in the world’s most prestigious venues and festivals. Over the course of three decades, it has maintained itself as one of the world’s preeminent ensembles.

Brentano String Quartet (Chamber/Herbst)

Noe Music’s Piano Portraits series concludes with an unprecedented two-concert weekend featuring pianist and composer Dan Tepfer, renowned for his genre-defying brilliance and deep musical curiosity. On Saturday at 8pm, Tepfer presents Inventions / Reinventions, offering personal interpretations and spontaneous improvisations on J.S. Bach’s Inventions. The following Sunday at 4pm, he performs Goldberg Variations / Variations, blending Bach’s masterwork with his own improvisational responses. Performed on Noe Music’s magnificent Steinway Model D, each concert promises a unique experience where tradition meets innovation. As The New York Times notes, Tepfer “combines superb technique with a complex set of impulses: he’s a deeply rational improviser drawn to the unknown.” Come once or come twice—no two moments will be the same.

Piano Portraits: Dan Tepfer – Goldberg Variations / Variations

Noe Valley Ministry

Volti and Left Coast meet in a new work by Chris Castro for storyteller and musicians, which explores the connection between sound and the spoken word in tales from the west coast. The human relationship to our environment forms a through-line from romantic to experimental musical sensibilities.

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