Brava’s New Year’s Eve Comedy Fiesta, now in its fifth year, will lead the charge into uncharted territory (aka the New Year) with a diverse line up of satirically endowed, provocatively charming, woke, witty, and acclaimed stand up comedians.
Celebrate Golden Thread’s 20th Anniversary with a concert featuring world-class musicians: Marcus Shelby, Naomi Shalhoub, and Freddy Clarke. Hosted by #GoodMuslimBadMuslim’s Zahra Noorbakhsh, this wonderful event will feature favorite songs from past Golden Thread shows like Isfahan Blues, Love Missile, and The Fifth String.
Our Winter Dance recital calling for peace! Come see youth ages 5-18 dance and drum their hope for peace into the New Year!
We invite you to a unique staged reading/benefit to uplift our local community, respond to Orlando and the current status quo, and present stories by a terrific mix of established and emerging playwrights.
40+ Playwrights, 70+ Plays, 80+ Minutes of Fast and Furious Fun!
Join Brava! for Women in the Arts and hosts Landa Lakes and U-Phoria Glitter for an evening of music, drag, and poetry in solidarity with the water protectors at Standing Rock.
Dangerous Beauties theatrical production Femme explores these favorite tales from Scheherazade to Dorothy in the land of Oz, reimagined in a different voice, with a different flair and perhaps a different choice of villain, hero, or heroine. Join us for a holiday kick-off show you are sure to talk about over and over again as we walk down memory lane through your favorite bedtime stories.
Diaspora Arts Connection proudly presents Nava Dance Collective's Garden of Roses ("The Bustan Project") led by internationally acclaimed dancer and choreographer Miriam Peretz.
Back by popular demand with new original songs, Brava! for Women in the Arts and 3 López Productions present El Son de la Misión, a musical suite composed by multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and educator John Calloway and a script from renowned actor, playwright, theatre director and educator, Carlos Baron.
Amigos de la Peña del Sur gather to pay homage to Fernando Romero, who has been quintessential to the careers of so many musicians from Latino America.
Latin Standards is Marga Gomez's funny and moving new solo piece about fathers, entertainment, wealth, poverty and café cubano.
Con Con is a one-day conference focused on teaching startups how to create and then use content to acquire new users and customers.
The HACKcelerator is a 12-week pre-accelerator program designed to help top teams explore and refine their ideas to build their hackathon winning prototype into a fully fledged startup.
Presented by Loco Bloco, On the Hill tells the story of the impact that the death of Alex Nieto - at the hands of the SFPD - has had on youth of color residing in SF neighborhoods - neighborhoods that are currently being gentrified.
The 7th Annual San Francisco Dance Film Festival presents seventy films from around the globe, including many U.S. premieres, offering Bay Area audiences a kaleidoscopic look at dance in its varied forms, both old and new.
Brava Studio Sessions returns with a reading of El Niño by Javier Hurtado. El Niño tells the story of a son and his mother left to confront the ghost of the family patriarch, Don Alverez, after his death.
Volary: The Light – New Album Release Show celebrates Australian-born San Francisco-based singer/songwriter Samantha Lien who died in 2013.
Tito y su son de Cuba presents the live concert La Vida Te Da Sorpresas (Life gives you surprises) featuring music from Tito Gonzalez’s newly released CD and of course Cuban classics!
Former Professor in International Politics and bestselling author, Dr. Michael Salla, reveals compelling evidence of military, corporate and government run secret space programs dealing with highly advanced technologies withheld from the public.
Come see original plays written by fifth graders from SFUSD, inspired by works of visual art at the de Young Museum, and performed as staged readings by professional actors with music by The Write-Ons.
San Francisco Bay Area Cuban Festival presents the US premiere of the internationally acclaimed Cuban musical group Madera Limpia.
Presented by Chavalo, El Gueguense is a satirical theatrical play that dates back to the colonial-era in meso America.
World renowned star Alla Kushnir along with guest artists present a gala show and belly dance competition. The winner will be crowned Queen of the Rhythm!
Diaspora Arts Connection proudly presents the acclaimed Iranian-Australian soprano Shirin Majd, as musical director, and the internationally recognized actor, choreographer, and dancer Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam, in Rebirth, a combined art performance inspired by the treasured poetry of contemporary female Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad.
Mares: Myths, Migrations and the Mothers of Flamenco, a Flamenco dance performance inspired by controversial female Flamenco artists of the 20th century, is an exploration into the shaping of tradition by breaking with tradition.
Habibi's Entertainment presents the Stand Up Comedy Show, Real Funny Arabs, featuring the Arab American comedians Ali Al Sayed, Eman Morgan, and Mona.
In Type/Caste a queer, black actor dreams of a dazzling career on the American stage but will first have to leap over obstacles placed by an industry that isn't always welcoming to applicants who are neither white nor straight.
The San Francisco Electronic Music Festival returns with performances by L.A. experimental rap trio, clipping, Norwegian virtuoso Maja S.K. Ratkje, and veteran New York circuit bender, Arcane Device.
Stop by Brava Theater Center on Saturday, August 27, when we fling open our doors and invite the public in to meet Brava’s friendly staff, tour the historic landmark theater, and peruse the oh-so-many items we’ve accumulated over the last two decades – costumes, vintage clothes, stage props, frames, vases, antiques, household goods, kitchenware, sound equipment, fabric, and so much more!
3 Lopez Productions & La Parranda present the Venezuelan stand-up comedy star, George Harris, in his first ever Bay Area performance.
