Experience something exceptional. Dark Kabaret is the place to bring a first date or to take your BFFs for a perfect night out. Timeless and timely, Dark Kabaret is the sweet intersection of magic, comedy, music, and erotic entertainment.

The biggest Muslim Comedy Takeover Tour in support of Gaza Emergency Appeal is coming to San Francisco! We’re bringing comedy royalty—Omar Regan, Riaad Moosa, and Yasmin El Hady—to cities across USA for an unforgettable comedy tour.

Join us for an unforgettable night of live music as we celebrate the debut album of PrettyBoy Chance in a spectacular musical extravaganza! This all-ages event promises an evening filled with electrifying performances, dynamic energy, and a vibrant atmosphere.

Experience the elegance and cultural richness of Hanfu as participants showcase their finest traditional attire. $500 in prizes! Register to compete or RSVP to watch for free.

Step into a world where shadows dance and transformation awaits. Pluto’s Labyrinth is a mesmerizing circus-inspired production that takes the audience on a breathtaking journey through the enigmatic 8th house of astrology.

Special Fleet Week Performances! Inspired by true events, this powerful theatrical production sheds light on the forgotten history of African American sailors recruited by the United States Navy during World War II.

TrueAnon hosts Liz Franczak and Brace Belden will speak with legendary writer William T. Vollmann about his recent visit to Korea’s DMZ, the time the FBI thought he was the Unabomber, and lots of other things. Presented by Harper’s Magazine and The John Templeton Foundation

Extended through September! After a sold-out, critically acclaimed worldwide tour, The Empire Strips Back returns to San Francisco. You won't want to miss these seriously sexy Stormtroopers, a dangerously seductive Boba Fett, some tantalising Twi'leks, a delightfully luke-warm Taun Taun, the Droids you are looking for and much, much more!

Comedian, actor, writer, director and Kid in The Hall, Bruce McCulloch announces the off-Broadway return of his much-loved, one-man show, Bruce McCulloch: Tales of Bravery and Stupidity.

CAAM presents CAAMFest in May, the world’s largest showcase for new Asian American and Asian film, food and music programs.

In honor of Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, come celebrate with us by enjoying Cantonese Opera, listed as the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2009.

This is a dance showcase providing opportunity for students to train with our in-house and guest choreographers in preparation to perform on the big stage. The showcase will also highlight special guest performers, local choreographers, dance troupes, and talents.

Join us for a unique Sunday experience, featuring a free kids' workshop and playground, making it the perfect day out for the whole family. Dive into the world of pole and aerial sports, where dreams soar and imaginations take flight.

Prepare to be captivated by the award-winning Vertical.Show, where the boundaries of pole and aerial sports collide with the artistry of modern choreography.

Join Vietnamese-American multihyphenate storyteller Susan Lieu for her electric nationwide book launch of "The Manicurist's Daughter." Moderated conversation, community Q&A, and book signing to follow event.

Get ready to witness mind-blowing dance moves and jaw-dropping performances from six talented choreographers and 30+ dancers at Slayground, where the stage is the playground.

Calling all soon-to-be rich people!! Your Rich BFF is going on tour! On the heels of the launch of her debut book, Rich AF: The Winning Money Mindset That Will Change Your Life, Vivian Tu is coming to San Francisco to chat about all things money and finances with her BFFs! Vivian will be sharing stories about her money mistakes, answering your burning questions, and teaching a masterclass on leveling up your life.

Everything changes when the sun goes down. From the producer of Vertical.Show, After Dark tangles temptation and charisma, beauty and athleticism, breathtaking and naughty stunts.

Join us for the premiere of panels, a dance film on grief made in the Bay Area, by Bay Area artists. After the loss of a lifelong friend, a trio processes their grief through distinct, yet parallel journeys. Prior to the film will be a live dance performance by the cast called “Grief Wrote Me a Letter," a collection of 11 solos where each movement artist will express personal perspectives on what grieving is.

SF Sketchfest, The San Francisco Comedy Festival, returns for its 21st year!

All the Inessence Dance Co. teams have been working really hard to prepare these performances for you. Come cheer them on as they share a beautiful showcase for you.

The Kaibigan BIPOC Arts Festical is a multidisciplinary arts festival celebrating and highlighting BIPOC artist in Film, Theater, Music, and Dance.

Discover something new. Dark Kabaret is San Francisco's premiere showcase for the world's finest variety artists. It's a decadent evening at the sweet nexus of magic, comedy, music, and erotic entertainment. Anything can happen!

The Beatles 1968 White Album, featuring The Beatles Guitar Project 30-piece Rock Orchestra! Join us as we celebrate this 55th year anniversary of the double-album release of this monumental album!

John C. Reilly returns to the stage! Fall in love with Mr. Romantic as he enchants in this new instant classic. The show is a an ode to love and love songs at a time when the world needs some loving.

Join Who? Weekly hosts Bobby and Lindsey to live, love and laugh LIVE and in-person alongside the Wholigans

Second show added!Join Depths of Wikipedia creator Annie Rauwerda on a journey through Wikipedia’s most interesting corners.

Comedian Aparna Nancherla comes to the Great Star Theater on her Unreliable Narrator Tour

Come to the hottest new tech pitch and comedy event in SF and LA, now on show #21! Sure, an evening of early-stage tech pitches might not sound like an uproariously good time, but add in a panel of sharp-witted comedians and veteran VC investors, and that's just what you get!

Join us for a magical adventure through Chinatown as we search for the elusive Chinatown Dragon! With kung-fu, circus, dance, magic, live guzheng and erhu music, and so much more.

Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in San Francisco. Get your tickets now to discover a variety of tribute concerts under the gentle glow of candlelight.

Come to the hottest new tech pitch and comedy event in SF and LA, now on show #19! Sure, an evening of early-stage tech pitches might not sound like an uproariously good time, but add in a panel of sharp-witted comedians and veteran VC investors, and that's just what you get!

Exclusive pre-release screening of LOVE IN TAIPEI based on the New York Times bestselling novel Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen! Premiering on Paramount+ on August 10, LOVE IN TAIPEI tells the story of Ever Wong who is sent to a cultural immersion program in Taipei where she begins a new journey of self-discovery and romance.

Renowned a cappella San Francisco based Fog City Harmonia and Fog City Singers Join Forces for a Performance of "Textures"

Not feeling patriotic this 4th of July? Red Bettie has the cure for your red, white and blues. Let the STARS of Bombshell Burlesque STRIP away the tyranny and let freedom swing

Join author/journalist Zarina Zabrisky and author Alexandra Kostoulas of SF Creative Writing Institute for the San Francisco premiere of The Eastern Front: Terror and Torture in Ukraine. Join us for a harrowing journey to Ukraine's heart of darkness. Frontline accounts. Unfiltered footage. No room for denial.

Ready your wands and study your spells! It’s time to enter the wizarding world of Harriet Potter and the Enchanted Tassel: A Burlesque Parody. Join Harry’s long lost Auntie, Harriet Potter, as she hosts the famed Hogwarts houses in a bodacious battle for the enchanted tassel. Whether you’re Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, or Slytherin, you will be on the edge of your Nimbus 2000 while your favorite witches and wizards dare to bare all for a chance to claim the coveted prize.

Join us for a unique Sunday experience, featuring a free kids' workshop and playground, making it the perfect day out for the whole family. Dive into the world of pole and aerial sports, where dreams soar and imaginations take flight.

Witness the world's strongest pole and aerial athletes perform in sports, art, circus, dance and experimental styles in this award-winning spectacle.

This high-energy dance show includes work from local Bay Area choreographers and dancers. This is a dance showcase providing opportunity for students to train and gain mentorship from our in house choreographers. This showcase provides an array of opportunity for our students to perform like a pro on the big stage.

Come share your projects, ideas, startups, and more with the local ML and AI community onstage at the monthly San Francisco ML Meetup. This is not a conference, it's a community meetup to come together and meet other ML practitioners, researchers, and big thinkers.

Join the Moving Arts Academy of Dance for our 7th annual Spring Showcase! Carnival of the Animals plus classical variations from Don Quixote, Paquita and Die Puppenfee.

Converge is zeroheight’s one-day, design systems conference. Converge aims to bring together some of the brightest and best in design systems and design ops to discuss the challenges we face in taking design systems to the next level.

CAAM presents CAAMFest (formerly the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival) in May, the world’s largest showcase for new Asian American and Asian film, food and music programs, annually presenting over 100 works in San Francisco and Oakland.

Like a cross between Shark Tank and Comedy Central Roasts, Money Is Funny features early stage start-ups who present their pitch, then roasted by a panel of stand-up comedians and venture capitalists.

Come share your projects, ideas, startups, and more with the local ML and AI community onstage at the monthly San Francisco ML Meetup. This is not a conference, it's a casual meetup to come together and meet other ML practitioners, researchers, and big thinkers.

Jes Tom performs an hour of standup comedy on sex in the face of death, gender transition on the brink of oblivion, and the search for love at the end of the world.

Get ready to experience the ultimate celebration of beauty, sensuality, and glamour with Red Bettie's Bombshell Burlesque! Join us as we honor our very own Red Bettie's birthday with a night of explosive entertainment, and witness some of the most beautiful performers in the industry as they take the stage to bring you an unforgettable evening.

Step into a facet of your own personal dreamscape with the Grammy award-winning chanteuse, Rizo. A fierce but kindhearted fusion of comedy, burlesque, performance art and rock and roll.

What happens when we let go of our preconceptions and look at something with fresh eyes? Can we experience it anew? In the style of Ignite, speakers have precisely 5 minutes to amuse, educate, enlighten, or inspire the audience on the subject of their choice. The auto-advancing slides often create wacky scenarios for the speakers on stage as they speed up or slow down to keep time with the slides.

This month is March Madness! We're not talking about college sports, we're just plain mad. Caught in the Act Cabaret is a live experience featuring a lineup of diverse and extraordinary performers from the Bay Area and beyond in burlesque, belly dance, musical acts, drag, comedy, contortion, spoken word, magic, and much more.

Irish-born virtuoso violinist and composer Colm Ó Riain and his Ensemble celebrate St.Patrick's Day with their soulful exploration of the connection between Ireland and a host of other musical cultures.

Art, Music, Dance, and Love. Join the creators of some of San Francisco's most notorious events for a show like no other. Aerialists and acrobats, dancers, live music, and magic all intersect in this fairytale come to life.

Join CHSA for a very special Black History Month celebration that expands on We Are Bruce Lee’s theme of social unity and solidarity between Chinese and Black Americans. CHSA presents the film The Black Kung Fu Experience, which focuses on how a group of African American pioneers became respected masters in a subculture dominated by Chinese and white men. In addition to the screening, this event features in-person kung fu and martial arts demonstrations and a Q&A with Sifu Donald Hamby and Sifu Troy Dunwood.

"PASANG: In the Shadow of Everest" chronicles Pasang Lhamu Sherpa's inspiring journey to become the first Nepali woman to summit Everest in 1993. As an uneducated, indigenous woman and a Buddhist in a Hindu kingdom, Pasang's dream to scale the legendary mountain pits her against family, foreign climbers, her own government, and nature itself. The Asian Art Museum is proud to present this screening as a member event.

The San Francisco Comedy Festival. Sketch, Improv, Stand-Up, Musical, Film, Panels, Reunions, and Alternative Comedy every January!

The annual showcase of the American Art Institute's dance program takes place Sunday, January 15 at 3pm. Tickets are $25. For more information, please call 415-672-2809.

Get lucky on Friday the 13th with Burlesque, Comedy, Drag, & More! Bringing you the best performers in the bay area for an extraordinary experience that you won't soon forget.

Join the Chinese Historical Society of America for a special screening of The Grandmaster (2013) by Wong Kar-Wei

Burlesque, Comedy, Drag, & More! Bringing you the best performers in the bay area for an extraordinary experience that you won't soon forget.

Join CHSA for our RADIATING BRUCE LEE: CINEMA UNDER THE SKY series with a screening of THE WAY OF THE DRAGON [1972] accompanied by food panel discussion: Of Chinese American Immigration and Restaurants.

Discover something new. Dark Kabaret is San Francisco's premiere showcase for the world's finest variety artists. It's a decadent evening at the sweet nexus of magic, comedy, music, and erotic entertainment. Anything can happen!

Join CHSA for our RADIATING BRUCE LEE: CINEMA UNDER THE SKY series with a screening of THE ORPHAN [1960] accompanied by a talk from Hong Kong film critic Sam Ho on the Making of Bruce Lee.

Join us for a raucous night of comedy, music and mayhem. The Roast of Count Dracula is a Very Adult Comedy Show hosted by Legendary Comic, Brian Holtzman. Not for the Faint of Heart.

Burlesque, comedy, drag, and more! Featuring Eric Newton, Ruby Vixen, RedBone, Mega, Ashanti Altovese, Penny Poundcake, Dizzy From Earlier, Trixie Fou Laurant, & DJ DaDa

Every year, Other Minds holds a Festival of new music, around an idea, theme, or group of composers. Known for featuring stellar guest performers, a significant number of world premieres, commissions, and productions that incorporate new technologies and multidisciplinary collaborations, the Other Minds Festival brings together composers representing all points of the musical spectrum and pushing the creative boundaries of their respective genres.

Maxim Leonidov is a Soviet, Russian, and Israeli musician, singer, actor, songwriter and TV host. Born on February 13, 1962, Leningrad, he graduated from the Glinka Choral School at the Leningrad State Academic Capella. In 1983 he became one of the founders of beat-quartet Sekret (Maxim Leonidov, Nikolai Fomenko, Andrey Zabludovsky, Alexey Murashov), which become extremely popular in Soviet Union/Russia.

After a sold-out, critically acclaimed US tour, The Empire Strips Back returns to San Francisco. If you missed our sold-out Warfield Theater show, be prepared for some seriously sexy Stormtroopers, a dangerously seductive Boba Fett, some tantalising Twi'leks, a delightfully luke-warm Taun Taun, a lady-like Skywalker, the Droids you are looking for and much, much more!

AirOtic Soirée is a one-of-a-kind event that combines a circus show with the excitement of a cabaret, all performed by stunning aerial acrobats. Don't miss out on what is guaranteed to be a night to remember!

In celebration of AAPI Heritage Month, Golden State Entertainment, the content arm of the Golden State Warriors, will host a live panel discussion featuring Jeremy Lin and the team behind his upcoming documentary, 38 AT THE GARDEN. The conversation will focus on Lin's cultural impact on basketball and his activism in the wake of anti-Asian hate incidents during the pandemic. Hear from 38 AT THE GARDEN director Frank Chi, producers Samir Hernandez and Travon Free, Cally Wong, Executive Director of the API Council, and Sarah Wan, Executive Director of the Community Youth Center of San Francisco. As part of the event, attendees will get a sneak preview of the upcoming documentary 38 AT THE GARDEN, which will make its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 12. The documentary examines the cultural impact of NBA trailblazer Jeremy Lin and the cultural phenomenon known as "Linsanity" that surrounded him during his 2011-12 season with the New York Knicks.

CAAMFest film screenings bring the Asian American experience to the big screen. We will be hosting several screenings and events at the Great Star. More information at CAAMFest.com

Free drinks? Star Wars?? In a theater not so far away… Start your May The Fourth at the Great Star Theater, with free drinks for anyone attending in Star Wars costumes. This party with DJ Darth and sexy Stormtroopers on patrol is a sneak peek of the hit burlesque parody "The Empire Strips Back" opening at the Great Star theater on July 6.

From the creators of Dark Kabaret: Paul Nathan and Mike Davis have locked themselves in a room for a year to come up with Radio Days, a 20th Century comedy about life, love, and magic. Proceeds from this show will benefit the Great Star Theater.

The Great Star Sessions variety show is hosted by Jamie DeWolf and features some of the Bay Area's most talented DJs, MCs, dancers, and cabaret performers including members of The Vau de Vire Society, Flux Vertical Theatre, and more!

The Vespertine Circus is back! With a tight-wire Time Warp and high flying Columbia, this isn't your usual shadow-cast fare. It's not a film screening, it's a circus.

Ballet22 returns to the Great Star Theater this February to present an encore performance from the 2022 Gala

A family-friendly Lunar New Year cabaret with magic, music, circus, and dance

Reconnect to the wonders of our Earth through Mongolian contortion art

Join musical and comedy sensation Rizo back on stage for a Holiday Extravaganza you do not want to miss. A fierce but kindhearted fusion of comedy, burlesque, performance art and rock ‘n’ roll.

San Francisco Youth Ballet presents the 20th annual performance of The Nutcracker.

Discover something new. Dark Kabaret is San Francisco's premiere showcase for the world's finest variety artists

Tragedy strikes as Frank Olivier's Twisted Cabaret and Pandemonium Vaudeville prepares for their giant Halloween Spooktackular

The exclusive San Francisco premiere of this documentary of Be Fong-Torres! The lights, the crowds, the music, Ben Fong-Torres covered it all at Rolling Stone magazine as its legendary writer and first music editor. His life is an epic sweep through the world of rock and roll.

Forget the kids, come out and join other adults for a Sexy Halloween Party in downtown, Chinatown

2 day event of heavy industrial music from US and European artists, gathering together to shake the grounds of San Francisco

Crazy, Sexy, Cool. Sugar Brown shares her diaries of the first time becoming a submissive through comedy, storytelling and dance!

Dark Age Masquerade is an innovative stage performance including elements of modern circus, neo-burlesque, dance, sideshow, and visual arts

International sensation BLUNDERLAND is an evening that is as naughty as it is wholesome and as raunchy as it is sweet.

SFCAUSE panel Anti-Asian Hate and Economic Challenges Facing Bay Area Chinatowns, plus Champion of Truth Award ceremony

A special mid-autumn festival performance. With magic, Chinese traditional dance, live Guzheng music, comedy, circus aerialists, and more, you will have an unforgettable memory with your friends and families.

Ballet22 presents "Carmen" and a new commission, choreographed by world renowned Spanish choreographer, Ramón Oller

Maranda Jiang and Chris Chau perform traditional Chinese Guzheng -- 竹霖晓筝 余意山水 —古筝独奏音乐会

Join Hollywood and Chinese film star Daniel Wu at the recently reopened Great Star Theater in San Francisco Chinatown for an intimate discussion, Q&A, and meet-and-greet.