Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Bay Area Dance Week, Angelique Kidjo, Frankie Marcos, Blake Pouliot By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | April 22, 2026 Plus, celebrated pianist Yuja Wang returns to San Francisco Symphony this Sunday for an almost sold-out show.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: 1906 quake remembrance, CubaCaribe fest, and Joshua Bell By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | April 15, 2026 Also: Bilingual Shakespeare with "La Comedia of Errors," and Pocket Opera's “A Midsummer Night’s Dream."
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Music fest freebies, ‘Coast Starlight,’ Richard Goode, and more By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | April 9, 2026 Plus, Shotgun Players adds more dates for "The Goat, or Who is Sylvia."
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: ‘Jeremy Frey: Woven,’ ‘Flex’ basketball play, brass band shows By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | April 1, 2026 Frey is a key figure in the preservation of Northeastern US Native American art and culture.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: SF Ballet’s ‘Don Quixote,’ organ with Oakland Symphony, Phillipe Jordan at SF Symphony By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | March 25, 2026 Plus, a brewery gathering for ocean lovers, and a free kids' show at the Golden Gate Park Bandshell.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: ‘Monet and Venice,’ Rosie the Riveter Day, and symphonic resistance By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | March 18, 2026 Plus, Metalachi tour, and Augustin Hadelich at Herbst Theatre.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: ‘Shantyoke,’ ‘Primary Trust,’ Pablo Francisco, New Century Chamber Orchestra, ‘La Belle et La Bête’ By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | March 12, 2026 New theater, contemporary orchestral music, and more.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Golden Gate Park concerts, ‘Book of Mormon,’ Grand Lake Theater, John Malkovich, Symphony San Jose By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | March 4, 2026 Of special note for locals: March 6 marks 100 years of Oakland's Grand Lake Theater.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: ‘The Lehman Trilogy,’ the Assad Brothers and a Rust-Edelmann recital By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | February 25, 2026 Plus, last weekend of the OMCA White Elephant Sale.
Arts & Entertainment Best Bets: Tet Vietnamese New Year, ‘The Sex Lives of Puppets,’ and more By The Artful Observer | Bay City News | February 18, 2026 Also: Kyle Abraham and AIM, all-Beethoven performance, and pianist George Harliono.