The Bay Area theater calendar is always stacked with exciting performances in and around San Francisco. We’ve taken a look ahead at the best plays, musicals, and performances coming up through 2024.
Read on for a thorough list of the most exciting upcoming San Francisco theater performances, as well as some Bay Area performances worth driving to.
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Bay Area Broadway
1. BroadwaySF
BroadwaySF brings some of the biggest and most highly-anticipated Broadway shows to San Francisco every single year. They work out of the Orpheum Theatre, Golden Gate Theatre, and Curran Theatre under The Ambassador Theatre Group.
Orpheum Theatre
- Back to the Future: The Musical (Feb. 12 – Mar. 9, 2025)
- Mamma Mia! (Apr. 30 – May 11, 2025)
- & Juliet (July 1-27, 2025)
- Suffs (Oct. 21 – Nov. 9, 2025)
Golden Gate Theatre
- Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations (Feb. 25 – Mar. 2, 2025)
- Chicago (Mar. 4-9, 2025)
- A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical (June 3-22, 2025)
Curran Theatre
- Parade (May 13 – June 8, 2025)
- Shucked (Sept. 9 – Oct. 5, 2025)
- Stereophonic (Oct. 28 – Nov. 23, 2025)
🌐 Website: BroadwaySF
2. Broadway San Jose
For 15 years, Broadway San Jose has brought dozens of highly-anticipated Broadway shows to the 2,677-seat San Jose Center for the Performing Arts.
- The Cher Show (Mar. 18-23, 2025)
- SIX (Apr. 22-27, 2025)
- Moulin Rouge! The Musical (July 8-20, 2025)
- MJ (July 29 – Aug. 3, 2025)
- & Juliet (Oct. 7-12, 2025)
- Some Like It Hot (Oct. 21-26, 2025)
- A Beautiful Noise (Dec. 16-21, 2025)
🌐 Website: Broadway San Jose
More SF Bay Area theater companies
3. San Francisco Playhouse
SF Playhouse is a mid-size nonprofit theater company presenting shows mainly out of its 199-seat theater on Post Street. They present an Off-Broadway lineup of professional theater performances in a more intimate alternative to the Bay’s mainstream theater scene.
- Exotic Deadly: Or the MSG Play (Jan. 30 – Mar. 8, 2025)
- Fat Ham (Mar. 20 – Apr. 19, 2025)
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (May 1 – June 21, 2025)
- Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady (July 3 – Sept. 13, 2025)
🌐 Website: San Francisco Playhouse
4. American Conservatory Theater
American Conservatory Theater (ACT) is a Tony-winning nonprofit theater company drawing nearly 200,000 people annually to their high-quality productions. They generally operate out of Toni Rembe Theatre and the Strand Theatre near Union Square.
Toni Rembe Theatre
- Nobody Loves You (Feb. 28 – Mar. 30, 2025)
- Two Trains Running (Apr. 15 – May 4, 2025)
- The Comedy of Errors (Apr. 22 – May 3, 2025)
- Kim’s Convenience (Sept. 18 – Oct. 19, 2025)
Strand Theatre
- Co-Founders (May 29 – July 6, 2025)
🌐 Website: American Conservatory Theater
5. New Conservatory Theatre Center
SF’s nonprofit New Conservatory Theatre Center works to create high-quality productions and educational experiences for youth, artists, and queer and allied communities. They operate out of a theater at 25 Van Ness Ave in San Francisco.
- Simple Mexican Pleasures (Apr. 4 – May 11, 2025)
- To My Girls (May 9 – June 8, 2025)
- Ride the Cyclone (July 11 – Aug. 15, 2025)
🌐 Website: New Conservatory Theater Center
6. Magic Theatre
Fort Mason Center’s Magic Theatre is dedicated solely to the development and production of new plays, for which it has gained nationwide attention. The company’s reputation has a long legacy dating back to 1967, and they’ve operated out of SF’s Fort Mason Center since the ’70s.
- Cuckoo Edible Magic (Feb. 13 – Mar. 8, 2025)
- The Boiling (Apr. 2-20, 2025)
🌐 Website: Magic Theatre
7. Berkeley Playhouse
Since 2007, Berkeley Playhouse has presented a lineup of mainstage and youth performances out of the 328-seat Julia Morgan Theater.
- Jesus Christ Superstar (Feb. 21 – Mar. 30, 2025)
- The Sound of Music (May 23 – June 29, 2025)
- Something Rotten (July 12-20, 2025)
🌐 Website: Berkeley Playhouse
8. Brava Theater Center
Brava! for Women in the Arts is a professional arts organization that was created in 1987 to support and showcase the work of underrepresented artists, particularly women, the LGBTQIA community, people of color, and youth. Its thriving theater organizes diverse and thought-provoking productions.
- We Call It Ballet (ongoing)
🌐 Learn more: We Call It Ballet