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Marines Memorial Theatre
Located in the heart of San Francisco's theatre district at 609 Sutter between Union Square and Nob Hill, the Marines Memorial Theatre is an historical landmark and major star in the regional theatre scene.
The 650-seat venue is dedicated to bringing the best of New York, regional, and local productions to Bay Area audience
s. Since its construction in 1926, the Marines Memorial Theatre, originally the home of the national radio broadcasts featuring Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, has played a valuable role in the city's theatrical history.

Post Street Theatre

This beautifully restored theatre located at 450 Post Street was built in 1924 by the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks in order to accommodate a burgeoning membership. Originally designed by architect Anthony Heinsberger, whose theatrical architecture can also be seen at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland and at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco, the building came under the management of Nederlander, LLC in 2002, In keeping with the quality productions presented in years gone by, it is the mission of Post Street Theatre to present a diverse array of high caliber, Off-Broadway and avant-garde theatrical attractions.

Joe Watson (Executive Producer) has recently served as Executive Producer for the productions of Here Lies Jenny, starring Bebe Neuwirth, Trumbo, Forever Tango, A Little Night Music and THWAK at Post Street Theatre, and Tea at Five, starring Kate Mulgrew, Addicted, Noises Off and I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change at Marines Memorial Theatre. He is currently a General Manager with Richard Frankel Productions in New York. Productions with RFP include: STOMP (New York, San Francisco, Boston & National Tours); The Original Broadway Swing! (Broadway & National Tour); Forever Tango (Broadway & National Tour); Red, White & Tuna and A Tuna Christmas (National Tours); The Rocky Horror Show (Broadway Revival); and Eve Ensler’s Necessary Targets (Off-Broadway). In San Francisco, he was the General Manager for Theater on the Square (now Post Street Theatre) and was the Production Supervisor for the productions of Forever Tango, Love Letters, Jeffrey, Ladies Room, The Piano Lesson, The Kathy and Mo Show, Shirley Valentine, Curse of the Werewolf and I’m Not Rappaport. At the Marine’s Memorial Theatre in San Francisco, he was the Executive Producer of American Jukebox and Bronte starring Julie Harris, and supervised the productions of Greater Tuna, The American Dance Machine, Emlyn Williams as Charles Dickens, The Chinese Magic Circus, The Foreigner, Acting Shakespeare starring Ian McKellen, A Woman of Independent Means, and Sammy Cahn: Words and Music.

American Musical Theatre of San Jose

For over 72 years American Musical Theatre of San Jose (AMTSJ) has been at the forefront of the professional, regional theatre movement in America. AMTSJ, a not-for-profit organization, is the largest member of the local arts and culture industry, and looks toward a bright future of both presented and produced productions, combined with outstanding and vital community programs. AMTSJ is one of the Bay area's most renowned organizations and is one of the oldest musical theatre companies in the nation. Our primary program is our mainstage productions, which comprise up to eight shows per season presented from September through June at San Jose's 2,540-seat Center for the Performing Arts, where we are the resident company. Our organization boasts over 19,000 season ticket holders, is attended by over 200,000 people per year and operates with a $12,500,000 annual budget.

Founded in 1934, AMTSJ has been dazzling audiences with exceptional artistry and innovative approaches to the musical theatre experience. Under the leadership of Michael Miller, CEO & Executive Producer and Tim Bair, Artistic Director, AMTSJ has continued to lead the performing arts in diverse areas. As a national leader in education and outreach programming, AMTSJ serves over 10,000 children, families and people with disabilities in theatre-related programs.

AMTSJ is committed to producing musical theatre that ignites the human spirit, and to incorporating our core values into every aspect of our business by creating and promoting the truly American art form that is musical theatre. We live by, and are driven by a passion to share this art form with others, and a continued commitment to pass this living tradition on to generations yet to come.


Aurora Theatre Company

Located in the heart of the Downtown Berkeley Arts District, just steps away from BART, Aurora Theatre Company’s handsome 150-seat house was designed as the ideal space to experience intimate, live theatre. Called “one of the most important regional theaters in the area” by the San Francisco Chronicle, Aurora Theatre Company has continually offered challenging, literate, intelligent stage works to the Bay Area, each year increasing its reputation for top-notch theatre. The Contra Costa Times stated, “perfection is probably an unattainable ideal in a medium as fluid as live performance, but the Aurora Theatre comes luminously close,” while The San Jose Mercury News affirmed “[Aurora Theatre Company] lives up to its reputation as a theater that feeds the mind.” The company was awarded the 1998 Black Box Award by the SF Weekly, and in 2001 captured 6 Bay Area Theatre Critics' Circle Awards for its productions of THE HOMECOMING and THE WEIR, and a $70,000 Challenge Grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Foothill Music Theatre
Foothill Music Theatre, under the helm of artistic director Jay Manley, has won Bay Area Theatre Critics' Circle Nominations and Awards for Outstanding Production, Outstanding Ensemble Production, Best Direction, and others, as well as awards from the Los Angeles-based Drama-Logue, Dean Goodman Awards, and kudos from Bay Area critics for its sharply paced, handsomely mounted productions. The San Mateo County Times has raved: "I have seen many productions (of SHOW BOAT), but none better. I highly doubt that a better result could be achieved by any theatre group, professional or otherwise. It is a production that could be wrapped up, crated, and delivered directly to Broadway." Productions of ON THE TOWN, WEST SIDE STORY, OKLAHOMA!, and INTO THE WOODS have earned similar praise from audiences and critics.

Lamplighters Music Theatre
Recognized as one of the top Gilbert and Sullivan companies in the world,Lamplighters Music Theatre is one of the oldest continuously performing theatres in the Bay Area, and the only year-round musical theatre company in San Francisco. Since the company’s founding in 1952, Lamplighters Music Theatre has been dedicated to upholding the tradition of light opera and musical theatre, particularly through the production of the operettas of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. The company has produced the entire Gilbert and Sullivan canon as well as other light opera and musical theatre classics such as The Merry Widow, Die Fledermaus, Of Thee I Sing, My Fair Lady, Candide, and A Little Night Music.

Oakland Opera Theater
Embodying the unique and vital spirit of its local community, and seeking to make opera more accessible to all ages and cultures, the Oakland Opera Theater is a dynamic arts organization created by a group of artists who champion and produce 20th and 21st century and newly created operatic works. Oakland Opera Theater is housed in the Oakland Metro Operahouse, located at 630 3rd Street (three blocks from Jack London Square) in Oakland.

PlayGround
Now in its tenth season, PlayGround is dedicated to supporting the development of new local voices for the theatre. In addition to its popular, monthly Monday Night PlayGround series (now being held at Berkeley Repertory Theatre), awards, fellowships and workshops, PlayGround also publishes an annual compilation of "The Best of PlayGround," each featuring the top seven works from past festivals.

Reduced Shakespeare Company
Since its origins as a performance troupe at California renaissance fairs in the early 1980’s, the Reduced Shakespeare Company has created five world-renowned stage shows, four TV programs, and numerous radio pieces. The Company’s first two shows, THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (abridged) and THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF AMERICA (abridged), are officially London’s longest-running comedies, playing in repertory at the Criterion Theatre in the West End since 1996. In 2003, THE BIBLE: THE COMPLETE WORKS OF GOD (abridged) joined the London rotation, giving the Reduced Shakespeare Company more shows in the West End than Andrew Lloyd Webber. The Reduced Shakespeare Company has appeared on PBS, Entertainment Tonight, The Today Show, NPR, and the BBC World Service.

San Francisco Fringe Festival, Sept. 3-14, 2003
The annual San Francisco Fringe Festival is a twelve-day festival of independent performing arts from around the world, a cornucopia of maverick microtheater where anything can happen (and usually does). The 2003 Festival happens September 3-14, 2003, in various theatres around downtown San Francisco, and includes such intriguing offerings as Chicago's Barclay Studios with CLEARING HEDGES, a one-woman show on the life of sports legend Babe Didrikson-Zaharias; Los Angeles' Asian-American comedy sketch troupe OPM (Best of Fringe 2002 winner) with I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY'RE NOT ORIENTAL; THE SEVENTH GAME OF THE WORLD SERIES, a baseball musical about a star pitcher deciding whether to come out in the biggest game of his life; and many more. Last year, the Contra Costa Times called the annual Festival "one of the best theater adventures in the Bay Area." Southwest Airlines' Spirit Magazine proclaimed, "much like San Francisco, this event has something for everyone: be it radical ideas, stirring emotions, or natural beauty, oftentimes all in a single show."

Smuin Ballet
Smuin Ballet was founded in 1994 by the renowned choreographer Michael Smuin, one of the country's most respected choreographers. The company has quickly established itself not only as one of the Bay Area's most eagerly watched performing arts companies, but also as "one of this country's most entertaining, original ballet troupes" (Dance Magazine). At the heart of the company is Mr. Smuin's singular ability to create pieces that merge the diverse vocabularies of classical ballet and contemporary dance forms. The winner of several Emmy Awards as well as a Tony Award (for Anything Goes), Smuin has been active in film, on Broadway, and on the ballet stage for nearly 20 years.

Ragazzi Boys Chorus
Ragazzi ("boys" in Italian and the term used in opera to designate children's voices) is one of the largest boys choruses in the San Francisco Bay Area. The chorus provides outstanding musical training to boys who love to sing, and gives concerts throughout the Bay Area at venues in Berkeley, Redwood City, Portola Valley, Palo Alto, and Saratoga. Ragazzi regularly tours the United States and has toured internationally in Canada, Russia, Eastern Europe, Italy, Japan, and the British Isles. During the 2002-03 season Ragazzi performed with the San Francisco Opera, the West Bay Opera, Masterworks Chorale, and The Lawrence Pech Dance Company, and performed the National Anthem at the San Francisco Giants game April 12 at Pacific Bell Park.

TheatreWorks
Founded in 1970, TheatreWorks has earned a national reputation for artistic innovation and integrity, presenting a year-round season of dramas, comedies, and musicals staged in the state-of-the-art Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts and in the graceful Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto. Operating on a $5.5 million budget and performing to over 106,000 patrons annually during its eight-play season, TheatreWorks boasts a wide array of inventive audience services and subscriber benefits. In addition to its award-winning presentations, TheatreWorks offers many services for the public such as TheatreWorks for Schools and the highly successful "Bridges Projects," bringing theatre professionals into the classroom and teaching over 15,000 students each year to link on-stage themes and Images with the world around them. TheatreWorks has also joined the ranks of other regional theatre companies that help to shape the future face of theatre with the New Works Initiative, a program that TheatreWorks has created to cultivate exciting new music theatre.

 



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