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In the Heights

May 20, 2026

South Bay Musical Theatre has boldly decided to celebrate the Semiquincentennial of the U.S. with a joyful, exuberant, and thoroughly patriotic production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 2008-premiering and multiple Tony-Award-winning “In the Heights.”

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Shakespeare Over My Shoulder

May 17, 2026

With a stellar cast that the Bard (or Bards) would die for and under the playwright’s own watchful and astute eye as director (as well as with his tongue-in-cheek impulses), “Shakespeare Over My Shoulder” is a play “such as dreams are made of.”

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Pictures from Home

May 13, 2026

Marin Theatre’s “Pictures from Home” becomes for us as audience an album full of possible rich insights about our own family messiness and a confirmation of the love we feel for people that we may not altogether like or understand one hundred per cent of the time.

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The Play That Goes Wrong

May 11, 2026

For anyone who has a high tolerance for physical slapstick taken to the extreme or for anyone who has not had a good laugh lately, Hillbarn’s “The Play That Goes Wrong” is a sure-fire bet for an evening of fun that will be long remembered.

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Oy, What They Said About Love

May 10, 2026

Oy! What They Said About Love Steve Budd The Marsh San Francisco  Steve Budd is turning fifty and has yet to meet his ‘beshert,’ his soul mate for a life of bliss together after their exchange of vows under the chuppah.  Sure he has dated a string of possibilities along the way, but none of them seems ever to work…

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Moonchild

May 8, 2026

Connor Lifson & K. Sid Zhang’s “Moonchild” is a world premiere with much promise for a future beyond its initial Stanford TAPS staging — a beautifully conceived and crafted tale of hope.

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