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Posted by:	Richard Connema 03:38 pm EST 11/30/14

THE RICHMOND / ERMET AIDS FOUNDATION PRESENTS… HELP IS ON THE WAY FOR THE HOLIDAYS XIII JUST BE…Who You Want to Be Star-studded AIDS Benefit Holiday Concert & Gala Mon., Dec. 8, 2014 Marines Memorial Theatre in SF Benefiting:Maitri Compassionate Care and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Featuring: The Broadway Touring Cast of KINKY BOOTS Plus Celebrity Performers… Jai Rodriguez, LaToya London, Davis Gaines and Jason Brock www.helpisontheway.orgMonday, Dec. 8, 2014 – 6:30 pm – Silent Auction. 7:30 pm – show. Tix $50. $120 includes Gala post perf. reception with cast at the Adagio Hotel – 550 Geary St. For Tix and info www.helpisontheway.org or call 415- 273 -1620 Jai Rodriguez - Broadway (Rent, The Producers) / TV (Queer Eye, Malibu Country) star, LaToya London Broadway (The Color Purple / American Idol star, Davis Gaines – Broadway (Phantom of the Opera) star, Jason Brock (TV (X-Factor) cabaret star and featuring The Broadway Touring Cast of KINKY BOOTS This one-night only gala benefit concert will take place on Monday, Dec. 8, 2014 at the Marines Memorial Theatre 609 Sutter St., SF 94102. Silent Auction at 6:30 pm. Performance begins at 7:30 pm.Underwriter level tickets include the Gala post performance reception with cast at the nearby Hotel Adagio 550 Geary St. (Jones & Taylor) - 9:45 – 11:45 pm. Post Performance Underwriter Dessert & Wine Party w/ cast: 9:45 - 11:45 pm (featuring complimentary wine, champagne and desserts) General Reserved Seating - Performance only – Tix: $50 Tickets: www.helpisontheway.org / 415- 273- 1620 Doors open for the general public at 6:30 pm Visit our web site for additional info www.helpisontheway.orgor call 415/ 273 -1620 Underwriter ticket prices for Help is on the Way for the Holidays are tiered from $120 to $5,000. Underwriter level ticket holders will be invited to the post-performance Cast Dessert Party atthe Hotel Adagio – 550 Geary St. (Jones & Taylor) SF 94102 - featuring complimentary wine, cocktails/ desserts and a chance to meet and mingle with the cast ############################## AURORA THEATRE COMPANY TWICE EXTENDS WEST COAST PREMIERE OF “BREAKFAST WITH MUGABE” – Due to popular demand, Aurora Theatre Company announces that it will add a second extension week of performances of the West Coast Premiere of Fraser Grace’s provocative BREAKFAST WITH MUGABE. Jon Tracy, who directed Aurora’s productions of Gidion’s Knot and The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, helms BREAKFAST WITH MUGABE, featuring L. Peter Callender (The Soldier’s Tale, Permanent Collection), Dan Hiatt (Wittenberg, The Arsonists), Leontyne Mbele-Mbong (African-American Shakespeare Company, Lamplighters), and Adrian Roberts (TheatreWorks, California Shakespeare Theater). BREAKFAST WITH MUGABE plays now through December 20 (added performances: Tuesday, December 16, 7pm; Wednesday, December 17, 8pm; Thursday, December 18, 8pm; Friday, December 19, 8pm; Saturday, December 20, 8pm) at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley. For tickets ($32-50) and more information the public can call (510) 843-4822 or visit auroratheatre.org. ########################### Crowded Fire Theater 2014 Matchbox Readings Series Features New Plays by Geetha Reddy, Andrew Saito, MJ Kaufman, and Eugenie Chan December 1-9 Thick House Theater 1695 18th Street, SF Crowded Fire Theater (CFT) announces the four featured playwrights and plays for the2014 Matchbox Readings Series, public staged readings of plays in development. New plays by playwrights Geetha Reddy, Andrew Saito, MJ Kaufman, and Eugenie Chan in readings from December 1-9, 2014 at the Thick House Theater. Crowded Fire champions playwrights whose work offers a vital contribution to the American theater landscape with a commitment to diversifying the canon of contemporary plays. "We believe art is always political," says Crowded Fire Artistic Director Marissa Wolf, "and that in order to move toward a more just society, theaters must offer a wider range of aesthetics and voices on our stages." The Matchbox: Commissioning and Developing New Plays grew out of CFT's need to bolster playwrights’ revision processes in order to strengthen the scripts before rehearsals for the professional productions began. The plays featured in CFT's 2014 Matchbox Readings Series are: (TBD) by Geetha Reddy (Dec. 1, 7pm); La Lechera by Andrew Saito (Dec. 2, 7pm); Murmur Rock by MJ Kaufman (Dec. 8, 7pm) and 19 Wentworth Alley by Eugenie Chan (Dec. 9, 7pm). Award-winning playwright Christopher Chen, whose upcoming The Late Wedding and 2012 hit The Hundred Flowers Project were both commissioned and developed through The Matchbox remarks, "By giving a still-emerging playwright a pathway to a full production, Crowded Fire facilitated a major turning point in my career. They steadfastly believed in my project and me as a writer through the entire process, making sure I had all the resources necessary to bring the play into fruition. To my mind, The Matchbox Commission’s emphasis on specifically working towards a full production clearly sets it apart from similar, less ambitious programs in comparably-sized theater companies." The Hundred Flowers Project was a co-commission with Playwrights Foundation as is A Wonderverse by Geetha Reddy which will kick off this year’s Matchbox Reading Series. A Wonderverse is slated for the Crowded Fire mainstage in 2015. Crowded Fire 2014 Matchbox Readings Series Features New Plays by Geetha Reddy, Andrew Saito, MJ Kaufman, and Eugenie Chan Reading Dates: December 1-9 A Wonderverse by Geetha Reddy (Dec. 1, 7pm); La Lechera by Andrew Saito (Dec. 2, 7pm); Murmur Rock by MJ Kaufman (Dec. 8, 7pm) and 19 Wentworth Alley by Eugenie Chan (Dec. 9, 7pm). At: Thick House, 1695 18th St., SF (between Carolina St.& Arkansas St. in Potrero Hill ) Readings: 7 PM Tickets: Free to the public RSVP at http://www.crowdedfire.org Box Office by phone (415) 746-9238 ############################ San Francisco International Arts Festival Returns to the Fort Mason Center Features as part of FMC Presents Series 150 Performances from May 20 – June 7, 2015 The San Francisco International Arts Festival (SFIAF) is thrilled to announce that in 2015 the Festival will be moving back to the Fort Mason Center. The Festival will be co-presented by Fort Mason as part of its FMC Presents Series. The relationship gives SFIAF access to six different venues on the Fort Mason campus and the ability to present over 150 ticketed performances by artists from the Bay Area and ten countries in the space of three action packed weeks. The Festival will also feature a major arts exhibition titled Bearing Witness: Surveillance in the Drone Age compiled by curators Matt McKinley and Hanna Regev as well as multiple educational, residency and outreach activities. Theatre and dance will predominate in the Cowell and Southside Theaters, the Firehouse and the Fleet Room. The Chapel in upper Fort Mason and the Conference Center located in Building A will host the Festival’s music stages, with the Conference Center doubling as the Festival’s late night venue featuring DJ’s and dancing. The music program is curated by Elektra Schmidt of the organization Artist Migration. SFIAF Executive Director, Andrew Wood said of the upcoming Festival, “Ever since we first came to Fort Mason in 2009 we have felt this was our spiritual home and we are very glad to be back. It is a perfect setting for an international gathering such as ours with multiple venues within close proximity surrounded by some of San Francisco’s most iconic landmarks. Programmed properly, Fort Mason has the potential to be one of the greatest performing arts centers in the country and we are giving it our best shot." Fort Mason Center Executive Director, Rich Hillis said of the co-presenting relationship, “We are proud to be a host and leading supporter of the San Francisco International Arts Festival. The Festival is a highlight of this year’s Fort Mason Center Presents series and an important piece of the City’s cultural fabric. For over three decades, the Fort Mason Center has cultivated burgeoning artists and created a community for artists in San Francisco. Hosting the San Francisco International Arts Festival on the historic campus is an important part of continuing that legacy. Some of the international headlining artists include the US debut of one of the most talked about and provocative theatre artists in Europe: Fabrice Murqia of Belgium will lead his Compagnie Artara to the Bay with a disturbing yet fascinating performance piece titled Les Chagrin des Ogres (The Sorrow of the Ogres). The Republic of Ireland is represented for the first time at SFIAF by two different projects with the Bay Area debut of Croi Glan Integrated Dance Company and the US debut of a brilliant young theatre artist named Áine Ryan with a powerful performance piece titled Kitty in the Lane. There will also be US debuts for performance artist Jesper Arin from Sweden with a project titled Evil based on the novel by Jan Guillou, Olga Kosterina from Russia with Dilemma and Paris based Cuban pianist Gabriel Urgell Reyes. Making Bay Area debuts will be Horse Dance Theatre from Taiwan and the James Cousins Company from the UK. International collaborations will include Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers working with members of the El Salvadoran music collective Talticpac, Melody of China in collaboration with leading jazz piano improviser Shih-Yang Lee from Taipei, Mary Armentrout Dance Theater in collaboration with composer and sound designer Evelyn Ficarra from England, Christine Cali of Cali & Co in collaboration with Na Hoon Park from South Korea and Kitka Women’s Folk Ensemble working with Armenian guest singers visiting the Festival with Teatr Zar. A stellar line up of Bay Area artists is led by San Francisco’s third Poet Laureate devorah major in a new play titled Black Classic directed by Ellen Sebastian Chang and co-starring Brian Freeman. World premieres of new work by Kiandanda Dance Theater, Project Agora, Theatre of Yugen, Jon Jang and Francis Wong co-presented with the Asian Pacific Island Cultural Center. May 27-31 will see African influenced traditional dance and music take over the Cowell Theater with concerts by Abada Capoeira who will share the stage with members of their parent company from Rio de Janeiro, Loco Bloco, Fogo na Roupe and Grupo de Rompe y Raja. The week will begin with a tribute performance produced by Congo Square West to Blanche Brown who has led and mentored many dancers and choreographers over the course of five decades in the Bay Area. The lineup of performance artists confirmed to date for the 2015 Festival is as follows: Abada Capoeria, Abhinaya Dance Company, Āine Ryan, Alden Trio, Allison Lovejoy, Alma del Tango, Alyce Finwall Dance Theater, Anne Bluethenthal & Dancers with MezoAmerica, Ariel Luckey, Bill Kalinkos, Bob Ernst, Cali & Co., Charline Formenty, Christine Bonansea, Concerto Club with Gabriel Urgell Reyes, Croi Glan Integrated Dance Company, Dancing Earth, Deborah Slater Dance Theatre, devorah major with Brian Freeman and the Destiny Mohammed Trio, Devotionals, Diana Gameros, Ensemble Mik Nawooj, Eth-noh-Tec, Fogo na Roupa, Francis Wong & Tatsu Aoki with Lenora Lee, Grupo de Rompe y Raja, Haydn Enthusiasts, Horse Dance Theatre, Inferno Theatre, James Cousins Company, Jesper Arin, Jon Lee & Elektra Schmidt, Kiandanda Dance Theater, Kitka Women's Vocal Ensemble, Krista DeNio Productions, La Peche, Laura Inserra, Loco Bloco, Łowiczanie Polish Folk Ensemble, Maboiuch, Madan Oak, Mary Armentrout Dance Theater, Melody of China & Shih-yang Lee, Olga Kosterina, Project Agora, Punkkico, Sarah Cahill, Teatr Zar, The Foundry, The Welcome Matt, Theatre of Yugen, tinypistol, Whiskerman and ZiRu Dance. San Francisco International Arts Festival SFIAF celebrates the arts by bringing together a global community of artists and audiences. The organization presents innovative projects that are focused on increasing human awareness and understanding. SFIAF’s curatorial priorities include developing collaborative projects led by Bay Area artists working with their national and international peers and presenting world-class international artists who often do not have US representation and whose work is rarely (or never previously) seen in the United States. From 2003-13 SFIAF and over 100 presenting partners have coordinated, presented and/or produced performances by over 150 arts ensembles from the Bay Area and 50 countries, as well as conducting numerous educational and outreach activities. ###################### Society Cabaret hits a high note in La Jolla! Society Cabaret - La Jolla is a live performance venue located in the village of La Jolla.Society Cabaret is a company that books, promotes, and sells performances of seasoned artists. – Society Cabaret will be producing monthly cabaret evenings of entertainment in the village of La Jolla at the Forshaw Hall located on the property of the Congregational Church of La Jolla, 1216 Cave Street, La Jolla, CA 92037 (corner of Ivanhoe Ave.). Society Cabaret is a partnership between long-time collaborators Tim Heitman, Christopher M. Nelson, G. Scott Lacy and Paula Heitman. With over 80 years of arts administration, management, production and education in the arts between them, these energized producers have agreed that La Jolla is the cultural destination perfectly suited for a Society Cabaret location. Society Cabaret has been producing evenings of live entertainment at the Hotel Rex in the Union Square area of San Francisco and just celebrated their one year anniversary in July, 2014. Society Cabaret will bring stars and regional entertainers to an intimate venue where the performers will provide an evening of storytelling through song. Society Cabaret’s management team is committed to bringing quality performances to the west coast and La Jolla in particular. Opening Weekend is Friday, January 23 and Saturday, January 24, 2015. Performances begin at 8 pm and the doors open at 7 pm each evening. Friday, January 23 Society Cabaret presents Craig Noel Award Winner Sandy Campbell, singing American Songbook and Musical Theatre Standards. On Saturday, January 24 Society Cabaret presents Broadway veteran ("13" and "Bye Bye Birdie") and San Diego Native Allie Trimm. Tickets are available online at SocietyCabaretLaJolla.com with NO FEES. For best seats and prices - purchase early. #############################

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