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website: victoriatheatre.org The Victoria Theatre lay dormant for two years.
Located in the historic Mission District of San Francisco, the ornate and stately Victoria Theatre, seats 480. The theatre, built in 1908 as a vaudeville house, is now a city landmark and the oldest operating theatre in San Francisco. Originally called Brown's Opera House, it was operated as a vaudeville showcase by the ancestors of two California governors. The theatre drew crowds who delighted in observing the grand performances of international stars who came to San Francisco. As cinema began to displace live on-stage entertainment, the character of the Victoria Theatre began to change. In the 1930's, it became a motion picture house offering dishware door prizes to entice movie goers. In the 1950's the Victoria Theatre was renamed El Teatro Victoria, showing Spanish-language films for the growing Latino community in the area. In the 1960's, under the name New Follies, the theatre became a burlesque house and closed in 1976. After a year of reconstruction, the theatre was refurbished from top to bottom and now is restored to its original intent and grandeur. You can see everything here. Locally produced plays such as the San Francisco premier of Hedwig and the Angry Inch which ran for six months, concerts, film festivals (the theatre has video and 35mm with Dolby Pro Logic Surround Sound), musicals, international performing companies and many other kinds of performances. Many personalities have appeared at the theatre through its long and colorful history, including Whoopi Goldberg, Bill Irwin, Donald O'Conner, Michael Moore, Mae "Come up and see me sometime" West, and many others. Several filmmakers have used the site to shoot their films. You can also see the Victoria Theatre in the movies such as, "The Laughing Policeman," starring Walter Matthau made in 1973, Joshua Grannell's film "All About Evil and Marielle Heller's "The Diary of A Teenage Girl."
09/18/2026
Tickets at: https://theempirestripsback.com/san-francisco/
A burlesque parody show in a galaxy far, far away
Experience a unique blend of seduction and sci-fi as The Empire Strips Back takes you on a journey to the dark side! This tantalizing burlesque experience brings beloved characters to life with loving detail and humor that will leave you laughing and swooning at the same time.
07/20/2026
Saturday, July 25, 2026
This year’s film festival will showcase works made by independent filmmakers who are affirming labor and other human rights and advocating for social and economic justice. The film festival highlights films that promote a global culture of racial and economic equality and that challenge exploitative and oppressive systems on a local, national and global level.
Proceeds from the film festival support the Center for Social and Economic Justice, a project of the Alliance for Social and Economic Justice, that provides programs and workshops to develop the leadership of low-wage and immigrant workers in taking action fighting for justice, equality and sustainability.
Tickets at:https://actionnetwork.org/ticketed_events/7th-annual-social-and-economic-justice-film-festival
06/12/2026
Tickets at: bardtheatresf.com
05/16/2026
May 16-22, 2026
https://realitygames.movie
04/09/2026
May 7, 2026
Tickets at: https://www.x1entertainment.com/bttb
03/09/2026
Mon Mar 30, 2026 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
The San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle is pleased to announce our live in-person Gala Awards Ceremony celebrating the 49th SFBATCC Excellence in Theatre Awards. Ticket price includes admission, musical entertainment, two beverages and hors d'oeuvres.
Tickets at: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/sanfranciscobayareatheatrecriticscircle/2075146
01/05/2026
The San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2026
Friday, January 9, 8:30pm
Saturday, January 10, 7:00pm
Saturday, January 10, 9:30pm
Sunday, January 11, 7:00pm
Audio works projected in three-dimensional space in complete darkness.
The Bay Area's legendary annual event dedicated to the performance of audio works projected in three-dimensional space, The San Francisco Tape Music Festival features four distinct concerts of classic audio art and new "fixed media" compositions by local and international composers. Hear members of the SF Tape Music Collective, along with guest composers, shape the sound live over a pristine surround system (24 high-end loudspeakers) with the audience seated in complete darkness. It's a unique opportunity to experience music forming, literally, around you.
Tickets: https://www.sfsound.info/tape/
10/21/2025
Friday, October 24 · 7:30 - 9pm
Litquake invites you in alongside this star-studded lineup of poets to bear witness to the beauty and resiliency of our words and community.
“Dear ferocious dreamer. Dear maven of song and surveyor of every flung star. Dear meandering romantic, audacious witness, dear listener with the whole of your covetous heart.” So begins Patricia Smith’s invocation poem that will ground us in the here-and-now on the penultimate night of Litquake 2025. Litquake invites you in alongside poets Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Achy Obejas, Matthew Zapruder, and Gabriel Cortez to bear witness to the beauty and resiliency of our words and community at the Mission’s historic Victoria Theater. Doors at 6:45pm. Pay what you can to guarantee a seat; FREE to walk-ups (space depending)
Poets, writers, and creatives come early and stay late to get a free creative headshot taken by pro photographer Michelle Castillo at the Decentered Arts photobooth. Poets will have the opportunity to participate in the Pulse of Poetry in the Bay Area coffee table book—a unique publication opportunity, archiving our community.
Book sales for this event coordinated by Medicine for Nightmares.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dear-ferocious-dreamer-a-festival-finale-in-verse-tickets-1622930491789?aff=oddtdtcreator
10/01/2025
Chile to California: Surfing the Dream Wave
Two documentaries that explore the roots of Chilean surf:
Viejo Perro — the rise of surfing in Chile.
El Diario de "El Gr**go" — the story of how three California surfers, Gary Schuberg, Pat Dennis, and Jim Crane discovered the world-famous wave “El Gr**go” in Arica, Chile, in 1977.
These events are part of a California tour connecting Chilean surf culture to an American audience.
Tickets at: http://bit.ly/46GZSwK
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