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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) is a multi-disciplinary contemporary arts center in San Francisco, California, United States. Located in Yerba Buena Gardens , YBCA features visual art, performance, and film/video that celebrates local, national, and international artists and the Bay Area 's diverse communities.
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival (also known as Yerba Buena Arts & Events, and YBGF) is an admission-free performing arts festival held in San Francisco, California.During the summer months, May to October, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival produces concerts and performances including music, dance, theater, circus and children's programs.
Smuin Contemporary Ballet, formerly known as Smuin Ballet, [1] is a touring ballet company based in San Francisco, California. [2] Smuin Ballet performs its season in multiple venues: the Dean Lesher Center in Walnut Creek, [3] [4] the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts in Mountain View, the Sunset Center in Carmel, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and The Palace of Fine Arts ...
La Jolla Playhouse was founded in 1947 by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, and Mel Ferrer. [1] [2] [3] In 1983, it was revived under the leadership of Des McAnuff.Since then, the Playhouse's repertoire has included 108 world premieres, thirty-two West Coast premieres, and eight American premieres, and has won more than three hundred honors, including the 1993 Tony Award as America's Outstanding ...
New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Toronto are other major hubs of improvisational theater in the North America. Many companies host improvisational theatre festivals or give improvisational theatre classes. Professional groups often perform a regular stage show acted by the most senior members.
It is a non-tuition school in San Diego Unified School District. It provides pre-professional training in the arts alongside a college preparatory curriculum. All students audition and complete a required series of specialized arts training in theater, music, dance, visual arts, or creative writing.
The uninhabited northeastern area of San Francisco was called El Paraje de Yerba Buena (The Place of the Good Herb), derived from the Spanish geographical term paraje, meaning "place", "camp", or "stopping point" and yerba buena, the Spanish name for plants in the mint family, used in Alta California for Clinopodium douglasii, which grew abundantly in this area.
OnStage Playhouse was founded in 1983, though at a different location. [1] [2]During the COVID-19 pandemic in California, the theatre livestreamed its performances. [3]In March 2023, the theatre was honored with its second Craig Noel Award for Outstanding Achievement By a Small Theater for its work in the 2022 season.