It’s time to reserve your tickets for 2023 Holiday Productions so you can get the seats you want. Set aside your holiday stress, suspend disbelief, and enter the holiday spirit. Here are a few favorite Bay Area holiday productions where you can relax and enjoy the wonder of the season.

A Christmas Carol
With the American Conservatory Theater
Featuring a lively cast of dozens, delightful music, gorgeous costumes, and those deliciously spooky ghosts, the Bay Area’s favorite holiday tradition returns home. This version of A Christmas Carol—adapted by Paul Walsh and Carey Perloff—stays true to the heart of Dickens’s timeless story of redemption and brings a playful sensibility to his rich language. A Christmas Carol is a decades-long cornerstone of the A.C.T. repertory and has become a holiday tradition for families all around the San Francisco Bay Area.   

Live Performances December 6th through 24th.
At the Toni Rembe Theater
Tickets and more information can be found on the A.C.T. website.

So, purchase tickets now to enjoy these Bay Area holiday productions!

Christmas at the Patterson House
Celebrate a turn of the 20th century holiday at a beautifully restored and decorated Queen Anne mansion in Ardenwood Park. Join costumed docents for a tour of 14 rooms decorated with Victorian-style holiday ornaments. Purchase tickets at the door as space allows.

Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, December 1st through 17th
From 11 AM and 2 PM tours. Drop-in as space allows.
34600 Ardenwood Boulevard in Fremont
More information is available on the East Bay Regional Parks website.

The Nutcracker
With the San Francisco Ballet
Sometimes, a gift isn’t just a gift. It’s a key to a new world. A young heroine. A Nutcracker-turned-prince. The small but mighty army of mice. The beautiful conclusion of a sugar plum celebration. It’s a story so good, that it bears retelling again and again. All the characters you know, and love are back for another thrilling performance of San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker. Enjoy exquisite dancing, stunning sets, and Tchaikovsky’s popular score played live by the Grammy award-winning San Francisco Orchestra.

Live Performances on December 13th through 30th
(With a runtime of 2 hours with one intermission.)
At the War Memorial Opera House at 301 Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco,
Purchase tickets at the SF Ballet website.

Great Dickens Christmas Fair
A Victorian Holiday Party
Visit London at the historic Cow Palace Exhibition Halls! Enter the winding lanes of Victorian London and immerse yourself in a world of music halls, theatres, pubs, dance parties, and charming shops overflowing with hand-made holiday treasures. Enticing aromas of roasted chestnuts and hearty foods fill the air. Discover holiday revelry in this lamp-lit city brimming with hundreds of lively and colorful characters from the imagination of Charles Dickens, the pages of history, and the sometimes saucy world of the Victorian stage.

November 18th through December 17th
From 10 AM to 6 PM
At the Cow Palace Exhibition Halls, San Francisco
Tickets and more information can be found on the Dickens Faire website.

Caroling with the California Revels
Engage with our greatere community of neighbors in a true, community-wide, fresh-air caroling event to welcome Yule!

November 25th through December 23rd
Details can be found on the Cal Revels website.

At the Freight & Salvage
The Freight is hosting a list of hoiday events including:

• December 17th, Barbara Higbie Winter Solstice Celebration and CD Release w/Vicki Randle, Mia Pixley, Michaelle Goerlitz, Dewayne Pate and Jasper Manning
• December 19th, Christmas Jug Band
• December 20th, Mads Tolling & The Mads Men Cool Yule CD Release
• December 22nd, Mario y su Timbeko Holiday Dance Party
• December 31t, New Year’s Eve Party with Charlie Musselwhite and Angela Strehli

More information and tickets can be found on the Freight & Salvage website.