.Siran Babayan

When Denice Frohman takes the stage, she’s technically doing a one-woman show. But there will be others speaking in ‘Esto No Tiene Nombre.’

For Blood Be Water, Oakland-based artist Esteban Raheem Abdul Raheem Samayoa’s first solo exhibit, he displays a collection of 50 charcoal drawings, airbrush paintings, oil pastels and ceramic works that feature themes and symbols from his Guatemalan Mexican roots, dogs, cars, vintage cartoons and his conversion to Islam.

After last year’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction and the release of her excellent memoir, Chermania continues in The Cher Show.

Woods is also a singer-songwriter who has released three records since 2017. She’s appeared on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts, CBS This Morning, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and performed with Corinne Bailey Rae, Raphael Saadiq, Common, Chance the Rapper and Macklemore.

Short story writer Lucia Berlin was largely unknown until she died in 2004 at 68. Her life is reflected in A Manual for Cleaning Women, a collection of short stories published between the ’60s and ’80s and rereleased in 2015.

Tackling the cultural divide between kids and their immigrant parents, comedian Abby Govindan brings her one-woman show to San Jose.

He’ll read from his 2024 memoir, Another Word for Love, in which he recounts growing up with a single mother, battling with addiction, becoming a parent and living as a Queer Black man.

Since its publication, the fairy tale has been interpreted and adapted into countless short stories, novels, plays, ballets, movies, cartoons and at least one They Might Be Giants song.