This showcase for new playwrights usually features a dozen new and exciting works by Bay Area writers.

Shanghai explores the tumultuous history that has resulted in one of the world's most dynamic and cosmopolitan cities. It features more than 130 oil paintings, furniture and rugs, revolutionary posters, works of fashion, movie clips, and contemporary installations - all visual documents of the city's rich and ever-changing culture.

Cartier and America celebrates the imagination and creativity of Cartier in the 20th century. Cartier came to fame as the “King of Jewelers” during the Belle Époque for his beautifully made diamond and platinum jewelry created for the courts of Europe and Americans of the Gilded Age.

This suite of drawings offers an evocative glimpse of San Francisco's urban landscape and landmarks. Ewan Gibbs has translated photographs of the city into marks commonly used for knitting patterns to form a kind of visual code. The resulting images, recognizable from a distance, become more abstract and fleeting at close range.

In the land of Caucasus, a servant girl saves the life of an abandoned baby boy. But when the wealthy mother returns to claim him, their fates lie in the hands of a wily, unpredictable judge whose concern for the poor is rivaled only by his concern for saving his own hide.

The 1949 U.S. Goodwill Baseball Tour of Japan was one of the first peacetime cultural exchanges of the post-war era between the two nations. The tour captured the imagination of the Japanese public with a fervor unmatched by any other pre-war or post-war baseball tour of Japan.

Linda Ellia turns the page on history by inviting 600 people to transform one of the most inflammatory books of the 20th Century - Hitler's Mein Kampf. The hundreds of pages in the exhibition offer a remarkable display of different artistic styles and present a multiplicity of voices and perspectives ranging from angry to mournful to hopeful.

Wicked is the untold story of the witches of Oz. Long before Dorothy drops in, two other girls meet in the land of Oz. One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. Wicked tells how these two become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch.