For 28 years, you’ve blessed us dozens and dozens of times with Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Awards — including making us Best Professional Theater Company for the past several years. Now is your chance to nominate us for the 2026 awards!
We’d never ask for you to pick between your children, but a reminder of some of the categories you can nominate us, one of our artists, or one of our shows for:
- Best Actor
- Best Arts Organization (Jobsite)
- Best Choreographer (Alexander Jones, Ghost Brothers and soon to be American Idiot)
- Best Instrumentalist
- Best Professional Theater Company (Jobsite)
- Best Stage Director
- Best Theater Production (Ghost Brothers, Comedy of Errors, The Shark is Broken, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea)
Nominate all of your regional favorites by June 10. The top 15 nominees in each category will make the final ballot, available June 16.




