Bring your own bag. Make it a habit and grab it. These are the refrains in student-produced television and radio advertisements airing this fall throughout the Bay Area. This public education campaign waged by the Bay Area Recycling Outreach Coalition (BayROC) aims to help the environment through these simple reminders.

Actress Annette Bening, one of SF State’s most famous alumni, has rediscovered the love for theatre that she kindled as a child. The three-time Academy Award nominee stars in the title role “Medea” at UCLA Live’s International Theatre Festival. In February, she stars in Joanna Murray-Smith’s “The Female of the Species.”

Alumnus Frank Zamacona is not a conductor or performer but he does direct opera. This weekend he directs his third simulcast for Opera at the Park.

The always offbeat San Francisco Fringe Festival is in full swing, featuring uncensored performances for the open-minded theatre fan featuring artists from countries across the globe. Music alumna Brandi Brandes is among them, as her original composition accompanies “Legs and All.”

The new movie “Taking Woodstock” takes viewers back in time 40 years, going behind the stage to explore how the historic music festival became a reality. As the film’s production designer, Theatre Arts alumnus David Gropman is responsible for re-creating the world in which the story takes place.