A theater piece spoofing Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 thriller The 39 Steps, which played on Broadway earlier this year and was nominated for several Tony Awards, opens at the Curran Theater this week. The piece features four actors playing nearly 100 roles, and the above hokey video from ABC7 focuses on all the crazy costume changes involved in the production. Tickets for the show, and more previews, here. more ›

Theater fans may have heard about the 2008 Lincoln Center revival of South Pacific, which took home a bunch of Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Musical, Best Direction and Best Scenic Design. That production is now starting its national tour with a new cast, which kicked off this week at the Golden Gate Theater in San Francisco, and we can see what at least some of the fuss was about over the original production. It's a grand tribute to mid-twentieth century American musicals and boisterously faithful to one of the favorite scores of the genre. And with all its glorification of the unsung heroes who waited out much of WWII on quiet islands in the South Pacific, it gives modern audiences a glimpse of the rabid, just-post-war nostalgia for wartime stories that American audiences had in the late 1940s and 50s. more ›