Musicals from the 1960s tend not to feel fresh or charged with geopolitical relevance unless they've been substantially reinterpreted. But a highly faithful revival of 'Fiddler on the Roof' opened with a powerful gut-punch Wednesday night at the Golden Gate Theater.

Fair or unfair, it's impossible to think about Six without imagining the elevator pitch: It's Hamilton for the six wives of Henry VIII, but more feminist and with a more pop-influenced score. You know — divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.

A jukebox musical featuring the angsty but sometimes poetic music of Alanis Morissette, directed by Tony winner Diane Paulus, and featuring a book by Oscar winner Diablo Cody, may sound cringe-y, but it is more than the sum of its parts.

With Hadestown, the Tony-winning musical that has finally made it on tour and landed in San Francisco, the Orpheus and Eurydice myth becomes fodder for music and metaphor, and Greek tragedy never sounded so melodic and bittersweet.

The latest touring production of 'My Fair Lady' opened Wednesday at the Orpheum Theater in San Francisco — the first new show to play there in almost three years following 'Hamilton's extended residency.