Arts & Entertainment Hadestown Opens In San Francisco, Embuing a Tragic Tale With Moving Songs and New Orleans Jazz 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.
Arts & Entertainment SF Theaters Announce Next Season Lineups Including 'Jagged Little Pill,' 'Mean Girls,' 'Six,' and 'The Wizard of Oz' 'Dear Evan Hanson' is returning to the Bay Area next winter, the West End and Broadway hit 'Six' is coming to town next year, and ACT is bringing in a new show by the acrobat troupe that created 'Dear San Francisco.'
Arts & Entertainment Orpheum Theatre Getting a Remodel, With an On-Site VIP ‘Admission-Only Club’ The latest new investment in downtown San Francisco is the Orpheum Theatre’s half-million dollar remodel, which will feature the new Marquee Lounge, a food-and-cocktails private club you can get access to for an extra $95.
Arts & Entertainment 'My Fair Lady' Brings Fresh But Old-School Broadway Vigor to the Orpheum 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.
Arts & Entertainment 'Jesus Christ Superstar' In Its 50th Anniversary Tour Is a Brash and Unrelenting Take on the Rock Opera The latest touring production of the musical, celebrating the show's 50th anniversary, is a stripped-down version of the show with the band on stage that is akin to a concert production, but with a lot of costumes and kinetic dancing by the disciples.
Arts & Entertainment 'Hamilton' Reopens In SF Next Week With $10 Ticket Lottery, Vaccination Requirement Live theater has returned to San Francisco, and the first big production to reopen is BroadwaySF's Hamilton at the Orpheum Theater.
Arts & Entertainment Most of Broadway SF's Theater Season Moved to 2021, Including 'Oklahoma!' and 'Moulin Rouge!' They're still calling it the 2020-21 season, but all of the slated BroadwaySF shows will run in 2021, with some sticking to their originally scheduled slots and others postponed to slightly later runs.
Arts & Entertainment 'Moulin Rouge,' 'Hadestown,' and 'Oklahoma!' Announced for Broadway SF 2020-2021 Season The upcoming season at BroadwaySF features a bunch of big tours coming to us from the last season of Broadway, and there's more of them now that 'Hamilton' is closing at the end of May and freeing up the Orpheum Theatre again.
Arts & Entertainment Sting’s ‘The Last Ship’ Is a Glorious Depiction of Bleakness and Desolation Sting’s new musical, starring Sting basically playing Sting, sets sail for the month at the Golden Gate Theatre following its brief Broadway run, and it's buoyed by its spectacular score.
