Business & Tech Billionaire's Row Mansion Sells For $26.5 Million After Nine Months On Market Those in the luxury real estate business in San Francisco are excited that one of the highest-end properties on the market just traded hands for the first time, and for a relatively high price.
Arts & Entertainment [Update] 'Hamilton' Online Ticket Queue Swells 100,000+ As In-Person Fans Go To War With Line-Cutters When your #Hamilton alarm doesn't go off and you log on 6 min late...only a mere 99,405 people ahead of me 😠#hamiltonSF pic.twitter.com/Cyh7WugSYM— Kelsey (@Kelsey_001) December 12,
Arts & Entertainment Meet The People Who Camped Out Overnight For <i>Hamilton</i> Tickets Today tips off a Tulip mania the likes of which the Bay Area ticket market has never seen. Tickets for the runaway smash hit musical Hamilton went on sale to the general public
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco 'Hamilton' Tickets Go On Pre-Sale Monday Morning, General Sale December 12 As you likely already know, the absurdly popular Hamilton is set to come to San Francisco this spring — opening on March 14 and running through August 5. We now learn via SHN that
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Dates For 'Hamilton' Run Finally Confirmed The Grammy, Tony, and Pulitzer Prize winning musical Hamilton is coming to San Francisco next spring, and we now for the first time have the official dates for the five-month run. The Mercury
Arts & Entertainment Video: Dozens Of Broadway And TV Celebrities Join To Sing 'What The World Needs Now Is Love' For Orlando On June 15, 2016, three days after the deadly hate-motivated massacre in Orlando and three days after the Tony Awards, dozens of recording artists, Broadway stars, and other celebrities gathered in a New
Arts & Entertainment Jobs And Gates, Modern Day Hamilton And Burr, Get Broadway Musical Treatment Forget the forefathers of American democracy and financial systems: The next hit Broadway musical could take its cues from the forefathers of the PC and the Mac. As the New York Times foreshadows
Arts & Entertainment 'Hamilton' Comes To SF For Five Months Starting In March 2017, LA After We heard a couple weeks ago that the first national tour of the wildly popular Broadway musical Hamilton would be kicking off this fall in Chicago, with definite stops in San Francisco and
Arts & Entertainment Feminism And Carol Doda, 'The Susan B. Anthony' Of Stripping By the time Carol Doda died from complications of kidney failure in San Francisco on Monday, the woman who described herself as having "started a sexual revolution that spun as fast as twirling
Arts & Entertainment Join Me As I Live-Tweet From Backstage At 'Chicago' Tuesday Night Playing now at the Orpheum Theater is the newest touring production of Chicago, direct from Broadway. The cast includes J. Peterman himself, John O'Hurley in the role of attorney Billy Flynn, and a
Arts & Entertainment Headline Of The Week: Chita Rivera Dying To Be On 'The Walking Dead' When 81-year-old Broadway legend Chita Rivera spoke with the San Francisco Chronicle to promote her upcoming appearances at the Fairmont, you might have expected her to talk about her work in West Side
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Tomorrow' Tomorrow is going to be a big day, ladies and gentlemen. Tension is high. So is the optimism. Please take a moment to listen to the great Andrea McArdle, age 14, playing Annie
Arts & Entertainment More Big Broadway Names Headlining Feinstein's This Summer Showing that they have more booking power — and a greater taste for musical theater — than their predecessors at the Rrazz Room, the folks at new cabaret venue Feinstein's at the Nikko have just
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Sweeney Todd Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd stands as one of his most popular shows, thanks in large part to that iffy Tim Burton film released in 2007 (which boasted Johnny Depp as the titular barber
Arts & Entertainment Nina Arianda To Play Janis Joplin In Big Screen Biopic Enough of this sports talk. Let's get down to serious business: Tony Award-winning actress playing dead divas. Nina Arianda, who recently nabbed best actress honors at the Tonys for her work in Venus
SF News Prop 8 Play Coming to Broadway Dustin Lance Black, Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Milk and a board member of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, will bring California's same-sex marriage brouhaha to the Great White Way. His new Prop
SF News Patti LuPone Dissed at Twitter Headquarters? We refuse to believe that the fine folks at Twitter have never heard of Patti LuPone, who, among many other indefatigable accomplishments, was Corky's mom and the first American Evita Peron However, Leah
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Magazine Compares Michael Mina to Horrifying Spider-Man Musical Noted food critic Josh Sens of San Francisco Magazine recently compared noted chef Michael Mina to Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, one of the worst-reviewed musicals of all time. Sens writes: A meal
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Turkey Lurkey Time Burt Bacharach, Michael Bennett and Donna McKechine are a holiday tradition here at SFist. With Christmas just days away, we once again present "Turkey Lurkey Time," the most insipid song / greatest choreography ever
SF News Freddy Sanchez Sings <em>Grease</em> Duet With Ross Mathews Well, this is downright charming. During an interview with comedian Ross Mathews (from The Tonight Show and Chelsea Lately), Freddy Sanchez fesses up to karaoking a song from Grease with his girlfriend back
SF News Woman Beaten On Broadway Egads. Two men beat up a woman on Broadway early this morning. SF Appeal has more details: "Two men, driving eastbound on Broadway, near Battery, reportedly hit a woman. The men then exited
SF News North Beach Won't Allow Pot Club On Porn Strip Telegraph Hill resident Bruce Rossignol thought it would be a grand idea to liven things up on North Beach's ho-hum Broadway strip. Bruce Rossignol planned to open up a pot dispensary on near
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <I>RENT</I> Returns to San Francisco And this time, it’s with original Broadway cast member Gwen Stewart, the soloist who belts out that ridiculously high note at the end of said song. Oh, and Adam Pascal and Anthony
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>South Pacific</i> at the Golden Gate Theater 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
Arts & Entertainment SF Turns Out the Verdigris for 'Wicked' Why have Coit Tower, the Ferry Building, and City Hall literally turned green? According to SF Citizen, it's in honor of the third return of the popular Stephen Schwartz musical Wicked. The "untold
