Arts & Entertainment Sam Smith Channels Chaka Khan, George Michael, and Bonnie Raitt In Castro Residency The great Sam Smith seemed wistful, grateful, and dare we say happy during their almost 90-minute set Friday night, and you can hear them paying tribute to generations of R&B and soul singers in multiple numbers.
Arts & Entertainment The Castro Theatre Reopens Today, and We Have Photos Stage lights were being hung, carpets were being vacuumed, and the bars were being stocked with booze Friday as the grand dame of San Francisco historic movie palaces, the Castro Theatre, reemerges from a two-year renovation.
SF News Castro Coffee Co. and Nail Salon Will Both Relocate as Castro Theatre Prepares to Reopen This is both Super Bowl Weekend and the grand reopening weekend for the Castro Theatre. And ahead of that big event, we have an update on the two small businesses at the front of the theater building.
Arts & Entertainment C-3PO Himself, Actor Anthony Daniels, Coming to Castro Theatre for May the 4th This year’s May the 4th Star Wars celebrations have the droid you’re looking for, as Anthony Daniels, who played C-3PO in eleven different Star Wars movies, comes to the Castro for an ‘Empire Strikes Back’ screening.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Castro Theatre’s Long-Awaited New Organ Has Arrived Super Bowl tickets are hitting the event’s second-highest price ever; a Waymo hit an elementary school student in SoCal; and the Castro Theatre's much-anticipated new digital organ has arrived and will soon make its debut.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre Will Reopen With Screening of 'Priscilla Queen of the Desert' on February 6 Following its two-year-long, $41 million renovation, the Castro Theatre will officially reopen to the public on February 6 with a film screening — and a very queer one at that.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Check Out the Renovation Work Happening Inside the Castro Theatre We now have the most in-depth peek to date inside the still under-construction Castro Theatre, as crews complete what's been a nearly two-year-long, $41 million renovation project.
Arts & Entertainment Bevy of Queer Performers Added to Reopening Slate at Castro Theatre After the reopening residency by Sam Smith is done in March, Another Planet Entertainment has booked a slate of queer (and/or queer-friendly) performers for the Castro Theatre, in a clear gesture of good will toward the LGBTQ+ community in the neighborhood.
Arts & Entertainment Frameline Confirms Return to Castro Theatre For 50th Anniversary Film Fest As has been expected, San Francisco's LGBTQ+ film festival, Frameline, is going to return to its old home at the Castro Theatre in 2026, and this will be for Frameline 50, marking 50 years of the world's oldest queer film fest.
Arts & Entertainment Sam Smith's Castro Theatre Residency Sells Out Fast, Some Seats Still Available For New March Dates The previously announced residency by Grammy-winning singer Sam Smith, which will serve as the opening act for the renovated Castro Theatre in February and March, was already extended, and now spans over a month, with 20 show dates.
Arts & Entertainment Now Sam Smith Is Getting Blowback for Depicting Queer People Smoking In New SF-Shot Music Video Leave it to Bay Area denizens on Facebook, but some serious finger-wagging and multi-exclamation-point indignation is happening in at least one corner of social media about the amount of smoking seen Sam Smith's new music video, shot in SF's Castro.
Arts & Entertainment Sam Smith, Who Was Just Shooting a Music Video Around the Castro, to Do Castro Theatre Residency Grammy-winning singer Sam Smith is the opening act for the reopening of the newly renovated Castro Theatre, which the singer teased in a Monday TikTok post.
Arts & Entertainment It's Official: Castro Theatre to Reopen as The Castro In February 2026 Closed for renovations since February 2024, the Castro Theatre has just announced it will be reopening in February 2026, as operators Another Planet plan to have their $41 million overhaul completed by then.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theater Begins Taking Bookings — Starting Next March The long-awaited, still controversial, $41 million renovation of the historic Castro Theatre may or may not be complete by year-end, but Another Planet Entertainment is now starting to line up bookings starting for March 2026 and beyond.
SF News Castro Coffeeshop and Nail Salon Defiantly Remain Open, Despite Looming Castro Theatre-Related Eviction The Castro Coffee Company and Castro Nail Salon on both sides of the Castro Theatre are still open, despite eviction orders that they be out by July 1, and both small businesses seem determined to dig in their heels and stick around.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Supporters Rally to Save Castro Businesses From Eviction The eighth body has been pulled from Lake Tahoe following Saturday's tragic boating accident; the San Mateo County supervisors are having a special meeting about the sheriff ouster process; and there was a rally to support saving two longtime Castro Street businesses.
Arts & Entertainment Another Planet Evicting Longtime Castro Coffeeshop and Nail Salon, Likely for Box Office Space for Castro Theatre It's been confirmed that two longtime businesses on the 400 block of Castro Street, Castro Coffee Co. and Castro Nail Salon, are being evicted in June by new building managers Another Planet Entertainment (APE).
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre Renovation Now $20 Million Over Budget, In Addition to Being Four to Six Months Behind Schedule The $15 million renovation of the Castro Theatre has now ballooned to a $35 million renovation, and this news comes on the heels of learning that the theater’s reopening will be delayed by anywhere from four to six months minimum.
SF News Castro Theatre Reopening Delayed Until Fall or Beyond; Longtime Coffeeshop Tenant Hints at Possible Eviction Due to a reported "holding pattern" with a PG&E power issue, the much anticipated reopening of the renovated Castro Theatre will not be happening in time for Pride Month as originally hoped.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre Neon Sign Will Be Fully Restored and Lit Back Up Next Week The Castro Theatre’s marquee and neon sign will be lit back up and fully restored next Wednesday night, as part of the Frameline Opening Night block party that will also feature a screening of the new Lil Nas X documentary, and you don’t even need tickets to this free community event.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre’s New Cocktail Bar Plans Coming Together, Supervisors OK Their Liquor License Request It’s still up to the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control whether Another Planet Entertainment gets the liquor license they want for the Castro Theatre, but the SF Board of Supervisors recommended they do so, and we got a look at their application.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre Now Selling Off the Seats They’re Ripping Out for Another Planet’s Renovation You can now buy the seats that Another Planet Entertainment has removed from the Castro Theatre at $349 a pop (or two for $499), though critics say the theater has “committed a massacre and are now selling the body parts for profit.”
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre Restoration Work Begins With the Grand Ceiling A month after its final public events before renovations began, the Castro Theatre is undergoing the first phase of its glow-up, and restorers are already working on the elaborate, gilded ceiling.
Arts & Entertainment Reminder: This Weekend Is Your Last Chance to See a Movie at the Castro Theatre as We Know It The 16-month closure and overhaul of the Castro Theatre now looms, and this weekend will see the final film screenings at the Castro Theatre as we know it — with the 1932 horror masterpiece ‘Vampyr’ Friday, and a Sunday double-feature of 'Blade Runner’ and ‘Robocop.’
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre to Close For 16-Month Renovation Starting This Winter We now have some details on the timeline of the Castro Theatre's upcoming closure and renovation at the hands of Another Planet Entertainment — renovations that will include the controversial removal of seats.
