Arts & Entertainment Original Singer of 'Golden Girls' Theme Makes Surprise Appearance at 'Golden Girls Live: The Christmas Episodes' In SF 'The Golden Girls Live: The Christmas Episodes,' an annual tradition from a quartet of SF drag queens going back 17 years, returns this holiday season in much fancier digs than where it began. And Friday's opening included a surprise guest.
Arts & Entertainment Broadway Vet Carolee Carmello Makes a Phenomenal 'Kimberly Akimbo' at the Curran Theater The Tony Award-winning Best Musical of 2023, Kimberly Akimbo, is already on tour. And in an opening night performance at San Francisco's Curran Theater on Thursday, star Carolee Carmello brought down the house in the hard-to-pull-off lead role.
Arts & Entertainment 'Into the Woods,' Featuring Broadway Greats, Arrives In Glorious Shape at the Curran The recent Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's 'Into the Woods,' which won Tony nominations for Best Revival, for its director and sound designer and several cast members, has come to San Francisco for just a few select performances. And it's playing at the Curran through Sunday.
Arts & Entertainment Acclaimed Broadway Revival of 'Into the Woods' Is Coming to the Curran Next Year A new production of Sondheim's fairy tale mashup 'Into the Woods,' which won rave reviews and became an immediate hit of the latest Broadway season, is heading to San Francisco for a limited engagement in June 2023, as part of a national tour.
Arts & Entertainment 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' to Close at the Curran In September We thought maybe it would be there forever, but 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' is winding down its lengthy — albeit interrupted — run at the Curran Theater in September after 393 performances.
Arts & Entertainment 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' to Return to Curran In January as One-Part, One-Night Play The Tony Award-winning two-part play 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' is going to return, both to Broadway and to San Francisco, in a revised and much shorter form — with the creative team having worked during the pandemic to turn this into a one-part show.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where to Eat Around SF's Union Square Between Harry Potter Shows (or Shopping) With holiday shopping season in full swing and the two-part Harry Potter show playing at the Curran for the next six months to a year (at least), you could probably use some ideas for when you're stuck and hangry in tourist trap central.
Arts & Entertainment Hoorah! Curran Theater Will Continue To Be Run By Carole Shorenstein Hays Following Settlement With SHN Theater fans who worried that The Curran might stop importing interesting Broadway fare from New York due to a court fight can breathe a sigh of relief -- the theater can continue to book what it wants "without restriction."
Arts & Entertainment J.K. Rowling Reveals That Alcatraz Was A Direct Inspiration For Azkaban Ahead of the October opening of 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' at The Curran in San Francisco, director John Tiffany, playwright Jack Thorne, and author J.K. Rowling sat down for an interview about adapting the show for the SF theater.
Arts & Entertainment Carole Shorenstein Hays Loses Lawsuit To SHN, Transfers Control Of Curran Theater To British Outfit In news that is rocking the local theater world, producer and longtime local stage impresario Carole Shorenstein Hays is ceding control of the Curran Theater following a court ruling in a case brought by SHN, the local theater group she co-founded.
Arts & Entertainment Alec Baldwin Comes To SF November 18 To Promote Satirical Trump 'Memoir' As part of The Curran's newly announced "Show & Tell" series, Edward Snowden will be doing a live (presumably via Skype) conversation with KQED's Michael Krasny on the anniversary of last November's election.
Arts & Entertainment Taylor Mac: A Joyfully Liberal Carnival Barker To Get Us Through These Terrible Times I've been thinking how best to talk about what I experienced Sunday at Chapter II of Taylor Mac's irreverently epic, hard-to-describe, "performance art concert" called A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music. It is
Arts & Entertainment Watch Taylor Mac And A Gang Of Beautiful Freaks Galavant Around SF To 'Amazing Grace' "We're making a 24-decade history of popular music. It is a Radical Faerie realness ritual sacrifice." Thus begins this stunning promo video for the upcoming San Francisco production of Taylor Mac's acclaimed A
Arts & Entertainment Go Be In This Thing: Taylor Mac Needs Extras For SF Video Shoot Saturday The groundbreaking, 24-hour-long, 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist musical A 24-Decade History of Popular Music is returning to San Francisco this September, and to that end the production is shooting a promo
Arts & Entertainment 'Eclipsed' Is A Harrowing And Essential Glimpse At Liberia's Recent History Danai Gurira's 2009 play Eclipsed made a splash on Broadway last year with Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong'o starring, and it's currently finishing a short, two-week run at the newly reopened Curran Theater the second
