Arts & Entertainment Now There’s a Luigi Mangione Musical Coming to San Francisco in June, and It’s Already Selling Out Fans of hunky accused CEO-killer Luigi Mangione are clearly dying to see ‘Luigi: The Musical,’ opening in June at the Taylor Street Theater, as opening night pretty much instantly sold out for this audacious original comedy-musical.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ at the Victoria Theatre Is an Absolute Pride Month Gem The acclaimed LBGTQ musical ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ finally gets its San Francisco run at the Victoria Theatre, with Katya Smirnoff-Skyy in a hilarious and crowd-pleasing Pride Month production.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Cruel Intentions: The 90’s Musical’ Brings a Sexy, Sardonic Romp to the Victoria Theatre “‘Dangerous Liaisons’ but it’s teenagers” gets a 1990s jukebox musical reboot with ‘Cruel Intentions: The 90’s Musical,’ whose spectacular sets and occasional nudity serve a memorable feast for your eyes as well as your ears.
Arts & Entertainment Two Tina Turners Tell A Tumultuous, Terrific Life Story in ‘Tina - The Tina Turner Musical’ at the Golden Gate Theatre A dazzling and kinetic Tina Turner musical biography goes for nearly three hours at the Golden Gate Theatre, but the musical stylings of a ten-year-old playing a young Tina are simply the best moments of the show.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Kinky Boots’ at the Victoria Theatre Towers With Well-Heeled Sets, Costumes, and Performances Ray of Light Theatre’s new production of the Tony-winning “Kinky Boots” is one of the best shows the Victoria Theatre has had in years, with boot-strapped but ambitious sets that take that stage to new heights.
Arts & Entertainment 'Hamilton' Coming Back to SF In 2019! Those of us who have been losing the $10 Hamilton ticket lottery every day since the blockbuster musical opened in March realize that we are quite literally down to our last shot there
Arts & Entertainment 'Janis Joplin' At ACT Is An Intoxicating Summer Of Love Jukebox Musical There is currently an overflowing, lovin’ spoonful of Summer of Love commemorations in San Francisco, from street fairs to outdoor concerts to retail window displays but none of them really offers a plausible
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Thrillpeddlers 'Jewels of Paris' At The Hypnodrome Thrillpeddlers have been producing their twisted follies and perverse musical revues for nearly 20 years, and Jewels of Paris at The Hypnodrome is their latest madcap musical. When you go to the theater
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/18: Double Feature w/Billy Elliot Cast, Pistolera, Desperado Orchestra FILM: Castro Theatre celebrates Billy Elliot the Musical with a special screening of Billy Elliot the Movie, and featuring the cast of the musical in person before the show. Wear your tutu, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Tick Tick Boom from Theatre Rhinoceros The nation's oldest queer theater organization, SF's Theatre Rhinoceros, is celebrating its 32nd season this year without a permanent space to call home, having left their space on 16th Street due to lease
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 Tonight FILM: Gary Hustwit, the director of the hip documentary Helvetica presents his second hip documentary, Objectified, which is about "our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them.
misc Film du Jour: Bollywood's 'Vaaranam Aayiram' The kids over at The Daily Clog bring to our attention this festive Bollywood film, Vaaranam Aayiram (2008), that was shot in Berkeley, the Cal campus, and San Francisco. While the English dubbing
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
Arts & Entertainment Go See It: <i>Spring Awakening</i> On Saturday night, sitting front and center at the Duncan Sheik musical, , we couldn't help but draw comparisons between the show's plot and this year's most vital presidential election. The show has a
Arts & Entertainment <i>Coco</i> Returns (Minus the God-Awful Singing) Famous for being Katherine Hepburn's first and last Broadway musical (at 3:06 you'll see why), Alan Jay Lerner and André Previn's play about designer (and alleged Nazi sympathizer) Coco Chanel, Coco, gets
Arts & Entertainment More Ramboian Art We think it would be more Schönberg and Boublil than, say, Sondheim or Herman, but who are we to say? Anyway, check out yet another Rambo poster attack. Okay, SFist readers, you know
