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 Sunday’s ‘Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist’ Is a Bay to Breakers Episode The SF-set musical TV show is doing a Bay to Breakers episode Sunday night, likely without much nudity or drunkenness. But Bernadette Peters is involved!
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 Darren Criss Growing Into Big Heels For 'Hedwig And The Angry Inch' In two decades of performances, John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch has seen many performers, male and female, embody Hedwig, the bawdy, self-assured, third-tier German-American rock goddess
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Darren Criss Brings It Home As 'Hedwig' As Darren Criss prepared to take the mantle — or Farah Fawcett wig, as it were — of Hedwig in a three-month engagement of Hedwig & the Angry Inch on Broadway last year, John Cameron
Arts & Entertainment Raise A Glass: 'Hamiltunes' Host Hamilton Sing-Along At El Rio This Month Have you been saying to yourself "there’s a million things I haven’t done?" Is one of those things "singing along to the broadway phenomenon Hamilton with a horde of rabid fans?
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 SFist Reviews: 'Shocktoberfest 16: Curse of the Cobra' at The Hypnodrome The Thrillpeddlers’ Shocktoberfest 16: Curse of the Cobra (playing through Nov. 21 at The Hypnodrome) concludes with an exhilarating, terrifying three-minute musical sequence that messes with your depth perception, makes great use of
Arts & Entertainment Perez Hilton To Play Bob Saget In <i>Full House: The Musical!</i> An off-Broadway musical set to premiere in New York this fall will lampoon the sitcom Full House, and will give celebrity barnacle Perez Hilton a new opportunity to show off his talents as
Arts & Entertainment You Can Still Get 'Book Of Mormon' Tickets Via Lottery Hoorah! Book of Mormon opens next week for its second run in San Francisco (see our review from last year's touring production), and if you hadn't heard, it's a hilarious and wonderful musical
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Watch: Sing-along Mary Poppins At The Castro Theatre Yes, this weekend promises the best weather of the year. And yes, most of the city will be basking in jorts along the city's parks and sidewalks. But to capture that authentic summer
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' As Sung By 19 Different Divas Masterful diva mimic Christina Bianco does a one-woman show in which she performs the classic 80s ballad "Total Eclipse of the Heart" in the voices of 19 different female singers, including Adele, Barbra
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 'Book of Mormon' Returns to SF This Fall Good news for theater fans, and South Park fans, and fans of all things funny and awesome. The Book of Mormon is returning to S.F., this time to the Orpheum Theater, for
Arts & Entertainment 'Wicked' Opens Next Week (Again) With $25 Daily Ticket Lottery Wicked, the Wizard of Oz-inspired Broadway musical, is returning to S.F. next week, with a four-week run from January 23 to February 17. During this run, they'll be doing a daily lottery
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 Video: Mark Zuckerberg Gets The Musical Treatment Using snippets from RENT, Annie, Ragtime, Porgy & Bess, and a slew of other Broadway staples, CDZA created this mini musical revue dedicated to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. And you now what? It's
Arts & Entertainment Sing-Along 'Jesus Christ Superstar' To Be Greatest Sing-Along Ever! Once upon a time way back in the late nineties, a light-smearing outfit called the Cubby Creatures would perform the entire score to Jesus Christ Superstar, Andrew Lloyd Weber's second best rock opera.
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
Arts & Entertainment Haight the Musical Premieres at Hollywood Fringe Festival Riding off the high from last night's Tony Awards telecast -- which were, for lack of a better work, stupid -- we bring you word that Haight the Musical will premier this week
SF News St. Mary's College Instructor Disciplined for "Ol' Man River" On Monday, St. Mary's instructor Louis Lebherz was ordered to apologize to his class and complete diversity training after instructing a student to sing a certain song from Kern and Hammerstein's Show Boat,
Arts & Entertainment <em>Wicked</em> to Close, Finally, in September The reign of tourist terror at 8th and Market will finally end, or at least ebb, come September as SHN announces the closing date of Wicked. The musical, centered on the friendship between
